Space Oddity - The Album
Original Philips gatefold sleeve with David Bowie title
Contributed by Ruud
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This was originally released in the UK as David Bowie, which
was very confusing since his original debut album was
also called David Bowie. When
it was rereleased November 1, 1972, the album was retitled
Space Oddity.
Songs (Time)
All songs written by David Bowie.
- Space Oddity (5:14)
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (6:10)
- Don't Sit Down (0:39) * deleted from
the album when it was rereleased as Space Oddity
- Letter To Hermione (2:30)
- Cygnet Committee (9:30)
- Janine (3:19)
- An Occasional Dream (2:56)
- Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (4:47)
- God Knows I'm Good (3:16)
- Memory Of A Free Festival (7:07)
Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release
- Conversation Piece (3:05) 1970 B-side of
Prettiest Star
- Memory Of A Free Festival Part 1 (3:59)
- Memory Of A Free Festival Part 2 (3:31) 1970
single version
- Release details
- Released 1969 as David Bowie (in the UK),
Man of Words/Man of Music (in the USA), rereleased 1972 as
Space Oddity
- Original release by Mercury
- Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1990 with bonus tracks
- Producer
- Tony Visconti except Space Oddity
produced by Gus Dudgeon
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, stylophone
- Rick Wakeman: keyboards
- Terry Cox: drums
- Tim Renwick: guitar
- Keith Christmas: guitar
- Mick Wayne: guitar
- Tony Visconti: bass, flute, recorder
- Herbie Flowers: bass
- Benny Marshall and Friends: harmonica
- Paul Buckmaster: cello
Bonus track details
All three bonus tracks written by David Bowie and produced by Tony Visconti.
Trivia
- This was the first collaboration with Tony Visconti, who continued to work
with Bowie for many years.
- In addition, Mick Ronson on guitar and Woody Woodmansey on drums made
their first appearance on the Memory Of A Free Festival bonus tracks.
Mick and Woody made up two of the three Spiders (the other being
Trevor Bolder).
- The British pressing (confusingly called David Bowie)
featured a cover portrait and back cover artwork by George Underwood
(the childhood friend of Bowie who was responsible for Bowie's eye damage).
This artwork was not included on the Rykodisc reissue :-(. However, RCA's
1972 repackage of this album included a poster of the album sleeve.
(Information courtesy of Punk Floyd).
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Date | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | 25 November, 1972 | 17 | 37 |
| US | ? | 16 | 36 |
| UK | April 14, 1990 | 64 | 1 |
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