 The Mr. Tambourine Man album followed on June 21 , 1965 , peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and number 7 on the UK Albums Chart . The album mixed reworkings of folk songs , including Pete Seeger 's musical adaptation of the Idris Davies ' poem " The Bells of Rhymney " , with a number of other Dylan covers and the band 's own compositions , the majority of which were written by Gene Clark . In particular , Clark 's " I 'll Feel a Whole Lot Better " has gone on to become a rock music standard , with many critics considering it one of the band 's and Clark 's best songs . Upon release , the Mr. Tambourine Man album , like the single of the same name , was influential in popularizing folk rock and served to establish the band as an internationally successful rock act , representing the first effective American challenge to the dominance of the Beatles and the British Invasion . 
