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The Byrds release their second album, Turn! Turn! Turn! In the USA on Columbia Records. The album includes two Bob Dylan songs, The Times They Are A-Changin' and Lay Down Your Weary Tune. Full article:
Roger McGuinn (The Byrds] : I love that song (She Don't Care About Time), I really do. I don't know why that never got on. That was for the Turn Turn Turn album, right? I think we had enough stuff already … except that I'm not too happy with the last four cuts of that album. I'm sorry about Oh Susanna. That was a joke, but it didn't come off, it was poorly told. It was a private joke between Dylan and I, actually.
I was riffing with this song - we were trying to rock anything and Stephen Foster was a funny thing to rock with. Dylan said, "Yeah, you gotta do that on your next album, right?" He didn't really think I would. He didn't think I had the guts to do it so I said, "OK" and I did it. It was a bomb. As far as I was concerned it didn't come out well. We could have done it much better. If we had, it would have been funny.
Tom Petty : You’d go and see some other kid whose hair was long, this was around 65, and go, ‘Wow, there’s one like me.’ You’d go over and talk and he’d say, ‘I’ve got a drum set.’ ‘You do? Great!’ That was my whole life.
(Source : interview in 1989)
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I was riffing with this song - we were trying to rock anything and Stephen Foster was a funny thing to rock with. Dylan said, "Yeah, you gotta do that on your next album, right?" He didn't really think I would. He didn't think I had the guts to do it so I said, "OK" and I did it. It was a bomb. As far as I was concerned it didn't come out well. We could have done it much better. If we had, it would have been funny.
Tom Petty : You’d go and see some other kid whose hair was long, this was around 65, and go, ‘Wow, there’s one like me.’ You’d go over and talk and he’d say, ‘I’ve got a drum set.’ ‘You do? Great!’ That was my whole life.
(Source : interview in 1989)