The Byrds - Lady Friend (live on The Tonight Show, 1967) video free download
July 13th 1967. Audio-only. This the infamous performance of this song from the Tonight Show where guest host Bob Newhart infamously remarked "I think I hear them tuning up now" (not heard on the tape) to which David Crosby retorted "we tune because we care."
We are thankful that some Byrdmaniax had a tape recorder going that night.
This is the only surviving recording we assume, as the masters of this episode and the majority of the Tonight Show episodes of this era no longer exist. This recording is a precious document indeed.
Some background information:
http://www.ebni.com/byrds/lpyty.html#Refforts
Comments
8 years ago
53plaat
Thanks very much for uploading this great song. So Masakela was also there to do the trumpetparts?9 years ago
trfesok
I put this version in my playlist with the demo, the mono single and the 1987 remix. Thanks for the upload!10 years ago
67psych
The Songs performed on the show by The Byrds are Renaisance Fair, Lady Friend & Have You Seen Her Face. I found a bootleg recording today called ' Gathering Of The Tribes' AKA 'California Christmas Album' which has all three tracks, a bit rough,but listenable.10 years ago
Aaron Haugh
Thank you for this11 years ago
PP Diggy
A pop music masterpiece11 years ago
Ivo Coser
Superb, a masterpiece. Congratulations for post this!11 years ago
trfesok
The horns were, at least in part, Crosby's idea.11 years ago
Piggy-Pike
Do you have the SECOND song they sang on Tonight show--Crosby did a beautiful rennaissance fair!!11 years ago
movingon4ever
Thank you kindly for recording and preserving this jem. Some joker in the CBS studio must have been using earplugs, when he dubbed those annoying horns which appear on this 8/67 single release of this song. Another major Hack job done to the Byrds, was in early '69, when they cut Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay", and went out to play gigs. Second CBS clown dubbed about thirty Church Choir singers, drowning the efforts of McGuinn to finally followup "My Back Pages", the Gosple single stiffed.12 years ago
Tim Sullivan
Thanks buddy12 years ago
OldDunc
Wonderful! I remember this program, and Crosby's "We tune because we care." The song knocked me out. For a long time I was frustrated because it was so hard to find the studio recording. I have a sense that I recorded it off the TV onto a little 3" reel to reel recorder we had, but I'm not sure of that, let alone whether the tape survives. But it's great to hear this again.12 years ago
Piggy-Pike
Do you have the SECOND song theydid... Crosby sang (no joke) Renaissance faire!12 years ago
Casey Hardmeyer
Amazing!!12 years ago
tfmuch
Another wow. Wow.12 years ago
sequentialscenery
Neato - only heard this listed as happening, but glad to have the audio, if not video.12 years ago
PC3900
Wow, it's fantastic that someone preserved this private recording for so long.13 years ago
LZNDRDNZL
@jonny1251 Sadly, the masters for all the episodes of the Tonight Show from 1961-1970(?) no longer exist. Some fragments and a partial episode exist in personal collections but that's about it.13 years ago
chorn82
AWESOME!13 years ago
