Post by pledm on Sept 17, 2009 5:27:40 GMT -5
Sad news,I loved this group;
Mary Travers, the Mary in Peter, Paul & Mary, passed away today at age 72 after a long battle with leukemia.
Peter, Paul and Mary were a folk power trio with a huge run of top ten hits throughout the sixties, giving commericial viabilty to a music which had long been confined to coffeehouses.
The group was the high-concept brainchild of uber-manager Albert Grossman, who also managed an alley-cat voiced singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan. Grossman fed songs from the young genius songwriter to the pretty sounding folk trio and converted them into chart-toppers, getting paid twice in the process. When the group toured Florida, they were forbidden to get tans by Grossman, for fear of tarnishing their pale Village-Bohemian image.
Though they covered many of Dylan's tunes, "Blowin' in the Wind" was by far the biggest, and their huge hit was a career maker for Dylan as well. Pretty soon, everyone was covering his tunes.
Mary Travers, the Mary in Peter, Paul & Mary, passed away today at age 72 after a long battle with leukemia.
Peter, Paul and Mary were a folk power trio with a huge run of top ten hits throughout the sixties, giving commericial viabilty to a music which had long been confined to coffeehouses.
The group was the high-concept brainchild of uber-manager Albert Grossman, who also managed an alley-cat voiced singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan. Grossman fed songs from the young genius songwriter to the pretty sounding folk trio and converted them into chart-toppers, getting paid twice in the process. When the group toured Florida, they were forbidden to get tans by Grossman, for fear of tarnishing their pale Village-Bohemian image.
Though they covered many of Dylan's tunes, "Blowin' in the Wind" was by far the biggest, and their huge hit was a career maker for Dylan as well. Pretty soon, everyone was covering his tunes.