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However, renewed interest in the Youngbloods' version came when it was used in a radio public service announcement as a call for brotherhood by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. It became a minor Hot 100 hit for them, peaking at number 62 and reaching 37 on the US adult contemporary chart. The most notable recording came in 1967, when the Youngbloods released their version of the song under the title "Get Together".However, the song wasn't released as a single, although the album did make the top 100 of 1966, as number 97. He called "Let's Get Together" a "most sensitive, hopeful and contemporary ballad", and wondered why it isn't sung in church. As Tim Jurgens said in his review of the album in the January 1967 issue of Crawdaddy, " Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the most important album of American rock issued this year (1966) it is the first LP to come out of the new San Francisco music scene.". "Let's Get Together" was the third song on side 2 of Jefferson Airplane's first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, released in August 1966.Children of Rain, a New York City-based folk trio/duo, were the second artists to release the song as a single, on Dot Records (45-16868) in April 1966.The Mitchell Trio (formerly the Chad Mitchell Trio) released the album "That's the Way It's Going to Be" in 1965 which included the song, sung by John Denver who replaced Chad Mitchell.This was included on their second album, Make Someone Happy. While it did not achieve the same level of success as the other, "Let's Get Together" provided the group with a second top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when it peaked at number 31 and number 5 in Canada. A version of the song first broke into the top forty in 1965, when We Five, produced by Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber, released "Let's Get Together" as the follow-up to their top ten hit " You Were on My Mind".It was produced by Jim Dickson as a four-song demo that Crosby recorded before joining the Byrds. Crosby's version was recorded at World Pacific Studios, Los Angeles.

A pre-Byrds David Crosby recorded "Get Together" around the same time as the Trio, but possibly a few weeks later, since the band arrangement includes the riff from the Beatles' version of " Twist and Shout", released earlier in Britain but not in the United States until April.

The Kingston Trio often performed it live.īoth the Dino Valenti version and The Youngbloods version appear on the album Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970. While it was not released as a single, this version was the first to bring the song to the attention of the general public. The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by the Kingston Trio in a live performance in March 1964 that was released on June 1, 1964, on their album Back in Town. It is best remembered for the impassioned plea in the lines of its refrain ("Come on people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now"), which is repeated several times in succession to bring the song to its conclusion.

The song is an appeal for peace and brotherhood, presenting the polarity of love versus fear, and the choice to be made between them.