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TURN, TURN, TURN - BYRDS - 1965



NEWS

• Lyndon Johnson began his first full term as President.

• An American astronaut would step out of his spacecraft for the first time

• The United States put our first full combat troops in a small Asian country called Viet Nam

• War protests heated up with the first of the “Draft Card Burnings”.

• The Watts riots raged for 5 days and killed 30 people.

• This was the first year the U.S. quit using silver in its coins.

• The first commercial communications satellite is launched.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Dr. Zhivago” & “Sound of Music”

• T.V.: “Green Acres” & “Batman”

• The Beatles made their 2nd movie “Help!” and they’re Saturday morning cartoon show big hits

• Bob Dylan goes electric.

 

DEAD

• Malcolm X is assassinated.

• Winston Churchill

• Nat King Cole

• T.S. Elliot

 

#1@1

• The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, as found in the King James Version

• The song is notable for being one of a few instances in popular music in which a large portion of scripture is set to music, other examples being The Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon", Sister Janet Mead's "The Lord's Prayer", and U2's "40".

• The  band that would prove to be every bit as influential as the Lads from Liverpool.

• This would be the second time the Byrds would knock the Beatles off the top of the charts that year.

• The Byrds and “Turn Turn Turn” (To Everything There is a Season)” your #1 @ 1 from December 1965.



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