1965. “Let Me Be” was my personal defiantly angsty anthem. Revisited The Turtles first album, “It Ain’t Me Babe” in celebration of Mark Volman. While listening, dove back into some band/song history to learned that “Let Me Be” was written by P.F. Sloan (The New Christy Minstrels), who also penned “Eve of Destruction,” which the band originally turned down as a single.
To be continued …
You can’t read about a song without listening to it, so skidded down that road. Barry McGuire went into the studio with “Eve of Destruction” writer P.F Sloan (acoustic guitar), Hal Blaine (drums), and Larry Knechtel (bass) to record a rough mix and hurried through the vocals. Apparently, the mix got into the hands of a DJ and there it was. Man, oh, man, we could be singing “E of D” right now in this minute, this hour, this day ….
Thanks, Mark Volman, P.F. Sloan, and Barry McGuire for being on the soundtrack of my wild and unruly life. And then there’s that whole “Mother’s of Invention” bit that’s fodder for another day.
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