Turn! Turn! Turn!

Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second album by the folk-rock band The Byrds, released in December 1965 (see 1965 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2454 in mono, CS 9254 in stereo. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard 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 United States. Another single taken from the LP, "Set You Free This Time" (b... more

Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second album by the folk-rock band The Byrds, released in December 1965 (see 1965 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2454 in mono, CS 9254 in stereo. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard 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 United States. Another single taken from the LP, "Set You Free This Time" (b/w "It Won't Be Wrong"), 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 Jim McGuinn's jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker electric guitar. 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. McGuinn's arrangement for the Byrds' version used the same strident folk... less