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Samplers
New Music at Yahoo Play David John and the Mood - Singles & Videos http://new.music.yahoo.com/david-john-the-mood/
The Joe Meek Collection - RGM rarities Vol. 2 - The Beat Group era (Diamond, UK) CD; still available. Make this your first pick.
[Bring It To Jerome' - 'I Love To See You Strut' - 'Diggin' for Gold' - 'She's Fine']Maximum R'n'B CD [cover]
['To Catch That Man' - 'Pretty Thing']Trans-World Punk Rave-Up! Vol. 2 (TW, USA) vinyl; (On the original issue on Crawdad, USA, the picture on the sleeve is not the Mood). This record has been reissued (around 2001) with new artwork.
[Pretty Thing]Pebbles Vol.6 - The Roots of Mod (AIP, USA) vinyl; still available
[Bring it to Jerome - I love to see you strut]English Freakbeat Vol. 6 (AIP, USA) CD; [cover] still available.
[To Catch That Man' - 'Bring It To Jerome' - 'I Love To See You Strut' and 'Diggin' for Gold']Broken Dreams - The Hopes and Glories of British Rock 1963-1969 Vol. 2 (Line Music, FRG) vinyl, cassette, out of print
[To Catch That Man]Rare 60s beat treasures Vol. 1 (Gone Beat, Israel '95) CD [cover]
['Bring it to Jerome' - 'I love to see you strut']The R&B Scene (Deram, UK) CD [cover]
['To catch that man']Diggin' For Gold Vol. 1 (Wayback Recs., NL) LP/CD; still available [cover]
[Diggin' For Gold]Revenge Of The Amphetamine Generation (Dig The Fuzz, UK) vinyl, limited edition [cover]
['Diggin' For Gold' - acetate version]
Feature Articles (the latest first)
Thunderbolt #31 (February 2001) - I'm a Moody Guy: Peter Illingworths' recollections of his first bands from The Bruff Boys in the late 50s to David John and the Mood. 6 Pages, many photos. Thunderbolt is the magazine of the Joe Meek Appreciation Society. See Links-page for their website.
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Shindig! #5 (March 2000) - Peter Illingworth's The Purple Haze - Discovered! - [cover] Further features: The Move, Ugly Ducklings, Dirty Wurds, Theo Shumann, The Nazz, Love Affair, Curt Boettcher. See Links-page for their website.Shindig! #4 (August 1999). [cover] Diggin' For Gold with David John and the Mood by Dave Tulloch. Further features are John's Children, The Action.
Thunderbolt #22 (1998) Joe's R'n'B Boys: David John and the Mood - Getting back into the Mood A 9-page excerpt of the Andy Smith interviews with many photos and press-cuttings in the Joe Meek Appreciation Society Magazine. See Links-page for their website.
Muso (Jan-March 1995) A series of interviews with David John Smith by Andy Smith (Contact: 19 Stanley Road; Farington; Leyland; Preston PR5 2RH)
Hartbeat! Magazine (Germany 1988) David John and the Mood - The sound of massed maracas - A long article by Nigel Cross, who used to go to the same school that Peter Illingworth went to and was a great fan of his later bands Purple Haze and Little Free Rock. He later wrote another article for Hartbeat! on Little Free Rock.