See What Tomorrow Brings is the fifth studio album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary, released in 1965
Manager Albert Grossman created Peter, Paul and Mary in 1961, after auditioning several singers in the New York folk scene. After rehearsing them out of town in Boston and Miami, Grossman booked them into The Bitter End, a coffee house, nightclub and popular folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.
They recorded their first self-titled debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary, the following year. It included "Lemon Tree", "500 Miles", and the Pete Seeger hit tunes "If I Had a Hammer" (subtitled "The Hammer Song") and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?". The album was listed in the Billboard Magazine Top Ten for 10 months, including seven weeks in the #1 position. It remained a main catalog-seller for decades to come, eventually selling over two million copies, earning Double Platinum certification from the RIAA in the United States alone.
In 1963 the group also released "Puff, the Magic Dragon", with music by Yarrow and words based on a poem that had been written by a fellow student at Cornell, Leonard Lipton. Despite urban myths that insist the song is filled with drug references, it is actually about the lost innocence of childhood.[3]
That year the group performed "If I Had a Hammer" at the 1963 March on Washington, best remembered for Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. One of their biggest hit singles was the Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the Wind". They also sang other Bob Dylan songs, such as "The Times They Are a-Changin'"; "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," and "When the Ship Comes In." Their success with Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" aided Dylan's "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" album into the Top 30; it had been released four months earlier.[4]
On January 14, 1964 they performed "Blowin' in the Wind" on the Jack Benny television program.
"Leaving on A Jet Plane" became their only #1 hit (as well as their final Top 40 Pop hit) in December 1969, and was written by the group's friend John Denver. It was the group's sixth million-selling Gold single. The track first appeared on their million-selling Platinum certified Album 1700 in 1967 (which also contained their #9 hit "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"). "Day Is Done", a #21 hit in June 1969, was the last Hot 100 hit that the trio recorded.
Track listing
"If I Were Free" (Travis Edmonson) - 2:43
"Betty & Dupree" (Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow/Noel "Paul" Stookey/Mary Travers/Milton Okun) - 3:13
"The Rising of the Moon" (John Keegan 'Leo' Casey Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow/Noel "Paul" Stookey/Mary Travers/Milton Okun) - 3:36
"Early Mornin' Rain" - (Gordon Lightfoot) - 3:13
"Jane, Jane" - (Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow/Noel "Paul" Stookey/Mary Travers/Milton Okun) - 2:57
"Because All Men Are Brothers" (Bach/Glazer) - 2:17
"Hangman" - (Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow/Joel Hendler/Noel "Paul" Stookey/Mary Travers/Milton Okun) - 2:51
"Brother, (Buddy) Can You Spare a Dime?" (Jay Gorney/E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 2:29
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) - 3:06
"Tryin' to Win" (McGee/Terry) - 2:33
"On a Desert Island (With You in My Dreams)" (Noel "Paul" Stookey/Richard Kniss) - 1:46
"The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton) - 2:43
Personnel
Peter Yarrow – vocals, guitar
Noel "Paul" Stookey – vocals, guitar
Mary Travers – vocals
Chart positions
Year Chart Position
1965 Billboard Pop Albums 11
Released 1965
Genre Folk
Length 33:27
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Albert Grossman |
