Liza Jane

 

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Introducing Davie Jones with the King - Bees and their first disc ‘Liza Jane’

Pop music isn’t all affluence. just ask new seventeen year old recording star Davie Jones. Time was (two months ago in fact) when he and his group were almost on their uppers. No money, bad equipment. Then Davie had a brainwave. “I had been reading a lot in the papers about John Bloom” says Davie, “So I put pen to paper and wrote him a letter.” Davie told Bloom that he had the chance of backing one of the most talented and up-and-coming groups on the pop scene. All he had to do was advance the several hundred pounds it requires to outfit a pop group with the best equipment. Davie didn’t get the money, but he did get a telegram next day from John Bloom giving the phone number of artist’s manager Leslie Conn. Davie got in touch, was rewarded with a booking at Bloom’s wedding anniversary party. “We were a dismal failure”, recalls Davie. “It was a dinner dress affair and we turned up in jeans and sweat shirts and played our usual brand of rhytham and blues. It didn’t go down too well.Still we’ll know better next time.” However, all’s well that ends well. Leslie Conn liked the earthy type of music the group played, arranged an audition with Decca records which resulted in a contract and the first release by David Jones with the King-Bees, “Liza Jane”, released by Decca (Decca F 13807) on September 29th.

Davie Jones with the King-Bees

Met at Barbers

Davie Jones met up with his four member backing group the

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1964 DEMO - A SIDE

1964 DEMO - B SIDE

1964 ISSUE - A SIDE

1964 ISSUE - B SIDE

1978 RE-RELEASE DEMO - A SIDE

1978 RE-RELEASE DEMO - B SIDE

The Press release that came with some

of the 1978 Demos

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1978 RE-RELEASE ISSUE - A SIDE

1978 RE-RELEASE ISSUE - B SIDE

Some of these came with a press release

(a reproduction of a 1964 press release)

See below.