Music

It’s Peter Yarrow’s birthday, and here’s Kevin Shortsleeve with the story of the singer-songwriter’s most famous creation, Puff the Magic Dragon.

You’re listening to Pete Seeger, one of America’s authentic minstrels, whose birthday it is today.

You’re hearing a little from a recent and the first recording of a piano composition called the “Oliver Galop” that was written in 1861 by Thomas Wiggins when he was about twelve years old.