''Album 1700'' is the seventh studio album by American folk music trio

Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio consisted of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Paul Stookey, and contralto Mary Travers. The group's reper ...

, released in 1967. It produced the band's most successful and final hit, a cover of the John Denver composition "

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". The album peaked at number 15 on '' Billboard'' magazine's Top LP chart and was nominated for a

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in the Best Folk Performance category. ''Album 1700'' was so named because its original LP issue was

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catalog number W-1700 for the mono version and WS-1700 for the stereo version. It stayed on the charts and rose again in 1969, thanks to the single release of "Leaving on a Jet Plane". The song "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog" was written by Leslie Braunstein, who was the original lead singer of Soft White Underbelly, the band that became

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. The song was later adapted into a children's book and covered by

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and

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on the Disney children's album ''Goin' Quackers''.

Cover art

The cover is styled after one of the promotional photographs for the movie '' Bonnie and Clyde'' that showed the gang holding

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s. It was taken at 70 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City.

Track listing

Side 1 # "Rolling Home" (

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) – 3:31 # "

" ( John Denver) – 3:30 # "Weep for Jamie" (

Peter Yarrow Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame for being in the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's best known hits, " Puff, the Magic Dragon". H ...

)– 4:12 # "No Other Name" (

Paul Stookey Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30, 1937) is an American singer-songwriter who was famous for being in the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary; however, he has been known by his first name, Noel, throughout his life. Nowadays, he continues to ...

) – 2:31 # "The House Song" (Paul Stookey, Robert Bannard) – 4:18 # "The Great Mandella (The Wheel of Life)" (

) – 4:45 Side 2 # "

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" (Paul Stookey, James Mason, Dave Dixon) – 2:33 # "If I Had Wings" (Peter Yarrow, Susan Yardley) – 2:22 # "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog" (Leslie Braunstein) – 2:08 # "Whatshername" (Paul Stookey, Dave Dixon, Richard Kniss) – 3:27 # "

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" (

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) – 4:01 # "The Song Is Love" (Dave Dixon, Richard Kniss, Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers) – 2:44

Personnel

;Peter, Paul & Mary *

– vocals; solo vocal on "If I Had Wings"; guitar;

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on "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Weep for Jamie" * Noel "Paul" Stookey – vocals; solo vocal on "Whatshername"; guitar; 12-string guitar on "Rolling Home", "The House Song" and "The Song Is Love" *

Mary Travers Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter who was known for being in the famous 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. Travers grew up amid the burg ...

– vocals; solo vocal on "No Other Name" with: * Howard Collins - guitar * Paul Griffin - organ on "Weep for Jamie" * Morris Wechslier - piano * Harvey Brooks - bass * Richard Kniss - wood bass solo on "Whatshername" *

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- bass *

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- harmonica on "Rolling Home" * Chuck Beale (

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) - guitar * Adam Mitchell (The Paupers) - guitar * Denny Gerrard (The Paupers) - bass *

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(The Paupers) - drums *

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(

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) - guitar on "The House Song" * Karl Herreshoff (Paul Winter Consort) - guitar on "The House Song" * John Beal (Paul Winter Consort) - bass on "The House Song" * Gene Murrow (Paul Winter Consort) - English horn on "The House Song" * Paul Winter (Paul Winter Consort) - saxophone on "The House Song" * Virgil Scott (Paul Winter Consort) - alto flute on "The House Song" * Richard Bock (Paul Winter Consort) - cello on "The House Song"

Production notes

Milton Okun Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Fre ...

– producer *

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– engineer * Don Hahn – associate engineer

Chart positions

References

{{Authority control Peter, Paul and Mary albums 1967 albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Albert Grossman Albums produced by Milt Okun