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43-417: "Leather-Winged Bat" is an English folk song about a collection of "birds". The most frequently occurring creatures are a bat, a woodpecker, a bluebird, an owl and a turtledove (bats, of course, technically being mammals and not birds). However, depending on the artist, the song can have different creatures, such as Peter, Paul and Mary 's 1969 version which has a bat, a black bird, wood pecker, turtle dove, and

86-591: A 14-year-old girl. Years later, he received a presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter . During 1971 and 1972 Warner released a debut solo album, with the same style cover, by each member of the group. Travers did concerts and lectures across the United States. She also produced, wrote, and starred in a BBC-TV series. Stookey formed a Christian music group, the Body Works Band, and wrote " The Wedding Song (There Is Love) " for Yarrow's marriage to Marybeth McCarthy,

129-563: A Dream " speech. The Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the Wind" was one of their biggest hit singles. They also sang other Dylan songs, such as " The Times They Are a-Changin' ", " Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ", and " When the Ship Comes In ". Their success with Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" helped Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album rise into the top 30; it had been released four months earlier. In December 1969 " Leaving on

172-434: A Jet Plane ", written by the group's friend John Denver , became their only No. 1 single (as well as their final top 40 pop hit) and the group's sixth million-selling gold single. The track first appeared on their million-selling platinum certified Album 1700 in 1967 (which also contained their No. 9 hit " I Dig Rock and Roll Music "). After Eugene McCarthy 's strong showing in the 1968 New Hampshire presidential primary,

215-610: A blue jay. Each "bird" has something to say about love and courtship in some sort of rhyming manner. It was recorded by Burl Ives on 31 January 1941 and released in August 1941 on the album Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger . It has also been recorded by Pete Seeger , The Duhks , Bill Staines , Spider John Koerner , Peter, Paul and Mary , Kitty White , Nettles , Vicki Neville , Kim Milai , Anne Price , Peggy Seeger , and Warren Fremling . This folk song –related article

258-575: A coffee house, nightclub and popular folk music venue in New York City 's Greenwich Village . The group recorded their debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary , and it was released by Warner Bros. the following year. It included " Lemon Tree ", " 500 Miles ", and the Pete Seeger hit tunes " If I Had a Hammer " (subtitled "The Hammer Song") and " Where Have All the Flowers Gone? " The album was listed in

301-599: A high-school English textbook in Sri Lanka . The textbook caused controversy because it replaced Shakespeare 's work with Dylan's. During the protests against the Iraq War , commentators noted that protesters were resurrecting songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" rather than creating new ones. The song has been embraced by many liberal churches , and in the 1960s and 1970s it was sung both in Catholic church "folk masses" and as

344-487: A hymn in Protestant ones. In 1997, Bob Dylan performed three other songs at a Catholic church congress. Pope John Paul II , who was in attendance, told the crowd of some 300,000 young Italian Catholics that the answer was indeed "in the wind" – not in the wind that blew things away, but rather "in the wind of the spirit" that would lead them to Christ. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI (who had also been in attendance) wrote that he

387-592: A passage in Woody Guthrie 's autobiography, Bound for Glory , in which Guthrie compared his political sensibility to newspapers blowing in the winds of New York City streets and alleys. Dylan was certainly familiar with Guthrie's work; his reading of it had been a major turning point in his intellectual and political development. In June 1962, the song was published in Sing Out! , accompanied by Dylan's comments: There ain't too much I can say about this song except that

430-427: A series of reunions before officially coming back together again. In 1972, the trio reunited for Together for McGovern , a concert at Madison Square Garden to support George McGovern 's presidential campaign, and again in 1978 for a concert to protest nuclear energy . This concert was followed by a 1978 summer reunion tour, including a September 3 evening performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre . An album, Reunion ,

473-549: A song called 'No More Auction Block' – that's a spiritual and 'Blowin' in the Wind' follows the same feeling." Dylan's performance of "No More Auction Block" was recorded at the Gaslight Cafe in October 1962, and appeared on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 . The critic Michael Gray suggested that the lyric is an example of Dylan's "quiet incorporation of Biblical rhetoric into his own", starting with

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516-457: A text from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel (12:1–2): "Son of Man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and see not; they have ears to hear and hear not." which Dylan transforms into: "Yes' n' how many times must a man turn his head / Pretending he just doesn't see?" and "Yes'n' how many ears must one man have / Before he can hear people cry?" "Blowin' in

559-451: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peter, Paul and Mary Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie , Pete Seeger , and the Weavers . In the 2004 documentary Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On — A Musical Legacy , members of the Weavers discuss how Peter, Paul and Mary took over the torch of the social commentary of folk music in the 1960s. The group

602-610: Is by folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary , who released the song in June 1963, three weeks after The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was issued. Albert Grossman , then managing both Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, brought the trio the song which they promptly recorded (on a single take) and released. The trio's version, which was the title track of their third album, peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 behind " Fingertips " by Stevie Wonder . The group's version also went to number one on

645-469: Is owned by about 3 million consumers, also includes Britain's largest funeral parlour and farming business. In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle , in the level "Temple of Bwahmanweewee", Beep-0 parodies this song. Hip hop group Public Enemy reference it in their 2007 Dylan tribute song " Long and Whining Road ": "Tears of rage left a friend blowing in the wind / But time is God, been back for ten years, and black again". Nik Cohn describes "Blowin' in

688-670: The Billboard Top Ten for 10 months, including seven weeks in the No. 1 position. It remained a main catalog-seller for decades to come, eventually selling over two million copies, earning double platinum certification from the RIAA in the United States alone. In 1963 the group released " Puff, the Magic Dragon ", with music by Yarrow and words based on a poem that had been written by a fellow student at Cornell , Leonard Lipton . Despite rumors that

731-721: The BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street . He also performed the song during his first national US television appearance, filmed in March 1963, a performance made available in 2005 on the DVD release of Martin Scorsese 's PBS television documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home . An allegation that the song was written by a high-school student named Lorre Wyatt (a member of Millburn High School 's "Millburnaires" all-male folk band) and subsequently purchased or plagiarised by Dylan before he gained fame

774-466: The Middle-Road charts for five weeks. Cash Box described it as "a medium-paced sailor’s lament sung with feeling and authority by the folk trio." In 1964 at the 6th Annual Grammy Awards , Peter, Paul & Mary won two Grammys for "Blowin' in the Wind": Best Folk Recording and Best Performance by a Vocal Group . In 2003, Peter, Paul & Mary's version of "Blowin' in the Wind" was inducted into

817-539: The easy listening chart . The critic Andy Gill wrote, "Blowin' in the Wind" marked a huge jump in Dylan's songwriting. Prior to this, efforts like "The Ballad of Donald White" and "The Death of Emmett Till" had been fairly simplistic bouts of reportage songwriting. "Blowin' in the Wind" was different: for the first time, Dylan discovered the effectiveness of moving from the particular to the general. Whereas "The Ballad of Donald White" would become completely redundant as soon as

860-402: The Wind " Blowin' in the Wind " is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. It has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either

903-558: The Wind" as "the first anti-war song ever to make the charts and truthfully, it was possibly the worst song that he's written, it was embarrassing in its mimsiness, but that wasn't the point: it changed things regardless, it changed the whole concept of what could or couldn't be attempted in a hit song. Suddenly, pop writers could go beyond three-chord love songs , they didn't have to act mindless anymore. Mostly, they could say what they meant." Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. The most commercially successful version

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946-417: The Wind" as an adaptation of the old African-American spiritual " No More Auction Block/We Shall Overcome ". According to Alan Lomax 's The Folk Songs of North America , the song was sung by former slaves who fled to Nova Scotia after Britain abolished slavery in 1833 . In 1978, Dylan acknowledged the source when he told journalist Marc Rowland: "'Blowin' in the Wind' has always been a spiritual. I took it off

989-412: The Wind" has been described as an anthem of the civil rights movement . In Martin Scorsese 's documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home , Mavis Staples expressed her astonishment on first hearing the song and said she could not understand how a young white man could write something that captured the frustration and aspirations of black people so powerfully. Sam Cooke was similarly deeply impressed by

1032-414: The Wind" on July 30, 1962, for inclusion on his album, Golden Folk Hits , also released in 1963. Arranged by Walter Raim, there was Roger Mcguinn , Glen Campbell , James Burton , and Phil Ochs all on guitar, and singing harmony. In his sleeve notes for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 , John Bauldie wrote that Pete Seeger first identified the melody of "Blowin' in

1075-399: The airplay chart. In June 1963, Peter, Paul and Mary released a cover version of "Blowin' in the Wind" three weeks after The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was issued. It became the most commercially successful version of the song, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was at number one on the Middle-Road charts for five weeks. At the 6th Annual Grammy Awards , this version of

1118-528: The answer is blowing in the wind. It ain't in no book or movie or TV show or discussion group. Man, it's in the wind – and it's blowing in the wind. Too many of these hip people are telling me where the answer is but oh I won't believe that. I still say it's in the wind and just like a restless piece of paper it's got to come down some ... But the only trouble is that no one picks up the answer when it comes down so not too many people get to see and know ... and then it flies away. I still say that some of

1161-502: The answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind". In 1994, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . In 2004, it was ranked number 14 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" . Despite not charting when first released as a single, it has gained much radio airplay, ultimately peaking at #3 in France on

1204-448: The biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it's wrong. I'm only 21 years old and I know that there's been too many wars ... You people over 21, you're older and smarter. Dylan recorded "Blowin' in the Wind" on July 9, 1962, for inclusion on his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , released in May, 1963. Bobby Darin recorded "Blowin' in

1247-459: The effects of leukemia, but Yarrow and Stookey performed the scheduled dates as a duo, calling the show "Peter & Paul Celebrate Mary and 5 Decades of Friendship". On September 16, 2009, Travers died at age 72, of complications from chemotherapy , following treatment for leukemia. It was the same year Peter, Paul and Mary were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Blowin%27 in

1290-509: The eponymous criminal was executed, a song as vague as "Blowin' in the Wind" could be applied to just about any freedom issue. It remains the song with which Dylan's name is most inextricably linked, and safeguarded his reputation as a civil libertarian through any number of changes in style and attitude. Dylan performed the song for the first time on television in the UK in January 1963, when he appeared in

1333-462: The first week of release and made the song world-famous. On August 17, 1963, it reached number two on the Billboard pop chart , with sales exceeding one million copies. Peter Yarrow recalled that, when he told Dylan he would make more than $ 5,000 (equivalent to $ 50,000 in 2023 ) from the publishing rights, Dylan was speechless. Peter, Paul and Mary's version of the song also spent five weeks atop

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1376-421: The group recorded "Eugene McCarthy For President (If You Love Your Country)" endorsing McCarthy, which was released without a record label. " Day Is Done ", a No. 21 hit in June 1969 from the trio's Grammy Award-winning album Peter, Paul and Mommy , was the last Hot 100 hit the trio recorded. The trio broke up in 1970 to pursue solo careers. Also that year, Yarrow was convicted of making sexual advances toward

1419-528: The group. According to the flow of the times, they derived a way to change the lyrics of their songs; boys in the "Puff" became boys and girls , and dark side in the "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" became black side . Some of their new songs, like "Don't Go Down To The Quarry" that criticizes an evil bet, continue the tradition of protest songs . The trio received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award on September 1, 1990. In 2004, Travers

1462-496: The middle verse to the song. Some published versions of the lyrics reverse the order of the second and third verses, apparently because Dylan simply appended the middle verse to his original manuscript, rather than writing out a new copy with the verses in proper order. The song was published for the first time in May 1962, in the sixth issue of Broadside , the magazine founded by Agnes 'Sis' Cunningham and Gordon Friesen and devoted to topical songs. The theme may have been taken from

1505-433: The niece of Eugene McCarthy . Britain's Petula Clark also recorded a version of the song, which in 1973 charted strongly in the UK, Australia and others. Yarrow co-wrote and produced Mary MacGregor's Torn Between Two Lovers (No. 1, 1977) and earned an Emmy for three animated TV specials based on "Puff the Magic Dragon". While the group was de facto broken up and touring separately, it still managed to come together for

1548-538: The song refers to drugs, it is actually about the lost innocence of childhood. The same year, they appeared as the "mystery guest" on the CBS TV game show What's My Line? ; Dorothy Kilgallen correctly guessed their identity. That year the group performed "If I Had a Hammer" and " Blowin' in the Wind " at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom , best remembered for Martin Luther King Jr. 's " I Have

1591-489: The song won two Grammys: Best Folk Recording and Best Performance by a Vocal Group . In 2003, Peter, Paul & Mary's version of "Blowin' in the Wind" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Dylan originally wrote and performed a two-verse version of the song; its first public performance, at Gerde's Folk City on April 16, 1962, was recorded and circulated among Dylan collectors. Shortly after this performance, he added

1634-626: The song, incorporating it into his repertoire soon after its release (a version would be included on Sam Cooke at the Copa ), and being inspired by it to write " A Change Is Gonna Come ". "Blowin' in the Wind" was first covered by the Chad Mitchell Trio , but their record company delayed release of the album containing it because the song included the word death , so the trio lost out to Peter, Paul and Mary , who were represented by Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman . The single sold 300,000 copies in

1677-426: Was diagnosed with leukemia , leading to the cancellation of that year's remaining tour dates. She received a bone marrow transplant . She and the rest of the trio resumed their tour on December 9, 2005, with a holiday performance at Carnegie Hall . The trio canceled several dates of their summer 2007 tour, as Travers had to undergo a second surgery. She was unable to perform on the trio's tour in mid-2009 because of

1720-826: Was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. Peter, Paul and Mary received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. Manager Albert Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary in 1961, after auditioning several singers in the New York folk scene, including Dave Van Ronk , who was rejected as too idiosyncratic and uncommercial, and Carolyn Hester . After rehearsing Yarrow, Stookey and Travers out of town in Boston and Miami, Grossman booked them into The Bitter End ,

1763-473: Was released by Warner in 1978. Their 1978 summer reunion tour was so popular that the group decided to reunite more or less permanently in 1981. They continued to record albums and tour, playing around 45 shows a year, until Travers's 2009 death. After their reunion, double-bassist Dick Kniss (who had been their bassist in their studio recordings and with their 1960s tours) rejoined the group. Starting in 1990, multi-instrumentalist Paul Prestopino also joined

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1806-522: Was reported in an article in Newsweek magazine in November 1963. The plagiarism claim was eventually shown to be false. In the 1994 film Forrest Gump , Jenny sings this song for a show in a strip club and is introduced as "Bobbi Dylan". The film's soundtrack album features Joan Baez 's 1975 live recording of the song, from her 1976 album From Every Stage . In 1975, the song was included as poetry in

1849-511: Was uncomfortable with music stars such as Dylan performing in a church environment. The Westboro Baptist Church has parodied the song. In 2009, Dylan licensed the song to be used in an advertisement for the British consumer-owned Co-operative Group . The Co-op claimed that Dylan's decision was influenced by "the Co-op's high ethical guidelines regarding fair trade and the environment." The Co-op, which

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