* - released earler in England: April 1965 {UK Parlophone} / * - To confirm this, Click on Link above/ left, then scroll down to view an acetatate with "Four Plus One" scratched out, and "The In Crowd" group name handwritten undernesath it.
From Bradford, Yorkshire, Engand // FROM Parlophone's press release: Allen Pound (vocals) / Ricky Thomas (lead guitar), Ollie Bass {YEAH, right ....} (bass) /Trevor McPartland (drums), and "Allen was a former car salesman who liked swimming and disliked cold weather. Ricky liked billiards and disliked getting up early. Ollie liked Chinese food and disliked bigheads. Trevor liked antiques and disliked vans." The sheet emphasises their poverty and state of starvation, and mentions that they were all sacked from their jobs when "a feature about them appeared in a national newspaper this summer". / * - When I first heard this, I thought the lyrics were "I'm searching in the wilderness, I'm looking for my LUNCH :((( - LsA // ** - There was also a very collectable Dutch 1960's label {Peter And The Blizzards/ Bintangs/ Outsiders} by that name // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original single
* - Released in England: April 1966 (UK Parlophone); the last of 3 singles released in the US /// David Bowie (not on this recording) was a member briefly, but about a year after this was released.
Time:
4:28
Artist:
The Voice [Billed as 'The Profile' and 'Karl Stuart And The Profile', on their 1st 2 singles]
* - FULL title: 'From Taboo To Telstar (1962: A Year In The Life Of 304 Holloway Road)' - "304 Holloway Road" was the London address of Meek's own recording studio.
Time:
4:38
Artist:
The Crytones [Ron Gardner, Kent Morrill, Buck Ormsby]
* - On their first album 'Road Runner' / Click on Link above/ left, to view the original single, which was picked up for national release by Liberty Records.
WHERE the original album's title came from: Dandelion Records's owner and executive producer, famed BBC DJ John Peel, asked the group to run through a song a second time in the studio, and the band members yelled "Bugger Off!, Peel", which gave rise to the album's title. The group refused to record, AT ALL, any overdubs or second takes.
This album was listed at #412 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2012, and #310 in 2020 // Click the Link above, left, to view the original English single with picture sleeve (the 1st 10,000).
2014 - NME ranked the song number 155 in a list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" // 2020 - The album ranked at #408 on Rolling Stone's 500 "Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
This song was originally offered to Mott the Hoople, who declined it and recorded Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" instead. It was recorded with Bowie's backing band "The Spiders from Mars", with Mick Ronson. // Click the Link above, left, to view the original single. with a picture sleeve.