The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five – The Hits (2019 – Remaster) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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2008 collection from the ’60s Pop/Rock quintet, their only official ‘hits’ compilation available on the market for over a decade. Before the Rolling Stones, the Dave Clark Five were seen as being the Beatles most serious rivals. With their hit ‘Glad All Over’ knocking ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ off the number one spot. DC5’s own unique brand of music sold in excess of 100 million records. They were the first English group to tour the United States, spearheading the British Invasion. During their first two years in the U.S., they scored no less than fifteen consecutive Top 20 hits, more than anyone except the Beatles. They took the world by storm and helped change the Rock scene, blasting hit after hit over the world’s radio airwaves.

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The Dave Clark Five – I Like It Like That (2019 – Remaster) (1965/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The group’s sixth American album shows them in somewhat uneven form, delivering the searing “I Need Love,” with its roaring punk defiance – worthy of Eric Burdon – in addition to the roaring title track, as good a British take on New Orleans-style R&B as there was on the charts in those days. The instrumental “Pumping” is an energetic showcase for each of the band members, and “Maybe It’s You” recalls “Anyway You Want It” in beat and timbre, but with a more subtle and dramatic vocal performance, with Lenny Davidson delivering a lead guitar-part drenched in fuzz tone, and Clark’s furious drumming almost hypnotic in its effect. The ballads include “That’s How Long Our Love Will Last,” the elegant “A Little Bit Of Love,” and the extended, mournfully dramatic “I’ll Be Yours My Love.” Perhaps the most interesting tracks here, however, are the four mid-tempo rockers on Side Two, “Please Love Me,” “Goodbye My Friends,” “She’s A Loving Girl,” and “You Know You’re Lying,” on which the group finds a lyrical variant on their usual high-energy sound, keeping their solid beat, but not imposing it on the listener as much as usual. If Davidson’s guitar part on “I Am On My Own” didn’t owe too much to the Beatles’ “Baby’s in Black,” the whole second side of the record would give the DC5 serious points for seeking a fresh, more advanced take on their established sound.

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The Dave Clark Five – Glad All Over (2019 – Remaster) (1964/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Dave Clark Five’s first album might seem a bit on the meager side outside of the context of the first flush of the British Invasion. At the time, though, it was a pretty exuberant slab o’ vinyl that rocked pretty hard for the most part, paced by the three Top 10 singles “Glad All Over,” “Do You Love Me,” and “Bits and Pieces.” It was a huge seller as well, peaking at number three and remaining in the charts almost as long as the albums by their chief competitors of the era, the Beatles. And it does have a few decent, though not great, original songs that don’t show up on greatest hits compilations: the solid pop/rocker “I Know You,” the raucous “Twist and Shout” rip-off “No Time to Lose,” and the surprisingly savage instrumental “Chaquita,” an inversion of “Tequila” with its snaky, growling guitar riffs and dirty sax. There’s also some pure filler, like the jazzy instrumental “Time” and the infantile “Doo Dah.” It certainly ranks among their best non-greatest-hits albums, which isn’t as high a recommendation as it sounds, since the group’s LPs weren’t that good overall.

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The Dave Clark Five – Everybody Knows (2019 – Remaster) (1968/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Although the Dave Clark Five would continue to release a good deal of music through the early 1970s, Everybody Knows, issued in early 1968, was – oddly, considering how massively popular the band had been in the U.S. in the mid-’60s – their final non-compilation American LP. Perhaps that was because by 1968, the DC5 could no longer count on having their name alone sell substantial copies of albums, having had their final U.S. Top Ten single the previous year. Everybody Knows did have a couple mild American hits, the ham-fisted soul-rocker “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” and the rather treacly ballad “Everybody Knows” (an entirely different song than their 1964 Top 20 hit of the same title, and a much bigger hit in their native U.K., where it reached number two). “Everybody Knows,” which unusually featured Lenny Davidson rather than customary chief DC5 singer Mike Smith on lead vocals, sounded something like the ballads with which Engelbert Humperdinck was rising to fame around the same time. Despite its success, that’s not what most fans come to DC5 records to hear, so it might be a relief to learn that it’s not typical of the rest of the LP, though none of the other songs were among their better work. Some of them saw the group competently, if not excitingly, adapt to trends in late-’60s production with an increased brassiness, as they do on the soul-pop tunes “A Little Bit Now” and “Inside and Out.” “Red and Blue,” meanwhile, gets into more wistful densely produced late-’60s pop, and just edged into the Top 100; one can imagine “I’ll Do the Best I Can,” one of the better tracks, as filler on a Walker Brothers record. Other songs are more or less similar to their mid-’60s sound, although with slightly more updated production. It adds up to an album that has some appeal for serious Dave Clark Five fans, but isn’t essential listening for more discriminating listeners. ~ Richie Unterberger

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The Dave Clark Five – Coast to Coast (2019 – Remaster) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Coast to Coast is the fourth US studio album by the English rock band the Dave Clark Five. It’s notable for containing two hit singles “Any Way You Want It” and “Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)”. Other songs from this album were used in the Dave Clark Five film Having a Wild Weekend such as “I Can’t Stand It” and “When”. In Canada, it was released as Across Canada with the Dave Clark Five on Capitol Records.

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The Dave Clark Five – Catch Us If You Can (2019 – Remaster) (1965/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Dave Clark Five are usually compared with their British contemporaries, the Beatles. Though clearly not in the same league, they don’t deserve to be completely dismissed.

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The Dave Clark Five – American Tour (2019 – Remaster) (1964/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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One of the Dave Clark Five’s finest hours, American Tour (so named in commemoration of their first U.S. tour – it’s not a live album) is excellent from start to finish. The album encompasses slightly retrograde instrumental rock & roll, like the “Green Onions”-styled “Move On,” in addition to the sophisticated pop/rock and driving garage rock of their vocal cuts. “Because” was one of the band’s biggest American hits and, like everything on the album, was composed by its members. The mixture of jazzy chords, straight-ahead rock, and saxophone (which was pretty passé in 1964) is an interesting one, making the group less enigmatic than the Zombies and more obviously rooted in earlier rock traditions than the Beatles. Despite the adventurous construction of their vocal songs, they’re willing to use standard chord progressions for their instrumentals. In that sense, the Dave Clark Five bridged the gap between the music of Bill Haley, the Bill Black Combo, and the Beatles in a way that few other British Invasion acts did.

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The Dave Clark Five – All the Hits (2019 – Remaster) (2019/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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“The Dave Clark Five was an obsession that went beyond the Beatles – and initially ignored the Rolling Stones.” Vanity Fair THE DAVE CLARK FIVE’S own unique brand of music sold in excess of one hundred million records during their career. ALL THE HITS is the definitive collection of their biggest selling tracks including “Glad All Over”, “Bits & Pieces” and “Do You Love Me”.

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