| Preflyte | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | July 29, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | c. September 1964 – January 1965[1] | |||
| Studio | World Pacific, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Folk rock[2] | |||
| Length | 25:38 | |||
| Label | Together | |||
| Producer | Jim Dickson | |||
| The Byrds chronology | ||||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
 Cover of the 1973 Columbia Records reissue. Art by Barry Windsor-Smith | ||||
Preflyte is a compilation album by the American folk rock band the Byrds and was released in July 1969 on Together Records.[3] The album is a collection of demos recorded by the Byrds (then named the Jet Set) at World Pacific Studios in Los Angeles during late 1964, before the band had signed to Columbia Records and become famous.[4] It includes early demo versions of the songs "Here Without You", "You Won't Have to Cry", "I Knew I'd Want You", and "Mr. Tambourine Man", all of which appeared in re-recorded form on the band's 1965 debut album.[5]
The album peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Top LPs chart upon its initial release, but failed to chart in the UK when it was issued there in 1973.[6][3][7] The album's title is a deliberate misspelling of "pre-flight", meant to emulate the misspelling of "birds" that the band had used for their name.
- ^ Hjort 2008, pp. 19–20: "Of the many tapes Jim Dickson records with The Jet Set, five demo recordings will survive by the transitional unplugged quartet. ... As with all their sessions done at World Pacific, no documentation will survive to precisely date the sessions, but September 1964 is a good guess. ... They continue to record at World Pacific whenever opportunities arise, and more than a dozen songs in various states of completion will later be collected on the Preflyte Sessions two-CD set in 2002. A rough estimate suggests these songs are recorded during the last two–three months of 1964 (and certainly continuing into the first weeks of 1965) ..."
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Great Moments in Folk Rock: Lists of Author Favorites". Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023 – via www.richieunterberger.com.
- ^ a b Rogan, Johnny. (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (2nd ed.). Rogan House. pp. 548–549. ISBN 0-9529540-1-X.
- ^ Fricke, David. (2001). The Preflyte Sessions (2001 CD liner notes).
- ^ "Preflyte review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Preflyte - Billboard Albums Data". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ Brown, Tony. (2000). The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-7119-7670-8.