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The Birds were an English rhythm and blues band, formed in 1964 in London. They recorded fewer than a dozen songs and released only four singles . Starting out with a hard R&B sound, they later began infusing it with Motown -style vocal harmonies. [ 1 ]
The Byrds (/ b ɜːr d z /) were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. [1] The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (known as Jim McGuinn until mid-1967) being the sole consistent member. [2]
The Byrds' Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in August 1967 on Columbia Records. [1] It is the top-selling album in the Byrds' catalogue and reached number 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, but failed to chart in the UK.
The bulk of the band's releases were issued on Columbia Records or its subsidiaries, except their final studio album, Byrds, and its associated singles, which Asylum Records released in 1973. [2] Before signing a recording contract with Columbia, the band released a single with Elektra Records in 1964 under the name the Beefeaters .
Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on June 21, 1965, by Columbia Records. [1] The album is characterized by the Byrds' signature sound of Jim McGuinn's [nb 2] 12-string Rickenbacker guitar and the band's complex harmony singing. [2]
The song became a staple of the band's live concert repertoire until their final disbandment in 1973. [40] A sixteen-minute live version of "Eight Miles High" was included on the Byrds' (Untitled) album in 1970, [ 41 ] and another live version was released as part of the 2008 album, Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 . [ 42 ]
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...
Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on February 6, 1967, by Columbia Records. [1] [2] It saw the band continuing to integrate elements of psychedelia and jazz into their music, a process they had begun on their previous album, Fifth Dimension.