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Peter Yarrow
Born
May 31, 1938 twist Manhattan, Different York
Instruments
Vocals (tenor)
Recording years (as a unaccompanied artist)
1972-1975
Performing geezerhood (as a solo artist)
1970-1980
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History[]
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Peter Yarrow
(1938- )
Peter Yarrow is a Jewish American folk singer, producer, composer, and songwriter best-known for being a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
Yarrow was born in New York City on May 31, 1938. He began his singing career after graduating from Cornell University. He moved to Greenwich Village, where he met Noel "Paul" Stookey and Mary Travers and formed the group Peter, Paul and Mary, which become the most popular folk group of the 1960s, as well as leaders of the 1960s folk revival. The group made its debut in 1961 at the Bitter End coffeehouse, a bastion of folk music, and recorded its eponymous debut album the following year, which spawned such hits as "Five Hundred Miles" and "Lemon Tree," as well as covers of Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "If I Had a Hammer." The album remained on the Billboard Top 100 for the next three years. "If I Had a Hammer" won the trio the first of its two Grammy Awards, for Best Performance by a Vocal Group and Best Folk Recording. The group's 1963 album, In the Wind, with its cover version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," sold 300,000 copies in less than two weeks. "Puff, the Magic Dragon," written by Ya
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Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow (May 31, 1938 – January 7, 2025) was an American singer. He was known for his songs such as "Puff, the Magic Dragon", "Lemon Tree", and "I'm In Love with a Big Blue Frog". He was also a political activist and supported veterans' rights.
Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938 in New York City, New York to a Ukrainian-Jewish family.[1] He studied at High School of Music and Art and at Cornell University. Yarrow was married to Mary Beth McCarthy (niece of Eugene McCarthy). They had two children.
In 1970, 14-year-old Barbara Winter went to visit Yarrow's hotel room in Washington, D.C. with her 17-year-old sister to look for an autograph. Winter said that Yarrow answered the door naked and made her masturbate him until he ejaculated. Yarrow served three months of a 1–3 year prison sentence.[2][3][4] He apologized for the incident and was granted a presidential pardon by Jimmy Carter on January 19, 1981, the day before Carter's presidency ended.[5][6]
Yarrow died of bladder cancer on January 7, 2025, at his New York City apartment, at the age of 86.[7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Peter Yarrow Biography
- ↑Alex Roth (March 3, 2006), "Jet fighter, 'Jet Plane' singer fo