This Song was the Byrds’ 8th Single, recorded on 28-30 November and 1 December 1966, and released on 9 January 1967, sarcastically written after being influenced by the debut of the Monkees in September. This song made it to 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first Byrds’ song to feature brass, with a trumpet played by South African musician Hugh Masekela.

I decided to include Chris Hillman’s bass part on this song, as it’s quite quick and bursting with energy, acting like glue to the other instruments by stitching the 12 string phrasing together. I think the bass part of the whole Younger Than Yesterday album are some of Chris Hillman’s best, and I’ll plan to include them when doing other songs from this album. (Note the youtube channel infusion26 has also done a bass cover of this song, but it is somewhat simplified from what Chris actually plays. He has the two main riffs right, but the transition between these is different in each section of the song. I believe I have this right for the most part during the first 90 seconds of the song, but there is one more transitional phrase on the bass which I could not figure out and I left it out.)

Roger McGuinn plays a fairly simple but memorable circular riff on the Rickenbacker 12 string, and then adds guitar passages which are probably derived a bit from both Ravi Shankar’s and John Coltrane’s playing on their respective instruments.

David Crosby’s Guitar part (played on a Gretsch Country Gentleman on their lip-sync of the song on Drop In) is very simple, only consisting of four chords and a consistent strumming pattern; I imagine Crosby did not contribute very much to this song.

The current request list is as follows:

The Hollies - Crusader
The Beatles - She Said She Said
The Hollies – I Can’t Let Go
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
The Zombies – She Does Everything For Me
The Zombies – You Make Me Feel Good
The Hollies – I’m Alive
The Beatles – What You’re Doing

Feel free to comment your song requests, and to ask any questions you have about chords or notes. Thanks for watching!

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