Fact #89883
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Short story:
The Byrds record the Pete Seeger composition Turn! Turn! Turn! at Columbia Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Full article:
Roger McGuinn (The Byrds] : I'd known that song from listening to Pete Seeger and from working with Judy Collins - I recorded that with her on her third album. And I was on the bus tour with The Byrds and somebody asked if I knew the song, and I started playing it, and it came out in The Byrds' style, rather than the more legato Pete Seeger style, and with different chords. I realised that it sounded good, and we decided to record it.
There was a big gulf between folk and rock at the time and a lot of the really dyed in the wool folkies didn't approve of what we were doing. There was an article by Tom Paxton in Sing Out! Magazine headlined Folk Rot. The attitude was that we were subverting folk music and changing it in a bad way.
I was never really a part of the folk community in that sense. Before I was with The Byrds, I was really an accompanist with the more commercial folk groups, so I had nothing to lose and I didn't worry about that sort of criticism.
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There was a big gulf between folk and rock at the time and a lot of the really dyed in the wool folkies didn't approve of what we were doing. There was an article by Tom Paxton in Sing Out! Magazine headlined Folk Rot. The attitude was that we were subverting folk music and changing it in a bad way.
I was never really a part of the folk community in that sense. Before I was with The Byrds, I was really an accompanist with the more commercial folk groups, so I had nothing to lose and I didn't worry about that sort of criticism.
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