Peter, Paul and Mary

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All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
The debut album by Peter, Paul & Mary is still one of the best albums to come out of the 1960s folk music revival, a beautifully harmonized collection of the best songs that the group knew, stirring in its sensibilities and its haunting melodies, crossing between folk, children's songs, and even gospel "If I Had My Way", and light-hearted just where it needed to be, with the song "Lemon Tree," which became their first hit single, and earnest where it had to be, particularly on "If I Had a Hammer." Ironically, the trio's version of the latter song, which Pete Seeger and Lee Hayes had written in the early days of the Weavers' history, helped push popular folk music in a ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
The debut album by Peter, Paul & Mary is still one of the best albums to come out of the 1960s folk music revival, a beautifully harmonized collection of the best songs that the group knew, stirring in its sensibilities and its haunting melodies, crossing between folk, children's songs, and even gospel "If I Had My Way", and light-hearted just where it needed to be, with the song "Lemon Tree," which became their first hit single, and earnest where it had to be, particularly on "If I Had a Hammer." Ironically, the trio's version of the latter song, which Pete Seeger and Lee Hayes had written in the early days of the Weavers' history, helped push popular folk music in a more political direction at the time, but it was another song in their repertory, Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," that also helped indirectly jump start that movement. The group had performed it in Boston at a concert attended by the Kingston Trio, who immediately returned to New York and cut their own version, which charted as a single early in 1962. Other highlights include "It's Raining" and "500 Miles." Peter, Paul & Mary, which hit the top spot on the album charts as part of a 185-week run, is the purest of the trio's albums, laced with innocent good spirits and an optimism that remains infectious even 40 years later. Along with the rest of the trio's early catalog, the album was remixed for CD from its original three-track master tape by Peter Yarrow in 1989, which resulted in some of the best sound on any Warner Bros. CDs of material dating from the early '60s.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/25/1990
  • Label: Warner Bros / Wea
  • UPC: 075992715720
  • Catalog Number: 1449
  • Sales rank: 9,811

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Early in the Morning (1:33)
  2. 2 500 Miles (2:46)
  3. 3 Sorrow (2:49)
  4. 4 This Train (2:03)
  5. 5 Bamboo (2:25)
  6. 6 It's Raining (4:20)
  7. 7 If I Had My Way (2:17)
  8. 8 Cruel War (3:26)
  9. 9 Lemon Tree (2:52)
  10. 10 If I Had a Hammer (2:06)
  11. 11 Autumn to May (2:43)
  12. 12 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (3:54)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Peter, Paul and Mary Primary Artist
Mary Travers Vocals
Peter Yarrow Guitar, Vocals
Noel Paul Stookey Vocals
Technical Credits
Albert B. Grossman Producer
Milton Okun Director
Bill Schwartau Engineer
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    One of the Best ones that I own!!!

    This is a stunning debut album. It has everything I can think of that a debut album needs... Real basic, acoustic sound, individual vocals. I suggest that anyone who is a Peter, Paul and Mary fan to purchase this album. It's really great. I hope this review was helpful to anyone who reads it.

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