 With the permission of all five original members of the band secured, Together Records released the album in July 1969 with a great deal of publicity.As a collection of previously unreleased demo recordings, "Preflyte" can be seen as one of the earliest examples of issuing outtakes by popular artists, a practice that is now commonplace in the reissue market.All of the music on "Preflyte" predates the release of the Byrds' debut single for Columbia, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", which topped the charts in America and the United Kingdom during 1965.