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When The Ship Comes In

Peter Paul & Mary

Warner Bros WB162

Kenny and Cash, at the height of a flurry of Galaxy-bound creativity, edited the instrumental opening of this folky, ship-related single for use as a brief (around 10 second) jingle.

Peter Paul & Mary are Peter Yarrow, Noel 'Paul' Stookey and Mary Ellin Travers the three-part-harmony group was formed in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1961. Peter Yarrow was a Psychology graduate from Cornell who had turned to writing and singing his own songs. Noel Paul Stookey had left Michigan State University and hit the Village as a singer and fledgeling stand-up comedian. Mary Travers had grown up in the Village, sung on Broadway and was by now a member of folk group the Song Swappers.

Peter Paul and Mary came together as a trio with a little encouragement from folk impressario, Albert Grossman, who became their manager. Initially they rehearsed for seven months at Mary's apartment and played the seminal folk clubs before signing to Warner Brothers Records and releasing their debut album, called Peter, Paul and Mary, in March 1962. Its impact was enormous. In the US album charts it reached #1, selling two million copies. It stayed in the Top 20 for two years, and the Hot 100 for three-and-a-half years! It spawned the singles Lemon Tree, and the old Weavers' song If I Had A Hammer, which was soon embraced as an anthem for the civil rights movement. 1963 saw the release of 3 hit singles – Puff The Magic Dragon, now a children's standard, and the Bob Dylan songs Blowin' In The Wind and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.

It's been said that Peter, Paul and Mary "lived their songs". In 1963 they stood with Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Selma and Washington, and later became deeply involved in the anti-Vietnam war crusade, performing at demonstrations. Early Morning Rain was the work of Canadian folk singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who achieved his own chart success in the UK in the 1970's with If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown. Peter Paul and Mary's biggest chart success in both the USA and the UK came in 1970 with John Denver's Leavin' On A Jet Plane.

The trio survived being spoofed as 'Peter, Paul and Mrs Nosepoultice' in the long-running BBC radio comedy, Round the Horne,

Peter Paul & Mary were still touring into the 21st Century and a website detailing their full history and current information is here. Sadly, in recent years, Mary had been suffering from leukemia and she passed away on September 16th 2009.