Wouldn't It Be Nice on Still Cruisin'

[Yorick]

Hello all,

while just listening to the Still Cruisin' record for the second time ever I couldn't help but feel that something about Wouldn;t It Be Nice sounded so different to all the other versions I have. Does anyone have any more info on what master it was sourced from?

[Alex]

Might be the duophonic version.

[The infamous Baldwin Organ]

The story I've always heard was that the original master for "Would It Be Nice" was lost, so they used a rough mix, or something to that effect. I also believe that it was used for several other releases in that same period. Hope that helps.

[petsite]

The 45 master went missing sometime around 1985. There was a duophonic copy on the PS master LP reel. So Capitol used a rough mix of the track for the 1986 MADE IN USA lps and then used it on every other comp thru to 1991. I have it on pretty good authority that version is now no longer in Capitol's vaults.

Of course the version used now is from the NYC copy of PS that was called for at the time of the PS remaster in 1987. As an aside, when the two-fer's first appeared in 1991, Capitol assembled a 2 CD set called "Absolute Best Vol. 1 & 2". They also put together a sampler CD to send out to radio and record stores heralding the remasters done by Mark. But on those CDs, meant to show how well the remasters sounded, they used the rough mix of WIBN rather than the version that was on the PS remastered CD.

WTF?

Bob

[punkinhead]

didn't the Made in the USA (or whatever title it had) have an alt. mix of WIBN?