Album 1700

Album 1700 Artist: Peter Paul & Mary
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075992716826
EAN: 0075992716826
ASIN: B000002KAI


Release Date: 1991-07-23

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Tracks:

  1. Rolling Home
  2. Leaving On A Jet Plane
  3. Weep For Jamie
  4. No Other Name
  5. The House Song
  6. The Great Mandella (The Wheel Of Life)
  7. I Dig Rock And Roll Music
  8. If I Had Wings
  9. I'm In Love With A Big Blue Frog
  10. Whatshername
  11. Bob Dylan's Dream
  12. The Song Is Love

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Just as Fresh as in Childhood!.......2005-06-06

This is a great CD. It's just as fresh as when I listened to it 35 years ago in childhood. PP and M, a much greater influence on me than I ever realized! :)


4 out of 5 stars Making a Statement.......2002-08-30

This is my favorite Peter, Paul & Mary album; it's one I've listened to my whole life, many, many times. I want to respond to those reviewers who classified Big Blue Frog as a "silly children's song." I hear it as a very clear commentary on inter-racial marriage. "The neighbors are against it and it's clear to me, and it's probably clear to you -- they think value on their property will go right down, if the family next door is blue." As in The Great Mandela (an anti-war song), and I Dig Rock & Roll Music (a parody), PP&M are making a statement, as they did with many of their songs. Another reviewer said they were pop more than folk. While folk music became popular music when the album first came out, they certainly carry on the folk tradition of telling it like it is and taking a stand on issues.

4 out of 5 stars Peter, Paul & Mary go Pop and finall hit #1 in the charts.......2002-07-13

It is strange in retrospect to think that Peter, Paul & Mary felt the need to turn from folk to pop in 1967. But if you look at the history of the Sixties that was the year before the country exploded in the assassinations and political upheaval that ushered in the Nixon years with the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the road to Watergate. So perhaps of any year in that decade 1967 was a time for folk singers to take a break. In retrospect there is also the great irony that PP&M finally get a #1 hit with "Leaving on a Jet Plane," which is by no means a traditional folk song, but not exactly representative of the pop music of the time either (Note also that it took more than a few years for Denver to really break out on his own after this point). I am one of those people who is totally content to listen to Peter, Paul & Mary sing anything their hearts desire because three-part harmonies are hard to come by let along three-part harmonies this sublime. But I must admit I do not consider this one of their better albums even if "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is as good as anything they ever did together. I have a slight smile for "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," but nothing all in all this is really one of their lesser collections. I guess in the end I might be more of a folk singer purist than I thought. How interesting.

5 out of 5 stars My favorite PP&M album.......2002-05-03

"The House Song" is my all time favorite song by them, yes they wrote it. What makes it great is the complete lack of any frivoluos songs. This is the second must have album, along with "Live", in the entire PP&M catalogue. 'I Dig Rock and Roll' and 'Big Blue Frog' are probably the best "pop" songs they sang, but this album is as close as you are going to get to their best studio album.

5 out of 5 stars The greatest PPM album.......2001-09-02

At one point in time, American folk music crossed over from the time-frozen traditional--then sold mass-market by Burl Ives--to the more iconoclastic as represented by icon-in-his-own-right Bob Dylan. After awhile, given America's 20th century social upheaval, it was no longer as easy as it once was to care whether or not Jimmy cracked any corn. Peter Paul and Mary lived during both eras and managed to survive in both. This album more than any other represents their "border crossing"--and it contained two of their most popular songs: a faithful rendition of John Denver's "Leaving On a Jet Plane" which I heard years before Denver's own version and "I Dig Rock & Roll Music", a tribute to the Mamas and the Papas, the most successful mixed-gender folk rock group of all time. Despite these two powerful radio hits, however, the most powerful song in here is the antiwar anthem "The Great Mandella", a simple yet dynamic tune about the head-on collision between the World War II generation and the Boomer generation over the Vietnam issue. The beauty of this song is that none of the three verses is "in the voice" of the protester himself as was usually the case with an antiwar song. Verse one is from the viewpoint of his infuriated father, the other two are quasi-journalistic views by society in general of his imprisonment and hunger strike. As Tom Brokaw rhapsodises over "The Greatest Generation", it is easy to forget that this particular generation saw no other practical use for their male issue than as cannon fodder. Very practical--neither we nor the Vietnamese they had sent us over to fight were seen as being worth the powder to blow us to Kingdom Come. And thanks to sound recording (invented well before the birth of either generation), this album with this song on it are still available to set the record straight, Brokaw's efforts notwithstanding.

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  2. The Leo Kottke Anthology ~ Leo Kottke
  3. Dressed Up Like Nebraska ~ Josh Rouse
  4. The Last Month of the Year ~ The Kingston Trio
  5. Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935: Blues, Jazz, Stomps, Shuffles & Rags ~ Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Pierce, Andrew Baxter, Clifford Hayes, Bubbling-Over Five, Memphis Jug Band, Mississippi Sheiks, Peg Leg Howell, Frank Stokes, Big Joe Williams, Agusto Abreu
  6. Classic Old-Time Music ~ Various Artists
  7. Circles in the Stream ~ Bruce Cockburn
  8. Judith ~ Judy Collins
  9. In the Wind: The Folk Music Collection ~ Various Artists
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Jazz Brasil ~ Joao Carlos Assis Brasil

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Rehome ~ Masakatsu Takagi

Saudades De Tiao Carreiro ~ Various Artists

Interlude & Rapture [soundtrack]

Just for the Record: The Solo Anthology 1969-1976 ~ Andy Roberts