784 The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn!” 1965

“If anyone doubted the Byrds’ supremacy as one of the biggest acts in popular music, they couldn’t now. One number-one record might have been considered a fluke, but the Byrds seemed to posses the magic touch. The band’s twelve-string approach had suddenly become the sound of the season. Time magazine went as far as to credit the Byrds with inventing an entirely new musical movement called ‘folk rock,’ and throughout 1965 it seemed that just about everyone and their mother was releasing a jingle jangly folk rock record” (Rick Menck, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, 2007).

The Byrds “Turn Turn Turn”