THE BYRDS TURN,TURN,TURN INSANELY RARE ORIG '66 WHITE LABEL PROMO 7" ON RED WAX

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·       THE BYRDS – TURN, TURN, TURN – ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1966 PROMOTIONAL-ONLY SAME-SIDED (SAME TRACK ON BOTH SIDES) WHITE LABEL PROMO 45rpm SINGLE PRESSED ON RED VINYL –ORIGINAL COLUMBIA MONO SINGLE 4-43424

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

***PROMO-ONLY RED VINYL PRESSING ***

·       TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, NO CUSTOM PICTURE SLEEVE HAS EVER BEEN PRODUCED FOR  THIS TITLE

·       ORIGINAL COLUMBIA SINGLES LABEL, MID-'60s STYLE, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS (ALBEIT WITH MINOR WRITING ON BOTH LABELS, AND TWO SMALL STICKER STAINS ON ONE OF THE LABELS)

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1AA/1E'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

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Pete Seeger was more of a song collector than a songwriter, and his occasional compositions usually are steeped in folk tradition even when they are not actually adapted from other sources. Sometime in the 1950s, Seeger took several verses from The Bible's Book of Ecclesiastes (chapter 3, verses 1-8), adapted them slightly, added the folky refrain "Turn, turn, turn," and set them to a simple melody he later self-deprecatingly compared to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." He sent the resulting song to his publisher and no doubt performed it now and then, but he didn't record it until July 1962, at the Bitter End nightclub in New York City -- the performance was released by Columbia Records that November as the LP The Bitter and the Sweet. Even before then, however, it had been released by the Limeliters on their album Folk Matinee under the title "To Everything There Is a Season (Turn! Turn! Turn!)." The Limeliters' backup guitarist was Jim (later Roger) McGuinn, who remembered the song a little over a year later when he was backing Judy Collins at the sessions for her third album, Judy Collins #3 (1964) and made a lovely arrangement of the song that altered the melody slightly at the words "turn, turn, turn," to make the tone more upbeat, and gave the song a lilting rhythm. A year after that, McGuinn was in the Byrds, the seminal folk-rock group who had topped the charts in the summer of 1965 with Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," but then stumbled with its follow-up, Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do," which barely made the Top 40 due to a competing version by Cher. As the group cast about for a third single, McGuinn suggested "Turn! Turn! Turn!," which had a lyrical message that couldn't have been more timely as the Vietnam War continued to heat up. (Seeger had added to the Biblical phrase "a time for peace" the words "I swear it's not too late.") McGuinn adapted his Judy Collins arrangement with a modified samba rhythm, played his guitar part on his 12-string Rickenbacker, and added the Byrds' harmonies; the result was magical. (Even Seeger, no great fan of rock & roll, liked it.) "Turn! Turn! Turn!" shot up the charts, becoming the Byrds' second number one and the biggest hit of their career by December 1965. Already a folk standard by then, the song was recorded by many other performers in the wake of the Byrds' version, but the hit recording tended to depress the proliferation of other covers over the long term (as well as obscure the earlier versions), so that, while "Turn! Turn! Turn!" remains a familiar song, it is closely linked with McGuinn's masterful arrangement and the Byrds' unforgettable recording.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMANN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were routinely distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as 4 months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title – A MOOT POINT IN THIS CASE, AS THIS RECORD WAS NEVER RELEASED COMMERCIALLY.

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·       CONDITION:

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, NOT play-graded!)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++ (ONE SIDE IS SLIGHTLY NICER THAN THE OTHER) A few light abrasions  ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly  insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          PLEASE NOTE:  This - of course - is an ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital, newly mastered recording!!!

·       SLEEVE : The record comes without custom picture sleeve, and will be shipped in a plain, generic , stock Columbia sleeve (not separately graded, but in a very nice condition overall

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