An Engineering Major's Unfinished Poem Became "Puff the Magic Dragon"
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An Engineering Major's Unfinished Poem Became "Puff the Magic Dragon"
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Lenny Lipton was studying electrical engineering at Cornell University when he wrote a poem that turned into a song. That song eventually became a hit, thanks to Lipton's roommate who later became Peter in Peter, Paul and Mary. Find out how all that came about in this short story by Sheldon Zoldan.
Here, you can watch a 1965 recording of Peter, Paul and Mary performing "Puff the Magic Dragon."
The thumbnail photo of Lipton is a self-portrait that Lipton shot with a Pixel 3 phone in 2021. It's available on Wikimedia under the license CC BY-SA 4.0. The artwork framing two sides of the photo was created by Bob Jones.
Song of the Day creator Sheldon Zoldan researched, wrote and narrated this short story, one of 35 tributes to music stars who passed away in 2025. Song of the Day used to be a daily feature delivered to an email list of subscribers. Sheldon ended it in early 2026 which, I suppose, means that Song of the Day also deserves a tribute. The good thing is that the tributes live on.
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