RIP Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary), 72

[Wayback]

Mary Travers has died at age 72, leukemia:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/16/entertainment/e181035D51.DTL&tsp=1

Peter Paul & Mary "If I Had My Way"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1YmVqkBGY8

PP&M "I Dig Rock & Roll Music" on Jonathon Winters Show 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMj2WqwehU4&feature=related

PP&M "And When I Die" at Sydney Opera House 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5WncqIv98&feature=related

It's a battle of the folkies as PP&M, Donovan and the Smothers Bros duke it out with shortened versions of their greatest hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNppAsmQ8qg

PP&M at 1971 Washington Peace Rally perform "Blowin' In the Wind" & "Give Peace A Chance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8U6Oh9uSY8&feature=related

[ggould]

Mary Travers has died at age 72, leukemia:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/16/entertainment/e181035D51.DTL&tsp=1

It's a battle of the folkies as PP&M, Donovan and the Smothers Bros duke it out with shortened versions of their greatest hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNppAsmQ8qg

PP&M at 1971 Washington Peace Rally perform "Blowin' In the Wind" & "Give Peace A Chance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8U6Oh9uSY8&feature=related

sadness
 

[Gazoo]

 

[mshray]

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper Mary Travers came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

[RGMike]

a toast and a toke to Ms Travers. Puff the magic -- drag on!

[mshray]

...having now read the obit piece, what a helluva coincidence that Mary Travers grew up in the same building where Pete Seeger lived.  Talk about networking.

[urth]

And AL must be a fortune-teller or she had some inside info, as we heard Leavin' On a Jet Plane in a 1969 set two weeks ago to the day.

[ggould]

nice piece by Michael Yaki:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/yaki/detail?entry_id=47800