group 4 - everly brothers.pptx (Read-Only)

• The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll calledPeter, Paul and Mary "the most popular acoustic folkmusic group of the 1960's.”• They were quoted saying, “We were very much TheWeaver’s children.”• Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers madetheir debut in 1961 at the Bitter End in GreenwichVillage. On the strength of this performance, they weresigned to a recording contract with Warner Brothers.• During that decade, they produced 11 albums, 5 ofwhich became million sellers. And they scored 12 hitsingles, including the classic children's song, "Puff, theMagic Dragon" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane," a balladwritten by John Denver.• The group brought folk music to a new prominence inthe post-McCarthy era, putting songs about politics andmorality on the radio amid the syrupy boy-girl love songsthat dominated when they began playing together in theearly 1960s.