Turn! Turn! Turn! (Album) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second album by the folk rock band The Byrds and was released in December 1965 on Columbia Records (see 1965 in music). Like its predecessor, Mr. Tambourine Man, the album epitomized the folk rock genre and continued the band's successful mix of vocal harmony and jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar. The album's lead single and title track, "Turn! Turn! Turn!," was a Pete Seeger adaptation of text from the Book of Ecclesiastes that had previously been arranged in a chamber-folk style by the band's lead guitarist Jim McGuinn, while working with folksinger Judy Collins. The arrangement that McGuinn used for The Byrds' version utilized the same strident folk rock style as the band's previous hit singles. The album peaked at #17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and went to #11 in the United Kingdom. The "Turn! Turn! Turn!" single preceded the album by two months and topped the chart in the United States.