Philip James Bonomo, 1930-2024

In 1959, the folk singer Pete Seeger wrote “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, marrying eight verses of the third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes to a simple, earnest melody. The song first appeared in 1962 (as “To Everything There is a Season”) on the Limeliters’ Folk Matinee album, and then later that year on Seeger’s The Bitter and the Sweet. The average music fan—the average human being—knows “Turn! Turn! Turn!” best through the Byrds’ version, which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in Dec...