You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as “Puff the Magic Dragon” starts playing in Jack’s Buick. Greg hesitates, then says,

Hard Times Cover Art Folk singer and voice of the sixties, Peter Yarrow, best known for his role in the Peter, Paul and Mary trio, has passed away after a

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Peter Yarrow, who has died aged 86, was the Peter in Peter, Paul and Mary, the American singing trio which took folk music into the commercial mainstream in the 1960s.

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of ... Upon graduating from Cornell University in 1959, he returned to New York, where he worked as a struggling Greenwich Village musician until connecting with Stookey and Travers.

Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done."

Peter Yarrow, the pioneering folk musician who found massive success as part of the musical trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, has died at the age of 86, according to the Associated Press.

Peter Yarrow, who has died aged 86 ... had signed up with Grossman in the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Grossman’s idea was to team Yarrow with a woman and another man to form an updated ...

Peter Yarrow, a member of the influential trio ... Grossman introduced Mr. Yarrow to Travers, who had grown up in Greenwich Village and occasionally performed with Seeger when she wasn’t caring ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known ... where he worked as a struggling Greenwich Village musician until connecting with Stookey and Travers. Although his degree was in psychology ...