It Won't Be Wrong

"It Won't Be Wrong"
Side label of the US vinyl release
Single by the Byrds
from the album Turn! Turn! Turn!
A-side"Set You Free This Time"
ReleasedFebruary 18, 1966
RecordedSeptember 10 and 14–16, 1965
StudioColumbia, Hollywood, California
GenreRock[1]
Length1:58
LabelCBS
Songwriter(s)Jim McGuinn, Harvey Gerst
Producer(s)Terry Melcher
The Byrds singles chronology
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
(1965)
"Set You Free This Time" / "It Won't Be Wrong"
(1966)
"Eight Miles High"
(1966)
Alternative release
1966 Dutch picture sleeve of "Set You Free This Time/It Won't Be Wrong"

"It Won't Be Wrong" is a song by the American folk rock band the Byrds, which appeared as the second track on their 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn![2] It was also coupled with the song "Set You Free This Time" for a single release in 1966,[2] resulting in "It Won't Be Wrong" charting at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] The song was written by Byrds band member Jim McGuinn and his friend Harvey Gerst in 1964.[4][5]

  1. ^ Rogan 1998, p. 144: "'It Won't Be Wrong' ... [is] a Byrds rock classic ..."
  2. ^ a b Rogan 1998, pp. 541–545.
  3. ^ Whitburn 2008, p. 130.
  4. ^ Hjort 2008, p. 67.
  5. ^ Rogan 1998, p. 40.