Peter, Paul, and Mary : (Ten) Years Together -The Best Of Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter Yarrow

 (May 31, 1938 – January 7, 2025)

 was an American singer

 and songwriter

 who found fame 

as a member 

of the 1960s 

folk trio

 Peter, Paul and Mary

 along with 

Paul Stookey

 and

 Mary Travers.

Born in Manhattan

 in 1938,

 he attended

 New York's 

High School of 

Music and Art

 as a teenager

 and was then accepted at

 Cornell University. 

During his last year

 at Cornell in 1959, 

he began his 

music career 

as a student 

guitar instructor there, 

and after graduating,

 met the manager 

and impresario 

Albert Grossman. 

Grossman's idea of a

 musical trio 

eventually led to

 Yarrow forming

 a folk band with 

Stookey and Travers.

Peter, Paul and Mary's

 early hits included

 "Lemon Tree" 

and

 "If I Had a Hammer", 

which was followed by 

their self-titled debut

 studio album

 in 1962. 

Yarrow co-wrote

 (with Lenny Lipton) 

one of the group's

 best known hits,

 "Puff, the Magic Dragon"

 (1963). 

He was also involved

 in the civil rights movement,

 performing for the 

March on Washington 

and 

Selma to Montgomery 

marches.

Illness and death

Yarrow died from

 bladder cancer 

at his Upper West Side

 apartment,

 on 

January 7, 2025, 

after a month in

 hospice care. 

He was 86, 

and was diagnosed 

with the illness

 four years prior.

 The Best of 

Peter, Paul, and Mary:

 Ten Years Together

 is a 1970

 greatest hits release

 by American folk trio

 Peter, Paul, and Mary.

 It is the last album

 released before the group

 split up in 1970

.The album includes

 all of their greatest hits,

 including their 

only #1 hit

 "Leaving On A Jet Plane", 

"If I Had a Hammer", 

and their versions

 of the 

Bob Dylan songs 

"Blowin' in the Wind",

 "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right,"

 and

 "Too Much of Nothing,"

 along with others. 

The thirteen cuts 

were taken from the trio's

 1962 debut album, 

Peter, Paul and Mary

 Lemon Tree, 

500 Miles, 

If I Had a Hammer, 

and their

 follow-up albums: 

In the Wind

 (1963)

 Blowin' in the Wind, 

Stewball, 

Don't Think Twice.

 Album 1700

 (1967)

 I Dig Rock and Roll Music, 

Leaving on a Jet Plane, 

(Moving) 

(1963) 

(Puff) The Magic Dragon

A Song Will Rise

 (1965) 

For Lovin' Me

See What Tomorrow Brings 

(1965) 

Early Mornin' Rain

Late Again 

(1968) 

Too Much of Nothing

 and 

Peter, Paul and Mommy

 (1969)

 Day Is Done.

NEW LINK