''Album 1700'' is the seventh studio album by American folk music trio

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, released in 1967. It produced the band's most successful and final hit, a recording of the

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song "

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". The album peaked at number 15 on ''

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'' magazine's Top LP chart and was nominated for a

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in the Best Folk Performance category. ''Album 1700'' was so named because its original LP issue was

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catalog number W-1700 for the mono version and WS-1700 for the stereo version. It stayed on the charts and rose again in 1969, thanks to the single release of "Leaving on a Jet Plane". The song "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog" was written by Leslie Braunstein, who was the original lead singer of Soft White Underbelly, the band that became

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. The song was later adapted into a children's book and recorded by

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and

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for the Disney children's album ''Goin' Quackers''.

Cover art

The cover is styled after one of the promotional photographs for the movie ''

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'' that showed the gang holding machine guns. It was taken at 70 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City.

Track listing

# "Rolling Home" (

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) – 3:31 # "

" (

) – 3:30 # "Weep for Jamie" (

Peter Yarrow Peter Yarrow (May 31, 1938 – January 7, 2025) was an American singer and songwriter who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk music, folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. Yarrow co-wrote (with Lenny Lipton ...

)– 4:12 # "No Other Name" (

Paul Stookey Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30, 1937) is an American singer-songwriter and activist who is known for being a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary along with Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers. He has been known by his first name, N ...

) – 2:31 # "The House Song" (Paul Stookey, Robert Bannard) – 4:18 # "The Great Mandella (The Wheel of Life)" (

) – 4:45 # " I Dig Rock and Roll Music" (Paul Stookey, James Mason, Dave Dixon) – 2:33 # "If I Had Wings" (Peter Yarrow, Susan Yardley) – 2:22 # "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog" (Leslie Braunstein) – 2:08 # "Whatshername" (Paul Stookey, Dave Dixon, Richard Kniss) – 3:27 # " Bob Dylan's Dream" (

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) – 4:01 # "The Song Is Love" (Dave Dixon, Richard Kniss, Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers) – 2:44

Personnel

;Peter, Paul & Mary *

– vocals; solo vocal on "If I Had Wings"; guitar;

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on "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Weep for Jamie" * Noel "Paul" Stookey – vocals; solo vocal on "Whatshername"; guitar; 12-string guitar on "Rolling Home", "The House Song" and "The Song Is Love" *

Mary Travers Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. Travers grew up amid the burgeoning folk sce ...

– vocals; solo vocal on "No Other Name" with: * Howard Collins - guitar * Paul Griffin - organ on "Weep for Jamie" * Morris Wechslier - piano * Harvey Brooks - bass * Richard Kniss - wood bass solo on "Whatshername" *

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- bass *

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- harmonica on "Rolling Home" * Chuck Beale ( The Paupers) - guitar * Adam Mitchell (The Paupers) - guitar * Denny Gerrard (The Paupers) - bass *

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(The Paupers) - drums *

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(

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) - guitar on "The House Song" * Karl Herreshoff (Paul Winter Consort) - guitar on "The House Song" * John Beal (Paul Winter Consort) - bass on "The House Song" * Gene Murrow (Paul Winter Consort) -

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on "The House Song" *

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(Paul Winter Consort) - saxophone on "The House Song" * Virgil Scott (Paul Winter Consort) -

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on "The House Song" * Richard Bock (Paul Winter Consort) - cello on "The House Song"

Production notes

* Milton Okun – producer *

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– engineer * Don Hahn – associate engineer

Chart positions

References

{{Authority control Peter, Paul and Mary albums 1967 albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Albert Grossman Albums produced by Milt Okun