{"id":7922,"date":"2014-12-01T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:29:10","slug":"50-years-with-peter-paul-and-mary-airs-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/2014\/12\/01\/50-years-with-peter-paul-and-mary-airs-on-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary Airs on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter, Paul and Mary: Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow (Photo: Robert Corwin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Peter, Paul and Mary\u2019s music and social activism helped to shape a generation. Through the years, the seminal folk trio has touched the hearts and consciences of millions of people worldwide, won five Grammy Awards, received eight gold and five platinum records, had 13 top 40 hits, and been the subject of five PBS documentaries. A new one entitled 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary<\/em> has begun airing on PBS television stations throughout the U.S. Check your local TV listings for days and times in your area. <\/p>\n

PBS\u2019 airing of the new documentary coincides with the recent publication of a 144-page coffee table book, Peter, Paul and Mary: 50 Years in Life and Song<\/em> (Imagine\/Chartsbridge), replete with hundreds of photos and evocative narrative text drawn from interviews and personal writings from each of the trio\u2019s members. November also saw the release of a new album, Discovered: Live in Concert<\/em> (Rhino), featuring 13 songs that the trio performed in concert but never recorded in the studio.<\/p>\n

Produced and directed by Emmy Award\u2013winner Jim Brown, 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary<\/em> highlights some aspects of the popular and inspirational trio\u2019s career not previously included in other PBS specials. The new documentary includes rare archival footage stemming from the group\u2019s emergence in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village and the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s of which Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers were so much a part. 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary<\/em> spans five decades of music and activism up to the moving memorial for Mary (who died in 2009) and what her former musical partners are doing today.<\/p>\n

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Archival footage includes the trio singing \u201cBob Dylan\u2019s \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d during the 1963 March on Washington at which the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famed \u201cI Had a Dream\u201d speech. As Yarrow observes in the documentary, it was a time when \u201cmusic began to inspire America, tweak its conscience, and articulate its dreams.\u201d Peter, Paul and Mary are also seen and heard singing a song they wrote for anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy during a campaign rally in 1968, and visiting homeless shelters to mark the trio\u2019s 25th anniversary in the 1980s. \u201cActivism and advocacy was in our blood,\u201d acknowledges Stookey.<\/p>\n

Footage of the trio singing \u201cDeporteees\u201d with Tom Paxton and \u201cWhere Have All The Flowers Gone?\u201d with Pete Seeger are excerpted from previous PBS specials. The new documentary wraps with coverage of the touching memorial for Mary Travers in New York City in 2009 and vignettes about Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow.<\/p>\n

Although the PBS documentary bears the name 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary<\/em>, the trio was actually formed in 1961 \u2013- having made its first public appearance that fall at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village. Mary sang with them for 43 years and the trio was on hiatus for seven years<\/p>\n

\"Ppm\"<\/a>Peter, Paul and Mary released their eponymous debut album for Warner Brothers in 1962. It topped the charts that summer, remained in the top 10 for ten months and the top 20 for two years, and featured the hit single, \u201cIf I Had a Hammer.\u201d That song, penned by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, became an anthem of the civil rights movement and was performed by the trio during the 1963 March on Washington. The trio\u2019s sophomore release featured their own \u201cPuff the Magic Dragon,\u201d a now classic song that has been a children\u2019s favorite for decades. Peter, Paul and Mary\u2019s rendition of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d was released in the summer of 1963, and also became a big hit for the trio. These three songs are among the many that can be heard during the documentary. Since Peter, Paul and Mary\u2019s musical history together extends more than 50 years, the documentary\u2019s title and that of the new coffee table book harken back to that of the trio\u2019s album, Late Again<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yet, as Judy Collins has observed: \u201cTimeless as a river. Sweet as the song of birds in the spring. Familiar as the faces of your loved ones. It seems Peter, Paul and Mary have been in our lives since the very beginning, inspiring us with their joyous and uplifting music.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter, Paul and Mary\u2019s music and social activism helped to shape a generation. Through the years, the seminal folk trio has touched the hearts and consciences of millions of people worldwide, won five Grammy Awards, received eight gold and five platinum records, had 13 top 40 hits, and been the subject of five PBS documentaries. A new one entitled 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary<\/em> has begun airing on PBS television stations throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n

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