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Jan 22, 2014 · Fifth Dimension, 1966. The last Byrds song Clark had a hand in writing, and also the band's last Top 20 hit, this Clark/Crosby/McGuinn co-write was the group's most ambitious single, with the ...
- Mr. Tambourine Man
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- Mr. Tambourine Man
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- 'Mr. Tambourine Man' From: 'Mr. Tambourine Man' (1965) How much better is the Byrds' version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" than Bob Dylan's original? For starters, they distill Dylan's four verses to a compact single verse.
- 'Eight Miles High' From 'Fifth Dimension' (1966) The Byrds' last Top 20 hit is as revolutionary as it is perplexing. Inspired by John Coltrane's complex jazz pieces, as well as Ravi Shankar's sitar explorations, "Eight Miles High" takes rock 'n' roll to soaring, and tricky, heights.
- 'I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better' From: 'Mr. Tambourine Man' (1965) The only cut on our list of the Top 10 Byrds Songs sung by Gene Clark (who also wrote it), "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" was originally released as the B-side to "All I Really Want to Do" (and just missed the Top 100 on its own).
- 'Turn! Turn! ' From: 'Turn! Turn!' (1965) Following their No. 1 cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," the Byrds quickly returned to the studio to record their follow-up album.
- A Genius
- “Gypsy Rider”
- “Eight Miles High”
- “Strength of Strings”
- “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better”
- “Echoes”
Working as The Byrds’ primary songwriter from 1964 to 1966, Gene Clark created some of the band’s most popular and enduring tracks. Hi disillusionment with The Byrds coupled with his fear of flying propelled him to depart from the group and pursue a solo career. It wasn’t as successful as he hoped to be but he remains as an iconic figure in rock. F...
An unlikely musical pair that resulted to this lovely piece. It’s beautiful but sorrowful in more ways than one – especially since it was Clark’s last album before his death in 1991.
https://youtu.be/J74ttSR8lEg It’s ambitious and trippy. For someone who was afraid of flying, the title just seemed a tad ironic. Not surprising, it was banned in some radio stations because of the drug references in the lyrics. Clark and the other co-writer David Crosby did admit that they were partly inspired by drug use. The third writer Roger G...
Hypnotic and mystical – it’s a fusion of all things good and magical. Featured in Clark’s fourth solo studio album No Other, it took him a year to work on the record. He stayed at a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean and sometimes, he would just “stare at the ocean for hours at a time” until an idea came. While Clark believed No Otherwas his maste...
It’s one of The Byrds’ most popular tracks. Clark finished writing the song in just a few minutes and it was about his girlfriend at the time who “started bothering me a lot. (Valium) ” It eventually became a rock standard and was covered numerous times by other artists like Tom Petty.
A promise of things to come. It’s original enough to help him get out of The Byrds’ shadow and establish himself as a solo musician. It doesn’t have the finesse of his other tracks but it’s still unforgettable.
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- ‘I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better’ From: ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ (1965) Our list of the Top 10 Gene Clark Songs is topped by probably his best-known track, probably because of Tom Petty’s cover version on smash-hit 1989 album ‘Full Moon Fever.’
- ‘Eight Miles High’ From: ‘Fifth Dimension’ (1966) Often captured in a promo video with a capped David Crosby menacingly staring at the camera, it was actually Clark who wrote the majority of the song -- which was not about drug use, but the Byrds first trip to London (on an airplane).
- ‘She Don’t Care About Time’ B-side (1965) Roger McGuinn’s 12-string Rickenbacker solo, which note-for-note rips off J.S. Bach’s ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,’ attempts to steal the show on this number.
- ‘One in a Hundred’ From: ‘Roadmaster’ (1972) The version of ‘One in a Hundred’ that found its way onto the ‘Roadmaster’ album is more of that Byrds flavor (featuring members of his former band, with a keening 12-string electric accompaniment).
Harold Eugene Clark (November 17, 1944 [1] – May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. [2] He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Eight Miles High" and "Set You Free ...
Mar 7, 2021 · 10 Best Gene Clark Songs. #10 Gypsy Rider. from So Rebellious A Lover, 1987. Clark’s final studio project was a collaboration with Carla Olson, a Texas-born musician who was a member of the Textones. ‘Gypsy Rider’ is one of only three Clark originals on So Rebellious A Lover but it’s a typically gorgeous Clark melody, delivered with ...
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Mar 1, 1997 · Archive Posted On March 1, 1997. While he certainly wrote a handful of enduring classics as a member of the Byrds, it’s surprising that Gene Clark has never been given the recognition for his solo work that the music so obviously deserves. Between 1966 (the year he quit the Byrds, at the peak of their popularity) and his death on May 24, 1991 ...
