The Marvelous Toy - Peter Paul and Mary

Still popular as adult contemporary music of the 60s, Peter Paul and Mary songs are part of our lives. From children's songs like The Marvelous Toy and Puff the Magic Dragon; political songs like Light One Candle, If I Had a Hammer, This Land is Your Land; personal songs such as Early Morning Rain; to spiritual songs like A Soalin, All My Trials, We Shall Overcome, I Shall Be Released, Where Have All the Flowers Gone; love songs such as For Lovin' Me and Kisses Sweeter than Wine; and humorous songs like San Francisco Bay Blues, many made the Billboard charts, and have been rediscovered by Shout Factory. The music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Baby Boomers lives on!
"The Marvelous Toy" is an enduring children's classic. It was written by folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton, who had auditioned unsuccessfully to become a member of the Chad Mitchell Trio and, by 1963, had begun to establish himself as a solo performer.
Though there was a tradition of children's songs in folk music dating back to Woody Guthrie, Peter, Paul and Mary were practically alone among major artists of their time in making such an album. They were rewarded with a fast-selling LP that peaked at # 12 in its fifth week on the charts on July 12. (It went gold in 1993.) Peter, Paul and Mommy won the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Children's recording. "Day Is Done", nominated for Best Folk Recording, lost to Joni Mitchell's Clouds." by William Ruhlmann ©1996
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio was composed of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Noel Paul Stookey and contralto Mary Travers. The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan as well as covers of other folk musicians. After the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names.
Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers. In the 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 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.
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