Mariah Carey from the song "They Call the Wind Maria", originally from the 1951 Broadway musical "Paint Your Wagon." When Carey was three, her parents divorced. After their separation, Alison moved in with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and brother Morgan, remained with their mother. Carey would grow apart from her father, and would later stop seeing him altogether. By the age of four, Carey recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, and just sing and try to find peace within the music. During elementary school, she excelled in subjects that she
They Call the Wind Maria 100 Western songs of all time. The song gained renewed popularity during the American folk music revival. In 1959, it was included on the Kingston Trio's first live album, "...From the Hungry i", which reached #2 on the Billboard Pop chart and won a RIAA gold record in 1960. It was also included on the Smothers Brothers first album, "The Songs and Comedy of the Smothers Brothers! Recorded at the Purple Onion, San Francisco", released in 1961. Other folk singers who performed the song include Josh White and Burl Ives. Musical historian John Bush Jones wrote that the song "so