Puff the Magic Dragon kept my cousin entertained on a long driving trip. I had a brand-new Walkman at the time. It was - play song, rewind, play song for about half the trip. I was about 12 and he was probably 3 at the time. Saved our sanity.
I agree with many, their music was good, her voice was beautiful, but the politics sucked.
I remember hearing the sweet booming tones of “Puff the Magic Dragon” while I was in Vietnam.
That is, the roar of three 7.62mm miniguns mounted on the AC-47 Dragonfly, AKA “Puff”, turning a grid square full of NVAs into bloody mulch with that combined 10,000 rounds per minute.
Wonder how PPM felt about the appropriation of their song title? Seventy-two is too young for anyone to die, but I wonder how Mary Travers felt as time went on that socialist paradise USSA just wasn’t going to happen.