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
The Settlers (band) Records, 1967) included Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Mr Tambourine Man" and such folk standards as "The Wreck of the Old 97". "Call Again" for (Marble Arch Records, 1968) collected the group's singles output for Pye Records, and was released after they had left that record label. "Settlers Alive" for (Columbia Records, 1970) was recorded live at Queen Elizabeth Hall the previous year, whilst "Sing a New Song" (Myrrh, 1972), had a strongly religious component. "Lightning Tree" (York, 1972), which, in addition to the title hit, included extracts, spoken by Cindy Kent, from Martin Luther King’s famous "I