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Thread #99197   Message #1973209
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
19-Feb-07 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Who is Elaina Mezzetti? (PP&M)
Subject: Who is Elaina Mezzetti? (P P & M)
I recently picked up the Peter, Paul and Mary album, Moving, on CD. I loved this album back in the day, and I still do. A couple of odd things about it:

They give some very familiar songs some very unfamiliar names. The song that's usually called Shule Aroon or Buttermilk Hill or Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier, they call it Gone The Rainbow. The song that's usually called Fair and Tender Ladies, they call Tiny Sparrow.

But that's neither here nor there.

They also take credit for a lot of traditional songs. E.g., it says, Gone The Rainbow (Stookey/Travers/Yarrow/Okun). Stookey, Travers, and Yarrow are Peter, Paul, and Mary (though not in that order), and Okun is Milt Okun, their "Musical Director." Well, that was a common practice in the 1960s, and it has been discussed in this forum in detail, and I'm not here to rehash those discussions.

But for 7 of the 12 songs the credits include Mezzetti - in fact, for the song Morning Train, the only credit is Elaina Mezzetti. And that, at long last, brings me to the question I want to raise: who is/was Elaina Mezzetti?