did you grow up listening to peter, paul and mary?

[Spacemom]

my mom was a hippy from way back and folk music was the soundtrack of my childhood. I added Peter, Paul and Mary to my pandora station and "Stewball" just played. I miss my mom so much. :cry:

[Fran Kubelik]

1. that would be me.

I'm sorry about your mom. :hug:

[Spacemom]

3. Thank You

She passed away 4 years ago, but sometimes it still hits me in the gut, and I feel like I've lost her all over again.

:hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Oh, Stewball was a racehorse....

:hug:

and Yes, I listened to folk music as a child. I am sorry your Mother is gone. I should remember to love mine more.

[Spacemom]

4. And then "Bridge over troubled water" came on!

It hurts to listen to all this stuff that reminds me of her, but it's some of the best damn music! Bittersweet.

:hug:

[auntAgonist]

6. awww I cannot

listen to Bridge Over Troubled Water without crying ... never not once.

:hug: again.

aA

[auntAgonist]

5. me too on both counts.

Grew up hearing Peter Paul and Mary, met Paul Stookey (sp) a few times, he was the friend of a friend.

I miss my Mom too.

:hug:

aA
kesha

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. "Puff, The Magic Dragon"

I have no idea why I remember this, but that song played on the radio when my mother and I went shopping for my senior prom gown.

The things that stay with us.

Honey, we never get over missing our moms............

:hug:

[Spacemom]

17. That's the truth!

My mom and I saw Peter, Paul and Mary in concert in the late 90s. We sang every song. Especially Puff the magic dragon. :D :smoke:

Sometimes I feel like I'm still just a kid and damnit, I want my mommy!

:hug:

[cwydro]

25. Puff used to make me sad.

[gbate]

33. It still chokes me up to this day.

[qnr]

8. Actually, I was just listening to them two hours ago. To answer your question though,

yeah, in amongst all the others.

[KT2000]

9. Oh yes!

had all their albums, now have their CDs
Joan Baez too.
Folk songs are so inspirational - the people's history

[gmoney]

10. "I'm in love with a big blue frog..."

Album 1700 got a lot of play when I was a kid...

[Captain Hilts]

15. I'm a sweet young thing of 50, but my friends had that one. Very popular. nt

[Spacemom]

18. We had that one!

I bet it's tucked away in a box somewhere. I don't even have a turntable to play it on if I could find it! :rofl:

Some of the best music came out of those times.

[csziggy]

11. Only in secret - my parents were conservative

But a friend's parents were hippies with hippy friends and she'd take me to their house to hear all those cool songs.

[Faygo Kid]

12. My first job in college, fall 1969, saw "Leaving On a Jet Plane" at the top.

I worked at a stereo store on the east side of Detroit, and had to be the first one there at 6 every morning (tough when you're 18). Dusted, vacuumed, got it ready. But got to put on the greatest and most unimaginable stereo equipment imaginable for 1969 on, all for myself.

And "Leaving On a Jet Plane" was number 1. Wow.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. 1963 - Birmingham, AL

Probably before my 5th birthday, I think I remember that Mary had a green dress.

[RebelOne]

14. I was already grown up when I listened to them.

I was in my 20s when they were big.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Mary's not in such great health. Here's wishing her well. nt

[begin_within]

19. Yes and I still have 2 of their albums.

"Peter Paul and Mary" and "Peter Paul and Mary Moving." They are very scratchy, but there are some great songs on them. I don't listen to them often enough.

[Heidi]

20. Yep.

My parents love them, and I like them a lot, too. :hi:

Mornin', Spacemom! Sorry you've lost your mom, but you're a good, good person, and I know she's proud of your character. :hug: :hug:

[Spacemom]

22. Thank You!

I do like to think she raised me right!

:hug: :hug:

[femmocrat]

21. You bet! I saw them in concert a couple of times, too.

Loved them.

[1gobluedem]

23. Yes, my mother loved them

In our family, though, 'Lemon Tree' was referred to as 'the tornado song' because we had a tornado warning on the night of the day she bought the album (and played it over and over). I could never hear it as a kid without thinking of that.

My favorite song is 'Light One Candle.'

We grew up on PPM, Simon and Garfunkel, Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio, and the Clancy Brothers. I'm fortunate that my mother is still living and we still love that music.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Absolutely...

I still cry when I hear "Puff".

I'm sorry about your mom. It's good that you have fond memories of her. :hug::hug::hug:

[RiffRandell]

26. Yes.

My parents grew up in the fifties, but were huge fans. They have seen them numerous times live.

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. I/m leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again

Get well , Mary .we love you

[NJmaverick]

28. Yes very much so

my mother had their album, but she wasn't a hippy. Puff was one of my favorite songs as a kid.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

29. It was somewhat in the background, along with other folk music...

...the "heavy rotation" music in my home was traditional/classic country: Buck Owens, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Chet Atkins, Hank Williams...

I heard Peter, Paul & Mary via the occasional AM radio, but my parents didn't own any of their albums and neither did I.

:toast:

[KittyWampus]

42. trying to tease out the drummer my Mom like too... Sandy somebody...

Sandy Nelson?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

44. Sandy Nelson - Let There be Drums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGsIBkKD28

:toast:

[Moondog]

30. Yes, early on. Became a rocker with the British Invasion.

I first picked up on PP&M, Joan Baez, the Kingston Trio, and rest from the older siblings of some friends. The Beatles, the Stones, and the rest of the Invasion hit, and I moved on from folk at that time.

I was raised by my father, who was an older man. An unredeemed and unrepentant swing era guy, he listened to a mix of classical (what he called long hair music), the big bands (Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, etc), some Rat Pack stuff (Sinatra, Martin), and a chanteuse from the era named Julie London. He also liked Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. So I listened to all that stuff too.

I lived in England for several years in the mid-80s, and was quite surprised to hear a lot of swing era stuff on BBC radio. Still got air time there, interspersed with the then current British "top of the pops". Eclecticism at its finest ....

[gbate]

31. My Dad used to play Stewball on his guitar for us.

When I was a little girl, I thought Mary Travers was so beautiful.

[stray cat]

32. My 3rd grade teacher introduced me to them - I'm leaving on a jet plane

[suninvited]

34. so hard for a woman to lose her mother

I lost mine, too, way too early.

I remember listening to Puff the Magic Dragon at a very early age, but don't remember if my mother was a fan, or if it was my older brother.

My mother was a huge Neil Diamond fan, and I can't hear him without thinking of her.

[surrealAmerican]

35. Yes. My parents listened to a lot of folk music.

They weren't hippies, though, they were the generation before that, and too "conventional" to be beatniks.

[MrScorpio]

36. Not Really

Not funky enough for the hood

[LWolf]

37. Yes. So did my kids.

I was born in 1960, raised on folk music, and my musical roots followed me through the raising of my own children.

One of whom started writing his own lyrics and music in his teens, and still performs small local gigs local (to him) with his guitar.

[Hepburn]

38. Yes, of course...

...I will be 61 next month and is there anyone about my age that did NOT do this???

:hi:

[applegrove]

39. My brother got the "best of" album when I was in about grade nine. I had never heard

of them before. I loved "leaving on a jet plane".

[KittyWampus]

40. Oh Stewball as a racehorse, I wish he were mine. He always drank water...

[graywarrior]

41. They were my very first concert

[dgibby]

43. My first concert was Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Saw them when I was stationed in Oakland, Ca. I got stoned on the 2nd hand smoke in there! Actually fell asleep during the performance. :rofl:

I loved all the folk singers, Joan, Judy Collins, PPM, S&G,etc. Great time to be alive.

[organicbiscuit]

45. My mom used to play them when I was very young

I remember she used to sing to us. I remember Puff the Magic Dragon in particular. Also remember Lemon Tree (very pretty), though I don't think that was PP&M.

[organicbiscuit]

46. My mom used to play them when I was very young

I remember she used to sing to us. I remember Puff the Magic Dragon in particular. Also remember Lemon Tree (very pretty), though I don't think that was PP&M.

[organicbiscuit]

47. Sorry, my computer hung up and double posted. n/t