The Beefeaters (Byrds) 7" Vinyl Single - Please Let Me Love You / Don`t Be Long
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The Beefeaters (Byrds) 7" Vinyl Single - Please Let Me Love You / Don`t Be Long
The vinyl has some surface marks and plays fine. - Plain white sleeve. Any white spots you may see are dust as the record may need a clean and I do not have the correct cleaning equipment. Please see photograph for overall condition and any questions please ask.
Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger Turn! Turn! Turn!The Beefeaters made just one single in 1964, and were in fact an early version of the Byrds. When the nucleus of the Byrds were struggling to define their sound (and indeed pioneer the folk-rock genre) in 1964, they called themselves the Jet Set. Their manager, Jim Dickson, arranged for them to record a single, more to give them experience than to take a serious crack at a hit. Although drummer Michael Clarke was in the group by this point, only Roger McGuinn (on guitar), Gene Clark (guitar), and David Crosby (harmony vocals) played on the session, filled out by Ray Pohlman on bass and Earl Palmer on drums. "Please Let Me Love You" recalled the early Beatles and Peter & Gordon; the more forceful "Don't Be Long" would be redone on the Byrds' second album, Turn! Turn! Turn!, as "It Won't Be Wrong." Both tracks were embryonic folk-rock, callow but catchy and pleasing.
Dickson placed the single with Elektra Records, then still a label with little experience in rock or the singles market. Elektra Records head Jac Holzman renamed the band the Beefeaters on the single, to give them a British-type image. The single was heard by virtually no one, and the Beefeaters/Jet Set changed their name shortly afterward to the Byrds, signed to Columbia, released "Mr. Tambourine Man," and started making history.
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