"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Cleveland & beyond. First, there was the 1962 song made famous by folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, a 1979 juvenile fiction book adaptation by Romeo Muller.

“Puff, the Magic Dragon” was released in January of 1963 by the American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in March of 1963. The song was ...

“Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” are among the popular ‘60s folk songs Noel Paul Stookey will perform in Rancho Bernardo on Feb. 23. Stookey — Paul of the singing ...

Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul and Mary’s music. “Puff The Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” and “Lemon Tree” were as much a part of my childhood as Mr. Rogers and ...

Yarrow’s conviction for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl taints his music, writes the director of the Women’s Rabbinic Network. Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul, and ...

John Stuart, in his Gorham kitchen last week, remembered the late Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. Robert Lowell / American Journal John Stuart of Gorham, following the death of Peter Yarrow on ...

I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A Complete Unknown.” While a contemporary of Amy’s, I have never been a big folk ...

It’s hard to imagine growing up in the last 60 years or so without being touched by the music and activism of Peter Yarrow. He wrote the classic “Puff the Magic Dragon” while still a student at ...

“You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as “Puff the Magic Dragon” starts playing in Jack’s Buick. Greg hesitates, ...

Members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, left to right: Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York. His father ...

Journal Editorial Report: Hits of the Year by Kim Strassel, Jason Riley, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger and Paul Gigot Photo: Saul Loebmandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images On hearing of the death of Peter Yarrow ...