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5.David Bowie and The Lower Third:"Can’t help thinking about me / And I say to myself"

First recording by the name of David Bowie and second single together with "The Lower Third" (Taylor, Givens and Lancaster), is also the second single with two original compositions of David, this time with the last name Bowie.

Bowie This time he records with the Pye label and produced by Tony Hatch, the strongman of A & R Seal, who recorded the group in the Pye studios in London. The single was released on January 14, 1966 in England and thanks to the label was distributed by Warner Bros is also launched U.S. in May of that year, being the first recording of Bowie to cross the Atlantic. Anyway, the single was another failure in his career.

"Can not help thinking about me" is also the first song from Bowie to appear on an LP, it is the compilation "Hitmakers Vol 4" Pye, also released in 1966 (some sources indicate that in March) and which included two themes of the "Kinks" and a "Donovan" among others.

Pye In September 1972, reissued internationally "Can not help thinking about me" but this time with "I'm not losing sleep" on side B, a clear signal achievement of the success of Bowie that year. Subsequently, the single is reissued in Canada in June 1978, but this time with "Do anything you say" as B-side

In 1977 "The Great Imposters" cover her face in tribute to "Dollars in drag." In 1985 two issues, in their original versions, are included in a compilation entitled "Anthology of British rock" launched by the Compleat label in 1985.

"Can not help thinking about me" was also included on a tribute LP entitled "Only Bowie" of 1995 in a group version of "Davy Jones' mannish iddeals" (interesting name).

Perhaps thinking of the project "Toy", although no record of who has worked on this issue, including the A-side Bowie on tour tracklist LP "Hours" and is presented in the BBC's "The Mark and Lard Show" on October 25, 1999, together with Page Hamilton and Mark Plati in guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, Mike Garson on keyboards, Sterling Campbell on drums, and Emm Gryner Holly Palmer on vocals and production by Will Saunders.

In 2002 the Castle Music label includes "Can not help thinking about me" on the compilation "Doin 'the Mod 4: Ready, Steady, Stop!" with other singles of the Pye and Piccadilly label released between 1965 and 1969.

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