Set You Free This Time

"Set You Free This Time"
West German picture sleeve
Single by the Byrds
from the album Turn! Turn! Turn!
B-side"It Won't Be Wrong"
ReleasedJanuary 10, 1966 (1966-01-10)
RecordedSeptember 16, 1965
StudioColumbia, Hollywood, California
GenreFolk rock[1]
Length2:49
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Gene Clark
Producer(s)Terry Melcher
The Byrds singles chronology
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
(1965)
"Set You Free This Time"
(1966)
"Eight Miles High"
(1966)

"Set You Free This Time" is a song by the American folk rock group the Byrds, written by band member Gene Clark. It was first released in December 1965 on the group's Turn! Turn! Turn! album,[2][3] and later issued as a single in January 1966.

  1. ^ Larkin 2011, p. 2992: "'Set You Free This Time' ... [was the Byrds'] most sophisticated lyric to date and arguably their definitive self-penned folk rock statement."
  2. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
  3. ^ Rogan 1998, pp. 541–546.