borrowed their typic sound in their song „ The One I Love“ 1986, Tom Petty used elements of the sound, e.g. In the late eighties, the sound had a great comeback: R.E.M. But the inspiration of the Byrds lasted until nowadays. Also other bands introduced elements of the Folksong style and a list of bands adopted Folkrock like Lovin’ Spoonful, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, and finally also Neil Young. And this rock version became the first no.1 hit single of Simon & Garfunkel and also initiated their career. This original folk song of Paul Simon, which was never a success in the acoustic version, was in 1965 overdubbed with guitar, bass and drums mainly played in the Byrds style. In 1965, also Simon & Garfunkel had their first big single hit with „ Sounds of Silence“. and the Beatles first adopted the typical Byrds-sound on their „ Rubber Soul“ of late 1965: On the song „ If I needed Someone“, the guitar-Intro of George Harrison is exactly the same as on the Byrds song „ Bells of Rhymney“, which originally was a traditional Welsh Folk song, brought to the audience by Pete Seeger („ Bells of Rhymney„). The Byrds and the Beatles met in Summer 1965 in L.A. Tambourine Man“ would surely be another top-candidate for the „First Classic Rock Song“ during the sixties.įollowing their first hit, the Byrds strongly influence many other Bands during the mid-1960ies until today. There are a few other candidates to it, however, to me „ Mr. The answer is probably something in between „ Ticket to Ride“ or „ Help“ from the Beatles, „ I can’t get no satisfaction“ of the Stones or „ Break on through“ (or other songs) from the Doors debut album. (A bit philosophical, I know, however, I like the idea of the first rock song…). So to me, it is also an interesting question, who invented the „Classic Rock“-sound and produced the first „Classic Rock“-song ever. If we nowadays listen to early Rock’n Roll of the 50ties and 60ties and even to the early Beatles records, the sound is still far away from Classic Rock style, which is still used nowadays. However, the founding element of the Byrds sound is the special „jingle-jangle“ guitar-sound of the electric 12-string Rickenbacker, which was introduced by the Roger McGuinn and which we can still find in many more recent songs.
Tambourine Man such a success: With the electric Rickenbacker 360 12-string guitar, a heavy bass and sophisticated voices arrangements, the Byrds adopted the Beatles sound and created a unique Rock-style, which was called „Folkrock“. So now why was their music style and especially Mr. „ Chimes of Freedom„) but also some songs from band members. Tambourine Man“ was also a huge success and has been still regarded by critics as on of their best album and included other Dylan Songs (e.g. Tambourin Men“ appeared in April 1965, entered in the US Billboard Top 100 Charts on May 15, 1965, and finally became No.1 on June 26, 1965. Producer Terry Melcher had a strong influence on the band on those records and he also strongly contributed to the success of the first albums. The song was partly recorded by session musicians, because the Byrds at that time were not very experienced in studio recording and also had a rather poor live performance (you can guess from some of their early videos on youtube…). Tambourine Man – a psychedelic Dylan Song with subtle anti-war lyrics – was recorded in early 1965.
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