- Rubber Band (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Rubber Band
Caption =
Artist =David Bowie
from Album = David Bowie
A-side =
B-side ="The London Boys "
Released =2 December 1966
Format =7" single
Recorded = R G Jones Studios,London , 18 October1966
Genre = Pop
Length = 2:05
Label = Deram
DM 107
Writer =
Producer = Mike Vernon
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "I Dig Everything "
(1966)
This single = "Rubber Band"
(1966)
Next single = "The Laughing Gnome "
(1967)
Misc =Rubber Band was a single by
David Bowie . The single was released in 1966, and marked the start of Bowie’s recording contract with Deram which would include his first album, 1967’s "David Bowie".It was part of the three-track audition tape Bowie’s new manager
Kenneth Pitt used to persuade the label to sign him. The track itself shows Bowie’s infatuation at the time withAnthony Newley . Despite some good notices in the music press, the single was a flop, once more failing to break into the UK charts.The track was later re-recorded for Bowie’s debut album. The B-side, “The London Boys”, was belatedly issued as a single in 1975.
Track listing
# "Rubber Band" (Bowie) - 2:05
# "The London Boys” (Bowie) – 3:20The US release had "There is a Happy Land" as the B-side.
Production credits
* Producers:
** Mike Vernon*
Musician s:
**David Bowie : Vocals,Guitar
**Derek Boyes : Organ
**Dek Fearnley : Bass
**John Eager :Drum sOther releases
* In 1969 Bowie performed it in his promo film "Love You Till Tuesday".
* It was also released as the B-side of the Spanish reissue of "The Laughing Gnome " in 1973.
* It also appeared on the following compilations:
** "The World of David Bowie " (1970)
** "Images 1966-1967 " (1973)
** "Coccinelle Varietes " (France 1973)
** "El Rey Del Gay Power " (Spain 1973)
** "20 Bowie Classics " (Australia 1979)
** "Another Face " (1981)
** "Historia De La Musica Rock " (Spanish 1981)
** "Love You Till Tuesday" (1984)
** "The Collection" (1985)
** "The Gospel According to David Bowie " (Germany 1993)
** "London Boy " (1996)
** "The Deram Anthology " (1997) (Single and album version)References
Pegg, Nicholas, "The Complete David Bowie", Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5
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