Many suspected 'Puff The Magic Dragon' to be subtly about smoking marijuana, but the writer insisted it was just a tale about innocence lost.

Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” are just some of the popular ‘60s folk songs that will ...

Peter Yarrow, of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, was convicted in 1970 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he ...

(JTA) — Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary’s music. “Puff The Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a ...

Yarrow's conviction for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl taints his music, writes the director of the Women's Rabbinic ...

Of course, in the parlance of the Counterculture movement that was taking hold alongside the Vietnam War (in opposition to that conflict), “puff the magic dragon” had a very different connotation.

What else? Excellent music choices, Obiter notes, including Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive, Gregory Isaacs’ lovely reggae version of Puff the Magic Dragon, and Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan.

Put such songs in your rotation and you may stave ... But whatever its subtext, “Puff, the Magic Dragon” is foremost a gorgeous elegy for childhood. It conveys an appropriate sentiment for ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary were a band put together by Bob Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman ( Dan Fogler ). The group sang many of ...

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

They were 32. Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and a prominent social activist, died Jan. 7 at his home ...