![]() However, ‘Turn! Turn! Turn! still remains a bonafide classic that provides a glimpse of how things could have turned out for the band if the inner band relationships didn’t turn sour leading to a revolving door of lineup changes over the next few years. The song would then see The Byrds get lifted up to a pedestal where they were seen as being on the same level as The Beatles and The Beach Boys which they could never quite live up to. “I came out with that samba beat, and we thought it would make a good single.” The master recording of the song reportedly took the band a staggering 78 takes over five days to get right but boy did they nail it. I couldn’t do it as it was traditionally,” McGuinn later explained. “It was a standard folk song by that time, but I played it and it came out rock ‘n’ roll because that’s what I was programmed to do like a computer. When he then played the track, it was nothing like the original folk song and instead was in the style of The Byrds which made McGuinn feel compelled to get the band into the studio to record their take on the track-but little did he expect for it to become a number one single and the title track on their next record. The idea of reviving the song came to McGuinn during The Byrds’ tour of the American Midwest in July 1965, a time when his then-girlfriend and future wife, Dolores, requested to hear the song whilst on the tour bus. All those clanging, steel guitars – they sound like bells,” the songwriter noted. I liked The Byrds’ record very much, incidentally. And I got a letter from him the next week that said, ‘Wonderful! Just what I’m looking for.’ Within two months he’d sold it to the Limelighters and then to the Byrds. This is the only kind of song I know how to write.’ I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket and improvised a melody to it in fifteen minutes. “I sat down with a tape recorder and said, ‘I can’t write the kind of songs you want,” he added. “I got a letter from my publisher, and he says, ‘Pete, I can’t sell these protest songs you write.’ And I was angry,” Pete Seeger said in the book Songwriters on Songwriting in 1988 about the origin of the track. Turn is the second studio album by American rock band the Byrds, released on December 6, 1965, by Columbia Records. The song became an international hit in late 1965 when it was adapted by the American folk rock group the Byrds. That said, The Byrds’ brand of psychedelic jangly folk-tinged rock brought something out of the track that was missing from the other versions. The Byrds - Have You Seen Her Face (Audio) Chords: D Bm B E A Em 4:30 CROSBY, MCGUINN and HILLMAN performing TURN, TURN, TURN. For Collins’ version, McGuinn renamed the track to ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ but both other versions of the track were good folk songs in their own right.
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