THE BYRDS - MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (in colour)
I've colourised the restored video courtesy of Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine ([ Ссылка ]).
It's a playback performance from the Swedish TV show, "Drop In" from 1967 with David Crosby, Jim McGuinn, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke.
Gene Clark had left the band the previous year.
The debut single by THE BYRDS, MR. TAMBOURINE MAN, a cover of the Bob Dylan original, was released on April 12th 1965 by Columbia Records.
The song was also the title track of the band's debut album, Mr. Tambourine Man, which was released two months later.
The Byrds' version was abridged and in a different key from Dylan's original. Although Dylan's version contains four verses, the Byrds only perform the song's second verse and two repeats of the chorus, followed by a variation on the song's introduction, which then fades out.
In early 1964, Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby formed the Jet Set and started developing a fusion of folk-based lyrics and melodies, with arrangements in the style of the Beatles.
In August 1964, the band's manager Jim Dickson acquired an acetate disc of "Mr. Tambourine Man" from Dylan's publisher, featuring a performance by Dylan and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
Although the band members were initially unimpressed with the song, they eventually agreed to begin rehearsing and demoing it. In an attempt to make it sound more like the Beatles, the band and Dickson elected to give the song a full, electric rock band treatment, effectively creating the musical subgenre of folk rock.
To further bolster the group's confidence in the song, Dickson invited Dylan to hear the band's rendition.
Dylan was impressed, enthusiastically commenting, "Wow, you can dance to that!" His endorsement erased any lingering doubts the band had about the song.
During this period, drummer Michael Clarke and bass player Chris Hillman joined, and the band changed their name to the Byrds over Thanksgiving 1964.
The Byrds' recording of the song opens with a distinctive, Bach-inspired guitar introduction played by McGuinn and then, like Dylan's version, goes into the song's chorus.
The song's jangling, melodic guitar playing (performed by McGuinn on a 12-string Rickenbacker guitar) was immediately influential and has remained so to the present day.
Due to producer Terry Melcher's initial lack of confidence in The Byrds' musicianship, McGuinn was the only Byrd to play on both "Mr. Tambourine Man".
Rather than using band members, Melcher hired the Wrecking Crew, a collection of top L.A. session musicians, who (with McGuinn on guitar) provided the backing track over which McGuinn, Crosby, and Clark sang.
The single reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the first recording of a Dylan song to reach number 1 on any pop music chart.
