Also, excerpts from the band's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival have been released on The Monterey International Pop Festival CD box set and among the extras on the Monterey Pop DVD. There have so far been two Byrds' box sets issued: The Byrds (October 1990) and There Is a Season (September 2006). Two compilations of rare and previously unissued material have also been released as Never Before and Another Dimension. In addition, four compilations of material recorded before the group secured a recording contract with Columbia have been released under the titles Preflyte, In the Beginning, The Preflyte Sessions and Preflyte Plus. There have been many official compilation albums by the Byrds released since 1967, with the majority of these collections consisting of material recorded between 19, a period when the band were with Columbia Records. '-' denotes release did not chart or become certified. Format: LP, reel-to-reel, 8-track tape, cassette.Releases originating from or exclusive to other international territories, along with quasi-legal, 'grey market' releases, are not included. This article lists all of the Byrds' official US and UK studio albums, live albums, compilations, EPs, and singles. Originally released on the small Together label, this was reissued on Columbia a few years later the Columbia pressing is much easier to find, can still be easily (and affordably) found in used stores, and has enough otherwise unavailable quality material to make the search worth the effort.” (Richie Unterberger, AMG) It’s a matter of taste, but the takes of “She Has a Way” and “Here Without You” on Preflyte are clearly superior to the ones used on In the Beginning, though the arrangements are very similar. “You Showed Me,” in particular, appears here in a bare-bones, almost acoustic version with a heart-wrenching Gene Clark vocal this is the sound of the Byrds at their very birth in the nest.
Byrds fans really need to track this down, though, because six of the 11 cuts are actually entirely different versions than the ones that appear on In the Beginning, and in some cases the differences are substantial. Tambourine Man sessions are also found on the much more widely available In the Beginning. “A blip in the Byrds’ discography that could easily be missed, as all of the songs from these pre-Mr.
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