Have you seen them singing it together at the Freddie Mercury memorial concert at Wembley. It was amazing, Bowies whole set was amazing.. it's on UA-cam, he does Under Pressure with Annie Lennox, Heroes with legendary Mick Ronson on guitar....one of the highlights of a fantastic concert
Professional by age 17, though not scoring his own first hit until age 22. Genius eventually will out, though it takes a cruelly long time for some, as in David Jones/Bowie's case. Thank you for this encyclopedic review of Bowie's oeuvre, and the success others had with it.
I would hardly say having a big hit at 22 and being a worldwide phenomenon by the time you hit 30 is a "cruelly long time". Not only that, but he seemed to enjoy himself along the way.
Thanks for introducing me to the song "Silver Tree Top School For Boys". I think both versions are excellent! Bowie was a very special person after all, who writes a song like "When I'm Five"? Surely you must have great empathy and imagination to write something from the point of view of a 4-year-old!
The kicker, the twist in that "When I'm Five" that was glossed over in this video's narrative was "Don't know why my Daddy cries all night" The four-year-old was terminal. Who writes songs like that? Only Bowie.
@@xxcelr8rs According to Dana Gillespie in the 'The Man Who Changed The World' documentary, she said she found his parents' house to be a cold residence compared to hers. I got a feeling that his mum and dad didn't talk to each other that much at the time.
@@barbarakirk3064 Hello, you made me curious and immediately started listening. And indeed...good match! I didn't know The Sweeney unfortunately. Saw that it was a British police series that played from 1975-1978. That I do not know this series may be because it was not broadcast in the Netherlands, where I live. I am going to find out. However, the actors John Taw and Dennis Waterman are very well known here. Nice song by the way! Greetings!
I'm a MASSIVE Bowie head and i had no clue about 9/10ths of this stuff!!! That Page riff on The Superman?!? Come on - totally legendary‼️‼️‼️ Thank you so much for this video and growing my teeny tiny 🧠
Always impressed with the stories of Bowie helping other bands and musicians throughout his career. I didn't know about these ones and it just confirms what a great person - in addition to brilliant musician - he was and how missed he is!
April '65 he'd have been 18 years old when Take My Tip was released, what a talent he was from an early age, almost as if he was on a predetermined trajectory to the unparalled talent he morphed in to 7 years later.
but he wasn't an unparralled talent at an early age, and he had a difficult time in those years before he had success. there was nothing predetermined about it. people like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson were very talented from an early age, Bowie wasn't. he took until his mid 20s to start making music people wanted to hear.
@@perfectallycromulent no he wrote Space Oddity when he was 21 in 1968 so you're wrong there, I think he got talent by being highly driven and kept trying but he obviously had it from a young age getting hits through other people
@@NickSBailey He'd been working as a musician since he was 16 years old. It took 5 years for him to get anywhere. And that was a minor hit. He didn't really get popular until 1972 with the Ziggy Stardust album. I've been a Bowie fan since the early 80s, I'm not trying to say he isn't great, but it's a fact that he struggled for years. You can read all about it in many biographies.
I knew about most of these songs. The big surprise was that he wrote, All Coppers are Bastards. We all enjoyed singing that on nights out. Cheers DJ. RIP. I still remember the days in Bromley….
While it was in the charts we had a chemistry teacher with a really large nose. Every time he walked past us we'd be singing "ha ha ha, he he he, I'm a laughing nose and you can't catch me". He completely ignored us but, at the time I found it incredibly funny.
Yes, it entered the top 5 on the Melody Maker and NME lists, I have it all here, it was also a great success in several countries, in New Zealand it reached 3, on Spanish radio it was played a lot, etc.
I saw ziggy stardust show in 73 at long Beach arena here in so cal a friend called and said he hat extra ticket and gave it to me I had no idea who bowie was ! I was a sabbath fan I must say it was quite dramatic event ha ha great memories thanks YP cheers ! I never got my notification from boobtube !! 😊
I'm sure someone else will have mentioned it, but Oscar was Paul Beuselinck and he later achieved fame s Paul Nicholas. Also from Discogs: 'David Bowie appears on the track, uncredited, making a cameo appearance during the prison roll-call (No. 33425) and in the chorus. The "A" side was reissued (with a different mix) in the late 1970's under a different name : Ivor Bird - Over The Wall We Go.
My friend Ray Williams who placed the Ad that put Elton and Bernie together, is one of the singers on Over The Wall We Go. He worked at UA and Bowie tried to pitch songs for the Bonzo Dog Band to record.
Friends and I always viewed Bowie as one who changed the music just as the Beatles had done much earlier. Moon Age Daydream was the song we thought heralded it.
Bowie was a huge influence on music, but what I found interesting was a comment by him in which he said that he didn't think the Beatles were a significant influence to the music world. I was surprised by the statement, but there it is.
The time Yesterday's Papers puts into their videos has to be applauded. The research, video and audio is of the quality I'd expect from a major TV production company. If the narration is AI it's the best I've heard... I don't think it is. It's well researched, well presented and naturally narrated.
Congratulations on doing something which is very difficult to do, introduce me to things I didn’t know about DB. Very informative, and brilliantly out together, with the visuals and artists talking about their recollections. Thank you.
As ever, utterly brilliant! Without doubt, one of my favourite channels…informative, impartial and impeccable attention to detail! Every post makes sense, and manages to bring up more interesting, and often ignored, sides of artists usually dismissed by others! Many thanks!
Interesting that the Beatstalkers bassist recalled Bowie going through his Anthony Newley stage when asking the lead singer to use an English accent for When I Was Five. Everything that I’ve been able to read about Bowie is that he was influenced by Anthony Newley. The timbre and phrasing of their voices are very similar. Newley’s stage presence, even though he would wear a tuxedo and looked more conventional, had a bit of a flamboyant style, as did Bowie.
Yep, Bowie was very influenced by Newley around 1966/67. Many songs from Bowie's debut album from 1967 were influenced by him. Check out this interview, Bowie talks about how he became a fan of Anthony Newley around the 10:42 mark: ua-cam.com/video/bnLgqeFxkW0/v-deo.html
Hard to believe that Bowie spent so long in relative obscurity before he really broke through. I knew he gave Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" but I didn't know he was quite so instrumental in stopping the band from breaking up.
He didn't really make it in America until early 1973 with Space Oddity, an already old song. I had been a fan since 1967 or 8 when a friend gave me a promo copy of his first album, saying it was the worst thing he ever heard. But I really liked it and still know all the songs by heart. My favorite was The Gang.
'Join the Gang'. "Fifteen bob a coke, 'fraid that's past a joke". Bowie's debut album is brilliant. Released the same day as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. The latter did slightly better.
I was never a big Bowie fan until I heard the story behind him in Berlin with Iggy Pop and how he not only wrote but produced Iggy’s albums The Idiot and Lust for Life….. an incredible talent….!
David Bowie along with Elton John the Who the Rolling Stones and the Beatles are easily the top 5 British Pop Rock artists to come out of the 1960s and 70s and this excellent video showcased David Bowie's great songwriting skills. My favorite song in this video is the Laughing Gnome as this funny upbeat 1967 song will make just about any one laugh or smile and that is what music is all about.
The recording of "Everything Is You" by The Beatstalkers makes me think of the kind of material which The Move were releasing during that period (e.g., "Cherry Blossom Clinic", "Flowers In The Rain" etc.)
3:47 Interesting to hear more about Alan Mair. He wrote "My Way Out Of Here" on The Only Ones 3rd LP. In my view it has a very Kinks type sound and Mair's 60's pop/psychedelia influences probably help to explain why I like it so much
Yeah, we got a double LP of some of these things (the Bowie versions) in the States after he hit it big, and even that didn't cover it all. Amazingly prolific fellow, and he just did not know the meaning of "time to pack it in."
Bowie already recorded demos of some of these songs which were not then released, but have appeared on his download only releases. A version of All The Young Dudes featuring Bowie singing the verses, and Ian Hunter singing over the chorus appeared among the bonus tracks on the CD reissue of the album of that name. Bowie's vocals were removed and replaced by Hunter's, so it seems as though Ian Hunter sang lead all the way through, with Bowie on backing vocals on the chorus. He slightly later recorded his own version which was not then released, but has since appeared on a Bowie compilation. This is his version with Mott The Hoople. ua-cam.com/video/mykW6ZEY_g8/v-deo.html
@@Moonie804 In the early 70s I became aware of Bowie's early stuff from the mid 60s. Based on the title alone I wrote a song called 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'. When I eventually heard Bowie's song it was (unsurprisingly) nothing like mine. And his was definitely better.
Amazing. Everyone goes on about him being a chameleon but if you didn't know this story you might not think it might be because he had to try so many different things on just to get a look-in from the record buying public.
Man, you’re the Smithsonian of pop singles, I bet Tarentino calls you for his OSTs and if he doesn’t, well he should ! 😉 Btw, I recently came across a live version of "I’m Waiting For The Man" with Bowie and Lou Reed and it’s a fantastic version
I love the fact you concentrate on just certain parts of an artists career, instead of the same old junk these other sites are offering, things we already know about a certain artist....Great job......😎
I knew that Bowie gave All The Young Dudes to Mott the Hoople but I didn't know about his back story from the 60's. Can you imagine a world where Bowie just wrote songs for others and never recorded again? Thank the music gods that he decided to push on and putting out his own music or else a huge slice of music history would be gone.
Just my opinion but "Over The Wall We Go" is absolutely hilarious plus it's been years since I heard Peter Noone's version of "Oh, You Pretty Things", but while Peter's version doesn't top Bowie"s, it has stood the test rather well as far as I'm concerned.
Peter Noone's version kind of reminds me of some of the songs that McCartney was writing in the late 60s and early 70s like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or some of the stuff on "Ram".
The version of Silly Boy Blue you mentioned wasn't Bowie's first recording of this, it was available on the albums David Bowie ( The first album of that title ) and The World of David Bowie in the early 70's.
I love songwriters. Most of them are not performing artists. Carole King wrote dozens of songs that ended up on the Top 10 or Top 40 list. James Taylor wrote 100 songs that we know. Vander and Young, and Lennon and McCartney will never be forgotten. I love song writers.
At the end when some songs that Bowie wrote for other artists that were recorded later than 1972 are mentioned, one is not mentioned: Madman, written by Bowie and Marc Bolan. Written in 1977, but was not recorded until the 80s, then by Cuddly Toys and Swedish duo Blue For Two.
The Laughing gnome was the first Bowie song I heard and I loved it but he seemed to go undercover and when he re-emerged with Starman and Suffragette City I wasn’t sure if I liked it as much.
HI great video enjoyed it very much, re silly boy blue although recorded for toy album i think you will find he recorded it before also on the Images double album, I think he let The Arnold Corns to record his work too
Woah....interesting ...got all Bowie's early 60's releases, but haven't heard most of what you tagged here. Trainspotter allert!!!....wasn't "Silly Boy Blue" already on the 1967 "David Bowie" Deram label ? he indeed rerecorded it later.
*Bowie first recorded 'Silly Boy Blue' in the late 60's, not 2000.* I have an record with it included on it from back then (buried in the garage somewhere!)
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The story behind All The Young Dudes is legendary. Good for Bowie & Ian Hunter that this brilliant song was recorded & released.
Have you seen them singing it together at the Freddie Mercury memorial concert at Wembley. It was amazing, Bowies whole set was amazing.. it's on UA-cam, he does Under Pressure with Annie Lennox, Heroes with legendary Mick Ronson on guitar....one of the highlights of a fantastic concert
Ah Bowie, the gift that keeps on giving
Professional by age 17, though not scoring his own first hit until age 22. Genius eventually will out, though it takes a cruelly long time for some, as in David Jones/Bowie's case. Thank you for this encyclopedic review of Bowie's oeuvre, and the success others had with it.
I would hardly say having a big hit at 22 and being a worldwide phenomenon by the time you hit 30 is a "cruelly long time". Not only that, but he seemed to enjoy himself along the way.
Thanks for introducing me to the song "Silver Tree Top School For Boys". I think both versions are excellent! Bowie was a very special person after all, who writes a song like "When I'm Five"? Surely you must have great empathy and imagination to write something from the point of view of a 4-year-old!
The kicker, the twist in that "When I'm Five" that was glossed over in this video's narrative was "Don't know why my Daddy cries all night" The four-year-old was terminal. Who writes songs like that? Only Bowie.
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Thanks for your comment with added information.
The fuzz guitar on the first version also reminded me of Harry South's theme tune to The Sweeney.
@@xxcelr8rs According to Dana Gillespie in the 'The Man Who Changed The World' documentary, she said she found his parents' house to be a cold residence compared to hers. I got a feeling that his mum and dad didn't talk to each other that much at the time.
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Hello, you made me curious and immediately started listening. And indeed...good match! I didn't know The Sweeney unfortunately. Saw that it was a British police series that played from 1975-1978. That I do not know this series may be because it was not broadcast in the Netherlands, where I live. I am going to find out. However, the actors John Taw and Dennis Waterman are very well known here. Nice song by the way! Greetings!
I'm a MASSIVE Bowie head and i had no clue about 9/10ths of this stuff!!! That Page riff on The Superman?!? Come on - totally legendary‼️‼️‼️ Thank you so much for this video and growing my teeny tiny 🧠
Jimmy once played guitar for some guy that never got women's attention named Tom Jones. 😉
Always impressed with the stories of Bowie helping other bands and musicians throughout his career. I didn't know about these ones and it just confirms what a great person - in addition to brilliant musician - he was and how missed he is!
April '65 he'd have been 18 years old when Take My Tip was released, what a talent he was from an early age, almost as if he was on a predetermined trajectory to the unparalled talent he morphed in to 7 years later.
but he wasn't an unparralled talent at an early age, and he had a difficult time in those years before he had success. there was nothing predetermined about it. people like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson were very talented from an early age, Bowie wasn't. he took until his mid 20s to start making music people wanted to hear.
@@perfectallycromulentwasn’t talented? Of course he was. One doesn’t have to write popular hits to be talented
@@perfectallycromulent no he wrote Space Oddity when he was 21 in 1968 so you're wrong there, I think he got talent by being highly driven and kept trying but he obviously had it from a young age getting hits through other people
@@NickSBailey He'd been working as a musician since he was 16 years old. It took 5 years for him to get anywhere. And that was a minor hit. He didn't really get popular until 1972 with the Ziggy Stardust album. I've been a Bowie fan since the early 80s, I'm not trying to say he isn't great, but it's a fact that he struggled for years. You can read all about it in many biographies.
As a Bowie fan learning new stuff about David is such a thrill.
I knew about most of these songs. The big surprise was that he wrote, All Coppers are Bastards. We all enjoyed singing that on nights out. Cheers DJ. RIP. I still remember the days in Bromley….
The laughing gnome was re-released in 1973 in the UK and actually made the top five
While it was in the charts we had a chemistry teacher with a really large nose. Every time he walked past us we'd be singing "ha ha ha, he he he, I'm a laughing nose and you can't catch me". He completely ignored us but, at the time I found it incredibly funny.
Yes, it entered the top 5 on the Melody Maker and NME lists, I have it all here, it was also a great success in several countries, in New Zealand it reached 3, on Spanish radio it was played a lot, etc.
@@KenFullman He may have said nothing, but I bet it was a bit of a blow with you referring to his large nose.
I saw ziggy stardust show in 73 at long Beach arena here in so cal a friend called and said he hat extra ticket and gave it to me I had no idea who bowie was ! I was a sabbath fan I must say it was quite dramatic event ha ha great memories thanks YP cheers ! I never got my notification from boobtube !! 😊
Love the old footage of the record factory workers putting the vinyl out. Now I'm gonna listen to Bowie's The Supermen again, thx Jimmy Page!
I'm sure someone else will have mentioned it, but Oscar was Paul Beuselinck and he later achieved fame s Paul Nicholas. Also from Discogs: 'David Bowie appears on the track, uncredited, making a cameo appearance during the prison roll-call (No. 33425) and in the chorus. The "A" side was reissued (with a different mix) in the late 1970's under a different name : Ivor Bird - Over The Wall We Go.
My friend Ray Williams who placed the Ad that put Elton and Bernie together, is one of the singers on Over The Wall We Go. He worked at UA and Bowie tried to pitch songs for the Bonzo Dog Band to record.
Cool, I didn't know that.
@@YesterdaysPapers He is a good friend, signed Idle Race too
@@dannybenair Great band.
This is fascinating. I've been a fan since 1973 and I never knew most of this, Thanks a lot
Bowie was good - right from the start. He finally found his way by the time of “Hunky Dory”, one of his greatest albums. Very talented man.
Cannot believe no one has done a youtube video about songs David Bowie has written for other artists before... So original!
Fantastic episode! Love that Beatstalkers version of Silver Tree Top School For Boys. I didn't realize Bowie had written it. Now it seems so obvious.
As a Bowie lover, I loved this video!!! Great job as usual, YP!
Amazing stuff here brother! One of your best! ❤
Cheers Michael!
Friends and I always viewed Bowie as one who changed the music just as the Beatles had done much earlier. Moon Age Daydream was the song we thought heralded it.
"Moonage Daydream" is brilliant, one of my favourite Bowie songs.
Bowie was a huge influence on music, but what I found interesting was a comment by him in which he said that he didn't think the Beatles were a significant influence to the music world. I was surprised by the statement, but there it is.
The time Yesterday's Papers puts into their videos has to be applauded. The research, video and audio is of the quality I'd expect from a major TV production company. If the narration is AI it's the best I've heard... I don't think it is. It's well researched, well presented and naturally narrated.
Congratulations on doing something which is very difficult to do, introduce me to things I didn’t know about DB.
Very informative, and brilliantly out together, with the visuals and artists talking about their recollections.
Thank you.
Interesting stuff!!! I especially liked All the Young Dudes.
Another brilliantly researched and edited video yp. Caroline's Mister A Go Go is a new one on me, love it!
As ever, utterly brilliant! Without doubt, one of my favourite channels…informative, impartial and impeccable attention to detail! Every post makes sense, and manages to bring up more interesting, and often ignored, sides of artists usually dismissed by others! Many thanks!
Thank you!
This podcast is the gift that keeps on giving. We 73 yr. old perennially nostalgic American curmudgeon shredders love it;
thank you Sir!
YP hits again! For the 100th+ time, thanks for your great video.
David Bowie is the only artist who has countless rock n roll gems scattered across five -- count em -- five decades!
Great video. I learned quite a few things that I didn't know before.
Now I'll need to try and track down recordings of some of these obscure tracks!
Nice production guys. I learned some new things Thanks.
Another terrific post, YP. Thank you!
Thank you, Willie!
Interesting that the Beatstalkers bassist recalled Bowie going through his Anthony Newley stage when asking the lead singer to use an English accent for When I Was Five. Everything that I’ve been able to read about Bowie is that he was influenced by Anthony Newley. The timbre and phrasing of their voices are very similar. Newley’s stage presence, even though he would wear a tuxedo and looked more conventional, had a bit of a flamboyant style, as did Bowie.
Yep, Bowie was very influenced by Newley around 1966/67. Many songs from Bowie's debut album from 1967 were influenced by him. Check out this interview, Bowie talks about how he became a fan of Anthony Newley around the 10:42 mark: ua-cam.com/video/bnLgqeFxkW0/v-deo.html
Bowie was ambitious in a good way and it paid off for him eventually.
Hard to believe that Bowie spent so long in relative obscurity before he really broke through. I knew he gave Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" but I didn't know he was quite so instrumental in stopping the band from breaking up.
Great research and presentation👍
The early seventies, great music great times❤👍
That was super informative. Lots of stuff I'd never heard of before in there
Thanks for this very informative tube!
Great video, thank you very much.
He didn't really make it in America until early 1973 with Space Oddity, an already old song. I had been a fan since 1967 or 8 when a friend gave me a promo copy of his first album, saying it was the worst thing he ever heard. But I really liked it and still know all the songs by heart. My favorite was The Gang.
'Join the Gang'. "Fifteen bob a coke, 'fraid that's past a joke". Bowie's debut album is brilliant. Released the same day as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. The latter did slightly better.
Love your videos!
Very enjoyable thanks 😊
I was never a big Bowie fan until I heard the story behind him in Berlin with Iggy Pop and how he not only wrote but produced Iggy’s albums The Idiot and Lust for Life….. an incredible talent….!
Enjoyed that thanks.
Excellent!
Most of those very early 7"s from 1965-7 are worth a small fortune nowadays
David Bowie along with Elton John the Who the Rolling Stones and the Beatles are easily the top 5 British Pop Rock artists to come out of the 1960s and 70s and this excellent video showcased David Bowie's great songwriting skills. My favorite song in this video is the Laughing Gnome as this funny upbeat 1967 song will make just about any one laugh or smile and that is what music is all about.
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The recording of "Everything Is You" by The Beatstalkers makes me think of the kind of material which The Move were releasing during that period (e.g., "Cherry Blossom Clinic", "Flowers In The Rain" etc.)
Again, good and interesting work YP.
That was really interesting. Thank you.
We had the album "Images" and The Laughing Gnome" was a classic we got stoned too a lot, we still sing it.
Amazing
Great stuff! 😺
3:47 Interesting to hear more about Alan Mair. He wrote "My Way Out Of Here" on The Only Ones 3rd LP. In my view it has a very Kinks type sound and Mair's 60's pop/psychedelia influences probably help to explain why I like it so much
Thank you! Those videos are really delightful.
Actually the laughing gnome song sounded pretty sweet in French.
Yeah, I like the french version more than the other versions.
I loved it.
Sounds like some silly Sergei Ginsburg song
I just want to say that was a really interesting video I didn't realise that David Bowie wrote so many songs are artists
Very good video.
Many thanks for that fascinating and informative video!!! 😊
The great chameleon changed his look as much as his musical style. A great loss.
Right up to your usual standards. Your whole project is a history of rock in the making.
Yeah, we got a double LP of some of these things (the Bowie versions) in the States after he hit it big, and even that didn't cover it all. Amazingly prolific fellow, and he just did not know the meaning of "time to pack it in."
Yesterday’s Papers again proving they are THE COOLEST AND HIPEST channel on UA-cam 😊💯🎶👍🏾💙
Bowie already recorded demos of some of these songs which were not then released, but have appeared on his download only releases.
A version of All The Young Dudes featuring Bowie singing the verses, and Ian Hunter singing over the chorus appeared among the bonus tracks on the CD reissue of the album of that name. Bowie's vocals were removed and replaced by Hunter's, so it seems as though Ian Hunter sang lead all the way through, with Bowie on backing vocals on the chorus. He slightly later recorded his own version which was not then released, but has since appeared on a Bowie compilation. This is his version with Mott The Hoople.
ua-cam.com/video/mykW6ZEY_g8/v-deo.html
Yep, I've got the version with Bowie on vocals on the CD reissue of "All the Young Dudes".
“Dig everything” by Bowie, I believe came out in 1966. Great song. Check it out.
Yep, that's a great song.
I agree, it's a brilliant song!... and Can't Help Thinking About Me is another one
@@Moonie804 In the early 70s I became aware of Bowie's early stuff from the mid 60s. Based on the title alone I wrote a song called 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'. When I eventually heard Bowie's song it was (unsurprisingly) nothing like mine. And his was definitely better.
Amazing. Everyone goes on about him being a chameleon but if you didn't know this story you might not think it might be because he had to try so many different things on just to get a look-in from the record buying public.
This is good. I love it when research is done.
Was that a reference to the girl group?
Excelente video por la recopilación de la carrera de Bowie que muchos desconociamos🎉
Man, you’re the Smithsonian of pop singles, I bet Tarentino calls you for his OSTs and if he doesn’t, well he should ! 😉
Btw, I recently came across a live version of "I’m Waiting For The Man" with Bowie and Lou Reed and it’s a fantastic version
Cheers, Jean-Marc! I'd love to get a telephone call from Quentin!
Thanks for posting
Silver tree top boys ,!! I can hear Madness doing that number today..??.
He burst onto the music scene like a Meteor when he released Starman and rest is history as they say
I love the fact you concentrate on just certain parts of an artists career, instead of the same old junk these other sites are offering, things we already know about a certain artist....Great job......😎
I knew that Bowie gave All The Young Dudes to Mott the Hoople but I didn't know about his back story from the 60's. Can you imagine a world where Bowie just wrote songs for others and never recorded again? Thank the music gods that he decided to push on and putting out his own music or else a huge slice of music history would be gone.
You are so right.
Just my opinion but "Over The Wall We Go" is absolutely hilarious plus it's been years since I heard Peter Noone's version of "Oh, You Pretty Things", but while Peter's version doesn't top Bowie"s, it has stood the test rather well as far as I'm concerned.
Peter Noone's version kind of reminds me of some of the songs that McCartney was writing in the late 60s and early 70s like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or some of the stuff on "Ram".
All The Young Dudes, fantastic single by Mott. Bowie did them proud.
If there was a compilation of early David Bowie songs from 1964-1968, I would buy it. This phase is important but has been ignored.
There is one released in early 90s
The version of Silly Boy Blue you mentioned wasn't Bowie's first recording of this, it was available on the albums David Bowie ( The first album of that title ) and The World of David Bowie in the early 70's.
I love songwriters. Most of them are not performing artists. Carole King wrote dozens of songs that ended up on the Top 10 or Top 40 list. James Taylor wrote 100 songs that we know. Vander and Young, and Lennon and McCartney will never be forgotten. I love song writers.
At the end when some songs that Bowie wrote for other artists that were recorded later than 1972 are mentioned, one is not mentioned: Madman, written by Bowie and Marc Bolan. Written in 1977, but was not recorded until the 80s, then by Cuddly Toys and Swedish duo Blue For Two.
The Laughing gnome was the first Bowie song I heard and I loved it but he seemed to go undercover and when he re-emerged with Starman and Suffragette City I wasn’t sure if I liked it as much.
The Beatstalkers' versions are the absolute bee's knees.
12:45 That's Larry Coryell!!!!!
0:34 I think I have seen this while singing arses to arses live in Japan 1990.
HI great video enjoyed it very much, re silly boy blue although recorded for toy album i think you will find he recorded it before also on the Images double album, I think he let The Arnold Corns to record his work too
'Silly Boy Blue' is on Bowie's eponymous debut album from 1967. It is also on the album 'The World of David Bowie' released in 1970.
Woah....interesting ...got all Bowie's early 60's releases, but haven't heard most of what you tagged here.
Trainspotter allert!!!....wasn't "Silly Boy Blue" already on the 1967 "David Bowie" Deram label ? he indeed rerecorded it later.
Yep, that was a mistake on my part. He did record it in 1967.
I caught that too! Well done!
***** better and better each time.
wow a lot of well very British songs there and well that's where they stayed thank god
The laughing gnome was rereleased 6 years later in September 1973
That's correct, although it was without Bowie's permission, the song worked well, in that year anything Bowie released would reach the top 10
If George Formby were still alive by the late 60's, he would have covered "The Laughing Gnome".
What bands weren't Jimmy Page in🤔
Comme d'habitude!!!
Has anyone ever seen Bowie's lyrics for My Way? Surely more interesting than Paul Anka.
Ziggy & Lou Reed Transformer I often play in one go.
Nice job. Thanks!
*Bowie first recorded 'Silly Boy Blue' in the late 60's, not 2000.*
I have an record with it included on it from back then (buried in the garage somewhere!)
Well, at least it's not buried in the garden!
"Silly Boy Blue" might be one of his first treasures.
Peter Noone singing Bowie looks strange 👈😁
Herman's Hermits doing The Kinks "Dandy" was also strange, but it was a huge US hit, and gave Ray Davies a welcome royalty boost to his bank account.
Great post as usual
Thanks!
He originally wrote "Andy Warhol" for Dana Gillespie, but her version wasn't actually released until a year after his own version on Hunky Dory.
Never knew about the Mott the Hoople/David Bowie connection.