Spice songs (1968-1969):
Spice: What About The Music /In Love (1968)
Spice (UK)
1968 United Artists UP 2246
What About The Music /In Love

What About The Music
Single Spice: What About The Music /In Love (1968)
Brian /Boggess

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Barry Green - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

I don't mind talking, girl
But there's a time and place
Right now we're alone, yeah
But it's just gone to waste

Look up and see the moon
Slide down the clouds
The radio is playing softly now
So if you talk above a wisdom
It's too loud

What about the music, babe
What about the moon
It's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

You keep on talking, girl
We can talk on the phone
We should be kissing, babe
Now that we're alone

Though when they're singing
Love songs to the moon
You know it's love
That makes the flowers bloom
But you keep saying things you
Could tell me in a crowded room

What about the music, yeah
What about the moon, babe
It's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

What about the music
Sweet soul music
What about the moon
Hey, what about the moon, babe
We are loving and I can't lose it
We'll be leaving soon

What about the music, yeah
What about the moon
I said it's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

What about the music, yeah
What about the moon
It's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

What about the music, yeah
What about the moon
It's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

What about the music
What about the moon
It's a shame if we talk music
We'll be leaving soon

In Love
Single Spice: What About The Music /In Love (1968)
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

Whether she'll come, I could not say
We made the date just the other day
Well, here she comes
All dressed in white
She looks so nice
She'll last the night

In love
Perhaps it will last until dawn
In love
Or untill that we two are one
In love
Oh, I'm old and she is so young
In love, in love, in love

I asked her if she'd come out again
She said she likes such mature men
Yes, she did
She says that I'm so nice and strong
I'm getting through, it won't be long

In love
With her hands caressing my face
In love
I'm so glad I've got my own place
In love
She must be of very bad taste
In love, in love, in love

There must come a time
Even for me
But all this happens so suddenly
So quick
It's very hard for me to say
But can this be the only way

In love
I can't think of anyone who
In love
Could make me feel like I do
In love
We'll start our lives anew
In love, in love, in love

In love ...


Spice: Alex Napier /David Byron /Mick Box /Paul Newton
Astranaza
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in July 1969 as Spice
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

Hey girl, you're the one
That got me started
And I bet you'll be
The one to get us parted
In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Now everybody's had their fun

How I'm wishing
We could live together
Ooh, but the answer
In your eyes is never
In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Everybody's had their fun

Well, you and me
And we know what we're saying
To the rest of them
It's a game we're playing
In the beginning, in the beginning
We were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Everybody else will come

How I'm wishing
We could live together
Ooh, but the answer
In your eyes is never, never
In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Or the mother of my son

In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Everybody had their fun

How I'm wishing
We could live together
But the answer in your eyes is never
In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Everybody had their fun

You and me
And we know what we're saying
To the rest of them
It's a game we're playing
In the beginning, in the beginning
We were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Or the mother of my son

In the beginning, in the beginning
You were the only one
In the beginning, in the beginning
Everybody had their fun

Like Astranaza
Astranaza ...

Celebrate
a.k.a. Celebrity Ball
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in July 1969 as Spice
Garry Bonner /Alan Gordon
(Originally recorded by Three Dog Night)

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

Celebrate, celebrate
Dance to the music ...

Slippin' away, sittin' on a pillow
Waitin' for night to fall
Girl in a dream, sittin' on a pillow
This is the night
We're going to the celebrity ball

Satin and lace, isn't it a pity
Didn't find time to call
Ready or not
Gonna make it to the city
This is the night
We're going to the celebrity ball

Dress up tonight, why be lonely
You'll stay at home
And you'll be alone
So why be lonely

Celebrate, celebrate
Dance to the music ...

Sittin' alone, sittin' on a pillow
Waitin' to climb the wall
Maybe tonight
Wherever your dream goes
Woman alive
We're going to the celebrity ball

Dress up tonight, why be lonely
You'll stay at home
And you'll be alone
So why be lonely

Celebrate, celebrate
Dance to the music ...

Magic Lantern
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in July 1969 as Spice
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

When you look inside
My magic lantern
All the world is yet unseen
Try to gaze into
The yellow glowing
To get a reflection of me

In a land of make believe and magic
You can be just anything you feel
You think that what you're in is a dream
But know that the lantern is viewing

View the magic lantern
Take a trip around the world
View the magic lantern
There's a thousand
Mysteries unfurled
And I know one of them

I remember your face
Can't remember the place
Here on our own
Living alone

You can dream that
You're a man of power
Ready to be happy with your gold
Without love your mind is going sour
Money's no good when you're old

View the magic lantern
You can have the sky above
Yeah, the magic lantern
You'll buy everything but love
Everything but love


Schoolgirl
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in July 1969 as Spice
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

Everyone said that you'd always
Been left but you got there
Here we are now when
The rest of the show are not there
Nobody knows by the look of
Your clothes you're a schoolgirl
Who would've guessed
By the way that you're dressed
You're a schoolgirl

You said on my lap that
I wasn't the right kind of person
What I wanna know is that
Who in the show I am worse than
Who would've guessed
By the way that you're dressed
You're a schoolgirl
Nobody knows by the look of
Your clothes you're a schoolgirl
Oh, schoolgirl

Looking for something
That you can't have ...

You said on my lap that
I wasn't the right kind of person
What I wanna know is that
Who in the show I am worse than
But who would've guessed
By the way that you're dressed
You're a schoolgirl
And nobody knows by the look of
Your clothes you're a schoolgirl
Oh, schoolgirl

Looking for something
That you can't have ...

Listen!
Everyone said that you'd always
Been left but you got there
Here we are now when
The rest of the show are not there
Nobody knows by the look of
Your clothes you're a schoolgirl
Who would've guessed
By the way that you're dressed
You're a schoolgirl
Oh, schoolgirl

Born In A Trunk
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in September 1969 as Spice
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

You were born in a trunk
Everyone talkin' about you
You were born in a trunk
Where would they be without you

You better move off the rails
People begin to look subways
You better move off the rails
You won't even listen to my way

I'm livin' in shame
People say I don't matter
I'm livin' in shame

I Want You Babe
Recorded at Very 'Eavy ... Very 'Umble ... sessions in December 1969 as Spice
Mick Box /David Byron

Mick Box - Guitar
David Byron - Lead Vocals
Colin Wood - Keyboards
Paul Newton - Bass
Alex Napier - Drums

Oh, I want you babe
I want you all to myself
And now and then
I'm gonna hold you
Tell you that I'm gonna love you
Come with me and I will show you
In a while I'll get to know you

Oh, you know I needed you woman
I needed you, I needed you
Every day and night, right
Now and then
I'm gonna hold you
Tell you that I'm gonna love you
Come with me and I will show you
In a while I'll get to know you
Yeah, yeah, oh

Well, you know what
The secret is I guess
And you think you know
Who your lover's wife is

So you better stop
That thing you're doing
Baby, you're driving me, driving me
Driving me to my ruins
But I, I want you babe

When I was a young man
Always trying to say hello babe
But you'd never know
You live in want
Never knowing that I existed
Till my mind was twisted
I was always trying, sometimes crying
Oh, I needed you, needed you
Needed you ...

Stop that thing that you're doing
Baby, you're driving me, driving me
Driving me to my ruins
Oh, I want you babe

I needed you, I needed you
Every single day
Of my entire life
And everytime I tried
Someone else would come along
There it went again

But now and then
I'm gonna hold you
Tell you that I'm gonna love you
Come with me and I will show you
In a while I'll get to know you
You and me we're gonna make it
Come with me, we mustn't break it