Editing Blowin' in the Wind (section)

==Peter, Paul and Mary recording==
{{Infobox song
| name       = Blowin' in the Wind
| cover      = Blowin in the Wind PPM.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Peter, Paul and Mary]]
| album      = [[In the Wind]]
| B-side     = Flora
| released   = 1963
| recorded   = 1963
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = 
* [[Folk music|Folk]]
* [[Pop music|pop]]<ref name="Number Ones 2022">{{cite book|last= Breihan|first= Tom|chapter= The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man|date= November 15, 2022|title= The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music|publisher=[[Hachette Book Group]]|location= New York|page= 75}}</ref>
| length     = 2:53
| label      = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| writer     = Bob Dylan
| producer   = [[Albert Grossman]]
| prev_title = Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)"
| prev_year  = 1963
| next_title = [[Don't Think Twice, It's All Right]]
| next_year  = 1963
}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Blowin' in the Wind
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Marianne Faithfull]]
| album      =
| B-side     = [[The House of the Rising Sun]]
| released   = 1964
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Decca Records|Decca]]
| writer     = Bob Dylan
| producer   = Andrew Loog Oldham
| prev_title = [[As Tears Go By (song)|As Tears Go By]]
| prev_year  = 1964
| next_title = [[Come and Stay With Me]]
| next_year  = 1965
}}

The most commercially successful version is by [[folk music]] trio [[Peter, Paul and Mary]], who released the song in June 1963, three weeks after ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' was issued. [[Albert Grossman]], then managing both Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, brought the trio the song which they promptly recorded (on a single take) and released.<ref name=pc19>{{Pop Chronicles |19| 3| Peter Yarrow}}</ref> The trio's version, which was the title track of their third album, peaked at number two on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] behind "[[Fingertips]]" by [[Stevie Wonder]].<ref>Gray. ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia''. p. 63.</ref> The group's version also went to number one on the [[Hot Adult Contemporary|Middle-Road]] charts for five weeks.<ref>{{Citation|title=Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|author-link=Joel Whitburn|year=2002|publisher=Record Research|page=192}}</ref> ''[[Cash Box]]'' described it as "a medium-paced sailor’s lament sung with feeling and authority by the folk trio."<ref name=cb>{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=June 29, 1963 |page=28 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1963/CB-1963-06-29.pdf |magazine=Cash Box |archive-date=2022-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201193555/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1963/CB-1963-06-29.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1964 at the [[6th Annual Grammy Awards]], Peter, Paul & Mary won two Grammys for "Blowin' in the Wind": [[Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording|Best Folk Recording]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group|Best Performance by a Vocal Group]]. In 2003, Peter, Paul & Mary's version of "Blowin' in the Wind" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter, Paul And Mary |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/peter-paul-and-mary/7938 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#b |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref>

===Chart performance===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1963)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|Canada ([[CHUM Chart]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/63-07-22-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - July 22, 1963}}</ref>
|align="center"|25
|-
|UK Singles ([[The Official Charts Company]])<ref>{{cite web|title=officialcharts.com|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10863/peter%2c-paul-and-mary/|website=officialcharts.com|accessdate=July 20, 2022|archive-date=April 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404115044/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10863/peter%2c-paul-and-mary/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|align="center"|13
|-
|align="left"|US ''Billboard'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Middle-Road]] singles
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
|align="center"|2
|}