History YMMV / PeterPaulAndMary

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: "I Dig Rock N Roll Music" is a good example of how this trope can apply InsultBackfire. Noel Paul Stookey wrote it as a satire on how he felt rock & roll was all style over substance, and that fans of rock & roll liked it because it was popular; not because it was good music. Ironically, the song became one of their biggest hits, charting number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts and has been since included on many of "The Best of '60s Rock!" or "The Best of Hippie Rock" compilation albums. It also didn't help that one of the bands they ridiculed, The Mamas & the Papas, ended up covering the song.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The trio repeatedly affirmed that "Puff the Magic Dragon" was not a song about drug use.

* HarsherInHindsight: Mary Travers' last verse in "Freight Train": "When I die, please bury me deep/Down at the end of Bleaker Street." Not only was she the first of the trio to die, but Bleaker Street was where she grew up, making this line eerily specific.

** "Puff, The Magic Dragon" is by far the most infamous.
** "Leaving On A Jet Plane."
** "Day Is Done." It even begins with the line "Tell me why you're crying my son."

* SignatureSong: If you're a liberal, "If I Had A Hammer." If not, "Puff, The Magic Dragon."

*** "Don't Laugh At Me," which moved people enough for Peter Yarrow to build an entire anti-bullying campaign based around it.

* MisaimedFandom: Because their most popular song was a children's song, and none of their other songs are necessarily child-unfriendly, they're sometimes mistaken for a children's act.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Mary Travers' last verse in "Freight Train": "When I die, please bury me deep/Down at the end of Bleaker Street." Not only was she the first of the trio to die, but Bleaker Street was where she grew up, making this line eerily specific.

* NeverLiveItDown: Though he pled guilty and accepted the charges for it, serving a three-month prison sentence and eventually being pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1981, Peter Yarrow's indecent exposure incident in 1969 (read: two teenage fans went to his hotel room to get an autograph and he answered the door while naked) [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/nyregion/peter-yarrow-metoo-canceled.html continued to cause controversy]].

* AwesomeMusic: 50 years worth. Take your pick.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Within the span of ''weeks'' in 1963, their cover of "Blowin' In The Wind" had a direct hand in two of the most important parts of American history, bringing Music/BobDylan into the mainstream ''and'' accompanying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary "I Have A Dream Speech" during the March On Washington. It really doesn't get more awesome than that.

* FunnyMoments

* MostWonderfulSound

* SweetDreamsFuel: Everything about their music, even their more cynical songs, just makes you happy to be alive.

** "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

* MisaimedFandom: Because their most popular song was a children's song, and none of their other songs are nessecerily child-unfrinedly, they're sometimes mistaken for a children's act.

*** "It's Magic."

* MisaimedFandom: Because their most popular song was a children's song, they're sometimes mistaken for a children's act. Of corse, none of their other music is particularly child-unfriendly, which is how they were able to maintain their reputation in spite of this.

* "Right Field" is easily one of the silliest songs they ever recorded.

** Paul's deliberately mumbled Music/{{Donovan}} impression on "I Dig Rock n' Roll Music."