Looks like Bowie's Deram stuff is being reissued.

Product Description
David Bowie’s 1967 debut album for Decca finally receives the Deluxe Edition treatment. Disc One features the original stereo and mono mixes of the album stunningly remastered by Peter Mew and Tris Penna at Abbey Road Studios . This is the first time that the mono mix has been available in any format since the late '60s and is obviously the first time on CD. Disc Two features the singles, unreleased stereo mixes, the legendary unreleased single “London Bye Ta-Ta” and 5 Previously Unreleased tracks recorded for John Peel’s Top Gear programme in 1967. All in all, there are a total of 26 tracks appearing on CD for the very first time. Comes with sleeve notes by Tris Penna and Kevin Cann.

CD 1
— STEREO VERSION —
01: Uncle Arthur ( 2.07 )
02: Sell Me A Coat ( 2.58 )
03: Rubber Band ( 2.17 )
04: Love You Til Tuesday ( 3.10 )
05: There Is A Happy Land ( 3.11 )
06: We Are Hungry Men ( 2.57 )
07: When I Live My Dream ( 3.22 )
08: Little Bombardier ( 3.25 )
09: Silly Boy Blue ( 3.51 )
10: Come And Buy My Toys ( 2.07 )
11: Join The Gang ( 2.18 )
12: She’s Got Medals ( 2.23 )
13: Maids Of Bond Street ( 1.43 )
14: Please Mr Gravedigger ( 2.36 )

— THE ORIGINAL MONO VERSION —
15: Uncle Arthur ( 2.06 )
16: Sell Me A Coat ( 2.57 )
17: Rubber Band ( 2.16)
18: Love You Til Tuesday ( 3.09 )
19: There Is A Happy Land ( 3.14 )
20: We Are Hungry Men ( 2.58 )
21: When I Live My Dream ( 3.21 )
22: Little Bombardier ( 3.23 )
23: Silly Boy Blue ( 3.52 )
24: Come And Buy My Toys ( 2.07 )
25: Join The Gang ( 2.17 )
26: She’s Got Medals ( 2.24 )
27: Maids Of Bond Street ( 1.43 )
28: Please Mr Gravedigger ( 2.35 )

CD 2
01: Rubber Band – Mono Single A-side ( 2.01 )
02: The London Boys – Mono Single B-side ( 3.19 )
03: The Laughing Gnome – Mono Single B-side ( 2.56 )
04: The Gospel According To Tony Day – Mono Single B-side ( 2.46 )
05: Love You Till Tuesday – Mono Single A-side ( 2.59 )
06: Did You Ever Have A Dream – Mono Single B-side ( 2.06 )
07: When I Live My Dream – Mono Single master ( 3.49 )
08: Let Me Sleep Beside You – Mono Single master ( 3.24 )
09: Karma Man – Mono Decca master ( 3.03 )
10: London Bye Ta Ta – Mono Decca master ( 2.36 ) Previously Unreleased
11: In The Heat of the Morning – Mono Decca master ( 2.44 )
12: The Laughing Gnome – New Stereo mix ( 2.59 ) Previously Unreleased
13: The Gospel According To Tony Day – New Stereo mix ( 2.49 ) Previously Unreleased
14: Did You Ever Have A Dream – New Stereo mix ( 2.05 ) - Previously Unreleased
15: Let Me Sleep Beside You – Stereo single version – ( 3.20 ) Previously Unreleased
16: Karma Man – New Stereo version ( 3.03 ) Previously Unreleased
17: In The Heat of the Morning – Stereo mix ( 2.58 )
18: When I’m Five ( 3.05 )
19: Ching-A-Ling – Full Length Stereo mix ( 2.48 ) Previously Unreleased
20: Sell Me A Coat – 1969 Re-recorded version ( 2.58 )
21: Love You Till Tuesday ( 2.56 ) BBC version – Previously Unreleased
22: When I Live My Dream ( 3.33 ) BBC version – Previously Unreleased
23: Little Bombardier ( 3.25 ) BBC version – Previously Unreleased
24: Silly Boy Blue ( 3.22 ) BBC version – Previously Unreleased
25: In The Heat of the Morning ( 4.16 ) BBC version – Previously Unreleased

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002W1GCX4/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002W1GCX4/?tag=imwan-21

I'll probably get this as it compiles most of the common stuff in one place (including I suspect part of the Love You Till Tuesday video), but it's a shame they left out a few harder to find (& higher quality) tracks; it would have been nice to have everything in one place. Also would have been nice to have the pre-Deram ep as part of this.

I've asked this elsewhere, but: the press release makes mention that the mono album tracks appear for the first time on CD. However, I have the Castle "Collection" disc from the 1980s, which presents several of the album tracks in mono. Granted, they could be fold-downs, but...

Wait, you have a press release? Do share!

I second that request!

The press release info has now been added to the first post.

I like many of Bowie's albums, but I haven't really checked this one out. This release looks pretty impressive. Hopefully it sounds good, I'd like to pick it up. Mew doesn't have the best rep on the Hoffman board, but I don't know if that really means much. I don't think I have anything he's mastered.

Thanks for the heads up.

Once again it looks like ordering from Amazon UK is cheaper. 11.69 pounds (I'll add 4 pounds for shipping) 15.69 converts to $25.75 as of 11/30/09. A much better price than Amazon US at $37.98 (not including shipping and tax).

OK.. I preordered it and the price in my cart changed to 10.17 with 3.08 shipping for a total of 13.25 or $21.75.
Still better than Amazon US $37.98 (not including shipping and tax).

You'll really want to check YouTube to preview some of these songs before you get too excited -- there's a reason why Bowie has never tried to buy back the rights to these early songs. If you're like me, you might only like 1 or 2 of the songs on this entire voluminous set.

Yeah, Bowie's Deram-era stuff is nothing like the music you associate with him. This is his "Anthony Newley" period and most of it is crappy 60s pop music.

Agreed 100%. Also, most of this stuff is out there already in one form or another (we really don't need as many as 4 mixes of this crap); & unfortunately they're leaving off the most interesting material from this period: the early Space Oddity from Love You Till Tuesday which is on the previously released Deram Collection & the demos done between Deram & Mercury. A few examples: Little Toy Soldier (an odd but cool ditty about xmas toys & S&M), Rupert The Riley, Buzz The Fuzz, Right On Mother, He was Alright (early demo of Lady Stardust), & several others.

I THINK several of the BBC tracks stated as previously unreleased are actually the Love You Til Tuesday versions, which were on a UK Pickwick cd & also an earlier UK LP release.

I'll probably buy this when it drops below $15 USD, but it's only for Bowie completists. I THINK the main items of interest for those who don't own LYTT or various boots would be the 5 BBC tracks & the early London Bye Ta Ta (though I'm not yet convinced that LBTT is not the version on the 1st s+v box; hopefully it is the true 1st version which is on at least 2 boots).

There is a 1997 remastered 27 track UK 1 disc collection which covers most of this ground (AND includes the LYTT version of Space Oddity that was left off of this new version) for as low as $6.89 new:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003TW8/?tag=imwan-20

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000003TW8/?tag=imwan-21

The last few posters have this right -- this period is historically interesting but only sporadically "good", and it looks like almost all of the worthwhile material is already on the (excellent) DERAM COLLECTION, which includes good liner notes and great sound. I like "The London Boys", "The Gospel According to Tony Day", "In the Heat of the Morning", "Let Me Sleep Beside You", and a few others, but most of the core LP tracks are pretty hard to reconcile next to "Space Oddity" or even "Can't Help Thinking About Me". Often cute, often gimmicky, sometimes charming, but not necessarily "good":

IMO, the only worthwhile things the DERAM COLLECTION is missing the full-length "Ching-a-Ling", a track only interesting because the coda was reworked for "Saviour Machine" on TMWSTW a few years later. And the original 1968 "London Bye Ta-Ta", if that's what we're really getting on this new deluxe release of DAVID BOWIE.

I'd also like make a plug here for Edwyn Collins' cover of "The Gospel According to Tony Day" from a magazine (Mojo? Uncut?) CD compilation a few years back -- a straightforward but superior cover worth tracking down.

IMO the 2 best tracks from this period are the BBC version of Let Me Sleep Beside You (on live at the Beeb & the new 2 cd Space Oddity) & the above mentioned Little Toy Soldier (only on boots afaik). Both are again in the no label period between Deram & Space Oddity. London Bye Ta Ta is ok, though I prefer the remake.

"Little Toy Soldier" also lifts the chorus of the VU's "Venus in Furs" directly -- and isn't there a really early version of "Waiting for the Man" from this same tape?

(I also think that the chorus of "In the Heat of the Morning" sounds like Bryan Ferry, years before Bryan Ferry was even around).

I want to add one more thing to my earlier post -- completist that I am, I do plan to get this release, even though I resisted early 30th and 40th anniversary editions of various (better) Bowie efforts -- still hanging on to my Rykos. But this really does look like a good collection, even if the material is a far cry from Bowie's best.

Yes, there is.

I do recommend the EMI 2 cd sets, the sound quality while not perfect is way better then the screechy sounding Rykos.

Bump: this release's arrival as an import at Amazon USA has been pushed back to April 6th. It's already available from Amazon UK, however ...

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002W1GCX4/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002W1GCX4/?tag=imwan-21

Dammit. Why don't they move FORWARD from Space Oddity instead of backwards? How about a deluxe Man Who Sold the World?

I'm pretty sure Station To Station with Nassau '76 will be next.

I can't recommend this one enough...I've been listening to it nonstop since it arrived from Amazon UK about a week ago. This has been produced with the same care accorded the recent SPACE ODDITY deluxe edition, and makes the best case so far for Bowie's talent having been fully in place (if in need of a consistent direction) pre-"Space Oddity" the single. Heard in mono and stereo mixes, and with an entire second disc of alternate versions, BBC recordings and singles, I'm discovering these tracks to be much more than "The Laughing Gnome" and Anthony Newley pastiches...in truth, there are many rather beautiful melodies married to quirky lyrics and offbeat, very "English" stories, wrapped in arrangements that -- while "of their time" and quite far away from "rock" -- are still pretty inventive. I hadn't given this period of Bowie's career much attention before...but this reissue makes about as good a case for it as is possible.

Hmmmm, maybe I'll bite based on the review. I did recently listen, due to this thread, to The Deram Anthology 1966-1968.
Although it will bust my nuts to be forced to keep it because of the version of Space Oddity which is not included here...

Listening on my computer (I must be f'ing jinxed, I just had my 3rd power amp in a year blow up, hoping it's just an internal fuse....), it sounds like an excellent mastering job. Big caveat that it's playing on my pc, though.