Darin hired McGuinn to write songs for $35/week. Bobby Darin got ill and quit performing for a few years and founded TM Music out of the Brill Building in Manhattan. He also provided backing vocals on a number of singles released by Bobby Darin from the late 50’s until early 1963. In 1958, McGuinn was hired to tour as a temporary member of the backing band for the Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio and Judy Collins, which continued until 1962. Soon after he began to play at coffee houses and got noticed by others in the folk scene. When he was 14 years old, he took a five-string banjo course from the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Upon hearing the song he asked his parents to buy him a guitar.

When he was 13 years old he heard Elvis Presley sing “Heartbreak Hotel”. Roger McGuinn was born in Chicago in 1942. But in Vancouver they charted ten songs into the Top Ten. Aside from their two #1 hits, they failed to chart other songs into the Billboard Hot 100. The Byrds were perennial favorites in Vancouver who consistently had better chart runs in Vancouver than back in their home country of America. A single between their #1 hits was another Dylan tune titled “ All I Really Want To Do”. The former was written by Bob Dylan and the latter by Pete Seeger. They offered up a fusion of folk-rock and became an instant hit with two #1 hits in Vancouver and the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965: “Mr. They added bass (and mandolin) player Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke and became The Byrds. In 1964 the trio released a single that was a commercial failure and credited to The Beefeaters. Around 1963 a folk trio that named itself the Jet Set, consisted of Roger McGuinn on vocals and lead guitar, Gene Clark on vocals tambour and rhythm guitar and David Crosby on vocals and rhythm guitar.

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