{"id":30881,"date":"2026-04-02T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30881"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:27:37","slug":"take-five-former-rarities-from-the-byrds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/take-five-former-rarities-from-the-byrds\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Five: (Former) Rarities from the Byrds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Los Angeles musicians \u2013 Gene Clark, David Crosby and Jim (later Roger) McGuinn \u2013 started playing together in 1964 as a folk trio. Expanding to a quintet and taking the name the Byrds, the group developed its own hybrid of folk and rock. That sound was exemplified by their pioneering reading of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cMr. Tambourine Man,\u201d a no. 1 single in the U.S. (and top ten in seven other countries). That single lit the fire; the group would land several more singles on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100, and each of its 12 studio releases would appear on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s album chart. The Byrds\u2019 influence on pop music is considerable, and most of its members went on to similarly well-regarded careers after the group\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Even with a dozen studio albums released during the band\u2019s active years (1964-73, not counting reunions), a considerable number of worthy recordings didn\u2019t make it onto albums. While all of those would eventually be appended to CD-era reissues of Byrds albums, those tracks remain underappreciated. On the 60th anniversary of the release of their second album 1965\u2019s Turn! Turn! Turn!<\/em>, here are five songs that were, until the dawn of the compact disc, rare Byrds tracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe Don\u2019t Care About Time\u201d (1965)<\/strong>
\nGuitarist and founding Byrds member Gene Clark composed the jangling folk rock of \u201cShe Don\u2019t Care About Time,\u201d and the group recorded the song in August 1965. The tune was featured as the B-side of the \u201cTurn! Turn! Turn!\u201d single, released in the U.S. in October of that year. But when the album Turn! Turn! Turn!<\/em> appeared on record store shelves two months later, the song wasn\u2019t on the record. It did, however, surface more than three decades later as a bonus track on that album\u2019s expanded CD reissue.<\/p>\n