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Thread #148781 Message #3458290
Posted By: Ron Davies
28-Dec-12 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: The Byrds... Your favorite songs
Subject: RE: The Byrds... Your favorite song...
Yeah, My Back Pages was great--love to hear them sing: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
Bells of Rhymney perfectly fit the jangling guitars.
So many of their hits were fun to sing along with: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn, Turn Turn, So You Want to Be A Rock n Roll Star, etc.
All those songs about telling you how to become a rock n roll star were real fun-- like Bobby Bare's All American Boy, also. Sure was easy to become a rock star--you could do it in 2 1/2 minutes. Course Bobby Bare had to give up his guitar for a rifle. The Byrds didn't make you do that.