Mels muziekmozaïek | Turn! Turn! Turn!

"Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)", often abbreviated to "Turn! Turn! Turn!", is a song adapted entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible (with the exception of the last line) and put to music by Pete Seeger in 1959. Seeger waited until 1962 to record his own version

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Pete Seeger composed “Turn! Turn! Turn!” in 1959 in response to a letter from his publisher. “Pete,” it read, “can't you write another song like 'Goodnight, Irene'?

        

Pete Seeger en Judy Collins |  1966 

Alec Wilkinson interviewt Pete Seeger over o.a. het succes van The Byrds met 

Turn! Turn! Turn! | in zijn woning te Beacon | NY | Maart 2009

zie meer over oorsprong van het lied hier>

Turn! Turn! Turn! met 5 nieuwe coupletten

Roger Mc Guinn 1994 | Kennedy Honors | 1994 

opgedragen aan Pete Seeger

lyrics

The Byrds | 1965

Pete Seeger | in gesprek met hoofd van Smithsonion Folkways Recording

En hoe spelen we dat op de guitaar.

The Seekers | 1966/67

llse de Lange | DWDD | 27 maart 2020