Blowin' in the Wind Trio, but their record company delayed release of the album containing it because the song included the word "death", so the trio lost out to Peter, Paul and Mary, who were represented by Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman. The single sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies in the first week of release and made the song world-famous. On August 17, 1963, it reached number two on the "Billboard" pop chart, with sales exceeding one million copies. Peter Yarrow recalled that, when he told Dylan he would make more than $5,000 () from the publishing rights, Dylan was speechless. Peter, Paul and Mary's
Blow in the Wind Blow in the Wind Blow in the Wind is the third album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 2001 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label. "Blow in the Wind" features several tracks which are led off with musical mash-ups of, or homages to, classic Punk songs, a trend the group began on their second album, "Are a Drag" (with an appropriation of "Generator" by Bad Religion for their cover of "My Favorite Things") and would continue with "Take a Break" and "Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah": "Sloop John B" samples "Teenage Lobotomy" by The Ramones, "Elenor"