Thank goodness for dinner parties! Not only did we enjoy a superb meal and fine wines, but I got the inspiration for this column. One of the trivia buff guests regaled me with his story of a ...

Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon” — a ballad performed by the trio Peter, Paul and Mary that has ...

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 ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow has broken his silence about the Republican Christmas CD featuring the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro" -- saying the song is "not only offensive, it is shocking and ...

The singer-songwriter, who co-wrote "Puff the Magic Dragon," had bladder cancer for the past four years. By The Associated Press Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, ...