The House Of The
Rising Sun
All this was the
prelude of what would have happened exactly one year after in Los Angeles
January 1965, when a group of novice twentys, who called themselves the Byrds,
entered in the studio to cut a traditional, "Mr.Tambourine Man”, which
later appeared on Dylan’s "Bringing It All Back Home” (March 1965), of
which the band had a demo for the hands. They had no arrangements or
revolutions in the head, but an idea, and one of them even an electric guitar.
The idea was to "plug the jack" in the Dylan’s acoustic version,
adopted without hesitation and even halved in duration and slowed in rhythm.
The guitar was a Rickenbacker 12-string property of Roger McGuinn, leader of
the group: a sound so much instantly recognizable, to becoming the
"trademark" of the band in the following years. Did the rest vocal
harmonies (taken by the Beatles and the Everly Brothers) that will be a
standard of the west-coast. Trump card: the production of Terry Melcher, able
to follow the thread that binds folk to "jingle jangle" Surf guitar
and Merseybeat’s easy melody. The result is Mr. Tambourine Man, one of the most
fulminating debut single. That guitar reverb, dreamy adolescent voices, the
sound clear and solar, were soaked with California Youth and breathability
summer scenarios of innocent transgression on the beaches of the Pacific.
"Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for
me,
In the morning I'll come followin jingle jangle
'you.
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin
'ship,
My senses Have Been stripped, my hands can not
feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot
heels
To be Wanderin '.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my
way,
I promise to go under it. "
