David John & the Mood

David John & The Mood made two cool, offbeat British Beat R&B singles in the mid-1960s, rare as get-out these days, but reissued on various compilations of obscure British Invasion recordings. Nothing is known about the band, except that they were produced by Shel Talmy (The Who, The Kinks, early David Bowie, Creation, and others). David John had a high-pitched, fey voice that led some collectors to guess that he might in fact be David Bowie, particularly as Talmy produced some David Bowie recordings in 1964 and 1965. It has since been established that the singer is definitely not Bowie, and that David John's real name was Miffy Charnley.



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