Album 1700


Album 1700 is the seventh studio album by American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1967. It produced the band's most successful and final hit, a cover of the John Denver composition "Leaving on a Jet Plane". The album peaked at number 15 on Billboard magazine's Top LP chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Performance category. Album 1700 was so named because its original LP issue was Warner Bros. Records 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 Blue Öyster Cult. The song was made into a children's book and covered by Willio and Phillio on a Disney children's album.

Cover art

The cover is styled after one of the promotional photographs for the movie Bonnie and Clyde that showed the gang holding machine guns.

Track listing

Side 1
  1. "Rolling Home" – 3:31
  2. "Leaving on a Jet Plane" – 3:30
  3. "Weep for Jamie" – 4:12
  4. "No Other Name" – 2:31
  5. "The House Song" – 4:18
  6. "The Great Mandella " – 4:45
Side 2
  1. "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" – 2:33
  2. "If I Had Wings" – 2:22
  3. "I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog" – 2:08
  4. "Whatshername" – 3:27
  5. "Bob Dylan's Dream" – 4:01
  6. "The Song Is Love" – 2:44

    Personnel

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