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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dave Clark Is A Dope,
This review is from: Glad All Over Again (Audio CD)
Why not release this music? All it does is keep the band from getting paid, and force the rest of us to get it from bootleggers. Fortunately, I'm getting mine for ten bucks. I'm giving the CD five stars because I know the music (even though I won't actually hear THIS CD), but I'd really rather buy an authorized version. I don't get it -- who benefits from this? Not the publishers, not the musicians, not Dave Clark. And, you know, why not circulate the music?
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Great, Forgotten 60's Invasion Band,
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This review is from: Glad All Over Again (Audio CD)
It seems the Dave Clark 5 is the band that nobody remembers. They had a long, successful career in the 60's, sold millions and millions of records.They were front runners on the British Invasion, coming around just a few weeks after the Beatles and "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Their first US hit was "Glad All Over".
Glad All Over featured the standard DC5 formula. Up tempo rocker driven by snare drum rim shots from Dave Clark, thumping bass from Rick Huxley, up front saxaphone from Denny Payton, and the great, rough voiced Mike Smith on organ. Lenny Davidson's guitar was usually barely heard. Smith had a big, huge growling voice and was the featured singer on virtually all the DC5 songs. The DC5 didn't mess around. Their style had almost no subtelty. Just fast rockers played loud. The DC5 had very few ballads, even on their albums. Their follow-up hit, "Bits and Pieces", was a powerful, full-throttle song fueled by those Smith growls and Dave Clark's rim shot heroics. No finesse. Just loud, fast music. It was great! The DC5 had a lot of hits in the US, were on Ed Sullivan a lot, and toured the States a lot. I saw them in Columbus, Ohio, and they rocked the house with hit after hit. Today, they are almost forgotten. Part of the problem is that Dave Clark guards the music closely, letting compilations out only occasionally. Anyway, get this album. The DC5 kicked butt in a very 60's fashion.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
High-energy sixties music,
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This review is from: Glad All Over Again (Audio CD)
Dave Clark and his group were the first British group to tour America in the sixties, spearheading what came to be known as the British invasion - a much more successful (and friendlier) invasion than the battle of New Orleans.
Because of their extensive touring schedule, the Dave Clark Five were more successful in America, where their many hits included fourteen consecutive top ten hits, than in their homeland, where their career total of twenty-two hits included just eight top ten hits -good by most standards, but it could have been better. In Britain, the Dave Clark Five began their run of hits with Do you love me, a cover of an early Motown song. Despite the song having already been an American hit (for the Contours), this was a huge American hit. By contrast, it was only a minor British hit, losing out to a rival version by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, who took it to number one. Next came the two songs for which the group is best remembered in Britain - the UK number one hit, Glad all over (it has since been adopted as an anthem by a football club) and the UK number two hit, Bits and pieces. These two monster hits were followed by Can't you see that she's mine, which also made the British top ten. After that, most of their British hits failed even to make the top twenty, but as their British popularity faded, their American popularity gained momentum. Among their other songs, two completely different hits share the same title (Everybody knows), one of them providing the group with their second and last British number two hit. It is fairly common for different songs to share a title (and not that rare for artists to record different songs with the same title) but I can't think of another act that has charted with two such songs. Catch us if you can (its American title is Having a wild weekend), Red balloon, Good old rock'n'roll (a medley of covers) and Everybody get together complete their list of British top ten hits. Only one other record, Come home, made the British top twenty. Over and over, a very minor UK hit, made number one in America. This compilation includes all the tracks I've mentioned and most but not all of their other hits. Dave owns all the group's recordings and only occasionally leases them to record companies for limited periods. This means that the music is very hard to obtain most of the time, so if you get a chance to buy, make sure you take advantage. Tracks 1. Glad all over 2. Do you love me 3. Bits and pieces 4. Can't you see that she's mine 5. Don't let me down 6. Any way you want it 7. Catch us if you can 8. Having a wild weekend 9. Because 10. Like it like that 11. Over and over 12. Reelin' and rockin' 13. Come home 14. You got what it takes 15. Everybody knows 16. Try too hard 17. I'll be yours my love 18. Good old rock 'n' roll medley 19. Here comes summer 20. Live in the sky 21. Red balloon 22. Sha na na hey hey kiss him goodbye 23. More good old rock 'n' roll medley 24. Put a little love in your heart 25. Everybody get together
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