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Puff the Magic Dragon

Posted by Ray Wilkie on 29/10/2009, 10:18 pm
Message modified by board administrator 29/10/2009, 10:27 pm

Just been on You-Tube and typed in Peter,Paul and Mary and Puff the Magic Dragon appeared on the screen. It brought back Saturday mornings tuned in to the BBC and Uncle Mac childrens requests. Ah Happy Memories. Sadly Mary Travers passed away in September this year.

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Re: Puff the Magic Dragon

Posted by tracy little on 19/11/2009, 6:59 am, in reply to "Puff the Magic Dragon"

i sing this song, and morningtown ride to my 4 year old grandaughter when she is sleepy.

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Posted by Roy McBride on 2/11/2009, 10:50 am, in reply to "Puff the Magic Dragon"

I am very sad to hear that Mary has passed away,I had the very good fortune to see the group perform in Blackpool,this may have been in 1968? where I suggested to friends that Mary was pregnant,the group were on at the Palladium the next weekend,there Mary announced to the audience that she was indeed prenant.I still have very many of their records.

Regards

Roy

Cape Town

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Posted by Lol Sinclair on 30/10/2009, 10:02 am, in reply to "Puff the Magic Dragon"

The lyrics for"Puff, the Magic Dragon" were based on the 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton. I am not sure if Bob Dylan had anything to do with it.

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My favourite

Posted by Mike (site ed.) on 29/10/2009, 10:31 pm, in reply to "Puff the Magic Dragon"

Gordon Lightfoot song.

Saw PP&M in concert in the mid 60s at the City Hall. One of the first concerts I went to. Still one of my favourites too.

Saw Gordon Lightfoot in the same venue a few years later - was less impressed.

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Or Mary at her most beautiful

Posted by Mike (site ed.) on 29/10/2009, 10:35 pm, in reply to "My favourite"

Robert Allen Zimmerman's famous song - but song nothing like the writer sang it.

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Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful

Posted by Les Gibson on 29/10/2009, 10:49 pm, in reply to "Or Mary at her most beautiful"

What is perhaps not so well known is that the Magic Dragon referred to in the song is what the G.I.s in the 'Nam knew as cocaine. When inhaled through the barrel of an M16.

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Puff the Magic Dragon

Posted by Gerry Roberts on 30/10/2009, 4:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful"

To Peter, Paul, and Mary's great annoyance due to their anti-war stance in Vietnam, Puff the Magic Dragon was a reconditioned Air Force cargo plane,the AC-47 (nicknamed Spookie). The assault at night was a stunning sight with three Gatling Guns mounted on the port side, 450 tracer bullets a second.

Gerry Roberts
Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful

Posted by Ray Wilkie on 29/10/2009, 10:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful"

I think the record was out well before the Americans went into Nam. No doubt someone will correct me if i'm wrong. And you're right Mike, Mary was a stunner.

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Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful

Posted by Keith W.\ Norway on 30/10/2009, 12:08 am, in reply to "Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful"

Ray They cut the record with Warner bros. records in 1962.

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Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful

Posted by Keith W.\ Norway on 30/10/2009, 12:14 am, in reply to "Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful"

Googled from Wikipedia.
The United States Military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962

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More info about the song

Posted by Mike (site ed) on 30/10/2009, 10:04 am, in reply to "Re: Or Mary at her most beautiful"

Have a look at this page on the "Song facts" website.

Link: Puff the Magic Dragon

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