Younger Than Yesterday

Occupation

• Vocal / Guitar: Roger McGuinn
• Vocal / Guitar: David Crosby
• Vocals / Bass: Chris Hillman
• Drums: Michael Clarke
• Guitar: Clarence White
• Trumpet: Hugh Masekela (only )
• Piano: Cecil Barnard (only )
• Acoustic guitar: Vern Gosdin

Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth album by the American folk rock band The Byrds. It was released on February 6, 1967 on the label, Columbia Records. In the United States the album was # 24 on the pop charts, UK # 37 Although the commercial success of the band with this album subsided, Younger Than Yesterday is considered one of the best and most influential albums of the Byrds and now considered classics of rock music. Even among critics, it was able to achieve success, as it reached for instance on the 2003 by the Rolling Stone compiled list of the 500 best albums of all time place 126

The style of the album was based on the mix of folk-rock and psychedelic rock, who had dominated the previous Fifth Dimension. It was also Younger Than Yesterday one of the first albums in rock history, anklangen in which elements of country-rock, what songs came to the fore especially in Chris Hillman, and it was the first Byrds album, on the Clarence White was involved, the 1968 the band boarding.

In Younger Than Yesterday was the hit single, as in the previous three albums also released before the album. So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star with the Everybody 's Been Burned B side appeared on January 9 and reached # 29 in the U.S. Later, two more singles were still coupled. My Back Pages / Renaissance Fair, published on March 13, stopped in the States at # 30, it should be the last Top 40 single of the band. Have You Seen Her Face came on May 22 on the market, the single peaked at # 74 peak. The B- side of Do not Make Waves was not derived from the original album, but later appeared as bonus tracks on the CD re-release.

In addition to Younger Than Yesterday a new recording of Eight Miles High single B side Why was included.

Title list

A-side

B-side

Republication

On 30 April 1996, Columbia released the album on CD with the following bonus tracks:

With Lady Friend / Old John Robertson is a published on July 13, 1967 single that landed in the American charts at # 82 and appeared on any original album of the Byrds.