Carry It On [Box set, Original recording remastered]

Peter Paul & Mary | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000DII8T
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,313 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime - Peter Yarrow

2. Early In The Morning

3. 500 Miles

4. Lemon Tree

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Goodbye Baby - Noel Stookey & The Corsairs

2. The Times They Are A Changin' (Live)

3. Three Ravens (Live)

4. Blue (Live)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Single Girl - Mary Travers

2. The Other Side Of This Life (Live)

3. Sometime Lovin' (Live)

4. The Good Times We Had (Live)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Canaan Land

2. Such Is Love (Live)

3. There But For Fortune (Live)

4. Wild Places (For Caloola) (Live)

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 5

1. If I Had A Hammer (Civil Rights March On Washington, 1963)

2. Jane, Jane (The Andy Williams Show, 1966)

3. If I Had My Way (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1969)

4. Leaving On A Jet Plane - with John Denver (Something To Sing About, 1969)

See all 9 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

87 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but omits several Major Songs, August 19, 2004

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Marc Wielage (Northridge, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carry It On (Audio CD)

In addition to the other reviews, there's two important things to add: first, the sound quality throughout the CD is very good. However, note that most of them are new mixes done in the 1990s. They're cleaner-sounding than the ones on their 1960s albums, but not necessarily the same sound.

The bad news is that this collection omits more than a half-dozen major hits, including "Big Boat," "Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)," "Tell It On the Mountain," "The Other Side of This Life," "Love City (Postcards to Duluth)," Yarrow's "Don't Ever Take Away My Freedom," and the hit version of "The Other Side of This Life." Given that they had 22 charted U.S. hits (plus another 5 singles as solo performers), those would have easily fit on a single CD.

The fact that people are having trouble playing the CDs on computers, plus the bit about the "hidden tracks" being hard to access, tells me that not enough thought was put into this collection. There's way too much live stuff for my tastes, though in a 4-disc boxed set, one live disc would've been fine.

In short, it's a mish-mash. The 3-disc Readers Digest boxed set is not a lot better, and also omits several of the above songs. To me, this is yet another example of a "Best of" collection that purports to give you everything you'd ever want, but falls considerably short. For a $60+ deluxe boxed set, this is inexcusable.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back But Never Forgotten, March 26, 2004

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Jeffrey N. Fritz "Nikon Jeff" (Morgantown, West Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carry It On (Audio CD)

It's amazing to listen to 40 year old Peter, Paul and Mary songs that sound like they were recorded yesterday. Rhino did a great job with selecting the songs and remastering them on "Carry It On." The songs are among the best of Peter, Paul and Mary and few stones are left unturned. There are even some previously unheard versions of these classics. The bonus DVD makes this a real visual and sonic treat.

I do have one problem with the box set. There are bonus unreleased cuts on each of the CDs but they don't automatically play. You have to follow the directions hidden deep in the book that comes with the box set. The trick you have to use just doesn't work on my Sony combo CD/DVD player. It would have been better just to have allowed the bonus tracks to play normally. I thought about reducing my rating one star because of this--but "Carry It On" is just to good for that.

The times they are a'changin' And having this PP&M compilation in the CD collection helps connect us with where we've been so that we can see with some perspective where we going!

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This review is about the Bonus Tracks, May 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Carry It On (Audio CD)

Peter Paul and Mary are my favorite group. I rate their music 5 stars; some people do, some don't. 'Nuff said about that. What I want to address is the bonus tracks. Another review mentions that one must cue them up in a not-obvious way. Let me elaborate on that review: You cue up a bonus track at the beginning of each of the 4 cds (the 5th, bonus disk is dvd) by cueing up song one, then pressing reverse until you come to the bonus track.

Well! This method is totally bizarre (if it is not bizarre enough to provide bonus tracks that are hard to figure out how to play in the first place--and the directions as to how to play bonus tracks are in tiny, obscure print within the printed book that accompanies the 5 disk set.) This backtracking-from-song-one method of cueing up a song works better or worse on various cd players. On mine, it is virtually impossible to hear the bonus tracks in completion, because pushing the reverse button "scrolls through" the song quickly. It is impossible to lift your finger from the button exactly at the beginning moment of the bonus song. If you don't stop pushing the button at exactly that magical moment, you either hear only a portion of the bonus track, or you have pushed too long and don't hear any of it and you must start a second effort at pushing the button until the perfect moment. Like I say, bizarro.

I suppose it is some marketing exec's idea of a cutesy gimmick. Peter, Paul and Mary, I hope you read this review. You have enough sense that you should have caught this dumb idea and nixed it. It's dumb and offensive. How fun is it, really, to sit over your cd player trying to push a button effectively. Come on, you guys!! Why don't you three write a meaningful song about the lunacy of this aspect of modern button-pushing life. (Ha!) Okay, I've spoken my piece on that! Except for the bonus tracks, it's a nice boxed set.