Top singles from the past…
5 December 2020
Band: THE BYRDS (Los Angeles)
Active: 1964–1973; 1989–1991 and 2000
Single: TURN! TURN! TURN!
Written by Pete Seeger
Score: No 1 on the US Singles Chart 55 years ago today
C’mon, birds…
THE BYRDS: Facebook
27 August 2020
Veteran alt-rockers YO LA TENGO from New Jersey just announced a new EP called SLEEPLESS NIGHT, with covers of five of their favorite songs. One of Bob Dylan, The Flying Machine, The Delmore Brothers, Ronnie Lane, and The Byrds and one new track of their own.
The covers were all initially released as part of a limited-edition catalog for a Los Angeles Country Museum Of Art retrospective of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara who assisted the band to choose the five covers.
You can hear here their take on THE BYRDS‘ ballad I WASN’T BORN TO FOLLOW, co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, which was part of the soundtrack of the classic movie Easy Rider…
The original…
YO LA TENGO: Facebook
Top singles from the past…
24 July 2020
Band: The Byrds (Los Angeles)
Active: 1964-1973, 1989-1991, 2000
Single: Mr. Tambourine Man
Written by: Bob Dylan
B-side: I’d Knew I’d Want You
Released: 21 June 1965
Score: No 1 in the UK 24 July 1965 – 55 years ago
Album: Mr. Tambourine Man – debut LP
Sing it…
Master Bob…
THE BYRDS: Facebook
Great concert posters from the past…
THE BYRDS / THE DOORS
Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood, Los Angeles
May 1967
Knockouts from the past…
26 June 2019
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
