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While it did not achieve the same level of success as the other, "Let's Get Together" provided the group with a second top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when it peaked at number 31 and number 5 in Canada. A version of the song first broke into the top forty in 1965, when We Five, produced by Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber, released "Let's Get Together" as the follow-up to their top ten hit " You Were on My Mind".It was produced by Jim Dickson as a four-song demo that Crosby recorded before joining the Byrds. Crosby's version was recorded at World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles. A pre-Byrds David Crosby recorded "Get Together" around the same time as the Trio, but possibly a few weeks later, since the band arrangement includes the riff from the Beatles' version of " Twist and Shout", released earlier in Britain but not in the United States until April.The Kingston Trio often performed it live.īoth the Dino Valenti version and The Youngbloods version appear on the album Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970.
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While it was not released as a single, this version was the first to bring the song to the attention of the general public. The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by the Kingston Trio in a live performance in March 1964 that was released on June 1, 1964, on their album Back in Town. It is best remembered for the impassioned plea in the lines of its refrain ("Come on people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now"), which is repeated several times in succession to bring the song to its conclusion. The song is an appeal for peace and brotherhood, presenting the polarity of love versus fear, and the choice to be made between them.