Vocal version of Guess I'm Falling In Love did exist

[iaredatsun]

Scan-reading the Jovanovic book Seeing The Light : Inside The Velvet Underground, I saw in chapter 17 a note about the mid-eighties comps.

Morrison made suggestions about what was in the vault and what could be used. He found a vocal-less take of ‘Guess I’m Falling in Love’ when it was discovered that the vocal take master had been damaged.

I wonder how damaged it was or is?

[cubguy23]

that's a shame. makes you wonder what else might be in the vault or what else could've been damaged.

[Elvis Plebsley]

I seem to remember a quote from Lou which credited Sterling with arguing for the release of the instrumental version. Lou was saying, "no-one wants to hear this shit" and Sterling replied that "the fans would really go for it. I reckon the vocal track for Ride Into The Sun existed, but got damaged at some point. Isn't one of the acetate versions with vocals the same track?

[alfredovu]

According to The MGM Labels book, Recording references for Wl/Wh sessions go from 103536 to 103546. There are no information on 103538, 42, 43 & 44, and two recording dates are stated: Sept 21 and 25
Who knows if these 4 cuts were not used or info is not available?

Guess i’ m Falling is dated in the Deluxe 45th 3-CD Set as recorded Sept 7, but there is no info in the Book.

[iaredatsun]

According to The MGM Labels book, Recording references for Wl/Wh sessions go from 103536 to 103546. There are no information on 103538, 42, 43 & 44, and two recording dates are stated: Sept 21 and 25
Who knows if these 4 cuts were not used or info is not available?

Guess i’ m Falling is dated in the Deluxe 45th 3-CD Set as recorded Sept 7, but there is no info in the Book.

Alfredo. Yes, weird about the discrepancy with the dates. I always wondered why Guess I'm Falling In Love does not sound like the rest of the WLWH material, so maybe it was recorded earlier.

I think we know that one of those missing numbers is a second recording session for Here She Comes Now, don't we?

The session numbers you mention are here:
https://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records ... aphy-1967/