Still popular as adult contemporary music of the 60s, Peter Paul and Mary songs are part of our lives. From children's songs like Puff the Magic Dragon; humorous songs like San Francisco Bay Blues; political songs like If I Had a Hammer and This Land is Your Land; love songs such as Kisses Sweeter than Wine; to spiritual songs like All My Trials, We Shall Overcome, I Shall Be Released, Where Have All the Flowers Gone; and personal songs such as Early Morning Rain, 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!

"Over half a century has passed since Brooklyn native Leonard Lipton, then a 19-year-old engineering student at Cornell, wrote the poem “Puff, the Magic Dragon” upon which ‘60s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary based their 1963 hit song of the same name. "My poem was directly inspired by a poem called 'A Tale of Custard the Dragon,'" published by Ogden Nash in 1936. "Pirates and dragons, back then, were common interests in stories for boys. The Puff story is really just a lot like Peter Pan.”

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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