You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving is 50 today

 

“Sometimes I’m so glad, so glad”

 

Released this day (August 20th) in 1965 was the Davy Jones 45, You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving.

Baby Loves That Way was on the flip and both songs were composed by the young Jones before he Bowied-up for his next release the following year.

Produced by Shel Talmy (who was producing The Who and The Kinks at the time), and backed by The Lower Third, the influence of Townshend and his gang is more than apparent on both sides of this disc.

The 18-year-old mod is pictured here around the time of the release, shadowed by his older brother Ziggy who copped the same hairdo seven years later.

Listen to both the original sides and the 2000 remakes below:

 

Habit Original

Habit Remake

Baby Original

Baby Remake