Taking Out Time - Complete Recordings 1967-1969

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 These are coupled on Disc Three with live tracks and other rarities for which tapes have been archived, plus interesting alternative versions discovered down the years.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.

DISC ONE:

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



DISC TWO:


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)



DISC THREE:

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