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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter who was one-third of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at age 86, his representative confirmed to ABC News. Yarrow died of bladder cancer, according to ...

Peter Yarrow ’59 of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary died at 86 on Tuesday at his Upper West Side home in Manhattan. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group’s most popular songs, “Puff the Magic ...

First, there was the 1962 song made famous by folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, a 1979 juvenile fiction book adaptation by Romeo Muller. Now, Puff the Magic Dragon, the familiar children’s tale ...

Puff The Magic Dragonwas a college student named Lenny Lipton. "He wrote the original poem, it was only half completed, it didn't have the element in it that you would have expected me to insert, "The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — which helped popularize Bob Dylan as the voice of a generation — co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and ...

This handsome volume offers a charming interpretation of the 1960s folk song, written by Yarrow and Lipton and famously recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary. Featuring a soothing palette highlighted by ...