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Run for Cover (a collection of unoriginals)
*50 years ago*
Here's "Why?"
Why? (a cover of The Byrds, 1966) - nedped
00:00Songwriters are David Crosby and
Roger McGuinn ... originally released by
The Byrds as B-side of 1966 single
Eight Miles High ... re-recorded for 1967 album Younger Than Yesterday
The main structure is a close variation of the Holland-Dozier-Holland penned Heatwave, the 1963 Motown monster hit for Martha and the Vandellas
The instrumental section of "Why?"
is an early nod to sitarist Ravi Shankar and Indian raga music that would soon catch fire in the Western world with further spark from George Harrison
and the Beatles. ('Twas Crosby who turned Harrison on to Shankar,
or so that story goes.)
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