Peter, Paul and Mary - Music Speaks Louder Than Words

[@austinitesince1979]

Man! I really want to thank the uploader here from the bottom of my heart. This is truly a very healing and inspiring musical recording that hits me on a really deep level as a musician. However, it could partly be this good weed possibly having something to do with that. It might just be this weed talking, but this could be possibly the best three minute live recording ever made. lol! That is a bold statement young Skywalker. Happy Life Day. The photos are nice and paint a sweet picture, and I can tell whoever edited this together did so with a lot of care and love. The music is really where the magic is at though for me personally. Thank you. "Something really crazy might happen. You might take one step forward, and be in a heavenly paradise. Because... you see, people, unless you have a vision of a world filled with beautiful smiles, of what it can really truly be like when you put all your silly pretensions aside, then all the senseless rage you feel at the horrors going on in the world is useless ...can someone turn the lights back on? ... can someone turn the lights on?" I altered that exact quote a good bit, taken from the tail end of Tobe Hooper's 'infamous' (only known to extreme cinephiles, which are an endangered breed, and die hard PPM fans, which are a nearly extinct breed...) made in 1970, aired in the 70s, then lost-and-found in 2020 when the "producer" Fred Miller uploaded the lost full hour length version of the Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre director) film of Peter, Paul, and Mary docurama starring PPM, but not explicitly talking about their biographies, even though it documents them in several live situations, and half feigns or fancies tiny insights into their careers and personal life, while also showing some very moving real life experiences they encountered along the journey while making the film... Some scenes are very powerful and not fake, like croaking out a tear filled We Shall Overcome at the MLK memorial concert, crying because they were sad, but also choking and tearing up because of the tear gas "bomb", after being commanded by loudspeakers to remain in place and not to run while it descended upon them. Those brave souls stood there and took it in the face stoically instead of running away like the newspaper journalists. It is a fairly intense capture of a thin slice of an American reality in turmoil at that moment. That film aired through the 1970s on PBS, with the highest ratings at the time. The title of the film is The Song is Love. RIP Tobe Hooper! I was not remembering the Peter Yarrow final speech exactly 100% to quote from just now using my recent memories, and chose to add some flavor text to it. That was from the very end of the movie, when the lights go out and the "credits" roll. The film executive produced by a youth minister, Fred Miller from Austin, Texas who after associate minister Anne S. Lewis had secured PPM's permission, followed Tobe Hooper and PPM from 1969 to 1970. Miller wrote on his youtube video that it aired on Easter, after a year of production, following a single day of equipment preparation. Try to look up that story on imdb and wikipedia and you will find blanks. My strongest clue is a letter written by Texas Film Institute founder and first chief executive Warren Skaaren, who was famous for rewriting scripts for Batman and Top Gun among others. A letter exists in his archives at the HRC in the Hooper Papers, where he was trying to promote the program, saying it had the highest ratings at the time, and a deal was in the pipe with United Artists, but that, for reasons not explained in this "letter", Mary did a "'super lawsuit'" against Peter and Paul to put a ban on the film from ever seeing a theatrical release. Technically that still means it could one day hopefully see a home video version release restored and remastered?! RIP Mary! ~Rock In Peace Peter Puff the Magic Dragon Yarrow

[@beckyneufeld5531]

The 60s were peaceful we needed music to keep peaceful.we lost JFK Bobby Kennedy an Martin Luther King with in just 3yrs.an then Vietnam going it was painful.music brings people together.

[@mcfeerr]

This is why we sing. Thank you for being there for so many of us for so many years, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dick and Presto...

[@linlewis9129]

This was a wonderful collection of photos; with one or two exceptions, I had never seen them before. The trio did their usual superb job singing this very moving song.

[@norikop7051]

Beautiful song！PPMの歌は本当にすばらしい‼︎👏💖 どの写真もとってもステキです。ますますファンになりました😊 💕

[@davidanthonystone5165]

One of a Kind Trio.

[@LLewis-vu9qf]

I found it a bit amusing when I saw one of the photos which had their individual names printed at the top and Paul and Peter were misidentified. 😮 At least they got Mary right! 😊

[@austinitesince1979]

maybe it was done on purpose as a joke? would be hilarious if that was so

[@pennyportolese6064]

I miss her so

[@karenmilstead7968]

Dear God, how true!

[@eduardoljm4104]

I believe they are singing most of the time out of tune in this rendition, probably because they could not hear themselves. It’s a pity, because PP&M are unique in keeping tune and harmonies perfect…

[@theway5563]

I agree. It was painful. Maybe their age. Voices tend to have a mind of their own as one ages. You never have total control over it after about 60. The vocal cords change thickness and length with age. A female voice lowers and a male’s goes higher and breaks.

[@eduardoljm4104]

@@theway5563 Yes, it was painful. But this recording was taken live in Canada in 1980 (at least this is said in the heading of this video), and in that year they were not so old. I used to play and sing non professionally in a folk group , and sometimes, if the return of the speakers is not well set, I could not hear my own voice, and it was very easy to get out of tune...

[@ffivguy1990]

@@eduardoljm4104This wasn’t from their 1980 concert in Ontario. I can tell by comparison of how they are singing it in this video compared to the Ontario concert in 1980 that these are two separate concerts. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ_CY42bir5lnac