She will forever have a place in my heart and my imagination.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" is one of the greatest legacies anyone could leave behind.

And did you see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No&feature=related

You can really see her in full glory...

The video with all three, including Mama Cass, is especially misting me over. :-(

Thanks for those, especially "And When I Die" and "I Shall Be Released."

I...yeah. Thanks.

There have been worse lives lived. And less classy sex symbols..

It really is very sad news. It's been a bad few days all in all for deaths.

sad now.

Another icon gone. R.I.P., Mary.

*sad*

I am now triply glad that the Sibling and I got to see them last October.

I heard about it this morning on NPR. I feel very lucky that I got to see them live a few years back. I got to sit on the 3rd row, too - it was amazing.

The DJ on our local NPR station played 4 or 5 of their songs back to back, and I drove to lunch today hearing "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". I cried part of the way.

On the bright side, this let me discover her solo albums.

On the not-so-bright side, there is the obvious.

Back when I was a teenager, she had her own show on British television, late at night and just for one season, but it had a huge impact on me and I knew that she was the sort of woman I wanted to be when I grew up.

"Dans mes rêves j'entends une voix
Qui me dit "Ne pleure pas"..."

It's probably the mark of a life well lived when the result of your death is tens of thousands of people who never met you posting links to "Puff the Magic Dragon," isn't it?

I think so.

My parents used to have an LP of a Peter, Paul and Mary live concert, and I listened to it over and over and over in my teens. For a very long time, Mary Travers was second only to Judith Durham in my the list of female singers I loved.

I remember one time at a PP&M concert, as part of urging the audience to sing along, they said, "A third of you will sing sharp, a third of you will sing flat, so it'll average out to on-key." And it kinda worked, actually. ;-)

Don't ask me why but I can't listen/watch "Puff the Magic Dragon" without crying, even after all these years. She'll be missed.

Yeah - it's Stewball I can't get through. Puff is my childhood and makes me misty. I do cry if I sing along, but Stewball - can't even hear it without bawling - boohoo sobbing. I have NO idea why. I mean other than it's fabulously minor. There's no connection between it and any event or person in my life.