Turn! Turn! Turn! (album)

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Turn! Turn! Turn!
Studio album by The Byrds
Released	December 6, 1965
Recorded	August 23–November 1, 1965
Genre	Rock
Length	30:24
Label	Columbia/Legacy
Producer(s)	Terry Melcher
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The Byrds chronology
Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)	Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)	Fifth Dimension (1966)

Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second album by the folk-rock band The Byrds, released 1965 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2454 in mono, CS 9254 in stereo. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and went to #11 in the United Kingdom. The single of the same name preceded the album by two months, and topped the singles chart in the States. Another single taken from the LP, "Set You Free This Time," peaked at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Like its predecessor "Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn! Turn! Turn! epitomised the folk-rock genre, continuing the successful mix of vocal harmony and jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker electric guitar from Roger McGuinn. The lead single and title track, a Pete Seeger adaptation of text from the Book of Ecclesiastes, had been arranged earlier by McGuinn in a chamber-folk style, when he had worked with singer Judy Collins^[1] - his arrangement for the Byrds version used the strident folk-rock style of the band's previous hits. The band chose two more Dylan covers for the album, The Times They Are a-Changin' and a previously unreleased song, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune". McGuinn had increased his songwriting output, David Crosby received his first writing credit, but the prolific Clark still contributed most of the Byrds' originals. Chris Hillman suggested the cover of "Satisfied Mind," a country and western chart-topper for Porter Wagoner in 1955, the first sign of the band's interest in country music, and as on the previous LP, Turn! ended with a tongue-in-cheek number, this time a send-up of Stephen Foster's 19th century classic, "Oh! Susannah," arranged by McGuinn.

This would be the last full Byrds album to feature the participation of Gene Clark until the ill-fated reunion album of the original quintet, in 1973.

Turn! Turn! Turn! was remixed and remastered at 20-bit resolution as part of the Columbia/Legacy Byrds series, reissued in an expanded form on April 30, 1996, with seven bonus tracks, including three alternates and the Clark b-side "She Don't Care About Time".

Contents 1 Personnel 2 Track listing 2.1 1996 reissue bonus tracks 3 Release history 4 References 4.1 Notes

[edit] Personnel

• Roger McGuinn, vocals, guitars
• Gene Clark, vocals, tambourine
• David Crosby, vocals, guitars
• Chris Hillman, vocals, bass
• Michael Clarke, drums

[edit] Track listing

1. "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is A Season)" (Ecclesiastes/Seeger) – 3:49
2. "It Won't Be Wrong" (McGuinn/Gerst) – 1:58
3. "Set You Free This Time" (Clark) – 2:49
4. "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (Dylan) – 3:30
5. "He Was a Friend of Mine" (trad. arr. McGuinn) – 2:30
6. "The World Turns All Around Her" (Clark) – 2:13
7. "Satisfied Mind" (Red Hayes/Jack Rhodes) – 2:26
8. "If You're Gone" (Clark) – 2:45
9. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (Dylan) – 2:18
10. "Wait and See" (McGuinn/Crosby) – 2:19
11. "Oh! Susannah" (Foster) – 3:03

[edit] 1996 reissue bonus tracks

1. "The Day Walk (Never Before)" (Clark) – 3:00
2. "She Don’t Care About Time" (Clark) – 2:29 (single b-side)
3. "The Times They Are A-Changin’" (Dylan) (first version) – 1:54 (first version)
4. "It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 3:03 (first version)
5. "She Don’t Care About Time" (Clark) – 2:35 (first version)
6. "The World Turns All Around Her" (Clark) – 2:12 (alternate mix)
7. "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Crosby) – 3:04 (instrumental)

[edit] Release history

Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Country	Notes
December 6, 1965	Columbia	LP	CL 2454	US	Original mono issue.
December 6, 1965	Columbia	LP	CS 9254	US	Original stereo issue.*
October 25, 1990	Columbia	CD	CK 9254	US	First issue on CD. Contains the original stereo mix of the whole album.*
April 30, 1996	Columbia/Legacy	CD	CK 64846	US	Reissue. Contains a stereo remix of the entire album.* Contains seven bonus tracks.
May 6, 1996	Columbia/Legacy	CD	COL 483706 2	UK	Reissue. Contains a stereo remix of the entire album.* Contains seven bonus tracks.
* The album's title track was never mixed into stereo and appears in mono on all stereo releases of the album.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

The Byrds
Roger McGuinn | Chris Hillman | David Crosby | Gene Clark | Michael Clarke Gram Parsons | Kevin Kelley | Clarence White | Gene Parsons | John York | Skip Battin
Discography
Studio albums: Mr. Tambourine Man | Turn! Turn! Turn! | Fifth Dimension | Younger Than Yesterday | The Notorious Byrd Brothers | Sweetheart of the Rodeo | Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde | Ballad of Easy Rider | (Untitled) | Byrdmaniax | Farther Along | Byrds
Live albums: Live at the Fillmore - February 1969
Compilations: The Byrds' Greatest Hits | The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II | The Byrds Play Dylan | The Essential Byrds
Box Sets: The Byrds