Turn-Down Day

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"Turn-Down Day"
Turn-Down Day - The Cyrkle.jpg
Single by the Cyrkle
from the album Red Rubber Ball
B-side "Big Little Woman"
ReleasedJuly 1966 [1]
Genre Folk rock [2]
Length2:29
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Jerry Keller, David Blume
Producer(s) John Simon
The Cyrkle singles chronology
"Red Rubber Ball"
(1966)
"Turn-Down Day"
(1966)
"Please Don't Ever Leave Me"
(1966)

"Turn-Down Day" is a song written by Jerry Keller and David Blume and performed by the Cyrkle. It was produced by John Simon, [3] and was featured on their 1966 album, Red Rubber Ball . [4] It reached No.16 on both the Billboard Hot 100 [5] and the Canadian pop chart, [6] and also hit No.18 on the U.S. Cashbox chart in 1966.

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Background

According to Candy Leonard, author of Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World (Arcade, 2014), the song is an excellent example of the emerging hippie ethos of the 1960s. [7]

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