Tambourine Man" hit number one at the end of June. On its way up the charts, while the band was performing regularly at Ciro's nightclub on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, Dylan dropped by to blow harp with the band, bolstering their confidence in the process.
Bob Dylan's no-frills original was released on the album Bringing it All Back Home in the spring of '65, about the same time the Byrds' amped version began its climb. There was one exception: McGuinn played a 12-string Rickenbacker that he had obtained after becoming mesmerized by the Beatles' conspicuous affection for the brand.
EIGHT MILES HIGH DAVID CROSBY FULL
Tambourine Man" was recorded under producer Terry Melcher (resident Rip Chords hitmaker and only child of box office superstar Doris Day), with session musicians backing the vocals of the three singers as before, even though they had a full band at the time. The group collectively agreed to change its name The Byrds was chosen as a tribute to the cleverly misspelled Beatles handle. The band signed a contract with Columbia Records in November 1964. He invited Dylan to World Pacific Studios to hear the result and received an energetic endorsement from the song's author. You've got to hand it to Dickson he had connections in the music biz. Tambourine Man," which the band decided to adapt to a rock arrangement in the fall of '64. Manager Jim Dickson (an earlier associate of Crosby's), who had produced the Beefeaters record, got his hands on a Columbia demo disc (that he perhaps smuggled out of the label's offices) of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke were added and the quintet's sound took shape somewhere between American folk and British rock. They ditched the Beefeaters idea and continued as the Jet Set, though records were never made under that name. They were credited as The Beefeaters, a name that would probably have fooled listeners into believing the band was British, but it was a non-issue the single stiffed. It was pressed on Elektra subsidiary Bounty Records before a release on the parent label hit stores in late 1964. "Please Let Me Love You" featured the trio's vocals, backed by studio musicians. He fell in with McGuinn and Clark while frequenting the same haunts before long they were auditioning as the Jet Set for Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman and a single release, under a different name, resulted. boy with family members in the film and music businesses, he'd sung with bandleader Les Baxter's pop group The Balladeers and had done some demo recording in the hope that it would lead to a solo career. David Crosby didn't have to travel very far toward his fate an L.A. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1964, he met McGuinn at West Hollywood's Troubadour nightclub and the two began making music together.
Gene Clark was raised in Kansas City and went into folk music by way of his admiration for The Kingston Trio around 1963 his career took a leap forward when he became a member of The New Christy Minstrels.
music publishing company working out of New York's Brill Building. After brief stints backing The Limeliters and The Chad Mitchell Trio, he was hired by Bobby Darin as a session guitarist, then as a songwriter for Darin's T.M.
Jim McGuinn, a fan of Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers and just about all rock and roll singers of his childhood, began practicing guitar and banjo during his teenage years in Chicago and was playing with various folk groups by the early '60s. Such a blend of styles wasn't even what the three were shooting for (nor were they sure at first where they were headed musically), but The Byrds were perceived that way by industry pros, trade magazines and thus the public at large. artists began to reclaim some of the territory lost to British acts in the wake of The Beatles the previous year. The newly-coined "folk-rock" tag encompassed many singers and songwriters as 1965 progressed and U.S. When Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark and David Crosby formed The Jet Set in 1964, they didn't foresee the explosion of folk-rock acts that would dominate and define the following year, and they certainly didn't expect to be leading the way.
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