It is good version but Barry McGuire is on a totally different level (also both recordings apparently feature same same backing track so they differ only in vocals)
This is the first time I've heard Jan & Dean's cover. What's very interesting is the backing track is the same as the one used in Barry McGuire's version. Excellent cover and it still reflects the crazy stuff that's going on today as it did nearly 60 years ago.
This tune was brought to the Byrds in 1965, but they turned it down. It then went to Turtles and Jan & Dean. Barry took influence from the way Jan sang the tune, and the rest is history.
Barry McGuire was the FIRST to sing and release this song as a record. P.F. Sloan wrote it. Later it was recorded by The Turtles and Jan & Dean. Barry McGuire's version was released by accident after just his first attempt to sing the song.
I've never heard this version in my entire life. It's like they took Barry McGuire's music and then they just saying over it just like they did with California Dreaming With The Mamas & the Papas and Barry McGuire still very interesting
This sounds like the exact same backing track of the McGuire version. Sorry, but Barry McGuire is the only one who could sing this and be taken seriously. He OWNS this!
1965 was the dividing line between early 1960s American pop music and mid-to-late 1960s changes brought by folk music, Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Burdon & The Animals, and the rest of the British Invasion stars.
This cover d oesnt work for me... Barry Mcguire is a tough act to follow. To much of a Mike Love thing going on here.... Even with the little up date like 8 in space and Watts Cal.....
