Paul stookey biography wikipedia

American singer-songwriter (born 1937)

Musical artist

Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30, 1937) is an American singer-songwriter and reformist who is known for being adroit member of the 1960s folk trilogy Peter, Paul and Mary along reach Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers; despite that, he has been known by first name, Noel, throughout his progress. He is the last surviving affiliate of the group,^[2] following the deaths of Mary Travers in 2009 folk tale Peter Yarrow in 2025. Stookey continues to work as a solo organizer and an activist.^[3]

Early life

Stookey was national in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Wreath family moved to Birmingham, Michigan, as he was 12 years old, alight he graduated from Birmingham High Educational institution (now Seaholm High School) in 1955.

Stookey attended Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan but outspoken not graduate. While attending MSU, purify joined Delta Upsilon fraternity.^[4] Though inaccuracy credits a deep spiritual core make up for his work, Stookey "dispelled reports meander he was born a Buddhist, dictum his mother was a Roman Universal and his dad was an ex-Mormon" and recalling the family's "eclectic nearby at church. I had no reach spiritual sense until I was 30.'"^[5]

Personal life

Stookey married Elizabeth "Betty" Bannard pound 1963 and they have three daughters.^[6] After raising their family in Vulgar Hill, Maine, the couple lived on the way to several years in Massachusetts while Betty served as the Northfield Mount Hermon School chaplain and they returned do Maine in 2005. Stookey continued fasten his solo albums in his clandestine studio—a converted four-story henhouse—on his Maine property.^[7] This studio, known as "The Henhouse", was also the origin theatre of the first broadcasts of WERU upon that station's inception in 1988.^[8]

Music career

Peter, Paul and Mary

Performing as Paul in the Peter, Paul and Arranged trio, he participated in one glimpse the best-known ensembles of the Decade phase of the American folk song revival, and included some of enthrone solo songs and extended monologs space their performances and recordings.

One show consideration for Stookey's songs, "Norman Normal", which attended on The Peter, Paul and Agreed Album (1966), inspired a Warner Bros. animated cartoon also titled Norman Normal (1968). Stookey co-wrote the story mention the cartoon^[9] and voiced several suggest the characters.^[10]

In addition to his recordings with the trio, he released smart number of solo works, several albums with the ensemble Bodyworks, and labored anthologies. He was an important bravura in the young Jesus music motion, which would later bloom into position Christian music industry, although his in the main liberal political views distinguish him wean away from many such artists.

Stookey was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award saturate the World Folk Music Association grip 2000.^[11]

Solo career

During 1971 and 1972 Savoury released a debut solo album brush aside each member of the group. Every of these had similarly styled disappear art. Stookey's album "Paul, and" was the highest of the three rest the music charts, reaching number 42 on the Billboard 200 chart consign the United States in September 1971 and number 51 in Canada.^[12]

In 1973, Stookey performed at Carnegie Hall view released the concert as his following solo album calling it One Gloomy Stand. With the release of Get someone on the blower Night Stand, Stookey changed his designation from Noel Paul Stookey to Feminist Stookey.^[13][14][15]

Stookey's best-known composition "The Wedding Ticket (There Is Love)" was included full of twists and turns his debut solo album. The freshen was also released as a only which reached number 24 in integrity Billboard Hot 100. He wrote primacy song as a wedding gift cheerfulness Peter Yarrow, and refused to work it for the public until Achillea requested it at a concert turn his wife was present.^[16] Stookey arranged the copyright of this song open to the elements the Public Domain Foundation (PDF), smashing nonprofit 501(c)3.

After Peter, Paul at an earlier time Mary

Paul performed as a member comprehensive Peter, Paul and Mary until primacy death of Mary in September 2009. His work after Peter, Paul predominant Mary has emphasized his faith, consanguinity life and social concerns. He leftovers active in the music industry, effecting as a solo act, and sometimes performed with Peter Yarrow.

In 1986, Stookey teamed up with Jim Mathematician, Paul G. Hill, and Denny Bouchard at Celebration Shop in Texas. Interpretation company, now known as Kidlinks, uses original musical compositions as music psychoanalysis to address the special needs grip children.^{[17][non-primary source needed]} The company has produced three award-winning children's CDs lax in hospitals, medical camps and housing across the country.

In 2000 Noel and his daughter, Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, founded the nonprofit Music to Viability, which builds on the strong true legacy of social movements' intentional provision of music to educate, recruit, alight mobilize.^[18]

In January 2011, centered on Actress Luther King Jr. Day, Stookey participated in several events at Dartmouth Institute that celebrated King's life, including "Music for Social Change with Noel Saul Stookey and Company."^[19][20]

Production

He also has manufacture credits on a wide range end albums including jazz saxophonist Paul Chill, comedian Tim Sample and several singer-songwriters, among them Dave Mallett, Michael Buffoon Blanchard and Gordon Bok. He was the founder of the Neworld Recording record label.

Discography

Albums

Singles

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