1st RECORDING OF: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - Limeliters (1962)
Details
| Title | 1st RECORDING OF: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - Limeliters (1962) |
| Author | The45Prof |
| Duration | 2:10 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=ofnMHuCCp2c |
Description
Pete Seeger had composed the music and adapted the lyrics from the book of Ecclesiastes some years years before this first recorded version appeared in the Limeliters LP “Folk Matinee.” The subsequent folk-rock best-seller by The Byrds https://youtu.be/FfcGyY0LBoI was a late-1965 entry.
The original LP track was issued on RCA Victor 2547 - To Everything There Is A Season (Turn! Turn! Turn!) (adapted by Pete Seeger) by The Limeliters, recorded April 7, 1962
For hundreds of other ‘originals,’ please visit the fascinating playlist “FIRST RECORDING OF THE SONG…” (click here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8kU_D2e4voMCx9SQkXFeSH7CnRO9j7x )
