second single with the presence of Bowie as a performer, this time as frontman of The Manish Boys, "an R & B group that meets Bowie late 1964 and whose name was taken from a Muddy Waters song. With this group achieved a little more Bowie figuration, reaching playing at the Marquee Club, in the TV show Juke Box Jury and opening for "Gerry and the Pacemakers."
By 1965 the group included David Jones (Bowie) on vocals and alto sax, John Edward on guitar, John Watson on bass, John Whitehead on drums, Bob Solly on keyboards, baritone sax Wilf Byrne and Paul Rodriguez on tenor sax and trumpet.
The Manish Boys get a contract with Parlophone, a subsidiary label of EMI, the same as "The Beatles" and recorded two songs with producer Shel Talmy: "I pity the fool, "Malone Deadric original and recorded in 1961 by Bobby "Blue" Bland with great success, reaching the top of the lists of R & B and even reaching No. 48 of Billboard. And "Take my tip," composed by Bowie. The single recorded at IBC Studios in London goes on sale on March 5, 1965.
Talmy hired to "I pity the fool" at a session guitarist Jimmy Page, future member of "The Yardbirds" and leader of "Led Zeppelin", who for recording session yields a riff of his responsibility to Bowie, who used years later in "The supermen " 1970 and "Dead Man Walking" 1997.
The March 5, 1979 EMI reissued the single and the next in a single 7 "with" I pity the fool "and" Take my tip " on side A and "You've got a habit of Leaving" and "Baby Loves That Way" in B.
The English label See for Miles buys rights distribution of the reprint of the 1979 single EMI and throws in a 10 "in October 1982, at 12" in Spain in 1983, at 12 "in June 1985 in England and on a CD single in France in 1990, which way to squeeze the product.
In 1991 two issues are included in the compilation "Early on" the Rhino label, but in both cases these shots with small differences in the mix voice in Version 7 "1965. In December the following year the British magazine" Vox "includes" Take my tip "on a promotional cassette that came with the publication of the month, which highlighted singles of all times of the Parlophone label, with music by The Hollies, Deep Purple, Television, Duran Duran and Radiohead.
Finally in January 2007 the four themes of the 1979 edition are available for legal download on iTunes download.
