Roger McGuinn (the lead vocalist on the track).The Byrds also named their second album after this track, i.e. “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, which was put out by Columbia Records. At the time the band, which hails from L.A., was held down by these musicians: In addition to that, it fared okay on the UK Singles Chart. Overall, it can be counted as one of The Byrds’ most-successful singles. It also achieved the same feat on the US Cash Box Top 100. The song also proved to be a chart topper in Canada and New Zealand. For instance, their version topped the Billboard Hot 100. However, it was The Byrds’ version, which was released on 1 October 1965, that proved to be a hit. This song dates back to the late 1950s as penned by Pete Seeger (1919-2014), who was a prominent musician of his day. The first group to officially drop a rendition “Turn! Turn! Turn!” was a folk act known as The Limeliters in 1962. Release Date of “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” So yes, there is a lot of, shall we say existential musing going on in this piece. But the conclusive message is along the lines that not only can peace be attained, but also, by implication, it is something that we should strive towards. And again, even as pertinent as that message may be here and now, it was something many people really needed to hear in the 1960s, fresh after World War II and at a time when the world-leading United States may have seemed to some as if it would implode. Indeed one of the modifications to the original Biblical reading that this song makes is mentioning the “time for peace” phrase twice, though it only appears once in Ecclesiastes. In fact it concludes with that term, followed by the term “it’s not too late”, the latter being something, with the latter not appearing in Ecclesiastes at all. there being “a time of peace” and “of love” also. the likes of hippies) would have been glad to hear, i.e. That is to say that this song was released smack dab in the middle of the 1960s which, outside of the Civil War era itself, can perhaps be deemed the generally-contentious decade in American history. What the lyrics posit most notably in that regard is that yes, there is “a time of war”, which was something listeners were well aware of, as the United States was engaged in the controversial Vietnam at the time. But the audience was also treated to an idea that many (i.e.
lyrics that had already, if you will, been in circulation for two millennia prior to this song dropping. But it has been ascertained that one of the reasons The Byrds’ rendition of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” became a hit, besides for the colorful way in which they arranged the folk tune, was due to the internal state of America at the time. So what we are dealing with here more specifically is the beginning of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes, i.e. For example, Peter Seeger, the writer of this song, admitted that he was far from what you would call a Bible man himself, though he was feeling some parts of the Good Book, such as this one.
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