“Puff, the Magic Dragon” was released in January of 1963 by the American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The song peaked at ...

Stookey, who would use his middle name as ... an overnight sensation when their first album, 1962’s eponymous “Peter, Paul and Mary,” reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

That was right after they performed at the now-famous civil rights March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech.

Though the upper-echelon of the music industry seems like a larger than life place, the community within it is actually quite small when you consider how often our favorite musicians cross paths. From ...

Jennifer Stepp met Peter Yarrow in 2016 while helping to found an organization dedicated to depolarization. Here's her ...

Merge. The Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, the Rev. Michael W. Fisher, has officially issued a decree regarding the fate of Ss.

ALMANAC: September 12 “Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

From the death of folk music star Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary to good news from broadcasting legend Dick Vitale, here is this week’s news.

You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as “Puff the Magic Dragon” starts playing in ...

Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who co-wrote “Puff the Magic Dragon,” has ...