Weekend Song

Happy 74th (!) birthday to David Crosby, co-founder of The Byrds (along with Roger McGuinn and the late Gene Clark) and the super-group Crosby, Stills, Nash (and sometimes) Young.  We're selecting a song written by Crosby in his waning days as a Byrd, "Lady Friend," released in July 1967.  The song is sometimes referred to as the "lost Byrds hit" partly because it had the misfortune of not finding its way onto "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" album -  by the time the album was halfway through production, Crosby had been fired from the group.  The other interesting thing to note about the song is that Crosby was unsatisfied with his fellow Byrds' vocals and decided to dub all the vocals himself (which no doubt further endeared him to his bandmates).  In any event, it's quite a pretty, uptempo rocker that deserved a better fate, with all-Crosby vocals, chiming guitars and even a synthesizer horn drop-in.  Enjoy!