Peter, Paul, and Mary’s NYC contemporaries included Joan Baez, Dave von Ronk, and Bob Dylan, the latter of whom may never have reached the mainstream success he eventually reaped if the trio had ...

As one-third of Peter, Paul & Mary – alongside Paul Stookey and the late Mary Travers – Peter Yarrow was a huge figure in the '60s folk scene that produced the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

Peter, Paul and Mary also brought early exposure to Bob Dylan, covering his song Blowin' In The Wind and performing it at the 1963 march on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his ...

Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980.

Yarrow, who with Travers and Stookey had supported Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential bid, met the Minnesota senator's niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at a campaign event.

FILE - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/George Brich, ...

Yarrow, who with Travers and Stookey had supported Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential bid, met the Minnesota senator’s niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at a campaign event.

Peter Yarrow, who helped make folk music a pop phenomenon in the 1960s as one-third of the vocal trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday at his home in New York. He was 86. His death was confirmed ...