Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in February, 1967 (see 1967 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2642 in mono, CS 9442 in stereo. It peaked at #24 on the Billboard Albums chart during a stay of 24 weeks, and reached #37 in the United Kingdom. The band released a preceding single from the album, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star", on January 9, 1967 which reached #29...
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Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in February, 1967 (see 1967 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2642 in mono, CS 9442 in stereo. It peaked at #24 on the Billboard Albums chart during a stay of 24 weeks, and reached #37 in the United Kingdom. The band released a preceding single from the album, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star", on January 9, 1967 which reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Two additional singles were taken from the album, "My Back Pages" and "Have You Seen Her Face", which reached #30 and #74 on the Billboard chart respectively. None of the singles taken from the album charted in the United Kingdom. "My Back Pages" is notable for being the last single release by The Byrds to break into the Top 40 in the United States.
Recording sessions for the album were produced by Brian Wilson's former musical collaborator, Gary Usher, who would go on to produce the band's next two albums as...
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