[2016-08-19] The Spencer Davis Group "Taking Out Time: Complete Recordings 1967-1969" 3CD box set (RPM UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:16 am

Description
First-ever complete collection of all the recordings made by 60’s Hammond driven R&B Pop stars The Spencer Davis Group during the period 1967-1969.

Disc One features their 1967 singles recorded with Winwood replacements Phil Sawyer and Eddie Hardin, including the pop sike classics ‘Time Seller’ and ‘Mr Second Class’. Also their recordings used in the film soundtrack “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”.

The second half of Disc One comprises their 1968 single and album recorded with Sawyer’s replacement Ray Fenwick, who brought with him the excellent ‘After Tea’ (co-written with Dutch Tee Set pop master Hans Van Eijck). Album With Their New Face On is a mix of jazzy R&B and pop psychedelia. The standout R&B track is ‘Don’t Want You No More’, which was later covered by The Allman Brothers.

Disc Two boasts their rare, Germany-only single, and the US only LP Funky recorded in 1969 by Fenwick and Davis plus Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray (just before they joined Elton John). Also included is the theme to the TV show Magpie, originally recorded in 1968, and the groovy, heavy psych single ‘Short Change’.

RPM is pleased to finally be able to serve up previously unreleased BBC Sessions, recorded through 1968 around the promotion of With Their New Face On. These are coupled on Disc Three with live tracks and other rarities for which tapes have been archived, plus interesting alternative versions discovered down the years.

This 3CD clamshell packaged box set is crammed full of fascinating details in booklet notes from Andy Neill, photo’s from various archives, and input from original members Ray Fenwick, Pete York and Spencer Davis.

Tracklist
[CD1]
Singles (Mono):
1. Time Seller
2. Don’t Want You No More
Soundtrack:
3. Taking Out Time
4. Every Little Thing
5. Virginals Dream
6. Looking Back
7. Picture Of Her
8. Just Like Me
9. Possession
Singles (Mono):
10. Mr. Second Class
11. Sanity Inspector
12. After Tea
13. Moonshine
Album - With Their New Face On (Stereo):
14. With His New Face On
15. Mr Second Class
16. Alec In Transitland
17. Sanity Inspector
18. Feel Your Way
19. Morning Sun
20. Moonshine
21. Don't Want You No More
22. Time Seller
23. Stop Me, I'm Falling
Bonus Track (Stereo):
24. After Tea

[CD2]
Singles:
1. (Aquarius) Der Wassermann
2. Let The Sunshine In
3. Short Change
4. Picture Of Heaven
Album - Funky:
5. I Met A Woman
6. Letters From Edith
7. Raintree River
8. What A Way To Die
9. Firefly (Alias Funky)
10. Magical Day
11. I Guess I'm Wasting My Time
12. Misguided (Alias Poor Misguided Woman)
13. And The Gods Came Down
14. New Jersey Turnpike
Single:
15. Magpie (The Murgatroyd Band)
16. Twice A Week (The Murgatroyd Band)
Outtakes:
17. I’m Lost
18. Pools Winner
19. Groove Extra
20. The Girls Song
21. Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (Demo)
22. Feel Your Way (Backing Track)

[CD3]
Alternative Versions From Soundtrack Sessions 1967:
1. Feel Your Way
2. Morning Sun
3. Taking Out Time
4. Picture Of Her
5. Just Like Me
6. Possession
BBC Radio Sessions:
7. Don’t Want You No More (18.12.67)
8. Interview (18.12.67)
9. Mr Second Class (18.12.67)
10. Time Seller (18.12.67)
11. Feel Your Way (17.1.68)
12. Taking Out Time (17.1.68)
13. Time Seller (17.1.68)
14. Moonshine (11.3.68)
15. Interview (11.3.68)
16. After Tea (11.3.68)
17. Feel Your Way (11.3.68)
18. Dust My Blues (24.6.68)
19. Interview (24.6.68)
20. With His New Face On (24.6.68)
21. Mr Second Class (24.6.68)
Live - Empire Pool, Wembley 24.3.68:
22. Dust My Blues

Amazon USA
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Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HD34R9G/?tag=imwan-21

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

This could be good. I remember the first Spencer Davis Group comp I bought had 2 cuts on it from this post-Stevie version of the band, and I didn't realize it wasn't Stevie till many years later, ha. Cuts like this, Don't Want You No More, later covered by the Allman Bros. Even some of the posters on YouTube didn't realize this was post-Stevie:

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

Here's another one post-Stevie, Looking Back:

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Wow, another great set. Very underrated band. I have a UK comp on these guys and it is really impressive but this set will supersede my compilation.

[2016-08-19] The Spencer Davis Group "Taking Out Time: Complete Recordings 1967-1969" 3CD box set (RPM UK)

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