[Vision2020] Mary Travers Dead at 72

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Peter, Paul and Mary were good.
Roger
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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:36:25 -0700
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Mary Travers Dead at 72

> Courtesy of the New York Daily News at:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/o9v9sa
> 
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> 
> Folk singer Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
> BY David Hinckley
> 
> Mary Travers, a striking figure of power and glamour in the early-1960s
> folk music movement, died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut
> after suffering from leukemia for several years. She was 72.
> 
> She was best known as the blond with the bangs who commanded the middle
> microphone with Peter, Paul and Mary, a trio that brought folk music from
> coffeehouses to top-40 radio.
> 
> They also gave much of America its first taste of the young Bob Dylan by
> helping to turn his "Blowin' in the Wind" into a national anthem.
> 
> The group reunited several years ago to begin touring, and Travers
> performed with them until a few months ago, even when she needed
> assistance on stage.
> 
> Travers, like Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, saw folk music both as an art
> and as an instrument for change. They sang a number of sociopolitical
> songs, which Travers later defended.
> 
> "I'm not sure I want to be singing 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' when I'm 75,"
> she said in one interview. "But I know I'll still be singing 'Blowin' in
> the Wind.' "
> 
> She was born in Louisville, Ky., but grew up in Greenwich Village and came
> up through the New York coffeehouse circuit, singing on her own before she
> was put together with Stookey and Yarrow by famed manager Albert Grossman,
> who also managed Dylan.
> 
> The trio took considerable criticism from fellow folk singers for
> developing a sound that some considered too "commercial" and not
> "authentic" enough.
> 
> Travers always strongly defended the trio's sound, saying that they were
> in the folk tradition by making music accessible to everyone, not just
> academic collectors.
> 
> Peter, Paul and Mary were inducted into the Sammy Cahn Songwriters Hall of
> Fame in 2006. Travers is survived by two daughters.
> 
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> 
> Mary Travers . . . then
> http://tinyurl.com/MaryTravers1960s
> 
> Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, and Noel Paul Stookey . . . 2009
> http://tinyurl.com/PeterPaulMary2009
> 
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> 
> "Blowin' in the Wind"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4
> 
> "Puff the Magic Dragon"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wik2uc69WbU
> 
> "Where Have All the FLowers Gone?"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjy2HCdV6BA
> 
> "Early Morning Rain"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OCnHNk2Hac
> 
> "If I had a Hammer" (my favorite)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKB3PxG-0E
> 
> "Have You Been to Jail For Justice?"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOsJ05WvYBc
> 
> At the anti-war rally in Washington, DC on April 24, 1971
> (FYI, Tea partiers - This is what a million people looks like)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8U6Oh9uSY8
> 
> "These Times They Are A-changin'"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oU7M4OeSRM
> 
> The summers of '67 and '68, sittin' with friends at MacArthur Park in Los
> Angeles, listening to the cranked up sounds of Peter, Paul and Mary, while
> passing out flyers . . . though long gone, are fresh in my mind as if it
> were yesterday.
> 
> Rest well and . . .
> 
> Peace out, Mary.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "Have you been to jail for justice?
> I want to shake your hand
> ‘Cause sitting in and laying down
> Are ways to take a stand
> Have you sung a song for freedom
> Or marched that picket line?
> Have you been to jail for justice?
> Then you’re a friend of mine."
> 
> - Peter, Paul and Mary's "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?"
> 
> 
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