This 1965 #1 single was the first one for this group. The music was recorded by session musicians Leon Russell, Glen Campbell, Hal Blane, and Larry Knechtel. The only member of the original group playing on the track is Jim McGuinn. However, the vocals were done by the real members: McGuinn, David Crosby, and Gene Clark. What’s the group? What’s the song? (Hint: It’s not “Turn, Turn, Turn”).
Answer to last week’s Trivia: The American guitarist and R&B singer born Ella Otha Bates who played a key role in transition from Blues to rock & roll, who had a #1 hit on Billboard’s’ R&B charts in 1955 in which the name of the song was also the name of the artist who wrote and performed the song about himself was: Bo Diddley (“Bo Diddley”, April, 1955).