Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice b/w Julia Dream - The First One Without Syd

Syd Barrett is on the front of this sleeve. He is not on the record. This is the first Pink Floyd single made after he left, and the first one David Gilmour plays on. The Swedish picture sleeve on Columbia DB 8401. The sleeve was printed in Stockholm and this copy was sold in a radio and bicycle shop in Glostrup, outside Copenhagen, where the price sticker on the front still reads 3.95. Rights society NCB, matrix 7 XCA 32056 and 7 XCA 32057. The labels are black with silver print and neither side prints a running time. Rick Wright wrote 'It Would Be So Nice'. The first version named the Evening Standard, the BBC would not air what it treated as an advert, and the band paid 750 pounds to re-record the vocal and change the line to the Daily Standard. It still failed to chart. They were brutal about it afterwards. Roger Waters said nobody ever heard it because it was such a lousy record, and that he did not like the song or the way it was sung. When Relics swept up the band's singles in 1971, this is the one they left off. 'Julia Dream' is the first Pink Floyd song David Gilmour sings lead on. Roger Waters wrote it and they cut it at Abbey Road on the thirteenth of February 1968, with Rick Wright on Mellotron and Gilmour double tracking his own vocal. It made Relics. On 45cat it rates 8.8 against the A side's 7.6. Norman Smith produced both sides. He engineered every Beatles single and album up to Rubber Soul before EMI made him a producer in 1966, and Pink Floyd was the first band he signed. The four on the sleeve are Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Rick Wright, left to right. EMI's Scandinavian arm used a 1967 press photo, so the man playing guitar on the record you are hearing is not in the picture. 0:00 Needle drop 0:05 It Would Be So Nice 3:44 Flipping it over 3:58 Julia Dream 🎧 Rare 45rpm Vinyl Rips - promo singles and obscure 7-inches: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pZAodT9-v-Lehtz7BPAlxi 🎧 Pink Floyd Vinyl - Rare Pressings & Deep Dives: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9o8E9NGv0RHyTTrqyt2I07Q 🔴 Live Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30am PT, one record from my collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9qEwJJg-w9RXM0MsbSk5H3F 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #PinkFloyd #SydBarrett #RareVinyl #45RPM #VinylCollector