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Greatest Hits

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The Byrds' Greatest Hits is thirty-two minutes and seventeen seconds long. The original album was released on August 7, 1967 and reached #6 on the US Billboard Album 200 charts. The cassette version was released on December 15, 1992. It features their top hits from 1965-1967; though two of the ten songs on this cassette did not chart. The sound and quality on this cassette is great. Below is a list on song on the cassette and how high that song charted. This is an excellent cassette to own. The Byrds' Greatest Hits gets an AAAAA+++++.

Side One

Mr. Tambourine Man
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 Cash Box Magazine Top Singles
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
#103 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
The Bells of Rhymney
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (three weeks at #1)
#1 Cash Box Magazine Top Singles
All I Really Want To Do
#40 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Chimes of Freedom

Side Two

Eight Miles High
#14 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Mr. Spaceman
#36 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
5D (Fifth Dimension)
#44 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
So You Want To Be A Rock `N' Roll Star
#29 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
My Back Pages
#30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles

I only wish all Greatest Hits albums were as good as this one. This album catches the feel of one of the most important American bands of the 1960's. The optimism and hope it expresses still stand up today. Roger McGuinn's 12-string guitar sound reverberates through the album defining forever the California sound of the mid 1960's.

This album marks the end of the Byrds as a hit-making machine and is the last album that David Crosby plays a significant part. It's timeless and a joy to listen to.

A MUST IF YOU ENJOY ONLY THEIR HIT

the title just about sums it up