<Tr> <Td> "All I Really Want to Do" (1965) </Td> <Td> "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (1965) </Td> <Td> "Set You Free This Time" (1965) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Turn! Turn! Turn!" was adapted by the Byrds using a folk rock arrangement . Columbia Records released it as a single on October 1, 1965, with the Gene Clark original composition "She Don't Care About Time" as the B - side . The song is included on the band's second album, Turn! Turn! Turn!, which was released on December 6, 1965 . The Byrds' single is the most successful recorded version of the song, having reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts and number 26 on the UK Singles Chart . The book of Ecclesiastes was written between the 3rd and 10th centuries BC, thus "Turn! Turn! Turn!" is the number one pop hit with the oldest lyrics . </P> <P> The song had first been arranged by the Byrds' lead guitarist Jim McGuinn in a chamber - folk style during sessions for Judy Collins' 1963 album, Judy Collins 3 . The idea of reviving the song came to McGuinn during the Byrds' July 1965 tour of the American Midwest, when his future wife, Dolores, requested the tune on the Byrds' tour bus . The rendering that McGuinn dutifully played came out sounding not like a folk song but more like a rock / folk hybrid, perfectly in keeping with the Byrds' status as pioneers of the folk rock genre . McGuinn explained, "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 . I couldn't do it as it was traditionally . It came out with that samba beat, and we thought it would make a good single ." </P> <P> The master recording of the song reportedly took 78 takes, spread over five days of recording, to complete . </P>

Words to the song turn turn turn by the byrds