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Not that he needs them. The physics major from an Ivy League school went on to produce 25 films, and has a slew of patents to his name, including one for a technique for shooting 3D movies.
By Sol Mednick Uploaded by We hope at en. The second single was a tune called Settle Down, which peaked in 56th spot on the charts. Then Puff was released. This urban legend actually started right after the release of the song in as the result of a story in a New York newspaper. The story speculated about the name Jackie Paper being a reference to rolling papers used in marijuana cigarettes. And the very name "Puff" supposedly implied smoking marijuana.
Both Peter and Lenny have vehemently denied that the song has any connection to drugs. The song is about childhood, and the loss of innocence that comes with the end of childhood, nothing more sinister than that.
One of the groups to record Puff was best known for their song about another mythical creature. The song appeared on their Children of the Unicorn album. Puff was introduced to a whole new generation of young fans with the release of a movie adaptation by the same name in This half hour animated film was made for television, and aired on CBS October 30th of that year.
In this short film, and both of its sequels, the voice of Puff was none other than Burgess Meredith. The movie tells the story of a young boy who hasn't spoken in a very long time. When everyone, including his parents and doctors, has given up hope, Puff magically gets the little fellow talking again.
I still love this song too! Something so sweet and innocent about it. I will need to seek out your poem I loved this song as a child and still love it to this day. Thank you for sharing how the song came about. I'm so glad you enjoyed this article.
I learn something new every time I write one of these articles. I just loved Puff when I was a child, and I still love it now. It's just one of those songs that stays with us, and elicits all kinds of imagery and emotions for everyone who hears it. Thank you so much for your wonderful story. It has a lot of information, with many details unknown to me and some forgotten. This song brings back so many memories. I knew all the words as a child, and would love to sing.
Things were different back then, but something's never change. It's great songs and stories like "Puff the magic Dragon" that remind us of that. And thankfully wonderful writer's like you who are here to remind us too! You have a great talent, thanks for sharing it with me. This song has always embodied Childhood to me, and I see it as lament for the brevity of childhood as well as for the inescapable impermanence of the world I always assumed the song was based on old English or Scottish folklore as it has that kind of image.
But it also makes sense as a little boy imagining his toy dragon being magic - and as he grows older, he plays with it less and less until one day he quits playing with it altogether.
This evening I was fortunate to spend a birthday dinner with my wife and her dad. As we sat eating dinner we were having catch up talk about family and things.
When the dinner was over Ron brought up a something that was on his mind. We listened and then the story seemed to open up into his missions in Vietnam. He was contacted by someone a few weeks ago about his involvement in the Vietnam war. His mission was a medivac helicopter pilot and his assignment was to rescuer wounded and companies who were in trouble from enemy fire.
On one such mission his craft was flying near the "hot zone" at roughly feet. His commander was flying at feet and a call came in from soldiers on the ground. They were under heavy fire and had many casualties.
Ron radioed in for approval to fly into the "hot zone" and the reply from his commanding officer was, a defiant "No" as this was surely a suicide mission. Ron persisted not once but many times and having experience in the army knew he could call in fire power on 3 of the 4 sides of the pick up zone which would provide cover fire for a brief few moments.
Again he was declined. Again he persisted not twice but many many times and said "you'll have to court marshal me then. Ron immediately flew in to make the attempt to rescue those who called for help. When he flew his helicopter in "a green military medivac hewy, He flew alone into a barrage of firepower.
The helicopter was designed to carry 6 men as passengers but there a great need for more missions with a higher risk of being shot down. He flew 3 missions that day into the same "hot zone" where he was able to pick up somewhere between 79 and 82 people on 3 separate missions. Thee men were loaded on in "heaps" because everyone wanted to be rescued.
Somehow Ron was able to fly all 3 missions that day and when the day was over his commander asked him "who was flying with him? But his chin seemed to quiver as he told the emotional part of the story. The song is believed by many to refer to smoking marijuana, yet according to its author, Leonard "Lenny" Lipton , it's a simple sentimental song about the loss of childhood and nothing more.
In Lenny Lipton graduated from high school and headed off to college at Cornell in Ithaca. He came to the realization that he was not a little kid anymore and never would be; that made him sad.
One night in Lenny headed for the Cornell library. He had just turned nineteen. After he was finished he left the library and went to visit his friend Lenny Edelstein. Lenny Lipton was thinking again about the loss of his carefree childhood days, and he was inspired by the poems he had been reading earlier in the evening. So he decided to write a poem of his own.
He wrote for about three minutes and felt somewhat soothed. He left the poem in Peter's typewriter, and then left. Peter returned and saw the sheet of paper in the typewriter.
Peter later joined a group and used the song. It became more and more popular, and eventually the group recorded it. Within a few years it had become a top ten pop song. Peter went back and tracked down Lenny Lipton, who was by that time a counselor at a summer camp.
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