I’m up late and who comes on 77 Sunset Strip? Peter, Paul and Mary, the crap trio that bridged the gap between 50s rock n’ roll and The Beatles. They played horribly boring music that somehow gets included in the history of rock.
Here they were, on the Tee Vee, in a coffee house, supposedly being edgy and hipster. Meanwhile Kookie Byrnes is hipper.
It’s tough to watch the clip knowing Yarrow would go on to be a child molester, sexually assaulting a 14 year-old girl who knocked on his hotel door to get an autograph. He was completely nude and he molested her in full view of her 17 year-old sister. (Note that Yarrow went after the 14 year-old.)
He served only 3 months in prison, and later on Jimmy Carter gave him a full pardon.
But, did you know, after all of this went down, Yarrow performed at John Kerry’s wedding, and he was chosen to be Godfather to Kerry’s daughter? I’m not kidding.
Yep. That’s the left. There is absolutely no stigma attached to consorting with a cretin. And yet, we’re called deplorables.
Reports are that while Yarrow performed Puff the Magic Dragon, John Kerry was seen toking an imaginary joint, playing into the myth that the song is about smoking pot.
That’s our former secretary of state.
Wickedness in high places.
MUFF, MEET MY MAGIC DRAGON!!
“Reports”, hell, it’s on tape !
That’s how comfortable Progs are in their world.
Hound them like the Baskervilles.
But he didnt sing to her………..
90 days ? If he’s responsible for writing Puff, he should have gotten 90 years. Hard labor, no parole.
He claims “it was the worse mistake I ever made” Translated its “The worse mistake they ever caught me for”.
Aren’t Pete and Joe Biden bridge partners?
C’mon, BFH! Admit it; you have the complete PPM catalog.
I quit listening to PP&M, Pete Seeger and many other folk singers many, many moons ago. I guess I just grew up and realized that they were propagandists for left wing causes. Older Bob Dylan I can still listen to because for the most part he never went political, the song about Ruben “Hurricane” Carter being an exception back in the 70’s. I much rather prefer classic country music (true Americana and folk music) like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Don Williams, Charlie Pride, Bob Wills, I love Texas swing music, Asleep At The Wheel, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Patsy Cline, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine and even Buck Owens etc. etc. Hee haw, does that make me a redneck or just a lover of good American music?
Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.
That is one of the most retarded songs they play occasionally on XM radios 50’s on 5. It is truly annoying. And Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper which is slick willie’s theme song.
Oh the memories…. When my (hippie) sister came home from college that first time in the 60’s and all she played was PPM, Seegar, Baez and some other crap. It all sucked. Fast forward to present day. She’s a thrice divorced quasi-professor at some college in NY. Probably has like 10 cats, unshaved legs and is one of those “nasty women”.
and yet the media was so dismissive about pizzagate.
Do you know that in 1967 PP&M recorded a song called “The Great Mandala”?
(It was originally “The Great Mandela”, but the title got changed by the Mandala Effect.)
😉
“the crap trio….” An apt description of P,P, and M for sure. And Joan Baez? Oh dear Lord. That goat-like vibrato, and she always sounded like she was a half-step off-key. 🤢
Al Capp in his Little Abner comic strip back in the 60’s referred to Joan Baez as either Phony Joanie or Joanie Phony.
@goeff, how do you feel about David Allen Coe?
I have been to 3 DAC Honky Tonk shows.
He got in a fight in 2, coulda been 3, I didn’t have good seats for that show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOVRkSCWmg
Oh stuff, geoff, sorry man.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.
eeeeewwww!!!!
I always thought they were a Sesame Street band or something like that.
I guess I was right. Ugh!
Hey Petey, that magic schnoz of yours is its own dragon.
GEOF
If you like Buck you may be a Cali. He and 2 guys named Merle did the Western version of Opry 60 years ago. My dad watched him every Thor night on Ch 11. He told me the guitar was American R. W. +B. But TV in Ike’s day was not color!
The last Merle died recently. buck and the other been gone years. I think the 3 are still heroes in Bakersfield.
And the right has Ted Nugent, who rapes 13 year old girls.
MY dad loved country music when I was a kid back in the mid to late 60’s, for the most part I hated it because he always had it on at work at the gas station, KSPO 1230 AM. The best part was Paul Harvey’s news reports twice a day. And we watched Hee Haw on Saturday nights and Green Acres, my dad laughed himself silly at Pat Buttram’s character Mr. Haney and Arnold Ziffle the pig as well. Anyway as I got older I started appreciating the old country music a lot more and now I’m turning into my dad as well as my grandfather who loved Cattle Call by Eddie Arnold which I like a whole lot. And Johnny Cash just started getting better as he got older, his last albums before he died were some of his most honest and best music he ever recorded. I guess I’ve come full circle, I’ve become a cow pie music afficianado and my daughter in law because she came from a small town (Winthrop) in the Methow valley in Wash. state likes it as well and even has my son liking country music, WOO HOO! One of my dad’s favorite songs was Wolverton Mountain. Thank God he wasn’t a big Slim Whitman fan.
I’m Peter. I’m not a saint.
I’m Paul. I’m not an apostle.
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I’m Mary. I’m not a virgin