"It Won't Be Wrong" is a song by the American Folk rock band The Byrds and was the second track on their 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn!. The song was written by band member Jim McGuinn and Harvey Gerst. The song had initially been issued under the alternate title of "Don't Be Long" as the B-side of a single that The Byrds had released, under the pseudonym The Beefeaters, on Elektra Records in October, 1964.
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- "It Won't Be Wrong" is a song by the American Folk rock band The Byrds and was the second track on their 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn!. The song was written by band member Jim McGuinn and Harvey Gerst. The song had initially been issued under the alternate title of "Don't Be Long" as the B-side of a single that The Byrds had released, under the pseudonym The Beefeaters, on Elektra Records in October, 1964. By the time the song was re-recorded for The Byrds' second Columbia Records album, its title had been changed to "It Won't Be Wrong". After its appearance on the Turn! Turn! Turn! album, "It Won't Be Wrong" was selected as the B-side for The Byrds' "Set You Free This Time" single in January 1966. However, after initially poor sales of that single, Columbia Records in America began promoting the B-side instead, resulting in "It Won't Be Wrong" charting at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, after the NME had stated in their review of "Set You Free This Time" that the B-side was the best track on the single, CBS Records went a step further and actually re-released the single on 18 February, 1966 with "It Won't Be Wrong" as the A-side. This re-issuing of essentially the same single, albeit with its A-side and B-side inverted, twice within the space of two weeks caused confusion amongst British Radio DJs over which of the two songs they should play and contributed to the single's failure to chart in the UK. The song was written in 1964 by Jim McGuinn and Harvey Gerst, a friend of McGuinn's from his days as a folk singer at The Troubadour folk club in West Hollywood, California. Although lyrically the song is a relatively simplistic appeal for a lover to submit to the singer's romantic advances, musically the guitar riff after each verse foreshadows the raga experimentation of "Eight Miles High" and "Why", both of which would be recorded within three months of the Columbia version of "It Won't Be Wrong". Author Johnny Rogan describes the Columbia Records recording of the song as featuring "a driving beat, strident guitars and improved harmonies, that transform the sentiments of the song from an ineffectual statement to a passionate plea. " Compared to the earlier recording of the song, as released by The Beefeaters, the version included on the Turn! Turn! Turn! album sounded far more accomplished and exciting. The band performed the song on the U.S. TV shows Where The Action Is and Shivaree during 1966 but there's little evidence to suggest that the song was played regularly during the band's 1960s and 1970s live concerts. However, the song was performed by a reformed line-up of The Byrds featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman in January 1989. Besides its appearance on the Byrds' second album, "It Won't Be Wrong" appears on several Byrds' compilations, including The Original Singles: 1965–1967, Volume 1, The Very Best of The Byrds, The Byrds, The Essential Byrds, There Is a Season and the expanded and remastered edition of The Byrds' Greatest Hits. The original Elektra Records version of the song (titled "Don't Be Long") can be found on the In The Beginning, Byrd Parts and The Preflyte Sessions albums, as well as on the There Is a Season box set.
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- 1966 Dutch picture sleeve.
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- 10 September – 16 September 1965, Columbia Studios, Hollywood
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