Mr. Tambourine Man

THE BYRDS Topped The UK Single Charts Today 60 Years Ago With BOB DYLAN Gem ‘MR. TAMBOURINE MAN’

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Top singles from the past

26 June 2025

L.A.’s legendary nightingale voices THE BYRDSs (1964-1973) scored a big
hit with their cover of tmeless Bob Dylan gem MR. TAMBOURINE MAN.

It reached the top of the UK Singles Chart on 26 June 1965,
this day 60 years ago. It also topped the US, South African
and Irish charts, and was a Top-10 single everywhere else.

“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you”

THE BYRDS

BOB DYLAN

THE BYRDS – No 1 Hit In The USA With MR. TAMBOURINE MAN On 26 June 1966…

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Knockouts from the past…

26 June 2019

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Today 53 years ago, on 26 June 1966, the legendary harmonious Americana choir THE BYRDS scored their first USA number one hit with a cover of BOB DYLAN‘s topper MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (which appeared on his excellent Bringing It All Back Home LP).
The song also peaked on the UK Singles Chart a few weeks later. The Byrds turned the eternal troubadour’s acoustic version into an electrifying classic with jingle jangle guitars as suggested by Dylan’s lyric: “in the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you”.

Here’s the man…

THE BYRDS: Biography

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