Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut album by the American folk-rock band The Byrds and was released in June 1965 (see 1965 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2372 in mono, CS 9172 in stereo. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Albums chart, during a stay of 38 weeks, and reached #7 in the United Kingdom. The Bob Dylan penned single of the same name, "Mr. Tambourine Man", had been released on April 12, 1965, and went to #1 on both the Billb...
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Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut album by the American folk-rock band The Byrds and was released in June 1965 (see 1965 in music) on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2372 in mono, CS 9172 in stereo. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Albums chart, during a stay of 38 weeks, and reached #7 in the United Kingdom. The Bob Dylan penned single of the same name, "Mr. Tambourine Man", had been released on April 12, 1965, and went to #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.K. chart. A second single from the album, "All I Really Want to Do", also a Dylan cover, peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 but fared better in the United Kingdom, where it reached #4.
The "Mr. Tambourine Man" single instantly established the band on both sides of the Atlantic, introducing the new genre of folk rock. The single's most distinctive features were the vocal harmonies of Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn and David Crosby, as well as McGuinn's jangling twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar playing (which complemented...
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