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All the Kinks fans, rejoice! Here is one of the rarest pre-Kinks tracks in history.

"The first pair of the Raven's songs were certainly recorded in October, 1963, in Regent Sound Studio in Denmark Street, London. Other accounts claim that it was actually in November and at the R. G. Jones Studio, south London, but it's more likely that these were actually two other songs that were recorded. During their first session, the Ravens played an original composition written by Dave Davies, "I Believed You". This song is the sole example of an early demo of the band that was released officially in 1998; Dave Davies included the song on the American release of his CD "Unfinished Business", a 2-CD career retrospective. By his own admission, he characterises the song as a "Beatlesque love song". In fact, the only known recording is of relatively poor quality, but one hears already Dave Davies' nascent 'dirty-rocking' garage sound. In Ray Davies' vocal lead, too, are revealed the origins of a separate character -- although he tried not to sound wholly like himself!"

Helge Buttkereit.
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