Pete Seeger's 'Turn, Turn, Turn' By The Byrds- Happy B.Day Pete

[appalachiablue]

- 1965. No. 1 US Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 Canada, No. 26 UK Singles Charts. The lyrics were taken from a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) in The Bible. They were rearranged & paired with Seeger's music to make the song. Seeger explained: "I don't read the Bible that often. I leaf through it occasionally & I'm amazed by the foolishness at times & the wisdom at other times. I call it the greatest book of folklore ever given. Not that there isn't a lot of wisdom in it. You can trace the history of people poetically."

When The Byrds started working on this song, Roger McGuinn & David Crosby devised a new arrangement of Seeger's original, but it took the band over 50 tries to get the sound right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Huh, always thought that was a Bob Zimmerman tune.

Learn something new every day.....

[appalachiablue]

2. Recorded by many including Judy Collins, 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn!_Turn!_Turn!

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Saturday Before Last...

...I was listening to WDRV on the way to the course.
They have a 2 hour acoustic show on Saturday mornings and they had a live version of McGuinn on a 12 string doing this song solo.
I didn't catch what year it was from, though. His voice sounded "older". (As a 64 year old singer, I know what that sounds like! LOL!)
It was really good.