 In 1969, the manager of rock music for RCA Records on the West Coast, Dick Moreland, heard about the existence of these early Byrds' demo recordings from Jim Dickson and immediately told producer Gary Usher about them.Usher, who had produced the Byrds' "Younger Than Yesterday", "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" and "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" albums, had recently formed Together Records with colleagues Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen.Prior to the formation of Together, Usher had been involved with the Columbia Records' release of "Conspicuous Only in its Absence", a collection of previously unheard live recordings by the psychedelic band, the Great Society (featuring Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane).