Mary Travers, RIP
“Where have all the flowers gone?“ (2007, w/ Peter & Paul)
“Puff, the Magic Dragon“ (2007, w/ Peter & Paul)
“Follow Me” (1971)
“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face“ (1970)
“Early Morning Rain“ (1966, w/ Peter & Paul)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” (1966, w/ Peter & Paul) h/t Jim Montague
“Because All Men Are Brothers (The Whole Wide World Around)” (1966, w/ Peter & Paul) h/t sysprog
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New Photo. Earlier photo may actually have been Joni Mitchell. Thanks, Jim White.
Beautiful youtubes, Karen. What a sad loss.
How can you forget the anthem of the civil rights movement? I saw them a couple of times, you always left feeling better about yourself and the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6NVcqcRVE
Sorry, Jim! I just really associate that one with Dylan. However, I have added it above. Thanks!
I tried embedding the videos, but to no avail.
However, I did embed Where have all the flowers gone? at FDL’s The Seminal.
I think of Simon and Garfunkel’s “He Was My Brother,” too. That album, “Wednesday Morning 3:00 am, was one of my earliest musical memories; my mother bought it when it came out, the year I was born, in 1964. Listening to “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” in 2003 made me realize how far we hadn’t come, in my whole life. Listening to Three Dog Night’s “Black and White” makes me feel the same way. Sad.
Where have all the flowers gone, indeed.
Well its a very nice selection regardless. Dylan did make it famous, and I always preferred Joan Baez’s take on it more. Great times.
Yeah, Jim, there’s no one like Baez. I dread the idea of doing a post like this for her some day. Hopefully, it will be in the very, very distant future.
‘Hag, maybe there should be a regular musical feature here, along with that advice column we were discussing some threads ago?
I stayed at Joan Baez’s Carmel Valley ranch for two weeeks, in 1971. One of my very closest friends, went to jail as a conscientious objector in 1968, His cellmate at the Federal prison at Safford Az, turned out to be David Harris, who was married to Joan (they later divorced). She was only there for three days, and left to keep concert dates, but it was very memorable. I’ll tell you about it some time. I’m still trying to find my old friend, perhaps one day.
That’s quite a story, Jim… perhaps something for a blog post? But if not, I’d still like to hear it.
My second husband was a CO, too, but long before I knew him. It was quite a big deal then. He would have been earlier than your friend. He was from a college town in the midwest, but was attending Harvard. His dad was in Europe in WWII, but I don’t know much about that, since he never talked about it. My ex-husband later joined the Peace Corps and went to Africa (again before I knew him), and had quite a culture shock when he returned.
He would probably like this space/group, but I don’t think he spends any time online.
I saw PP&M in Annapolis, at the Naval Academy, in 1964.
I like the clips from the BBC-Four TV show in 1966.
From that same TV show, here’s another clip with harmony by J.S. Bach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPbB5n-OW8Q
Watch and listen how Mary opens her heart and her hand when she sings, “My brother’s tears are my tears” and then watch how she clenches her fist, as the song end with a verbal resolution . . .
. . . and along with the verbal resolution, Bach’s minor key harmonies resolve into a triumphant major chord.
Very cool, I had not seen that one before. Sad when you pause to consider that its another piece of your youth gone.
Thanks for that additional link, sysprog.
I was thinking about posting something here as a memorial… and when I saw your comment earlier today, with another link, it reminded me not to forget to do it. (I never did get to check out that other link, since I was at work.)
Another one from that BBC show.
Peter, Paul & Mary cover Gordon Lightfoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qs2qqgLv0g
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I didn’t know this one, sysprog. Ironically, it could have been my theme song when I was much younger… I was such a nomad then.
I’m going to have to search for the rest of the PP&M BBC Four clips on YouTube. May be a separate post.
Thanks for the trip down memory lank, Karen M. It’s hard to believe how long ago it was.
RIP Mary Travers
Scans perfectly, bystander!
Joni :
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20048006,00.html
Well, that clinches it, sysprog. Thanks for the confirmation.
I never really saw any photos of Mary when she was much older, or when she got sick, and I thought that first photo might have been before she got sick.
Same with Joni Mitchell. I haven’t seen her older, since PBS mostly shows their older programming. Otherwise, I’d have figured it out. Temporal dissonnance or not.
Love the new photo! It’s very expressive.
Sysprog: thanks for the links to the early videos. The Bach arrangement was great and my wife and I have listened to a lot of Lightfoot over the years, so that one was fun, too.
RIP, Mary.
I’m glad you like it, Jim. It is a lovely photo. There was another one, also younger, that I had tried to use when I was first posting (after I gave up on the videos), but I couldn’t get its code to stay in the post. Later on, it appeared to be gone from the search results.
I really didn’t want to use one of the older photos when she wasn’t feeling well. It did not seem fair; I know I would not have liked it.
Yeah. Can’t help but wonder where we’re bound, where we’re bound.
Can’t help but wonder …
PP@M were before my time, but I’m familiar with their music and I particularly enjoyed “Jet Plane” (don’t know if that’s the official title).
I was very sorry to hear of her death. We all die, I know, but isn’t it peculiar that there’s a part of us (at least, of me) that simply is confounded by someone’s passing.
I’ve spent so many years studying philosophy or one thing and another and, when all is said and done, I just don’t get it.
Such is my profundity.
Thanks, Karen
Thanks, Everyone, for your thoughts and links!