i tell you the best part about this whole thing is watching mary rock out to her performances..... it is absolutely epic. mary brought so much joy to the concerts.
So...this clip was uploaded 13 years ago and only now does this appear on my RUclips algorithm?! What the heck? On a more positive note, I love this clip.
I Love this video, and I Love the fact that they had a ball with this song! It's great to see Mary dance around and act so carefree! Who cares what the critics say about what this song did or didn't say, they were having fun, it truely shows in the video. In the time when folk was being pushed aside by other types of music, the message had probaby been "Blowing In The WInd" somewhere anyway. Long Live Peter Paul And Mary!!!!
The imitations, the funky groove, and the close muti-layered vocal harmonies , they really nail this to the wall in a truly great, real live performance.
On this day in 1967 {August 13th} "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #76; and on September 17th, 1967 it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100... It reaching #4 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart... Between 1962 and 1969 the trio had nineteen Top 100 records; six records made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" for one week on December 14th, 1969... They just missed having three #1 records when both "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Blowin' in the Wind" peaked at #2... R.I.P. Mary Travers {1936 - 2009}...
No one gets it if you criticize this......this is just plane cool, groovy and beautiful. When you critique with music and beauty you are honoring the competition.
I dig the stripped down rendition and never understood the dislike for this song. I think they nailed the sound they were going for and if it started as a put-down of folk-rock and commercialism they kind of painted themselves into a corner by making it so good it blended perfectly with the music they were sending up and gave them a commercial success in the process with a top 10 single. 😂 "Album 1700" was one of my parents' favorite albums (they married Christmas Eve 1968, at the justice of the peace's house, right out of high school when my dad was about to be stationed in Germany so my mom could live with him - still together today - and apparently "Leaving on a jet plane" was one of their songs, especially when they lived overseas) and aside from having and playing all of the albums growing up in the early 80s (I also loved the follow-up "Peter, Paul and Mommy" as a child and later found the follow-up to *that* "Late Again" to be most impressive and underrated) I remember this getting heavy airplay on the oldies stations. FWIW, I've seen comments about this being recorded by the Mama's and Papa's (some even saying this was a cover of a non-existent or "only on an album version" by M&P's) and unless there's an extremely obscure recording I'm unaware of in 4 decades of serious record collecting, this is a Peter, Paul and Mary original, written by Paul himself, and the only M&P's related version I've found was a live performance of Mama Cass singing it on a television show with Sammy Davis Jr after it was already a hit.
Killer critique of the commercialism prevelant in 60s rock. Digs at the Mamas and the Papas, the Beatles and Donovan in one song! I think this version is almost better than the studio one.
Subtle, slick, psychedelic message and great fun, too. "I dig Donovan kind of in a dream-like, tripped out way. His crystal images, hey, they tell you 'bout a brighter day." Note: Donovan got completely out of the drug scene and has been promoting TM (Transcendental Meditation) for the youth of the world.
I like the song and dig the lyrics. Rock and Roll is/was (supposedly) anti-establishment. This song is having fun calling out the "established" artists of that time period. It is a fun song.
I agree. PP&M could play anything. Another of their pop hits was "Leaving On a Jet Plane," which turned out to be their only No. 1 single on the Billboard pop chart.
It doesn't come through as well on a live version like this, but on the original studio recording, their Mamas & Papas imitation was flawless. I've talked to many people over the years who thought the Mamas & Papas were the ones that did this song.
We were just kids in elementary school and our school allowed folk music to be performed...Peter Paul and Mary were heard a lot...Mary to us was the most Beautiful girl in the world...And maybe we were right!
I never knew that this song is actually poking fun at rock & roll - but now it is clear that they were truly pure folk singers and did not care for rock at all! Still, great tune and well done live - and RIP Mary!
The folk music singers lambasted Bob Dylan for his use of an electric guitar in Like A Rolling Stone. There are people who refuse to move on with life and cling like a barnacle to what they have always known...Time marches on despite whether we like it or not...The folk singers, for the most part, saw rock and roll as a threat to their way of life. They wanted to keep the songs meaningful and keep the social consciousness alive...I can see how PP&M might have been bitter...
I think this song was one that makes most hardcore fans of Peter, Paul, and Mary cringe a little, but time has caused me to make my peace with this hit single. I never saw it as a "satire" of rock music, but as hommages to three artists that they befriended and respected (Beatles, Donovan, and Mamas & Papas). I still can't say truly whether or not my love Mary Travers was a great singer or not, but she just poured herself into every song she ever sang, and she sure was easy on the eyes!
nilsdrew - I was a BIT young - born in '65, but I read an article that said this song was indeed meant to polk fun at rock & roll. I grew up with 70's and 80's music, but there was certainly plenty of music from the 60's and I enjoy that as much as any. I know the history of the 60;s as well; anyway, check it out when you get the chance - they were a great group and this is an awesome tune, but I am 99% sure this was meant to "make light" of rock and / or the groups of the 60's and the lyrics.
Wow, what a put down of groups that sounded so much better than they did. Hard to believe it doesn't sound like this on the single with the backward string sounds.
@@ayokay123 It was first recorded by the Mamas and the Papas, but for some reason, went nowhere on the charts... not until Peter, Paul, and Mary covered it. Go figure.
@@RevLauren1111 Where did you hear or read this? No offense intended but it isn't true. Paul Stookey (the Paul in Peter, Paul and Mary) wrote this song with James Mason and Dave Dixon especially for Peter, Paul and Mary as a send-up of rock; particularly folk-rock, which was a trend they were on record as being less than impressed with, but softened their stance on and adopted for Album 1700, which this was recorded for, and subsequent albums (particularly the overlooked "Late Again" from '68.) They specifically imitated the Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, and Beatles' then-current styles on the recording and in this performance. Perhaps you're confusing this with "Creeque Alley" which the Mamas and Papas recorded around the same time that was self-referential/autobiographical? Either way, they never recorded this afaik, and certainly not first.
@@RevLauren1111 -- sorry, you're mistaken. This is PP&Ms song all the way. I personally never noticed a sound similar to M&Ps in regards to this song and have no idea how that rumor ever got started. But apparently if misinformation is repeated often enough and loud enough, it begins to sound like the truth.
OK. Mellow out all you "It has to be what I say it is" people. IMHO: This is just good-hearted entertainment in the form of satire. PP&M were at heart just "soulful comedians" having a little fun and helping others smile. It doesn't fall on one side of the "capitalistic establishment" fence or on the other. Indeed, it is just a humorous recognition of the fact that we all tend to sit ON the fence often enough and maybe... ought to laugh at the resulting splinters we find in our butts.
One reason MIGHT be that the user who uploaded this didn't put Peter Paul & Mary in the description, as tags. I searched for this song (with artist name included), and this didn't come up. He might've done that to try to avoid the sensors that will flag it as copyrighted, especially if they've deleted other clips he put up (doesn't always work, though).
It puts down the Mamma's and the Pappas, Donovan and the Beatles, in a very condescending way. So long as the words don't get in the way? They really nail me to the wall? If I can only say it between the lines? I guess they're hoping no one listens to the lyrics.
Only rock didn't put them out of work. Rock may have put them out of the big arenas, but definitely not out of work. And today, they rank ahead two of the three acts they spoof in terms of musical importance. I wrote that they, with their background, didn't have much time for the sixties' rock lyrics and their - possible - message. I mean, after all, great as it was musically, the rock music of the late sixties/early seventies largely did convey rather a message of self-indulgent bratishness.
@AdNoctum007 - There's another clip of PP&M singing this song on RUclips that has over 150 thousand views. watch?v=vMj2WqwehU4 It's only a small clip, but it's in colour, maybe that's why the view count is higher. Beats me.
They didn't hate rock. The message is rather: "Look, rock is fun, but we can do that too. And the rock lyrics are just inane." They came for a tradition where a typical lyric line was, to overstate it just a little, "with freedom and justice and liberty for all". Very square, yes, but with obvious meaning. One can understand that they didn't have all that much time with lyrics that either consisted of "Sha-la-la-la, yeah, yeah" or sly references to drugs.
This is so great, I remember their music on the stereo when I was a little kid.
I love these guys, always did. Their live albums are a masters class in connecting with an audience.
That Mary is "60's" with a vengeance and I'm lovin' it!!
Mary is really gettin down, love it, love her. RIP baby.
Peter & Paul should kiss the ground Mary walked on!!
i tell you the best part about this whole thing is watching mary rock out to her performances..... it is absolutely epic. mary brought so much joy to the concerts.
Nice! Perfect harmonies--and live yet! Ladies and gents, that was talent.
Mary is "pure" 60"s! The printed dress, the straight blond hair, the 60's dance moves, she's SO groovy man groovy.
RIP, Mary!
I love Mary in this one, just groovin'. And yes my new favorite song by Peter, Paul and Mary.
So...this clip was uploaded 13 years ago and only now does this appear on my RUclips algorithm?! What the heck? On a more positive note, I love this clip.
I Love this video, and I Love the fact that they had a ball with this song! It's great to see Mary dance around and act so carefree! Who cares what the critics say about what this song did or didn't say, they were having fun, it truely shows in the video. In the time when folk was being pushed aside by other types of music, the message had probaby been "Blowing In The WInd" somewhere anyway. Long Live Peter Paul And Mary!!!!
Back in the 60s, the hippies said never “trust anybody over 30”, well Mary here dancing groovingly and she was over 30 lol
This was a blast! Timeless stuff, man. What beautiful harmonizing.
Yes. Those harmonies, and impressions, and scat singing.
Skill to matvel.
The imitations, the funky groove, and the close muti-layered vocal harmonies , they really nail this to the wall in a truly great, real live performance.
On this day in 1967 {August 13th} "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #76; and on September 17th, 1967 it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
It reaching #4 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart...
Between 1962 and 1969 the trio had nineteen Top 100 records; six records made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" for one week on December 14th, 1969...
They just missed having three #1 records when both "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Blowin' in the Wind" peaked at #2...
R.I.P. Mary Travers {1936 - 2009}...
how happy that Mary was..
My favorite song by them. Under rated.
Thank you for posting.
Really good video.
I like when you see them start laughing in the middle of the song. It seems more personal and not rehearsed. It's kind of a glympse into their souls.
Mary, dances gracefully
No one gets it if you criticize this......this is just plane cool, groovy and beautiful. When you critique with music and beauty you are honoring the competition.
You definitely get it, Ray.
Mary is so free and fluid and really feels the music; she has great moves. She's very beautiful. Every guy had a crush on her; she was so cool.
Mary looks like she is having a spaz attack! love these guys, thanks...
Love this song.
stoned on tea, lol...kicking some arse in this performanc
Dam they're having a good time that's awesome
cant stop smiling watching mary in this vid....i bet she was DARN tired after each show from dancin around so much
I get a kick out of Mary's go-go like dancing moves. RIP Mary.
Two men with string guitars, and 1 groovy chick. Great vocals!
As opposed to non string guitars?
I like it to see them alive and I dig Mary Travers's beauty a lot.
Love it even still to this day!!!!!
I dig the stripped down rendition and never understood the dislike for this song. I think they nailed the sound they were going for and if it started as a put-down of folk-rock and commercialism they kind of painted themselves into a corner by making it so good it blended perfectly with the music they were sending up and gave them a commercial success in the process with a top 10 single. 😂
"Album 1700" was one of my parents' favorite albums (they married Christmas Eve 1968, at the justice of the peace's house, right out of high school when my dad was about to be stationed in Germany so my mom could live with him - still together today - and apparently "Leaving on a jet plane" was one of their songs, especially when they lived overseas) and aside from having and playing all of the albums growing up in the early 80s (I also loved the follow-up "Peter, Paul and Mommy" as a child and later found the follow-up to *that* "Late Again" to be most impressive and underrated) I remember this getting heavy airplay on the oldies stations.
FWIW, I've seen comments about this being recorded by the Mama's and Papa's (some even saying this was a cover of a non-existent or "only on an album version" by M&P's) and unless there's an extremely obscure recording I'm unaware of in 4 decades of serious record collecting, this is a Peter, Paul and Mary original, written by Paul himself, and the only M&P's related version I've found was a live performance of Mama Cass singing it on a television show with Sammy Davis Jr after it was already a hit.
i loveee this songgg:) and i feel so young when i listen to this. haha
Killer critique of the commercialism prevelant in 60s rock. Digs at the Mamas and the Papas, the Beatles and Donovan in one song! I think this version is almost better than the studio one.
Mary is awesome!
Subtle, slick, psychedelic message and great fun, too. "I dig Donovan kind of in a dream-like, tripped out way.
His crystal images, hey, they tell you 'bout a brighter day."
Note: Donovan got completely out of the drug scene and has been promoting TM (Transcendental Meditation) for the youth of the world.
Perfect showmanship of mary
That was GREAT!!!! Now or anytime!!!!
Anyone have any idea what show this was? Such fun!
Mary did really knew how to dance!
I was born in 1960 John.....I don't wanna be "All By Myself"..lol...I get your meaning....T
I like the song and dig the lyrics. Rock and Roll is/was (supposedly) anti-establishment. This song is having fun calling out the "established" artists of that time period.
It is a fun song.
This is incredible and ALL LIVE! No lip sync…
HIPPIES GOT TO LOVE THEM
I agree. PP&M could play anything. Another of their pop hits was "Leaving On a Jet Plane," which turned out to be their only No. 1 single on the Billboard pop chart.
It doesn't come through as well on a live version like this, but on the original studio recording, their Mamas & Papas imitation was flawless. I've talked to many people over the years who thought the Mamas & Papas were the ones that did this song.
I for one thought Mamas n Papas
PP&M impressions are wild fun.
awesome harmonies,just their three voices sound like so many more
I dig this live version! ✌
Oh Mary !!
We were just kids in elementary school and our school allowed folk music to be performed...Peter Paul and Mary were heard a lot...Mary to us was the most Beautiful girl in the world...And maybe we were right!
A song that ridicules rock and roll in a most ingenious way...gotta love it.
I never knew that this song is actually poking fun at rock & roll - but now it is clear that they were truly pure folk singers and did not care for rock at all! Still, great tune and well done live - and RIP Mary!
I think "Puff" may have made an appearance before they went on stage.....dig?
Just fantastic Song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The folk music singers lambasted Bob Dylan for his use of an electric guitar in Like A Rolling Stone. There are people who refuse to move on with life and cling like a barnacle to what they have always known...Time marches on despite whether we like it or not...The folk singers, for the most part, saw rock and roll as a threat to their way of life. They wanted to keep the songs meaningful and keep the social consciousness alive...I can see how PP&M might have been bitter...
At...their...very....best. Live, unscripted, and Mary gettin' down!
Don't understand why today's musicians are so harmony phobic.
I like this song - Thank you for posting it.
I just saw your post. I believe the Mamas and th Papas included this song on an album but never released it as a single.
Lol , yeah , I gotta agree with you (somewhat)...On the point of what people hunger for in nostalgia..
Chulada de canción. Chulada de armonías vocales. Y si, disfruto la MÚSICA de ROCK & ROLL. Of course, I Dig ROCK & ROLL Music.
ppm at their best, pop and folk, flawlessly. a plus: this is original, no cover.
they knew cass elliott
I think this song was one that makes most hardcore fans of Peter, Paul, and Mary cringe a little, but time has caused me to make my peace with this hit single. I never saw it as a "satire" of rock music, but as hommages to three artists that they befriended and respected (Beatles, Donovan, and Mamas & Papas). I still can't say truly whether or not my love Mary Travers was a great singer or not, but she just poured herself into every song she ever sang, and she sure was easy on the eyes!
nilsdrew - I was a BIT young - born in '65, but I read an article that said this song was indeed meant to polk fun at rock & roll. I grew up with 70's and 80's music, but there was certainly plenty of music from the 60's and I enjoy that as much as any. I know the history of the 60;s as well; anyway, check it out when you get the chance - they were a great group and this is an awesome tune, but I am 99% sure this was meant to "make light" of rock and / or the groups of the 60's and the lyrics.
RIP, Mary...
I love this better than the original!
RIP Mary!
I HAVE OTHER VERSION, THIS IS SUPERIOR. 5* THANK FOR THIS GIFT. HI FROM MONTERREY MEXICO
Wow, what a put down of groups that sounded so much better than they did. Hard to believe it doesn't sound like this on the single with the backward string sounds.
Mary's doing the "Elaine" dance.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
for over 40 years iI thought this song was done by the Mamas and the Papas....duh..
You ain't the only one, bub. So did I....and I'm in my early 60's.
@@ayokay123 It was first recorded by the Mamas and the Papas, but for some reason, went nowhere on the charts... not until Peter, Paul, and Mary covered it. Go figure.
@@RevLauren1111 Where did you hear or read this? No offense intended but it isn't true. Paul Stookey (the Paul in Peter, Paul and Mary) wrote this song with James Mason and Dave Dixon especially for Peter, Paul and Mary as a send-up of rock; particularly folk-rock, which was a trend they were on record as being less than impressed with, but softened their stance on and adopted for Album 1700, which this was recorded for, and subsequent albums (particularly the overlooked "Late Again" from '68.) They specifically imitated the Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, and Beatles' then-current styles on the recording and in this performance. Perhaps you're confusing this with "Creeque Alley" which the Mamas and Papas recorded around the same time that was self-referential/autobiographical? Either way, they never recorded this afaik, and certainly not first.
@@RevLauren1111 -- sorry, you're mistaken. This is PP&Ms song all the way. I personally never noticed a sound similar to M&Ps in regards to this song and have no idea how that rumor ever got started. But apparently if misinformation is repeated often enough and loud enough, it begins to sound like the truth.
OK. Mellow out all you "It has to be what I say it is" people.
IMHO: This is just good-hearted entertainment in the form of satire. PP&M were at heart just "soulful comedians" having a little fun and helping others smile. It doesn't fall on one side of the "capitalistic establishment" fence or on the other. Indeed, it is just a humorous recognition of the fact that we all tend to sit ON the fence often enough and maybe... ought to laugh at the resulting splinters we find in our butts.
One reason MIGHT be that the user who uploaded this didn't put Peter Paul & Mary in the description, as tags. I searched for this song (with artist name included), and this didn't come up. He might've done that to try to avoid the sensors that will flag it as copyrighted, especially if they've deleted other clips he put up (doesn't always work, though).
Which concert is this from?
they rock!!! :D
"He's from Barcelona."
This is where Elaine learned to dance.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I liked the radio cut of this song. it was higher quality.
Its a great song and it really does not put anyone down?
It puts down the Mamma's and the Pappas, Donovan and the Beatles, in a very condescending way. So long as the words don't get in the way? They really nail me to the wall? If I can only say it between the lines? I guess they're hoping no one listens to the lyrics.
Mary T , tho...
Where’s the guy on the upright bass?
Only rock didn't put them out of work. Rock may have put them out of the big arenas, but definitely not out of work. And today, they rank ahead two of the three acts they spoof in terms of musical importance. I wrote that they, with their background, didn't have much time for the sixties' rock lyrics and their - possible - message. I mean, after all, great as it was musically, the rock music of the late sixties/early seventies largely did convey rather a message of self-indulgent bratishness.
real ensemble singing ----------no auto tuning here. they were best live
ジョナサン・ウインタースショウ－のカラー映像をフルで見たいね
One of albums said "1968". Came out in '67 actually.
Mary was really pretty back then
@StudebakerHawk57 She's demonstrating the lyrics "get in the way."
She's doing the original Elaine dance
@AdNoctum007 - There's another clip of PP&M singing this song on RUclips that has over 150 thousand views.
watch?v=vMj2WqwehU4
It's only a small clip, but it's in colour, maybe that's why the view count is higher. Beats me.
@kittyprydekissme For years, I thought the mamas and papas actually DID do this song.. lol
One of their all-time greatest songs but what the heck is Mary doing to that microphone (at 0:49)???...
Is anyone else flashing on Elaine's " bad dancing" from that Seinfeld episode???
I dig Mary
They didn't hate rock. The message is rather: "Look, rock is fun, but we can do that too. And the rock lyrics are just inane." They came for a tradition where a typical lyric line was, to overstate it just a little, "with freedom and justice and liberty for all". Very square, yes, but with obvious meaning. One can understand that they didn't have all that much time with lyrics that either consisted of "Sha-la-la-la, yeah, yeah" or sly references to drugs.
great, but a little too fast
k i may only be 12 but not everyone back then probably loved it when a song said something, some people probably hated it.
@StudebakerHawk57 She was getting"out of the way"of the microphone.Get it?
Wow
Also, My friend, not every rock singer can be Springsteen (with all the messages)...lol.
"donovan clicked dislike"
As did the Mommas and the Pappas (that makes five, two more).
The studio version is a lot better, the instrumentation in the Donovan/Beatles verse is hilarious.