In the Wind In the Wind In the Wind is the third album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in October 1963, a few months before the arrival of the Beatles heralded the British Invasion (see 1963 in music). It was reissued on audio CD in 1990. The lead-off single of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" sold a phenomenal three hundred thousand copies in the first week of release. On July 13, 1963, it reached number two on the "Billboard" pop chart, with sales exceeding one million copies. It spent five weeks atop the easy listening chart.
Bob Porter (record producer) Bob Porter (record producer) Bob Porter (born June 20, 1940) is an American record producer, discographer, writer, and radio presenter. He has been responsible for reissuing many classic blues and jazz recordings, and in 2009 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Porter was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Since the 1960s he has produced over 200 albums of jazz and blues music, first for Prestige Records where he also wrote liner notes, in the 1960s, then as reissue producer for Savoy Records, 1975–80, and then Atlantic Records, 1986–91. He has subsequently worked for many other record labels. It has