Peter, Paul and Mommy

Peter, Paul and Mary's first children's album

Peter, Paul and Mommy

Studio album by

Peter, Paul and Mary

Released| May 25, 1969
Genre| Children, folk
Length| 34:56
Label| Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Producer| Milt Okun
Peter, Paul and Mary chronology
| Late Again
(1968)  | Peter, Paul and Mommy
(1969)  | The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together
(1970)

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Singles from  Peter, Paul and Mommy

1. "Day Is Done"
Released: March 24, 1969

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Allmusic| [1]

Peter, Paul and Mommy, released on Warner Bros. in 1969, is the trio Peter, Paul and Mary's first children's album. It contains hits like "Puff the Magic Dragon", among others. The album reached No. 12 on Billboard's Top LPs chart. The single "Day is Done" reached number 7 on the Easy Listening chart and number 21 on the Pop Singles chart.

At the Grammy Awards of 1970, Peter, Paul and Mommy won the Grammy for Best Recording for Children.[2]

## Background

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According to Paul Stookey, the album grew naturally from the fact that all the previous albums the trio had released contain at least one children's song.[3] The album contains new songs as well as some songs they had previously recorded. Songs such as "It's Raining" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon)", found on earlier albums, were re-recorded for the album with a backing children choir. The single "Day is Done", written by Peter Yarrow, is also a different recording from the one on the album. "The Marvelous Toy" and "Going To The Zoo" are songs by Tom Paxton.[4]

## Track listing

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1. "The Marvelous Toy" (Tom Paxton) Cherry Lane Music, Inc. ASCAP
2. "Day Is Done" (Peter Yarrow)
3. "Leatherwing Bat" (Adapted & Arranged by Yarrow, Stookey)
4. "I Have A Song To Sing, O!" (Gilbert & Sullivan, from "Yeomen of the Guard," Adapted & Arranged by Yarrow, Travers, Stookey, Okun)
5. "All Through The Night" (Adapted & Arranged by Yarrow, Stookey, Travers)
6. "It's Raining" (Adapted & Arranged by Stookey, Yarrow, Chandler)
7. "Going to the Zoo" (Tom Paxton) Cherry Lane Music, Inc. ASCAP
8. "Boa Constrictor" (Shel Silverstein) Tro-Hollis Music, Inc. BMI
9. "Make-Believe Town" (Yarrow, Elaina Mezzetti)
10. "Mockingbird" (Adapted & Arranged by Travers, Stookey, Yarrow)
11. "Christmas Dinner" (Paul Stookey)
12. "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" (Lenny Lipton, Yarrow)

All songs published by Pepamar Music Corp. ASCAP except as indicated.

## Personnel

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Peter, Paul and Mary

* Peter Yarrow – vocals, guitar
* Noel "Paul" Stookey – vocals, guitar, banjo
* Mary Travers – vocals

with:

* Russell Savakus – double bass
* Paul Prestopino – guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro

Technical

* Produced by Milton Okun
* Musical Director: Milton Okun
* Associate Producer: Phil Ramone
* Engineers: Don Hahn, Phil Ramone
* Front Cover Photo: Allen Vogel
* Cover Design: Milton Glaser
* Back Cover Photo: Victor Lassiter
* Children Appear Through the Courtesy of the Nursery School, Westchester Ethical Society
* Direction: Ken Fritz Management, Los Angeles

## Charts

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Chart (1969)  | Peak
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US Billboard 200[5] | 12

## See also

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* Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too

## Notes

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1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r96877
2. ^ "1969 Awards Winners". Grammy Awards.
3. ^ "Retail Silo Reports Strong PP&M Harvest; BMG Kidz Expands To U.K." Billboard. June 12, 1993. p. 45.
4. ^ "A Song to Sing All Over This Land". Peter Paul and Mary.
5. ^ "Peter Paul Mary Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.

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Peter, Paul and Mary

* Peter Yarrow
* Paul Stookey
* Mary Travers

Studio albums|

* Peter, Paul and Mary
* Moving
* In the Wind
* A Song Will Rise
* See What Tomorrow Brings
* The Peter, Paul and Mary Album
* Album 1700
* Late Again
* Peter, Paul and Mommy
* No Easy Walk to Freedom
* In These Times

Compilation albums|

* The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together
* Songs of Conscience and Concern

Live albums|

* In Concert
* Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too

Singles|

* "Lemon Tree"
* "If I Had a Hammer"
* "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
* "500 Miles"
* "Blowin' in the Wind"
* "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
* "Stewball"
* "Tell It on the Mountain"
* "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
* "When the Ship Comes In"
* "San Francisco Bay Blues"
* "Early Morning Rain"
* "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"
* "Too Much of Nothing"
* "Day Is Done"
* "Leaving on a Jet Plane"

Other songs|

* "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"
* "And When I Die"
* "Boa Constrictor"
* "El Salvador"
* "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
* "This Land Is Your Land"
* "Light One Candle"

Related articles|

* Discography
* Albert Grossman

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Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album

1959−1975|

* "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1959)
* Peter and the Wolf – Peter Ustinov (1960)
* Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1961)
* Prokofiev: Peter and The Wolf – Leonard Bernstein (1962)
* Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Leonard Bernstein (1963)
* Bernstein Conducts for Young People – Leonard Bernstein (1964)
* Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack – Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews (1965)
* Dr. Seuss Presents: "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" – Marvin Miller (1966)
* Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran the Zoo" and "Sleep Book" – Marvin Miller (1967)
* Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas – Boris Karloff (1968)
* Peter, Paul and Mommy – Peter, Paul and Mary (1970)
* Sesame Street – Joan Cooney & Thomas Z. Shepard (producers) (1971)
* Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs – Bill Cosby (1972)
* The Electric Company – Bill Cosby & Rita Moreno (1973)
* Sesame Street Live! – Joe Raposo (producer) (1974)
* Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too – Paul Winchell, Sebastian Cabot & Sterling Holloway (1975)

1976−1993|

* The Little Prince – Richard Burton (1976)
* Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals" – Hermione Gingold & Karl Böhm (1977)
* Aren't You Glad You're You – Christopher Cerf & Jim Timmens (producers) (1978)
* The Muppet Show – Jim Henson (producer) (1979)
* The Muppet Movie – Jim Henson & Paul Williams (producers) (1980)
* In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record – David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) (1981)
* Sesame Country – Jim Henson & Dennis Scott (producers) (1982)
* In Harmony 2 – David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) (1983)
* E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones (producer) (1984)
* Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein and Ron Haffkine (producer) (1985)
* Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – Jim Henson & Steve Buckingham (producers) (1986)
* The Alphabet – Jim Henson, Geri Van Rees & Kathryn King (producers) (1987)
* The Elephant's Child – Bobby McFerrin & Jack Nicholson (1988)
* Pecos Bill – Robin Williams and Ry Cooder (1989)
* The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 1 – Tanya Goodman (1990)
* The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1991)
* A Cappella Kids – Clifford "Barney" Robertson (producer) (1992)
* Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1993)

2012−present|

* All About Bullies... Big and Small – Gloria Domina, James Cravero, Kevin Mackie, Patrick Robinson & Steve Pullara (producers) (2012)
* Can You Canoe? – The Okee Dokee Brothers (2013)
* Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well – Jennifer Gasoi (2014)
* I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World – Neela Vaswani (2015)
* Home – Tim Kubart (2016)
* Infinity Plus One – Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (2017)
* Feel What U Feel – Lisa Loeb (2018)
* All the Sounds – Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats (2019)
* Ageless Songs for the Child Archetype – Jon Samson (2020)
* All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds (2021)
* A Colorful World − Falu (2022)
* The Movement – Alphabet Rockers (2023)
* We Grow Together Preschool Songs – 123 Andrés (2024)
* Brillo, Brillo! – Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band (2025)

From 1994–2011, the category was split into Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children.

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