October 8, 2023 - With all out war raging horribly in the Middle East I pray people find there way to this song. it says what I can't say very well. Let all of us light one candle and raise our collective voices for universal human rights, justice and peace in Palestine, Israel and love beyond borders. Shalom
That's awesome. That video has been a holiday season tradition in our family every year since it came out. We finally had to find it on DVD because we wore out the original VHS tape we got from PBS. It's always playing as we decorate the tree and the rest of the house for the holidays.
Wow!!! Me and my mom have the DVD re release of it and we love it. I have a question about Peter Paul and Mary what were they like? Were they friendly nice? They're my favorite Folk music group from the 60s so I'm just curious what are they like in real life.
About 1988 or so, Peter, Paul and Mary were coming to the San Francisco Bay Area to perform a live outdoor concert where everyone would be watching/listening/singing along on a hillside. I was wishing there was some way to be able to attend. But tickets were sold out! And we couldn't afford to buy them even if they weren't. The very next morning, my radio alarm went off. A few minutes later , the DJ announced that caller #9 would win the grand prize- tickets to the PPM live concert! I WON! My husband and I were able to attend. We had only gas money, but that was one of the most amazing and memorable experiences either of us has ever had! They were outstanding- and we were near the stage. After the concert, the trio welcomed us and many others to come up and meet them. Very genuine, lovely people! I miss them terribly.
they were just incredible people who just happened to be musical geniuses, nobody nowadays can compete with their messages of hope for all of humanity!
2020: Our leaders have abandoned us. Leaving us to crawl in the dirt and mud... But we will rise up, for we are not afraid. We hold the ember of truth in our hearts. Happy holidays, everybody... Don't let the light go out!
I went to a Holocaust commemoration at a temple many years ago and they had a table covered with glass votives, each bearing the name of a Jewish child who died, and everyone held one of the candles while this song was played. I will never forget it.
I am so grateful to have learned this song in elementary school, I had a wonderful music teacher. I love this message, and can't wait to teach my students this song.
Omg!! How absolutely beautiful this is.Weren’t we lucky to be young when Peter, Paul and Mary were entertaining us all! They were amazing… always my favorite!! Xox
@@kathyl2312 She had stage fright during the trio's early days in the early 1960s. I don't know if that continued (regularly) throughout her and Peter, Paul and Mary's career(s) though.
I just came across this song. I'm not Jewish, but what an awesome song for all people of the world. And for the youngsters, Peter Paul and Mary were awesome
Their children’s’ concerts, as well as John Denver’s in the early 90s, as an extremely introverted person, was what opened my world to music and therefore communication. I am forever grateful for them sharing their gift. I have always been enthralled by them and yes, for many years played music as well. Now I teach kids how to read, but could not do it without having had the confidence and dedication to practice music first.
@@davidanthonystone5165 I recall when I was six years old, listening to Puff the Magic Dragon on my grandfather's analogue AM radio. I listened, curiously, at how Jacky Paper could love a dragon with a fearless roar, and wondered just how those green scales fell like rain.
Treasured memories of this February 1988 concert at Lehman College in the Bronx. Attended both the afternoon and evening performances. Later on, I bought the companion Gold Castle record when PP&M promoted it on the Regis and Kathy Lee program. Thanks Rudi for this outstanding, top shelf production.
I find it wonderful that all three of them rallied behind this song, though only one of the three was born Jewish... to come together around a tradition that only one of the three were born into, and all three share it and believe in it... this is what life is about! This is the real thing! Let's all come together! And to all those who are having a hard time in America, who have suffered the last 7 years, remember that in the first Hanukkuh after the crisis had passed the light came back stronger than ever and still shines to this day! God bless you from a Christian and religious universalist who knows well the historical context of the first Hahukkah and wishes love to all!
I love this Chanukah song so much! My children learned it in lower school as part of their holiday concert and I learned it, too. Every year I find it and replay over and over the beautiful melody with the powerful message of hope. My children are grown with children of their own and I’m still finding this song to be as meaningful now as ever. We all need a little hope. No, we need a lot of it. Let’s all keep singing, keep hopeful and keep on keeping on.💕
I first heard this song when it first came out, the cantor at another synagogue sang it when i was 8. i asked mine about it, she hadn't heard it yet and didnt know whay i was talking about. I just in last couple years looked it back up and found it. This song has never left my heart, i think about it every Chanukah
Thank you for posting this! It's so full of love, warmth and light! I'm especially grateful to find this, because it seems this year is the first year we can't find the entire album in one place on either youtube or spotify. ???? I wonder what happened. I greatly miss being able to hear the entire album, but am even more appreciative of each song we can still hear.
Beautiful, but for reasons of safety, the lighted candle should always remain upright while the unlighted candle is tipped toward the flame. That's what we do in our Christmas Eve worship services using smaller candles with cuffs to catch dripping wax. Wonderful song.
You had a great music teacher! Another reason to ensure music education for all. The memories. The weirdness of trying to get 25-40 children to sing and learn many times per day! And yet, it works! I remember the travails of my elementary school music teacher. How hard she worked. How much she struggled to ensure we learned an "American" songbook that transcended and incorporated so many cultures. I wish I could hug her right now! Though I admit to sometimes being too cool to sing with enthusiasm and I regret those "nasty kid" moments. But when you are twelve, pleasing the teacher is far less important than pleasing the "cool kids". I confess to my lapses and hope that somewhere in the special heaven for Music Teachers, mine is blasting away at the upright piano and demanding we all sing out strong and seriously on "Sweet Betsey from Pike" or "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" or yes, "Blowin' in the Wind".
From Amazon review: A fantastic holiday concert ... not to be missed!, December 27, 2013 By Debbie Glivar Roberts "musical theatre expert" This review is from: Peter, Paul and Mary-The Holiday Concert (DVD) As a member of the New York Choral Society I had the privilege of singing in this concert. Our conductor was the illustrious Robert De Cormier. We actually taped two different concerts and the PBS tv special was a hybrid of both. We had so much fun with PPM. Mary chatted with the ladies in the chorus in between songs and shared her love of chocolate chip cookies and chopped chicken liver. All three members of PPM were so warm and kind to each of us. Peter's love of mankind is so apparent in each of these songs, One of my favorite tracks from our concert is "Light One Candle" -- I hope it made it onto the dvd! This tv special ran during pledge weeks on PBS for more than twenty years. Each time I here the opening I get goosebumps. It is such a thrill to find it on DVD!!! This is a must for all of you Peter, Paul and Mary fans.
My late sister Elena and I attended a taping of a PPM holiday concert for PBS, in February 1989, I think. I was working for ASCAP at the time, so I got tickets.
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I think this is the same CD that also contains "PUFF, THE MAGIC DRAGON. Also had problems ever getting that song to work........same problem. But, got this now. Thanks.
It takes two "peacemakers" to make peace. One side has always been ready, but its overtures, no matter how generous, have always been met with hatred and murder. So the vision of this song isn't very realistic, but that doesn't make it any less beautiful and moving. Here's the meaning I'll take from it: let's work to make sure, to paraphrase Alan Paton, that when they have turned to loving we will not have turned to hating. God, Peter Paul and Mary were great. Hearing them moves me as if I were still 15 years old. And lefties that they were, the power and beauty of their music reminds me of Andrew Fletcher's wisdom: "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." (We right wingers have to watch out for that!)
I CAN HEAR YOU SINGING FROM THE MULTIVERSE!!!!! I PRAY ALL SCHOOLS HAVE A PETER PAUL AND MARY (MOMMY) AS A CHOIR CHOICE I HAD THAT HONOR TAYLOR MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COVINGTON KENTUCKY I'M A KENTUCKY WOMAN LIKE MARY ALLIN TRAVERS RIP 11/9 SHOULD BE A LEGAL HOLIDAY! LOVE G'MA CAROLYN ROSE KING
What a wonderful song of hope and inspiration ! Two guitars and 3 magical voices ! I guessing this aired between 1965-1975. The 8 children in the front were probably 4th-6th graders ( ages 9-11). Those kids are now about 60-70 years old. I wonder what impact being in this show had on their lives ? Peace and Happy Hanukkah !
Oops, aired in 1988 so I was off about 20 years. My mistake, obviously they are much older than the glory days. Ha ha. Those kids are in prime adulthood now ! And ... they can now show this video to their own kids !
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October 8, 2023 - With all out war raging horribly in the Middle East I pray people find there way to this song. it says what I can't say very well. Let all of us light one candle and raise our collective voices for universal human rights, justice and peace in Palestine, Israel and love beyond borders. Shalom
100% feel all people’s pain no matter race, ethnicity,religion
I can’t hear this song without weeping. They KNOW the truth they sing. “This is why we *will not* fail” gets me every time.
I produced and directed the Peter, Paul & Mary Holiday Concert video. It was a fabulous experience!
That's awesome. That video has been a holiday season tradition in our family every year since it came out. We finally had to find it on DVD because we wore out the original VHS tape we got from PBS. It's always playing as we decorate the tree and the rest of the house for the holidays.
Thanks for your post Loren. Peter, Paul & Mary Holiday Concert was one of the top fundraising programs on PBS.
Thank you Genesis Music. I'm proud of this program.
Genesis Music, for the record. I did not send you this video!
Wow!!! Me and my mom have the DVD re release of it and we love it. I have a question about Peter Paul and Mary what were they like? Were they friendly nice? They're my favorite Folk music group from the 60s so I'm just curious what are they like in real life.
About 1988 or so, Peter, Paul and Mary were coming to the San Francisco Bay Area to perform a live outdoor concert where everyone would be watching/listening/singing along on a hillside. I was wishing there was some way to be able to attend. But tickets were sold out! And we couldn't afford to buy them even if they weren't. The very next morning, my radio alarm went off. A few minutes later , the DJ announced that caller #9 would win the grand prize- tickets to the PPM live concert! I WON! My husband and I were able to attend. We had only gas money, but that was one of the most amazing and memorable experiences either of us has ever had! They were outstanding- and we were near the stage. After the concert, the trio welcomed us and many others to come up and meet them. Very genuine, lovely people! I miss them terribly.
I miss them and I saw them from
Their beginning in the early 60’s
From Concerts to Peace Marching
For justice Love and Peace keep
It Alive.
they were just incredible people who just happened to be musical geniuses, nobody nowadays can compete with their messages of hope for all of humanity!
It's that time of year again. When you light the first candle at the close of Shabbat, light it for the Syrian children who didn't ask for that war.
Right!
And the Israeli children and the Venezuelan children and the Haitian children and, and, and. None of them ask for pain and suffering.
My son Noah is the second candle in the Little Red School House Chorus...such a treat to participate in this . Susan Glass conductor of chorus...
2020: Our leaders have abandoned us. Leaving us to crawl in the dirt and mud... But we will rise up, for we are not afraid. We hold the ember of truth in our hearts. Happy holidays, everybody... Don't let the light go out!
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This is the burden, this is the promise, this is the reason why we will not fail.
I went to a Holocaust commemoration at a temple many years ago and they had a table covered with glass votives, each bearing the name of a Jewish child who died, and everyone held one of the candles while this song was played. I will never forget it.
I love Peter Paul and Mary. I grew up with them. I wish we could turn back time.
I am so grateful to have learned this song in elementary school, I had a wonderful music teacher. I love this message, and can't wait to teach my students this song.
Omg!! How absolutely beautiful this is.Weren’t we lucky to be young when Peter, Paul and Mary were entertaining us all! They were amazing… always my favorite!! Xox
Even then. After so many years. Look at Mary's left hand. Still clenched to overcome her stage fright. RIP to the most beautiful voice of the 60s.
I didn't know this - is it something she spoke about?
@@kathyl2312 She had stage fright during the trio's early days in the early 1960s. I don't know if that continued (regularly) throughout her and Peter, Paul and Mary's career(s) though.
My mom put this special on every year for us kids and it's just such a special moment in time for me, I can't watch it without crying, ever.
My son was just 10 when he sang this with Peter Paul and Mary..He is the second candle He is 42 now I alway s cry hopelessly
I'm crying right now listening to it. Brings back all the good memories of childhood.
@@tziporakatz5845 All the feels🖤
@@genesclean1 Its so extra special for me I cant even imagine how special it must be for you.
You and me both!!
I just came across this song. I'm not Jewish, but what an awesome song for all people of the world. And for the youngsters, Peter Paul and Mary were awesome
I can not watch this without crying!
Those children are so precious, sweet lights in this dark world !
Hard to believe those children are in their 50s now.
My son the second candle is now 42 years old...a bright light !
@@genesclean1 What does he think of this song and the performance now that he's older?
This is the time of year I bring out this concert. My late wife’s favorite music for the Holidays. Always brings on the waterworks
Chills. This is such a beautiful song and performance. It makes me so emotional. And those singers in the background. Wow. Absolutely beautiful.
I needed this song tonight. Thank you Peter Yarrow
Prayers for Our Nation--this song is just as appropriate now as it was then.
Their children’s’ concerts, as well as John Denver’s in the early 90s, as an extremely introverted person, was what opened my world to music and therefore communication. I am forever grateful for them sharing their gift. I have always been enthralled by them and yes, for many years played music as well. Now I teach kids how to read, but could not do it without having had the confidence and dedication to practice music first.
My childhood was amazing thanks to Peter, Paul, and Mary
They were so good, I miss the trio. RIP Mary Travers.
I feel privileged to have seen them from their beginnings
@@davidanthonystone5165 I recall when I was six years old, listening to Puff the Magic Dragon on my grandfather's analogue AM radio. I listened, curiously, at how Jacky Paper could love a dragon with a fearless roar, and wondered just how those green scales fell like rain.
Hannukah commemorates the victory of Judah Macabbee and his fighters to reclaim independence in Judea. That is why we celebrate.
Best HaNNUKAH SONG EVER!
Amazing! I was very moved! Thank you so much! from Japan
心のこもった力強い歌声に感動します。PP&M いつまでも大好きです💖
Treasured memories of this February 1988 concert at Lehman College in the Bronx. Attended both the afternoon and evening performances. Later on, I bought the companion Gold Castle record when PP&M promoted it on the Regis and Kathy Lee program.
Thanks Rudi for this outstanding, top shelf production.
astounding color...
light one candle for Parkland, Florida kids
Sorry but they are not the only victims of gun violence.
I so love this song and the message of hope...especially during these challenging times!
I have always loved Peter, Paul and Mary!
Hag Hannukah Sameach! RIP Mary.
TeachESL Are you sure?If yes how do you now?
Irene cuatlacuatl *know
This song is so fuckin beautiful. I'd never even heard it until this morning.
I find it wonderful that all three of them rallied behind this song, though only one of the three was born Jewish... to come together around a tradition that only one of the three were born into, and all three share it and believe in it... this is what life is about! This is the real thing! Let's all come together!
And to all those who are having a hard time in America, who have suffered the last 7 years, remember that in the first Hanukkuh after the crisis had passed the light came back stronger than ever and still shines to this day!
God bless you from a Christian and religious universalist who knows well the historical context of the first Hahukkah and wishes love to all!
, I LOVE THIS SONG!!! SHALOM SHALOM
One of our favorite Hanukkah songs that brings out well the meaning of Hanukkah--"dedication".
Beautiful...........
LET'S BLIND THEM WITH OUR LIGHT!!!
JUSTICE!!!
That was a beautiful song I light my candle in memory of
My daddy on his anniversary of his passing
TeachESL I agree! We cannot forget our history AND we cannot be blind to others suffering! I will light a candle for all refugees.
i get the chills seeing this video...peter paul and mary is one of the best musicians ever..rest in peace mary travers
Peter, Paul, and Mary are three musicians, not one musician.
I love this Chanukah song so much! My children learned it in lower school as part of their holiday concert and I learned it, too. Every year I find it and replay over and over the beautiful melody with the powerful message of hope. My children are grown with children of their own and I’m still finding this song to be as meaningful now as ever. We all need a little hope. No, we need a lot of it. Let’s all keep singing, keep hopeful and keep on keeping on.💕
I've always loved this song too. And I'm not even Jewish.
I first heard this song when it first came out, the cantor at another synagogue sang it when i was 8. i asked mine about it, she hadn't heard it yet and didnt know whay i was talking about. I just in last couple years looked it back up and found it. This song has never left my heart, i think about it every Chanukah
An inspirational song with the precious children participating. Thank you for putting this on CZcams.
Nobody does this better or with more conviction
Thank you for posting CZcams keeps deleting it....This is so special.
I'm a Little Red School House Chorus fan
Thank you for posting this! It's so full of love, warmth and light! I'm especially grateful to find this, because it seems this year is the first year we can't find the entire album in one place on either youtube or spotify. ???? I wonder what happened. I greatly miss being able to hear the entire album, but am even more appreciative of each song we can still hear.
A wonderful video concert. Thanks for sharing this, Gene. Jon & Linda
Always brings tears this time of year
we love this song that were going to sing this song at the concert in flintstone Elementary school at 6:00-7:00pm in December 17 2015
Thanks for sharing
Beautiful, thanks!
Old School still relevant today.
STILL LOVE THIS SONG !
What a privilege that must have been... You did an amazing job..... great memories...
remember seeing this when originally aired...
very moving - it always gets me
Such a beautiful song!
Beautiful, and so meaningful!
Thank God the light still shines!
I love this song
We are planning to show this video at our Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service.
so relevant ... wonderful!
PEACE AND LOVE NO WAR NO WAR NO WAR...
Beautiful, but for reasons of safety, the lighted candle should always remain upright while the unlighted candle is tipped toward the flame. That's what we do in our Christmas Eve worship services using smaller candles with cuffs to catch dripping wax. Wonderful song.
I remember singing this in music class with my class back in elementry and it being my favorite song in the class.)
You had a great music teacher! Another reason to ensure music education for all. The memories. The weirdness of trying to get 25-40 children to sing and learn many times per day! And yet, it works! I remember the travails of my elementary school music teacher. How hard she worked. How much she struggled to ensure we learned an "American" songbook that transcended and incorporated so many cultures. I wish I could hug her right now! Though I admit to sometimes being too cool to sing with enthusiasm and I regret those "nasty kid" moments. But when you are twelve, pleasing the teacher is far less important than pleasing the "cool kids". I confess to my lapses and hope that somewhere in the special heaven for Music Teachers, mine is blasting away at the upright piano and demanding we all sing out strong and seriously on "Sweet Betsey from Pike" or "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" or yes, "Blowin' in the Wind".
I love Hanukkah 🕎 it’s my favorite holiday
Happy Chanukah to all my loved ones and friends. May all your light be bright❤
Thanks, Dan. Merry Christmas!
Awesomeness ❤
One of my all-time favorite Hanukkah songs!!
I love this video
Such a GREAT song. I searched for other recordings by other artitsts of this song.....none of them could hold a candle (pun intended) to this version.
Lovely!
Justice will prevail-
Happy Chanukkah!✡️🕎
Lovely.
I. THANK. YOU. FOR. ALL. PITR. POLL. AND. MARRI. GOD. BLESS. YOY.
Very moving!
Merry Christmas Everyone !
From Amazon review:
A fantastic holiday concert ... not to be missed!, December 27, 2013
By
Debbie Glivar Roberts "musical theatre expert"
This review is from: Peter, Paul and Mary-The Holiday Concert (DVD)
As a member of the New York Choral Society I had the privilege of singing in this concert. Our conductor was the illustrious Robert De Cormier. We actually taped two different concerts and the PBS tv special was a hybrid of both. We had so much fun with PPM. Mary chatted with the ladies in the chorus in between songs and shared her love of chocolate chip cookies and chopped chicken liver. All three members of PPM were so warm and kind to each of us. Peter's love of mankind is so apparent in each of these songs, One of my favorite tracks from our concert is "Light One Candle" -- I hope it made it onto the dvd! This tv special ran during pledge weeks on PBS for more than twenty years. Each time I here the opening I get goosebumps. It is such a thrill to find it on DVD!!! This is a must for all of you Peter, Paul and Mary fans.
What year was this recorded? I sang with NY Choral from 1979-1983 and sang this piece with PPM, but I was not in the group when this was recorded.
My late sister Elena and I attended a taping of a PPM holiday concert for PBS, in February 1989, I think. I was working for ASCAP at the time, so I got tickets.
awesome
For all my love ones. Happy Chanukah to all my family and friends❤
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Light one Candle
Hard to believe Mary has been gone 10 years now.
sad
On Hanukah, we light eight. Multiply that by 15,000,000! I hope.
It's all about the Children
I wonder where those children are today.
I think this is the same CD that also contains "PUFF, THE MAGIC DRAGON. Also had problems ever getting that song to work........same problem. But, got this now. Thanks.
It takes two "peacemakers" to make peace. One side has always been ready, but its overtures, no matter how generous, have always been met with hatred and murder.
So the vision of this song isn't very realistic, but that doesn't make it any less beautiful and moving. Here's the meaning I'll take from it: let's work to make sure, to paraphrase Alan Paton, that when they have turned to loving we will not have turned to hating.
God, Peter Paul and Mary were great. Hearing them moves me as if I were still 15 years old. And lefties that they were, the power and beauty of their music reminds me of Andrew Fletcher's wisdom: "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." (We right wingers have to watch out for that!)
Chilling. Proud to be Jewish
I watched this on pbs
I CAN HEAR YOU SINGING FROM THE MULTIVERSE!!!!!
I PRAY ALL SCHOOLS HAVE A
PETER PAUL AND MARY (MOMMY) AS A CHOIR CHOICE
I HAD THAT HONOR
TAYLOR MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COVINGTON KENTUCKY
I'M A KENTUCKY WOMAN LIKE MARY ALLIN TRAVERS
RIP
11/9 SHOULD BE A LEGAL HOLIDAY!
LOVE
G'MA CAROLYN ROSE KING
😭😭😭😭😭👏👏👏
What a wonderful song of hope and inspiration ! Two guitars and 3 magical voices ! I guessing this aired between 1965-1975. The 8 children in the front were probably 4th-6th graders ( ages 9-11). Those kids are now about 60-70 years old. I wonder what impact being in this show had on their lives ? Peace and Happy Hanukkah !
Oops, aired in 1988 so I was off about 20 years. My mistake, obviously they are much older than the glory days. Ha ha. Those kids are in prime adulthood now ! And ... they can now show this video to their own kids !
I am watching peter,Paul and Mary on CZcams.
Second only to "Candles in the Rain"......perhaps
What year was this
what did she have on
Was this at Carnegie Hall? If so,I was there.
Chag Hanukkah Sameach!
And light one candle for Paul's birthday, which is today.
But what if one those kids dropped the candle
most of the kids singing here are now mid 40 s. ,& middle age adults