I just turned 66 and I am so thankful that I grew up with some of the greatest music ever written and performed by the the best musicians in the world.
So wonderfull,for me the best group..I'm french,and I fell in love,when they came in Paris,in 1968..Lo ng time ago.But they remainded among the best...Oh,Mary,RIP in our ❤ !
I am 76 and this type of music is still the best. PPM, the new christy minstrels, Kingston trio , the Seekers, Linda Rhonstadt, the Highwaymen, I could go on but just to say the new singers of this age do not measure up to this talent.
I totally identify with what you are saying, for me, though, I never lost my love, but I do hear the bitterness, sadness, tragedy of those seven words, very sad.
this is the song, and this is the group, that inspired me to play guitar, which I have now done, by he grace of God, for almost 47 years. I still play this song most times tI perform.
P.P & Mary were the best trio ever ! Also talented as the duo Everly Brothers or Simon and Garfunkel . This performance "Dont Think Twice" is by far better than the original performed even by Bob Dylan ! It's just PERFECTION !
I was a sophomore in high school when the hootenanny came into style. I loved going to the coffee houses and listening to the folk singers. Other kids were buying pop music records while I was buying folk music. From that I evolved in college into the acid rock, Hendrix, the Doors, Country Joe and the Fish, and all the others. I eventually joined the SDS and protested the Vietnam War. In 69 I had just started law school and had to drop out after four months as I was drafted into the Marines. What a trip the sixties were.
Yes, they were the best. I sang Puff, The Magic Dragon for my elementary school audience spring of 1963. P, P, & M were a major musical influence in my life.
You're right indeed !! The real problem is that nowadays, young singers and composer are not concentraded enough on what they do. They prefer to be superficial-easy , say: without any serious commitment, endeavour. That doesn't works!
They are around but it hard to find them There are cover acts going on but no one can replace them ever. The cover acts do not look like them and play twangy guitars and hook up electic inputs to the guitars but never give the same feeling as PP&M. I have seen some young guys that look like Paul did but they are not into singing nor play guitars. I'm seen some Mary look alikes younger but they do not know who PP&M were. It would be hard to find the right people with the same looks and the men play and sing like them. Finding them would be like finding a needle in a hundred hay stacks, but somewhere out there, they exist.
Magical... They were just wonderful in concert. I remember them signing autographs and talking to fans for 2 hours after a 3 hour concert. They just loved the younger fans, stocking up the next generation. Mary always marveled at the grandkids of their early fans. They were in love with music, and all they could do with it. Peter and Paul wrote a few standards. The Wedding Song by Peter, and Day Is Done by Paul. Standards. Their guitars and their harmony were as strong as any folk singers.
I have collected different performances PP&M made of this song over the years (“If I Had My Way”, too) and l have realized that , far from just mechanically repeating the song as recorded, they always sought fresh nuances and deeper levels of meaning, polishing and cleaning melodies, lyrics and arrangements as tenderly as one would restore a fine jewel. Jukebox hacks don’t do this: artists do.
Lots of old comments, but this just showed up on my RU-vid feed. Ilea’s lucky enuff to see two concerts in 1963 and 94, and prolly learned almost every song on those early albums to "perform" with friends and the occasional girlfrien😢. Saw them twice in concert, once at UI in Illinois then in Newport a year later. Unforgettable memories, 60 years later. I can still sing the songs but my hands cannot finger the guitar chords any longer. 😢. We all gotta go sometime…
Love Peter Paul and Mary - so fortunate to have grown up being influenced by their songs. They helped make me the person I am today. Thankyou for everything you stood for and believed in
They could sing in any venue. Small clubs to Carnegie Hall to outside festivals and peace rallies. I am privileged to have seen them from their beginning.
Peter, Paul, and Mary were the best at all they did!!!!....as a teen on the lower east side along with a few of my friends, helped move their belongings from their flat on east Broadway to their new pad on bleecker st.
This is one of my precious songs throughout my life. My friend, my elder brother and I used to sing together at that time of early '70s. My friend who sang for Mary had died in her young age. I miss all people at that time.
Iconic. Where have the years gone. Lord, this song is perfection. Two perfect guitars, three part harmony, great song! The 3 of you had a way of complimenting each other. It is a gift. Saw you many times over the years. Wedding Song, and Day is Done are a couple of your best contributions. Mary will always be missed. She was special, as we all are....
They were the heart and soul of the folk era. I have had great good fortune to see them in live performances three times over the years. The first was in 1965 in Knoxville, TN, and the most recent here in Evansville a few years before Mary passed on.
When the mix came out and I listened to it casually, before this song, Haruo Miba's Otone heartlessness came out. Coincidentally, both songs were skinny, root-race. I thought it was hard for a man to endure and look good
I believe this is from The Smothers Brothers Show in the early 70's, judging by Peter's hair loss, & how they had all aged. Peter lost his hair virtually overnight, drastically changing his appearance, & Paul had also balded completely. Mary was older, heavier, but still gorgeous. And ohhh could they still sing. They were all in their late 20's when they hit it big in '62, so my guess is, they is 10-12 years later. A heartbreaking & beautiful song. Wolfsky9
I'm convinced tht P P & M were first to introduce close harmony to the "folk scene" back in the mighty 60s! BEAUTIFUL, just like the late gorgeous Mary!(RIP)
+KyranI an Geraghty Well, the Everlys were mostly country, but they did do folk songs with close harmonys well before PPM. Devoted To You, Let It Be Me, Cryin in the Rain. etc.
+Lengo67 But PP & M had a beautiful sound that I haven't seen duplicated. Perhaps it is the un-synthized music and the way one listens to the other. Mary, a bit too loud at times (her natural spirit) had to tone it down at times. But she was such a natural ! And so in-tune to the thing. I've yet to find another like her.
The Carter Family!!! On Top of Old Smokey...Good Night Irene...I've Got TO Be Moving Along...Down In The Valley..ohhh, like cross-ties on a railroad...
Exceptional, thank you for posting. Saw PP&M for the first and only time at Station Square in Pgh, PA a number of years ago. Mary was walking with a cane then but assured everyone that she was alright (RIP Mary)
This is the song- the original, from In the Wind, late '63 and 1964, that made me want- no, need- to play the guitar. 46 years later, I'm still playing gigs, and still playing this song, in a version quite close to this. Don't Think Twice changed my life. I'd never have met or married my wife, and a whole string of event that spring from music and the love it conveys.
This is an astounding version of an incredible song (with Dylan just 22 when writing it). I love the guitar solo that Peter does at the opening and have based my playing of it mostly on that wonderful instrumental. Perfect singing too.
Paul taught me this guitar part in his motel room after the concert in Corvallis Oregon in 1968. Very Generous of him to spend his time with a college student. These were very good and loving people. I have played it a thousand times since.
