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Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
Associated Press ^ | Sept. 16, 2009

Posted on 09/16/2009 6:25:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.

The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.

Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 2009obituaries; cancer; leukemia; marytravers; music; obituary; puff
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To: Frantzie
LOL! I will take The Ramones led by John Cummings akak Johnny Ramone. He loved Reagan and President Bush.

Hahahahaaaaa .. quite the opposite *sound* of PP&M, who were reported to have been literally in tears when Dylan showed up on stage with an electric backing band (The Band) at the Newport Folk Festival

61 posted on 09/16/2009 7:27:32 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I can’t imagine Girl Scout camping in the ‘60’s without them.

http://ingeb.org/songs/cruelwar.html


62 posted on 09/16/2009 7:27:33 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

a great artist. Her voice will be missed.


63 posted on 09/16/2009 7:32:23 PM PDT by llevrok (As a matter of fact, yes I DO care if Jimmy cracks corn !)
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To: Mr_Moonlight
The tolerant lefties and folkie Bolsheviks in the folkie community attacked Dylan when he went electric. I think he even got death threats. Such tolerance. I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show. The cops were too young to know who he was. He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.
64 posted on 09/16/2009 7:36:20 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: NonValueAdded

Dayan Ha’emet. I’m sure that PP&M’s politics don’t agree with my political sensibilities, but now is not the time. May she rest in peace.


65 posted on 09/16/2009 7:36:41 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Free ThinkerNY

RIP.


66 posted on 09/16/2009 7:37:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: editor-surveyor

me too


67 posted on 09/16/2009 7:38:28 PM PDT by RightField (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Picture from 2008
68 posted on 09/16/2009 7:41:07 PM PDT by texas_mrs (Abort 0bamaCare)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This song demonstrates their impeccable musicianship and the power of their performances:

Peter Paul & Mary - If I Had My Way

69 posted on 09/16/2009 7:41:22 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: Frantzie
Look every folkie by an large was pals with Pete Seeger . . .

Pete Seeger was the one who had to be restrained from taking an ax to the stage wires when Bob Dylan, backed by a few members of the original Butterfield Blues Band (Mike Bloomfield, Jerry Arnold, and Sam Lay) plus Al Kooper (on keyboards), tried to play an electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Something about "purifying" the music or some such rot. Then he cut an album with three members of the Blues Project backing him up. So much for "purity," eh, Pete?

That said, RIP Mary Travers. To this day, I'll swear that "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Too Much of Nothing" were your best records.

70 posted on 09/16/2009 7:42:48 PM PDT by BluesDuke (The waste is a terrible thing to mind . . .)
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To: concentric circles

And Blowin in the Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4&NR=1


71 posted on 09/16/2009 7:44:57 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: editor-surveyor

So did I! First song I learned to play was “Blowin in the Wind”.

God bless Mary and be with her loved ones.


72 posted on 09/16/2009 7:47:09 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: BluesDuke

Sadly Seeger did not try to take an axe to the main power cords. Little commie facist.

He would have gotten an express ride to hell to be with his buddy Stalin.


73 posted on 09/16/2009 7:58:17 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Frantzie; June K.
I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show ~~~ He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.

I posted about this extensively on the threads here on FR when that incident occurred ... that Dylan wasn't your typical 'rock star celebrity' type, and that the incident was really nothing .. really ... that it was just being blown up because of his name recognition (or lack of it, by the young Joiysey Police).

Several FReepers automatically knee-jerked the story as some offensive jack-boot political thing, which it was not. Some others knee-jerked the story as the 'celebrity got what he deserved' ... again, which it was not.

Dylan was just walking thru a neighborhood as is his right , disheveled perhaps, and got asked by police to show ID .. he didn't have any and explained who he was and where he was staying .. they went back to the hotel and all was settled. No harm, no foul ... no screaming, no raving lawsuits, no big deal.

The only reason it made news is that he just happened to be Bob Dylan, that's all .......

74 posted on 09/16/2009 8:15:59 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Mary Travers RIP. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart are all gone too. Where have all the folk singers gone?
75 posted on 09/16/2009 8:38:51 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Mr_Moonlight
MM,

It’s not hard for me to believe that this could happen...I mean that a celebrity such as Dylan could have been unrecognized and questioned!

No matter how well known a ‘star’ is there are still those who might not know them- or even their name! :) This young cop, obviously, was not into the world of music- or at least not-ancient music! ;)

And that was all there was to it...no hidden undertones or reasons for what happened...a cop just doing his job and a star just reacting like a normal human being! ( and not like a pampered ‘Rock Star,’ who was insulted for not being recognized.)

I agree Dylan handled it in a very cool manner!

Junie K

76 posted on 09/16/2009 8:44:17 PM PDT by June K.
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To: Mr_Moonlight

I recall the thread. I was impressed that he did not pull the celeb trip.

Were the cops out of line? Who knows. Maybe he looked like some old guy wandering around.

Yeah it was a mundane story but he handled it well.


77 posted on 09/16/2009 8:54:12 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They were hippies but it was enjoyable to listen to their music.

“I’m in love with a big blue frog
and a big blue frog loves me.
It’s not as bad as it might seem
she wears glasses and she’s five foot three.

Now I’m not worried about our kids
I know they’ll turn out neat
great lookers ‘cause they’ll have my face
great swimmers ‘cause they’ll have her feet.

P H R O G Phrog and me....”


78 posted on 09/16/2009 9:44:51 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Where have all the liberals gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the liberals gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the liberals gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?


79 posted on 09/17/2009 1:30:33 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Prayer - beyond your expectations!)
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To: Revolting cat!
I also know that one of the big singles of these dedicated stalinists is on an all time list of the worst rock’n’roll records. You oughta know which one.

I prefer Leonard Nimoy's version of If I Had A Hammer.

80 posted on 09/17/2009 6:51:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Is Jimmy Carter's wife still hanging around with gay serial killers like John Wayne Gacy?)
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