PPM communists? Who said that? Newt? Santorum? Romney? Which new age Joe McCarthy said that. There were so many great things about the 60s and PPM were one of them. Total class, great talent.
This song brings back a sad time in my life when I lost my first love. 500 Miles expresses how profoundly heartbroken I was at a young age to no longer be intimate with the person I loved most. I was not able to be "home" any more. Wonderful song and deeply profound emotions connected with it.
I was lucky enough to see PP&M in concert in a gymnasium in 1963 or 64. The beauty of the experience was a treasure with which my life was gifted. and for this I am grateful to this day.
you can learn something about how to feel, how to be part of that thing called life beyond the plain, beyond the superficial, to see with the mind's eye and to hear the ongoing song of humanity's longing.
especially this song. I am humbled to hear this again ... and blessed.
Wow -- Mary Travers is the freak'in "mom" mtRNA|DNA to Gisel Bündchen, among the recent decade's mega-top-dollar-paid fashions models ever...whereas, many contemporaneous critics et al narrow thinkers, discounted Mary's "strong looks" as, at best, a cruder version of the "Julie Christie school of peroxide-locks"; whereas, in retrospect--at least for newer generations--review of the ubber-graphical stagings, w/high-key lighting, proves my salient point. Not my type, but lookers all the same!
You had to be there! They were what they were, but, lots of folks in the '60's were labled a Commie when they really weren't. Also, think about it. They could never have achieved the level of success when they did if they were subversives. Pick up a book now and then. Find out the truth for yourself.
To whoever has the sad & twisted ideathat these 3 wonderful people were " communists"--I'm from those years, & knew them--they were committed to peace, justice & harmony among all of us. Period. & Ohhh could they sing ! We'll not see or hear the likes of this again. Thx, You Tube. Wolfsky9
I am the one who put this up along with 66 other videos of theirs and listened to them as I was growing up and I never heard of any reports that they were Communist sympathizers. Many people then who protested against the Viet Nam war were labeled as Communists by the paranoiacs in government and so it would not surprise me if someone at some time did label them as Commies since they occasionally spoke and sang out against the war.
I am only 18, but my childhood was filled with this music, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel and many others. Thank goodness for having hippie parents.
Calling people who were anti-war, pro-civil rights and pro peace, communists was common amongst those who were rabid right wingers. The FBI kept files on lots of them.
Womanwonder10, I was 5 years old when I was taught, in church, "Puff the Magic Dragon," to sing before the congregation. It was their latest hit. Had they been even a little pink, I doubt that a severely conservative Presbyterian church would have allowed that.
@SOGT610 Thanks. I agree. I love their music, too. Just had an honest question and received about 20+ replies-some differing a bit. But I think they, in their way, tried to make the world a nicer place. I give them props for that!! Nice music:)
so I found the very best 10 yrs of Peter, Paul, and Mary vinyl (UNOPENED), still in plastic, and I opened it just to hear that quality sound........GREAT MUSIC!!!
@redfordforpresident Hi there! If your stats are correct (and I'm sure they are close), All I can say is "Yes we are the richest nation on earth. What's the problem?" After all, we help more people than any other land does! If ya work hard or take risks and you profit, what's the matter with that? Take care. Peace to you!
Regarding the so called threat of communism to American society, it was no more than a spectral bogey man fabricated by J Edgar Hoover and his vicious cronies to give themselves an excuse to sadistically persecute and publicly humiliate anybody they felt doing it to. May they all rot in peace!
Protesting the criminal carnage of Vietnam is hardly being a communist..unfortunately they didn't believe in violence like the conservatives..or things might be different now..
PPM were (two are still with us) among the most patriotic of Americans. They sang about peace, equal rights, and freedom. They had the courage to speak out when they believed strongly in something. I wish more people would do that.
@jimnail70 ooo - sorry u r so pissed-off. Settle down! You don't have any idea how old or young I am---and don't say I have a small mind!! Look in the mirror. Do you always make assumptions about people who just have an innocent question to ask? You said quite a bit about yourself in your temper tantrum. What is your problem--really???! I said I love their music! Don't need to freak, dude.
communists? if loving your neighbor is communist i guess they and Jesus were communists! b4 your time? no just beond your small mind. turn off Glenn Beck and Rush and listen!
They were not and still are not communist. Marry died almost two years ago, but she loved this country, but they also felt it was an American duty to fight for what our country was and at times is still doing wrong. They were part of the freedom of the black man and women and wars we just shouldn't be part of. Some things never change. So no, they were not communists.
they are were ahead your time!!! if you demonise communism or any ideas in 2011, you belong to middle ages!!! so they were 500 years ahead your time....
@cschoon1213 I grew up in that era....They were NOT Communist.... The songs they sang were of a changing time when so many knew how wrong Viet-Nam was yet Loved this Great America of ours`. I never demonstrated but when the Government ties your military`s hands behind their back than says go fight it is Wrong, So Wrong and So many died or are forever scared because of it. Hope this helps clarity a little.
I grew up during that era too and as I said, I know they were not communists; the thought never entered my mind.
I had the pleasure to meet and shake hands with Paul Stookey in a small children's bookstore a couple miles from where I live where he was playing some songs to a tiny audience of only about 20 people including myself. Wonderful man !
The politics of most folk singers and intellectuals from the 60s were quite left wing. Many were drawn to the philosophy of Karl Marx. They were derogatorily called communists by conservatives, much like conservatives today call Obama a "socialist". Conservatives of this ilk have an over simplistic, black and white, view of the world. For example, they ignore the gaping difference between Marx, an intellectual, and Stalin, a powerful thug.
@womanwonder10 they were before my time too but because my favorite band i have researched them and to my knowledge they were not communist at all in their beliefs I think theyre just before their time as most of the "so called hippies" were about their ideals about freedom and how the world should treat all without prejudices and help all equally wherever they are in life whether or not as the song says they have/havent, "a shirt on my back/not a penny to my name/lord im 500 miles from my home"
@womanwonder10 they were before my time too but theyre my favorite band so i have researched them to my knowledge they were not communist at all in their beliefs I think theyre just before their time as most of the "so called hippies" were about their ideals about freedom and how the world should treat all without prejudices and help all equally wherever they are in life whether or not as the song says they have/have not, "a shirt on my back/not a penny to my name/lord im 500 miles from my home"
@womanwonder10 In those days anyone who questioned the status quo was branded by those who had an interest in keeping things the way they were and keeping the public from asking too many questions. Targets even included Ed Asner, Jane Fonda, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Arlo Guthrie - just to name a few.
@womanwonder10 I'm conservative and I supported the war war against communism in Vietnam but I still love this music. Where have all the flowers gone is pretty much an antiwar song, but if the commies appreciated the anti-war message as much people on this side there would be lot less war today. "We love death more than you love life" some peaceful message huh?
@womanwonder10 Noel Paul Stookey is a christian, Mary Travers was once baptise, converted to judism, and Peter Yarrow is jewish by faith. No they were not communist.
@womanwonder10 No, they weren't Communist. They were certainly liberal - and this meant in the 1950s, 1960s, they were anti-Vietnam War, very much for racial integration, held many other political and social beliefs that would be described as "on the left". So you could say they were controversial, and their views weren't shared by conservatives - but hey, it's a free country! Their passionate activity was in liberal democratic (in fact Democratic! :) American politics.
@womanwonder10 They're left-leaning and were (and still are) peace activists who protested against several wars. Whether they are communists or not is left to one's definition of the word.
@xKeiyax So your definition is 1) if you are liberal; and 2) you don't believe in war, you are a communist! It has nothing to do with the definition, it has to do with their hearts, their feelings and their beliefs that they expressed.
@mwestylive I wouldn't say it's "my" definition. Rather, my point is if you believe that those factors are enough to brand someone a communist, then sure, go call them communists. I was just answering the lady's question, nothing more. Also, since what they express is activist in nature, it's important to not misrepresent the context under which they write and represent their songs. In other words, branding them simply as "communists" without understanding does them disservice.
Depends on whether you believe being pro-peace, pro-equality, pro-cooperation communist. They did not believe in a government with power centralized in the hands of a few (so not Stalinist communism). They were not facist. They were very pro-democracy, but pro-cooperative democracy where people govern themselves with peace and justice as a guide. Being pro-democracy, i.e. real democracy where people control the government, is probably communist under today's perverted logic.
@womanwonder10 The goatee beards you see them sporting were a trade mark of a section of society known as 'beatniks'. They were a sort of forerunner of the hippies and weren't popular with a good deal of 'respectable' society, who regarded their aim to establish themselves as artists as laziness and an avoidance of honest work.
@womanwonder10 They were heavily influenced by Pete Seeger( and the weavers) who fell foul of the Macarthy Commission. Pete is still a star and still holds to his beliefs in peace and freedom. Some call it communism, some christian principle and others basic humanity. They did a great version of Pete's "Where have all the Flowers Gone?".
@womanwonder10 Did they think it was wrong for 1 percent of the world's population to control 99 percent of the wealth? See 2001 attacks and the 1999 Columbine massacre.
Of course they where not communist. Their songs are not atheistic to begin with, and they were part of a peace movement when I was in college in the late 60's - simplistic - but really heartfelt - for world peace. They were superb , talented entertainers for World Peace. I love all three of them, and I wish Mary were still with them. May she rest in peace and be blessed for bringing us all a little closer to God.
Not a hint in their work that relate to Communism. If they were, how would it change your view on them? Communism is an ideology that has been proved to be not working. But then our banking system is just as bad.
@womanwonder10 I've seen, met and read much written by these three. I have never read or heard anything that would leave me to believe they were Communists. They did have some socialistic peace and justice ideals but nothing outside of the norm so much as I can determine. Peace and Justice were real ideals to these three not just a political slogan to throw around.
@womanwonder10 From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. That is "communism" -- a system based on the teachings of the genius Karl Marx, who predicted accurately that capitalism would lead to the downfall of humankind.
Yeah! I still have an old GE huge, wooden floor model vacuum tube radio that has short wave and AM and I grew up listening to it and it still works ! Belonged to my parents and was made in 1939 !!! The speaker is the size of a car tire almost.
i am an indian, i just a week befor hear this song ,,,and i hear it that complet week ...its wonderful...so tuching..i even dreaming about the song ...
Yes, the 60's were simpler. Water cannons are much more rustic and soothing than predatory lending and election fraud. They sang the way they did about the things of the time because things WERE complicated and people were tearing at the throats of their neighbors; kinda like today.
This song takes me back in time, too. Lovely, unforgettable...I love these comments. Very funny and sometimes sad/touching. Thanks for posting this treasure. I had a transistor, too! Ahhhh, those simple days....these songs take you RIGHT back :)
Thanx cschoon 1213, this song , the feelings in it........ so melanchollic it gets deep in soul. I heard it with HEDY WEST when I was 5 (40years ago), and loved it................ still.
This was when Life was much simpler and people cared about one another .. Love their songs ..Love what they stood for .. Miss Mary .. she is now singing wth the angels .. God Bless
it was my father who brought these recordsway back in 1969.Introduced all my brothers and me to peter paul and mary.These songs remind my days with father .
Heard this first when my nephew, Srinivas Teja, sang it for his School Day. Wonder how I missed it though I am 17 odd years older to him! Wonderful song.. Hope they reinvent such music again!!!.
When we wake up to the truth of life, inspired music like this will emerge and flourish again, and all the uninspired crap that people call "music" these days will fade away and be forgotten. Search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the truth of life.
Real nice! I had a six transistor Sony back in 1962 cost my dad $40.00 back then ,it weighed about 1 1/2 lbs I was so proud to own it. "Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end" LOL Unfortunately for most of us they did!
This wonderful clip is what youtube is all about to me. I had never seen it before although I have always loved the song. I just made an attempt at singing it myself. Please stop by my channel sometime and let me know what you think of my version.
This brings back some real good memories for me. I had a transistor radio back then and was thankful to have it. It got the job done very well. Great song and band.
@cschoon1213 I remember I had a crystal radio because a transistor radio was considered a frivolous expense. I listened to Peter, Paul and Mary, The Weavers and all the great folk artists in the 50's and 60's.
My first encounter with PP&M was when I was 15 back in 1970. I bought the "PP&M 10 Years Together" which was a greatest hits collection. I was inmmediately mesmerized and captivated by the distincitive soft vocals and the harmonies. PP&M will live forever in my heart.
This song was used as the theme tune for Jeremy Sandford's "Cathy Come Home" in 1966 - it is very evocative of a very different time a few years before I was born. However, for anyone born in the early 1970s there is a certain amount of overlap in terms of influences and consequently this song is part of my time too.
Darryl, Judy, and I drove up to a small gym in Ellensburg to listen to an unknown group called PP & M perform. I am so fortunate to have heard them before they became a household name. A few years later, I sat in an opera house with only a few rows filled and listened to Gordon Lightfoot perform. I am never sure who is better, only that both are excellent. Mary, we are still in love with you.
There is an incredibly haunting quality to this video. It must be a very early PP&M concert. Their voices and gestures are so pure. Thanks to whoever preserved and posted this!
I can hardly speak! This song is.. there is no words in my dictionary for describing this because I was born in decade where that kind of music doesn't exist anymore... So precious. Love you for uploading this (:
its one of the best folk song ever where every line can blow your heart....though this is American folk song but it told the story of every people of the world....
When i visited a rural part of Thailand a few years ago this song was one of the more popular western songs playing on the english language radio station and this was only back in 2005
Often I am disillusioned and saddened by how American culture permeates other foreign cultures but it is nice to hear that lovely songs and singers as this are well received in other lands.
@cschoon1213 Most of my favorite ballads and soft rock in my adolescence and youth were North-American or Canadian and I have always loved the sensitive lyrics and melodies !
@todles18184 oh my I visited Surabaya Indonesia where Elvis songs sung like Elvis is in Demand across Asia The Older songs are alive and doing very well as hits and live music everywhere American style Beach Boys still rock California girls Inspiring to say the least, Stevie Ray Vaughn is played live masterfully timed played in every Music Store played by live guitar players that did their home work, " together". Americana is in Demand in Asia I kid you not, Americana is highly respected.
this is childhood memory right here. my dad used to play this song when i was a little kid.. im 18 and away from home now, and everytime i hear this song i miss home so much....
Same for me, except that I'm 21 and estranged from my dad. This doesn't mean that my mind doesn't flash back to my dad's then apartment where my sister and I had a CD player in our room and would hear this song on the "10 Years Together" or another P, P, and M CD. Sometimes when I hear other songs through walls (like when my dorm's RA has her radio on, as at present), I'm reminded of "500 Miles".
The "Quiet Meditation" verse below is beautiful, I'm glad I noticed it. As for rextrek, the pain is still new for you, but it does get better. I lost my Mom February 19, 1994 with my Dad and I at her bedside. I never thought I would adjust and feel better, but time helps and I did.
PPM communists? Who said that? Newt? Santorum? Romney? Which new age Joe McCarthy said that. There were so many great things about the 60s and PPM were one of them. Total class, great talent.
dilseygirl 4 days ago
Ohhhhhh Mary, you were so gorgeous, & what a voice you had. My all-time PP&M favorite, taken from Newport Folk Festival, '63. Wolfsky9, 65 y/o now.
Wolfsky9 6 days ago
This is SOO much better than alot of the crap we have today...And that's coming from a 15 year old.
jelliclekat24 1 week ago
The best version ever,the deepest,the sweetest, the original fades into this one´s shining glory...
Gwynsek 2 weeks ago 2
I listen to this song, and realise that I CAN go on this a way.
aredekh0 2 weeks ago
@aredekh0 me too
Fyneparent22 2 weeks ago
This song brings back a sad time in my life when I lost my first love. 500 Miles expresses how profoundly heartbroken I was at a young age to no longer be intimate with the person I loved most. I was not able to be "home" any more. Wonderful song and deeply profound emotions connected with it.
DaishinMyoyu 2 weeks ago
Please someone tell me. Why was being a communist considered so wrong!
auqil1 2 weeks ago
I love this song T T
MrEarthJR 3 weeks ago
I was lucky enough to see PP&M in concert in a gymnasium in 1963 or 64. The beauty of the experience was a treasure with which my life was gifted. and for this I am grateful to this day.
you can learn something about how to feel, how to be part of that thing called life beyond the plain, beyond the superficial, to see with the mind's eye and to hear the ongoing song of humanity's longing.
especially this song. I am humbled to hear this again ... and blessed.
tyucikas 3 weeks ago
16 ppl didnt want to walk the 500 miles
fordsgal17 1 month ago
I liked their music but not their politics.
Narkcop 1 month ago
John green :-)
thingeegirl 1 month ago
OMG, Mary was just so gorgeous, & that voice--4-Ever, & Ever. RIP, Beautiful Mary. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 month ago
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Wow -- Mary Travers is the freak'in "mom" mtRNA|DNA to Gisel Bündchen, among the recent decade's mega-top-dollar-paid fashions models ever...whereas, many contemporaneous critics et al narrow thinkers, discounted Mary's "strong looks" as, at best, a cruder version of the "Julie Christie school of peroxide-locks"; whereas, in retrospect--at least for newer generations--review of the ubber-graphical stagings, w/high-key lighting, proves my salient point. Not my type, but lookers all the same!
CarCriticAssessor 1 month ago
They were not communist at all.. just listen to them it was the vietnam era sweetheart! That's all
flash52155 1 month ago
You had to be there! They were what they were, but, lots of folks in the '60's were labled a Commie when they really weren't. Also, think about it. They could never have achieved the level of success when they did if they were subversives. Pick up a book now and then. Find out the truth for yourself.
74142kokopelli 1 month ago
Omg... such sweet, lulling beauty... I was born too late... :'(
SpitfireDramaQueen 2 months ago
These guys were a class act. Great stuff.
Broonzied 2 months ago
To whoever has the sad & twisted ideathat these 3 wonderful people were " communists"--I'm from those years, & knew them--they were committed to peace, justice & harmony among all of us. Period. & Ohhh could they sing ! We'll not see or hear the likes of this again. Thx, You Tube. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 2 months ago
@Wolfsky9
I am the one who put this up along with 66 other videos of theirs and listened to them as I was growing up and I never heard of any reports that they were Communist sympathizers. Many people then who protested against the Viet Nam war were labeled as Communists by the paranoiacs in government and so it would not surprise me if someone at some time did label them as Commies since they occasionally spoke and sang out against the war.
cschoon1213 2 months ago 9
@Wolfsky9 You said a mouthful, as a child the first song I fell in love with was 'Puff'. Love Peter, Paul and Mary.
sprygeoffreya17 1 month ago
Yes, I love this version, her voice is is sweet, warm and the song is became geatest.
hoatra78 2 months ago
I am only 18, but my childhood was filled with this music, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel and many others. Thank goodness for having hippie parents.
Twaits332 2 months ago
Great song.
jeffreydebra1 2 months ago
@redfordforpresident Karl Marx was a failure and a liar! So love him, if you want. But to me, he is as a piece of doggy-poo, without use!!
womanwonder10 2 months ago
Calling people who were anti-war, pro-civil rights and pro peace, communists was common amongst those who were rabid right wingers. The FBI kept files on lots of them.
MCiliberti1 3 months ago
Great music from the 60s!
NOMOREINHALE 3 months ago
Amazing song......... I will never forget.......
ninarosaify 3 months ago
Womanwonder10, I was 5 years old when I was taught, in church, "Puff the Magic Dragon," to sing before the congregation. It was their latest hit. Had they been even a little pink, I doubt that a severely conservative Presbyterian church would have allowed that.
maghick1 3 months ago
@maghick1 Ironically, that song was banned on the radio for many years because of supposed 'drug references'. The artists stated this was nonsense.
monkeyboydesign 3 months ago
@UkkoA Sorry, but I don't know which comment you're referrimg to when you said (wrote) "I hope so".
womanwonder10 4 months ago
@mschmukler OK we all have a right to our opinions! Got to love the USA!! ooops, I guess ya don't have to, but I sure 'nuf do!
womanwonder10 4 months ago
@mschmukler OK we all have a right to our opinions! Got to love the USA!!
womanwonder10 4 months ago
Heart-touching...! So one of my favorite song is inspired [Read:copied!] from 500 miles.. The song I'm talking about is Jab koi baat bigad jaye.
TheYinful 4 months ago
@SOGT610 Thanks. I agree. I love their music, too. Just had an honest question and received about 20+ replies-some differing a bit. But I think they, in their way, tried to make the world a nicer place. I give them props for that!! Nice music:)
womanwonder10 4 months ago
so I found the very best 10 yrs of Peter, Paul, and Mary vinyl (UNOPENED), still in plastic, and I opened it just to hear that quality sound........GREAT MUSIC!!!
walkersdad01 4 months ago
@redfordforpresident Hi there! If your stats are correct (and I'm sure they are close), All I can say is "Yes we are the richest nation on earth. What's the problem?" After all, we help more people than any other land does! If ya work hard or take risks and you profit, what's the matter with that? Take care. Peace to you!
womanwonder10 4 months ago
@artist0057 Thank you! I love their music! And I love the USA!!
womanwonder10 5 months ago
I grew up with Peter Paul & Mary. What a great time to grow up with such talent.
I never get tired of listening to them.
goldman8073 5 months ago
Regarding the so called threat of communism to American society, it was no more than a spectral bogey man fabricated by J Edgar Hoover and his vicious cronies to give themselves an excuse to sadistically persecute and publicly humiliate anybody they felt doing it to. May they all rot in peace!
gordbard52 5 months ago in playlist gordbard52's Favourited Videos
Protesting the criminal carnage of Vietnam is hardly being a communist..unfortunately they didn't believe in violence like the conservatives..or things might be different now..
badcrosbys 5 months ago 2
PPM were (two are still with us) among the most patriotic of Americans. They sang about peace, equal rights, and freedom. They had the courage to speak out when they believed strongly in something. I wish more people would do that.
bcklines 5 months ago
To everyone else who gave me their thoughts, I say, THANK YOU!!! Let's just enjoy the music now!!
womanwonder10 5 months ago
@jimnail70 ooo - sorry u r so pissed-off. Settle down! You don't have any idea how old or young I am---and don't say I have a small mind!! Look in the mirror. Do you always make assumptions about people who just have an innocent question to ask? You said quite a bit about yourself in your temper tantrum. What is your problem--really???! I said I love their music! Don't need to freak, dude.
womanwonder10 5 months ago
@biukucanoe I am with ya on that 100%!!
womanwonder10 5 months ago
Das Lied hab ich in der 8. Klasse gesungen :D
StolzeDeutsche1995 6 months ago
communists? if loving your neighbor is communist i guess they and Jesus were communists! b4 your time? no just beond your small mind. turn off Glenn Beck and Rush and listen!
jimnail70 6 months ago
womenwonder10
They were not and still are not communist. Marry died almost two years ago, but she loved this country, but they also felt it was an American duty to fight for what our country was and at times is still doing wrong. They were part of the freedom of the black man and women and wars we just shouldn't be part of. Some things never change. So no, they were not communists.
beckleck81 6 months ago
This video was just added to a music playlist at JustPlay.fm
justplayfm 6 months ago
Thank you 4 "the answers, my friend"s!! Take care! They had good hearts.
womanwonder10 6 months ago
Just Thank You YouTube and cschoon1213.
sumonrn 6 months ago
I love their music! But were they communist in their ideals? I sincerely would like to know. Thank you! (They're b4 my time.)
womanwonder10 6 months ago
@ womanwonder10,
I have never heard of any reports or rumors that they were communists in any way.
cschoon1213 6 months ago 6
@cschoon1213
Does it matter?
What is the virtue that the capitalism in this country has offered? Given birth to people like Bernie Madoff!
paradigmnnf 6 months ago
@cschoon1213 And why would it matter? It's their music that's important after all..:D
Budoshi 5 months ago
they are were ahead your time!!! if you demonise communism or any ideas in 2011, you belong to middle ages!!! so they were 500 years ahead your time....
electrecuted 5 months ago
@cschoon1213 I grew up in that era....They were NOT Communist.... The songs they sang were of a changing time when so many knew how wrong Viet-Nam was yet Loved this Great America of ours`. I never demonstrated but when the Government ties your military`s hands behind their back than says go fight it is Wrong, So Wrong and So many died or are forever scared because of it. Hope this helps clarity a little.
Greysword1 5 months ago 5
@Greysword1
I grew up during that era too and as I said, I know they were not communists; the thought never entered my mind.
I had the pleasure to meet and shake hands with Paul Stookey in a small children's bookstore a couple miles from where I live where he was playing some songs to a tiny audience of only about 20 people including myself. Wonderful man !
cschoon1213 5 months ago 6
@womanwonder10 No.
35150Alabama 6 months ago
@womanwonder10
The politics of most folk singers and intellectuals from the 60s were quite left wing. Many were drawn to the philosophy of Karl Marx. They were derogatorily called communists by conservatives, much like conservatives today call Obama a "socialist". Conservatives of this ilk have an over simplistic, black and white, view of the world. For example, they ignore the gaping difference between Marx, an intellectual, and Stalin, a powerful thug.
b02j4624 6 months ago
@womanwonder10
No, they were not communists. Hippies, perhaps, but not communists ;)
LisnDoug 6 months ago
@womanwonder10
Folk singers. Like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, et. al.
LisnDoug 6 months ago
@womanwonder10 they were before my time too but because my favorite band i have researched them and to my knowledge they were not communist at all in their beliefs I think theyre just before their time as most of the "so called hippies" were about their ideals about freedom and how the world should treat all without prejudices and help all equally wherever they are in life whether or not as the song says they have/havent, "a shirt on my back/not a penny to my name/lord im 500 miles from my home"
GothMetalhead999 6 months ago in playlist Peter Paul and Mary
@womanwonder10 they were before my time too but theyre my favorite band so i have researched them to my knowledge they were not communist at all in their beliefs I think theyre just before their time as most of the "so called hippies" were about their ideals about freedom and how the world should treat all without prejudices and help all equally wherever they are in life whether or not as the song says they have/have not, "a shirt on my back/not a penny to my name/lord im 500 miles from my home"
GothMetalhead999 6 months ago in playlist Peter Paul and Mary
@womanwonder10 In those days anyone who questioned the status quo was branded by those who had an interest in keeping things the way they were and keeping the public from asking too many questions. Targets even included Ed Asner, Jane Fonda, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Arlo Guthrie - just to name a few.
BicPentameter 6 months ago
@womanwonder10 I'm conservative and I supported the war war against communism in Vietnam but I still love this music. Where have all the flowers gone is pretty much an antiwar song, but if the commies appreciated the anti-war message as much people on this side there would be lot less war today. "We love death more than you love life" some peaceful message huh?
biukucanoe 6 months ago
@womanwonder10 Noel Paul Stookey is a christian, Mary Travers was once baptise, converted to judism, and Peter Yarrow is jewish by faith. No they were not communist.
themusickey12 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 No, they weren't Communist. They were certainly liberal - and this meant in the 1950s, 1960s, they were anti-Vietnam War, very much for racial integration, held many other political and social beliefs that would be described as "on the left". So you could say they were controversial, and their views weren't shared by conservatives - but hey, it's a free country! Their passionate activity was in liberal democratic (in fact Democratic! :) American politics.
Richard19551 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 They're left-leaning and were (and still are) peace activists who protested against several wars. Whether they are communists or not is left to one's definition of the word.
xKeiyax 5 months ago
@xKeiyax So your definition is 1) if you are liberal; and 2) you don't believe in war, you are a communist! It has nothing to do with the definition, it has to do with their hearts, their feelings and their beliefs that they expressed.
mwestylive 4 months ago
@mwestylive I wouldn't say it's "my" definition. Rather, my point is if you believe that those factors are enough to brand someone a communist, then sure, go call them communists. I was just answering the lady's question, nothing more. Also, since what they express is activist in nature, it's important to not misrepresent the context under which they write and represent their songs. In other words, branding them simply as "communists" without understanding does them disservice.
xKeiyax 4 months ago
@womanwonder10
Depends on whether you believe being pro-peace, pro-equality, pro-cooperation communist. They did not believe in a government with power centralized in the hands of a few (so not Stalinist communism). They were not facist. They were very pro-democracy, but pro-cooperative democracy where people govern themselves with peace and justice as a guide. Being pro-democracy, i.e. real democracy where people control the government, is probably communist under today's perverted logic.
politics2n 5 months ago 2
@womanwonder10 The goatee beards you see them sporting were a trade mark of a section of society known as 'beatniks'. They were a sort of forerunner of the hippies and weren't popular with a good deal of 'respectable' society, who regarded their aim to establish themselves as artists as laziness and an avoidance of honest work.
gordbard52 5 months ago
@womanwonder10
yep, flaming red commi. but their music is incredible.
lameducksies 5 months ago in playlist Peter, Paul & Mary
@womanwonder10 I believe Pete Seger was a communist but not Peter, Paul and Mary.
artist0057 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 what is communist?
werobanks 5 months ago
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@womanwonder10 what is communist?
werobanks 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 what is communist?
werobanks 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 They were heavily influenced by Pete Seeger( and the weavers) who fell foul of the Macarthy Commission. Pete is still a star and still holds to his beliefs in peace and freedom. Some call it communism, some christian principle and others basic humanity. They did a great version of Pete's "Where have all the Flowers Gone?".
alanthedrum 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 Did they think it was wrong for 1 percent of the world's population to control 99 percent of the wealth? See 2001 attacks and the 1999 Columbine massacre.
redfordforpresident 4 months ago
@womanwonder10
Of course they where not communist. Their songs are not atheistic to begin with, and they were part of a peace movement when I was in college in the late 60's - simplistic - but really heartfelt - for world peace. They were superb , talented entertainers for World Peace. I love all three of them, and I wish Mary were still with them. May she rest in peace and be blessed for bringing us all a little closer to God.
SOGT610 4 months ago
@womanwonder10
I can't there is still people that really care if somebody is or not a communist; art is art dispite of idologies.
mschmukler 4 months ago
@womanwonder10, I sure hope so!
UkkoA 4 months ago in playlist Käyttäjän UkkoA suosikit
@womanwonder10 As far as I know, they were very left wing but not specifically communist.
FuguGoulash 4 months ago
@womanwonder10
Not a hint in their work that relate to Communism. If they were, how would it change your view on them? Communism is an ideology that has been proved to be not working. But then our banking system is just as bad.
hkjazzable 3 months ago
@womanwonder10 WAYNE??!?!?!?
praetorianerxx 3 months ago
@womanwonder10 I've seen, met and read much written by these three. I have never read or heard anything that would leave me to believe they were Communists. They did have some socialistic peace and justice ideals but nothing outside of the norm so much as I can determine. Peace and Justice were real ideals to these three not just a political slogan to throw around.
jtbdaddy 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@womanwonder10 From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. That is "communism" -- a system based on the teachings of the genius Karl Marx, who predicted accurately that capitalism would lead to the downfall of humankind.
redfordforpresident 2 months ago
this song blew me away
adityashoeb 7 months ago
im just crying
jinwookyang 7 months ago
@ cruxher1944,
Yeah! I still have an old GE huge, wooden floor model vacuum tube radio that has short wave and AM and I grew up listening to it and it still works ! Belonged to my parents and was made in 1939 !!! The speaker is the size of a car tire almost.
cschoon1213 7 months ago 4
@cschoon1213 hey...i wanna b ur frnd...i wanna knw more bout the time tht was b4 me..:)
akashdeep089 6 months ago
this is most rare video of this song youll ever see!!
mrflashfromthepast 7 months ago
My favorite musical with Peter Paul and Mary playin the world!
Estrela7475 7 months ago
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yoybong 7 months ago
it makes me miss to Tiananmen Papers, "A hundred tanks along the square, One man stands and stops them there "
mauhoaviolet 7 months ago
I get it and this song just brought the same tears to my eyes as it did 40 years ago....
billyethornton 7 months ago
one thing every one express that life where simple and lovely in older age ,,in my openion advance technology makes life more tough and selfish.
sahir313 7 months ago
i am an indian, i just a week befor hear this song ,,,and i hear it that complet week ...its wonderful...so tuching..i even dreaming about the song ...
sahir313 7 months ago
Yes, the 60's were simpler. Water cannons are much more rustic and soothing than predatory lending and election fraud. They sang the way they did about the things of the time because things WERE complicated and people were tearing at the throats of their neighbors; kinda like today.
SirDcitykity 7 months ago 2
@SirDcitykity I agree with you ,
billyethornton 7 months ago
This was when Life was much simpler and people cared about one another .. Love their songs ..Love what they stood for ...
yaloomail 7 months ago 10
@ yaloomail,
Well said.
People then cared about one another much more, instead of caring about money and the things it buys.
"Things" have replaced love for one another.
cschoon1213 7 months ago 3
@yaloomail Keep it real, not everyone has lost sight of what's important. Music with a clear message seems harder to find though, that's for sure.
andys149 6 months ago
This song takes me back in time, too. Lovely, unforgettable...I love these comments. Very funny and sometimes sad/touching. Thanks for posting this treasure. I had a transistor, too! Ahhhh, those simple days....these songs take you RIGHT back :)
swansdofly 7 months ago
hats off !!! to d composer, !!!
amarrocks1231 7 months ago
gosh,,,,, turn the time bACK !!!!!!
amarrocks1231 7 months ago
Lovely!
MrPlayangadjohn 8 months ago
Thanx cschoon 1213, this song , the feelings in it........ so melanchollic it gets deep in soul. I heard it with HEDY WEST when I was 5 (40years ago), and loved it................ still.
ZABROZZZO 8 months ago
This was when Life was much simpler and people cared about one another .. Love their songs ..Love what they stood for .. Miss Mary .. she is now singing wth the angels .. God Bless
GitErDunJohn 8 months ago
it was my father who brought these recordsway back in 1969.Introduced all my brothers and me to peter paul and mary.These songs remind my days with father .
mysterious368 8 months ago
Simple yet beautiful songs that I grew up with.
mserovey 8 months ago
Heard this first when my nephew, Srinivas Teja, sang it for his School Day. Wonder how I missed it though I am 17 odd years older to him! Wonderful song.. Hope they reinvent such music again!!!.
samhyderabad 8 months ago
When we wake up to the truth of life, inspired music like this will emerge and flourish again, and all the uninspired crap that people call "music" these days will fade away and be forgotten. Search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the truth of life.
DemianHermann 8 months ago
Real nice! I had a six transistor Sony back in 1962 cost my dad $40.00 back then ,it weighed about 1 1/2 lbs I was so proud to own it. "Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end" LOL Unfortunately for most of us they did!
soppinmyplate 8 months ago
This wonderful clip is what youtube is all about to me. I had never seen it before although I have always loved the song. I just made an attempt at singing it myself. Please stop by my channel sometime and let me know what you think of my version.
terrisonb 8 months ago
Magnifique!!!!!!!
beau872 8 months ago
Peter, Paul and Mary had the most seamless blend. Beautiful.
bughead3 9 months ago
I've been listening to it since I was little!!
razibhai32 9 months ago
This brings back some real good memories for me. I had a transistor radio back then and was thankful to have it. It got the job done very well. Great song and band.
lionssong2525 9 months ago
SOME OF YOU MAY NOT LIKE THE SOUND, BUT THIS IS HOW I REMEMBER IT ON MY TRANSSISTOR RADIO GREAT
crusher1944 9 months ago 32
@c rusher1944,
LOL. Ha ha ha !
I used to have transistor radios too !
So small that you would hold them up to your ear and put them in your shirt pocket !!!
Loooong ago.
cschoon1213 9 months ago 5
@cschoon1213 Ha ha din!. ganun din mga cell phones gawa nyo nagun!!!!!!Mas pa!!!!!
macseemusthe3rd 9 months ago
@cschoon1213 Oh yeah I'll take a transistor radio over an IPOD anyday... It's a shame how some great machines have passed away.
bobkool40 8 months ago
@bobkool40 ,
I am so old that I remember old transistor radios.
I miss those days where life was simple and sweet.
Peter Paul and Mary are Saints. I love them.
cschoon1213 8 months ago 6
@cschoon1213 I remember I had a crystal radio because a transistor radio was considered a frivolous expense. I listened to Peter, Paul and Mary, The Weavers and all the great folk artists in the 50's and 60's.
ClevereMadchen 7 months ago
I was a ramble rin the sixty sang this song many a night on the road with thumb out
SuperStaggerlee1 8 months ago
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lionssong2525 9 months ago
@crusher1944 Hey how about my vacuum tube radio? Can you beat that? LOL
billboardnumber1 7 months ago
My first encounter with PP&M was when I was 15 back in 1970. I bought the "PP&M 10 Years Together" which was a greatest hits collection. I was inmmediately mesmerized and captivated by the distincitive soft vocals and the harmonies. PP&M will live forever in my heart.
raponte1955 9 months ago
Thanks so much for uploading!
Friedenspfeife321 9 months ago
This song was used as the theme tune for Jeremy Sandford's "Cathy Come Home" in 1966 - it is very evocative of a very different time a few years before I was born. However, for anyone born in the early 1970s there is a certain amount of overlap in terms of influences and consequently this song is part of my time too.
julesthemadman 9 months ago
this song reminds me of a simpler time. :-).
helloimajay2008 9 months ago
@helloimajay2008 - Yes it does.
lionssong2525 9 months ago
My sisters sang this and other PP&M songs to me..as lullibies....
MrPerfecttommy 9 months ago
Darryl, Judy, and I drove up to a small gym in Ellensburg to listen to an unknown group called PP & M perform. I am so fortunate to have heard them before they became a household name. A few years later, I sat in an opera house with only a few rows filled and listened to Gordon Lightfoot perform. I am never sure who is better, only that both are excellent. Mary, we are still in love with you.
jimtraner 9 months ago
Not as good as the Proclaimers version.
marcel911 9 months ago
There is an incredibly haunting quality to this video. It must be a very early PP&M concert. Their voices and gestures are so pure. Thanks to whoever preserved and posted this!
cool2kitty 9 months ago
I can hardly speak! This song is.. there is no words in my dictionary for describing this because I was born in decade where that kind of music doesn't exist anymore... So precious. Love you for uploading this (:
beltainewitch 9 months ago 2
...great song from this trio - thx and greetings...;)
satin123 9 months ago
@ satin123,
Greetings to you too and I am happy that you enjoyed it.
:-) Chuck S
cschoon1213 9 months ago
OLD MUSIC :D
WafflesFromHeaven 9 months ago
I grew up with Peter Paul & Mary.
I can still sing all their songs word perfect.
They don't make 'em now, like they used to back then.
goldman8073 10 months ago
they just don't write songs meant to be sung by all anymore
LunaMoonJune 10 months ago
Does anyone know when and where this was filmed?
lothartheterrible 10 months ago
Eternal... !!!Thanks for this .
Gwynsek 10 months ago 2
@ Gwynsek,
Sure !
:-)
cschoon1213 10 months ago
Wow! I've heard several of the later concert versions but this older one really hits it head on. It really conveys the true emotion behind the words.
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LoveeyyLeaij370 11 months ago
Absolutly nothing any better than this came from the 60's in my opinion.
terrisonb 11 months ago
legends
nothecoo 11 months ago
its one of the best folk song ever where every line can blow your heart....though this is American folk song but it told the story of every people of the world....
mrhadid 11 months ago
This song always brings tears to my eyes, it's sad, but also compellingly beautiful.
This song, "Blowin in the wind", and "Tell It On the Mountain", are my favorite songs by this fantastic trio.
bookworm1960 11 months ago
Ache tu dicevi un di.......e il treno va..... Guarda un pò credevo fosse francese, mi pare la cantasse Fracoise Hardy
Oscaraffone 11 months ago
When i visited a rural part of Thailand a few years ago this song was one of the more popular western songs playing on the english language radio station and this was only back in 2005
todles18184 11 months ago 16
@ todles18184,
That is interesting and good to hear.
Often I am disillusioned and saddened by how American culture permeates other foreign cultures but it is nice to hear that lovely songs and singers as this are well received in other lands.
cschoon1213 11 months ago 3
@cschoon1213 Most of my favorite ballads and soft rock in my adolescence and youth were North-American or Canadian and I have always loved the sensitive lyrics and melodies !
Gwynsek 10 months ago
@todles18184 oh my I visited Surabaya Indonesia where Elvis songs sung like Elvis is in Demand across Asia The Older songs are alive and doing very well as hits and live music everywhere American style Beach Boys still rock California girls Inspiring to say the least, Stevie Ray Vaughn is played live masterfully timed played in every Music Store played by live guitar players that did their home work, " together". Americana is in Demand in Asia I kid you not, Americana is highly respected.
kloptklopt 10 months ago
@todles18184 This shows how universal and eternal it will always be for sensitive people worldwide.
I'm Brazilian and ,unfortunately,,though I'm 51,I only came to know about it in 1976 when I was 16, but I promptly fell in love with this song ...
Gwynsek 10 months ago
this is childhood memory right here. my dad used to play this song when i was a little kid.. im 18 and away from home now, and everytime i hear this song i miss home so much....
ryokuame 11 months ago
Same for me, except that I'm 21 and estranged from my dad. This doesn't mean that my mind doesn't flash back to my dad's then apartment where my sister and I had a CD player in our room and would hear this song on the "10 Years Together" or another P, P, and M CD. Sometimes when I hear other songs through walls (like when my dorm's RA has her radio on, as at present), I'm reminded of "500 Miles".
Nickidewbear 11 months ago
i gotta cry!!!! miss this song......... also puff the magic dragon
leaquennie 11 months ago
The "Quiet Meditation" verse below is beautiful, I'm glad I noticed it. As for rextrek, the pain is still new for you, but it does get better. I lost my Mom February 19, 1994 with my Dad and I at her bedside. I never thought I would adjust and feel better, but time helps and I did.
Rustina61 11 months ago
I still tear up myself at hearing this song...thank you for sharing this !
TheSeamusmaccorcrain 11 months ago
This is a very good tune old music always has more substance to it
Homesickblues1983 11 months ago
We sang this on the bus in OCS in 1967 before we graduated and went to Viet Nam. Amazing memories.
jennifershmennifer 11 months ago
this song makes me cry everytime. but it's a good cry
LuluRetardo 11 months ago
haha, i dedicate this song, specifcally this version, to any mormon missionary that shows up at my door........lol
cobracurse 11 months ago