Ching-A-Ling

Album: single release only (1968)
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Songfacts®:

  • A small front page story in the May 19, 1973 issue of Music Week revealed Essex sues David Bowie; Essex Music, not David Essex.

    The company had issued a High Court writ claiming a 1967 agreement assigned them "Ching-A-Ling," "Mother Grey" and "April's Tooth Of Gold."

    "Ching-A-Ling" was recorded at Trident Studios in 1968 by Feathers, the only record this hippy group ever recorded. One of those hippies was Bowie himself.
  • "Ching-A-Ling," or "The Ching-A-Ling Song," was backed by "Supermen" and released as a picture disk. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2

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