This is all the singles with David Jones before he sign the Deram in late 1966, yeah he was known as Jones
in the beginning but he had to change the name to not be mixed up with the Monkees guy, he got his first
tenor sax from his older late brother, and on these early tracks he play a lot of sax and singing all the
lead vocals, yeah he chance groups a lot in these first two years of his recording career and he gone some
record companies too, but already of the first single he really made two fantastic recordings of some
R&B/freak beat, but the next single was more in the soul vein, but don't think that Jimmy Page have really
something with this recordings at all, he was just a hired session man that play what he been told, but if
you like these early sound of the 60's before the psychedelica arrived, then it's an album for you with some
wonderful 60's music, and you got all the singles and some demos and a couple of un-released tracks.
My favorite is the fist single Liza Jane/Louie Louie Go Home, another of my favorite is the wonderful
B-side Baby Loves That Way and the A-side You've Got A Habit Of Leaving is a fantastic work too, and then
the last Pye single I Dig Everything/I'm Not Losing Sleep is something extra too, yeah even the Generation X
use to play the I Dig Everything live, so you see that I not the only one that love this song, yeah I had
these singles in the vinyl time and I play them a lot, so when Rhino released this wonderful compilation
in 1991 I bouth it as fast as I could, because I had longing for these track some years then, so if you
listen to this album you understand why I felt that way.
The Credits
Review by Richie Unterberger
Before landing his first commercial success with 1969's "Space Oddity," David Bowie released a number of flop records in a variety of styles. He first emerged in the mid-1960s as a mod following the paths of The Who, Kinks, and Rolling Stones. The 17-cut CD Early On (1964-66) is by far the most comprehensive anthology of his first works, gathering all six of his first singles and adding five previously unreleased demos from 1965. Fans of Bowie's famous work may be nonplussed by this material, in which the singer shifts from sub-Stones R&B to Who/Kinkish power chords to trendy Swinging London pop in search of his own style. He didn't establish his own identity on these fairly derivative recordings, but that's not to say they aren't without their enjoyable aspects. The 1965 single "You've Got A Habit Of Leaving" has some fierce Who-styled feedback, "Can't Help Thinking About Me" is an uneasily introspective number that foreshadows his later lyrics, and the acoustic demos find him groping closer toward a more familiar and distinctive vocal style. Several of the tunes on this collection were produced by the legendary Shel Talmy, who also handled sessions for The Who and Kinks in the mid-'60s.
From the Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
David Jones began performing music when he was 13 years old, learning the saxophone while he was at Bromley Technical High School; another pivotal event happened at the school, when his left pupil became permanently dilated in a schoolyard fight. Following his graduation at 16, he worked as a commercial artist while playing saxophone in a number of mod bands, including the King Bees, the Manish Boys (which also featured Jimmy Page as a session man), and Davey Jones & the Lower Third. All three of those bands released singles, which were generally ignored, yet he continued performing, changing his name to David Bowie in 1966 after the Monkees' Davy Jones became an international star. Over the course of 1966, he released three mod singles on Pye Records, which were all ignored.
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