Thank goodness for dinner parties! Not only did we enjoy a superb meal and fine wines, but I got the inspiration for this column. One of the trivia buff guests regaled me with his story of a ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary that has ...

Turns out De Niro's Byrnes wasn't as na ve about drug innuendos as we thought. During an interview last week, Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary), recalled the night in 1959 when the song was written ...

Lenny Lipton, who as a college freshman wrote the lyrics to the classic folk tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and then used the song’s bountiful royalties to fund years of pioneering research in 3D ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

Fox Animation is developing a movie based on the Peter, Paul and Mary folk song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” as a live-action/animated feature hybrid. The studio has tapped “Trolls” helmer Mike Mitchell ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow has broken his silence about the Republican Christmas CD featuring the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro" -- saying the song is "not only offensive, it is shocking and ...

Peter Yarrow has died at the age of 86. According to his publicist, Peter was battling bladder cancer for four years and died from it. His death leaves Noel Paul Stookey the last surviving member of ...

"Puff, The Magic Dragon," the beloved children's song made famous by legendary 60's folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, and which was later turned into a successful book by song authors Peter Yarrow and ...

Back in 1963, at the ripe young age of 10, I was finding a liking of certain music and musical groups to put in my mental cache and focus on while listening to our local radio stations, or while ...

Fox Animation is developing a movie based on the Peter, Paul and Mary folk song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” as a live-action/animated feature hybrid. The studio has tapped “Trolls” helmer Mike Mitchell ...