Turn! Turn! Turn! Has been recorded by numerous artists over the years including Dolly Parton, The Seekers, Amy Grant and Bruce Springsteen. Seegar donates 45% of the royalties to the song to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. The call for peace struck a chord with the American people and the war, in the desire to see the war come to an end. The song was released during the years of strife from the Vietnam War. The group took five days and 78 takes to finish the hit song.īy late 1965, the song had become an international hit. The 1965 rendition of the song, by The Byrds, has become the most popular version of the song. When Judy Collins released the song on her 1963 album, Judy Collins 3, the song was titled Turn! Turn! Turn!. All those clanging, steel guitars – they sound like bells.” I liked the Byrds’ record very much, incidentally. And I got a letter from him the next week that said, ‘Wonderful! Just what I’m looking for.’ Within two months he’d sold it to the Limelighters and then to the Byrds. “I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket and improvised a melody to it in fifteen minutes. This is the only kind of song I know how to write.’ For Everything There Is A Season I sat down with a tape recorder and said, ‘I can’t write the kind of songs you want. In a 1988 interview with Paul Zollo, Seegar said “I got a letter from my publisher, and he says, ‘Pete, I can’t sell these protest songs you write.’ And I was angry. A month later Seeger released the song on his album, The Bitter and the Sweet. The song was originally released by The Limeliters as “To Everything There Is A Season” in 1962. The words turn, turn, turn are used throughout the song, amidst the verses from Ecclesiastes.Īlso at the end of verse four, Seegar added the following words in closing, “a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late.” The lyrics relate to the changing seasons of our lives, but good and bad. ![]() The song is notable for being one of the few that has a large sequence of Biblical text set to music. He did rearrange the sequence of the words for his popular arrangement. The Biblical text was written by King Solomon, but inspired by God. Most of the lyrics are adapted word for word from Ecclesiastes 3, which begins “for everything there is a season.” Seegar used the King James Version of the Bible when writing the song. ![]() Pete Seeger wrote the 1950s hit, “ Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)”.
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