The Byrds' "Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season)" was a remake of a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. The tune was later recorded by the folk group The Limeliters in 1962. Their version was named "To Everything There Is a Season."
According to a quote by McGuinn reprinted by Far Out, “It was a standard folk song by that time. But I played it, and it came out rock ‘n’ roll because that’s what I was programmed to do like a computer."
He added, "I couldn’t do it as it was traditionally. I came out with that samba beat, and we thought it would make a good single.”
According to Variety, "McGuinn and The Byrds had intuitively tapped into the deeper folk traditions of Pete Seeger for a unifying song of meaning. Amidst the tumult over the Vietnam War, rising social and racial protest and the emergence of flower power, it was a message of change, hope and acceptance, drawn from the bible itself — a song that came to characterize the blossoming of the 1960s. A song whose time had come, as it was the season."
The song's lyrics were almost verbatim from the Bible text. Seeger added a line at the end that he hoped would resonate with more modern-day audiences; “A time of peace; I swear it’s not too late.”
The song was inducted into the National Recording Registry in May 2026 as part of a group of recordings "worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage."
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