Mary Travers, Singer of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ Dead at 72
Mary Travers, the singer that spent her youth putting the Mary in the group, ‘Peter, Paul, and Mary,’ has died. She was 72.
Travers devloped complications after chemotherarpy treatments she was undergoing after a bone marrow transplant she had several years ago. She had suffered from leukemia.
Travers was a New York folk singer who served as the poster-child for all folk-revival groups in the 1960’s. She and bandmates Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, released their first album in 1962.
Via The New York Times:
“She was obviously the sex appeal of that group, and that group was the sex appeal of the movement,” said Elijah Wald, a folk-blues musician and a historian of popular music.
The group had several hits including “If I Had a Hammer,” “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and their own version of the Bob Dylan classic, “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
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