Peter, Paul and Mary (album)


Peter, Paul and Mary is the first album by American music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1962 on Warner Bros. Records. Released in both mono and stereo on catalog no. 1449, It is one of the rare folk albums to reach US#1 - staying for over a month. The lead-off singles "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree" reached numbers 10 and 35 respectively on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. It was the group's biggest selling studio album, eventually certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for U.S. sales of more than two million copies.
The album was reissued as 180 Gram vinyl in 2016 under the Waxtime Label as #772125. The Waxtime issue has 3 Bonus tracks which are side 1 #7 - "One Kind of Favor ", side 2 track #7 - "The Times They Are A' Changin' " and track #8 - "If I Had My Way ".
At the Grammy Awards of 1963, their recording of "If I Had a Hammer" won the Best Folk Recording and Best Performance by a Vocal Group Grammies.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Early in the Morning"
  2. "500 Miles"
  3. "Sorrow"
  4. "This Train"
  5. "Bamboo"
  6. "It's Raining"
Side two
  1. "If I Had My Way"
  2. "Cruel War"
  3. "Lemon Tree"
  4. "If I Had a Hammer"
  5. "Autumn to May"
  6. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

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