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• Actors: Paul and Mary Peter
• Directors: Jim Brown
• Producers: Sarah Cullin Peter Yarrow
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wea-Des Moines Video
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000DCO1QE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,638 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A Musical Legacy features rare archival performances of songs which energized the spirit of the nation's cultural and political renaissance. Includes "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a Changin'" and 26 others.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Yarrow, Stookey & Travers, November 23, 2011

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This review is from: Peter Paul & Mary-Carry It on-Musical Legacy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

PETER, PAUL & MARY - CARRY IT ON is a documentary often seen during PBS fundraisers that has a dual agenda. For the several participants, it's an opportunity to reaffirm the social activism of the 1960s (and beyond) that motivated them then and still does today. For PBS, this career overview of the musical trio includes in great part video highlights of their long association with that network. Thus the show's main flaw for older fans like me.

Glimpses of the group's first era (1962-70) are few, all too brief and are finished within 20 minutes. These moments include for example clips from the 1963 March on Washington, PPM at two different Newport Folk Festivals, and perfomances on the Jonathan Winters and Andy Williams shows.

Mary Travers offers an insight into this trio of very different personalities. Peter Yarrow, she says, is highly disciplined, Noel Paul Stookey disciplined but with a soft edge and she, Mary, was: "Don't bother me," the original rebel. With this perspective, we notice in a mid-60s TV appearance that in doing a song Mary was prone to turning the back of her shoulder to Peter and singing directly to Paul. This may subcosciously indicate that both of them felt Yarrow was too much the taskmaster.

Peter reveals that Noel was often declaring he wanted to leave the group, which is explained by Stookey as making a right-hand turn in order to be with family after a seven year grind of 200 show dates and recording sessions. You certainly can't blame him. It was "time off for good behavior."

In 1978, Yarrow got them all back together again for an anti-nukes concert he was organizing. This reteaming "stuck" and they remained a trio until Miss Travers died in 2009.

The lion's share of "Carry It On" is segments from several PPM TV specials, but we also see their activities in El Salvador during some of the darkest days of that Central American country's history.

Other participants in this 2004 program (produced in part by Peter) are Ronnie Gilbert and Pete Seeger (of the Weavers), Tom Paxton, Richie Havens, manager Albert Grossman and recording producer Phil Ramone. There's archive footage of several more folk artists as they appeared on PPM's PBS shows.

This program is recommended, particularly if you are interested in the later public TV years of Peter, Paul & Mary. There's lots of good music here (if fragmented) and an occasional insight.