Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:45:36 AM
Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Re: Dave Clark Five
http://www2.excelr8.net/allowell/dcf.html
http://www2.rpa.net/~theboltons/DC5main.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6742/daveclark.html
http://www.rhino.com/features/61482p.html
http://www.tsimon.com/dcfive.htm
The Dave Clark Five was one of the top British Invasion bands of the 60's and a lot of the group's success was a result of the efforts of its hard-driving, entrepreneurial leader, Dave Clark. They put eight songs in the top ten on the American pop charts in the 60's.
Dave Clark was born in 1942. He was somewhat of a daredevil and always had a strong entrepreneurial flair. Clark worked as a stuntman in over 40 films. When his soccer team, the Tottenham Hotspur, needed money in 1960, he decided to form a band. He bought a set of drums and learned how to play them. He recruited Lenny Davidson on guitar, Rick Huxley for bass, Dennis Payton on sax, and Mike Smith on keyboards and vocals. The group played locally in Tottenham, a suburb just north of London, and became enormously popular. They signed a recording contract with Ember/Pye in 1962, and became more and more popular in England. Their first single in the UK was Do You Love Me. In March of 1964 they had their first big hit in the United States with Glad All Over, this time with the Epic label on which all of their following hits would be released.
In the same month, just weeks after the spectacular television introduction of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Dave Clark Five made its first appearance on the same show and became an immediate sensation. Six more records from the group were released that year that reached the top fifteen in the US, including the top ten songs Bits and Pieces, Can't You See That She's Mine, and Because. The group mostly recorded songs that had been composed by Dave Clark [Clark was careful to retain the rights to them], or were covers of songs by other artists. There were reports that the Tottenham Sound might eclipse the Mersey Beat that was coming out of Liverpool by such groups as the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
The Beatles had a hit film with A Hard Day's Night and Dave Clark answered it with Catch Us If You Can, a 1965 film that was to be the directorial debut of John Boorman [who would later direct a number of major motion pictures including Deliverance and Exorcist II]. The title song was one of three top ten hits for the DC5 in 1965. The others were a cover of Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That and the group's only number one record, Over and Over.
The Dave Clark Five continued to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US; to this day they hold the record for most appearances on that show by any rock band. There were more hits, including a cover of Marv Johnson's You Got What It Takes, which would prove to be their last top ten entry in the US charts, in 1967. Dave Clark had been a drama student at one time and, while keeping up with the still very popular band, he turned his attention to directing and producing. He made a very successful television production in the UK titled Hold On It's The Dave Clark Five and bought the rights to the UK television series Ready Steady Go!, a show that featured all of the major recording artists of the day from both sides of the Atlantic.
Times were changing in the music business. Psychedelia was the rage in the late 60's, but the Dave Clark Five didn't get on that bandwagon. Their popularity diminished somewhat in the US. Without resorting to using modern studio technology, they still had some top ten songs in the UK including Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, and Everybody Get Together. The band split up in the early 70's.
Dave Clark still had his flair for business. An album was compiled titled Thumping Great Hits and it reached the top of the British charts in 1977 at a time when punk rock was at the height of its popularity. A video cassette was made from the Ready Steady Go! tapes in 1983 and was on the best sellers chart for six months, peaking at number one. Other videos compiled by Clark did nearly as well. In 1985 Clark's compilation of video tapes from the Ready Steady Go! series drew large amounts of viewers to British television. Dave Clark wrote a London stage musical titled Time that was a huge success in 1986.
The Dave Clark Five was one of the most successful of the British Invasion bands. Dave Clark is a good musician, and an even better businessman.
Throughout their sixties success, the DC5 had set a goal of keeping things going to the far-off date of 1970. As American popularity began to fade in 1967, British popularity resurged, and so the decade of the sixties was filled with great success. But by 1970, the world had been toured, records had ceased charting, and life had other adventures to offer. The last DC5 single was "Here Comes Summer", mid-1970. The band broke up right around that time, though Dave and Mike still had a passion to do some more recording. There was also a contract to be kept with EMI, a 10-year deal that had begun in 1963. So Dave and Mike joined forces with three others: Eric Ford, Alan Parker and Madeleine Bell, forming "Dave Clark and Friends".
As to which recordings after "Here Comes Summer" were DC5 vs DC&Friends, it's impossible to be dogmatic. John Briggs describes the sorting process as a "minefield" in his message board post. I'm told by some "experts" that Dave Clark and Friends then recorded "More Good Old Rock And Roll", a maxi-single similiar to their 1969 recording. It was released as "The Dave Clark Five". . Then in December of 1970, they released a fantastic version of Neil Young's "Southern Man", again using the DCFIVE name. That same month, the album "If Somebody Loves You" came out, truly a collection of DC5 recordings, mostly their singles from 1969 and 1970. Then in July of 1971, DC& Friends released "Won't You Be My Lady", again attributing it to the DC5. Again, there is debate as to who truly recorded it. All three of these singles could have been by the original five, but from earlier recordings, we just don't know.
After that, they officially adopted the name "Dave Clark and Friends", releasing five more singles. None charted. The b-side of "Sweet City Woman" was actually an older DC5 recording, "Love Comes But Once". In September 1972, they put out the album "Dave Clark and Friends". It included three DCFive singles (Bring It On Home to Me, Paradise, and Put a Little Love In Your Heart), plus eleven other songs. There is some debate as to all eleven being DC&Friends or the original DC5. In the 1990s, when compilation CDs started coming out, the UK "Glad All Over Again" CD picked up two DC&Friends songs, ("MoreGORR"? and "Sha-Na"), still attributing the entire album to the Dave Clark Five. So there you have it. Just because a record label says "Dave Clark Five", it might be "Dave Clark & Friends", or vice-versa. Just because a record was released after mid-1970, doesn't guarantee it's not the DC5. Good luck.
Discography
http://www2.rpa.net/~theboltons/DC5discog.htm
No..DATE..PEAK...."A" SIDE......."B" SIDE
1.) 1/64, #6 Glad All Over..........I Know You
2.) 2/64, #4 Bits And Pieces........All of the Time
x.) 3/64, dnc (Rust) I Walk the Line....First Love
3.) 4/64, #11 Do You Love Me........Chaquita
x.) 4/64, #53 (Congress) I Knew It All the Time...That's What I Said
x.) 5/64, dnc (Jubilee) Chaquita (earlier version)...In Your Heart
4.) 6/64, #4 Can't You See That She's Mine...No Time to Lose
5.) 7/64, #3 Because..............Theme Without a Name
6.) 9/64, #15 Everybody Knows (I Still LoveU)....Ol' Sol
7.) 11/64, #14 Any Way You Want It......Crying Over You
8.) 1/65, #14 Come Home.............Your Turn to Cry
9.) 4/65, #23 Reelin' And Rockin'......I'm Thinking
10.) 6/65, #7 I Like It Like That.......Hurting Inside
11.) 7/65, #4 Catch Us If You Can.......On the Move
12.) 10/65, #1 Over And Over...........I'll Be Yours, My Love
13.) 1/66, #18 At the Scene............I Miss You
14.) 3/66, #12 Try Too Hard............All Night Long
15.) 6/66, #28 Please Tell Me Why......Look Before You Leap
16.) 8/66, #50 Satisfied With You......Don't Let Me Down
17.) 10/66, #48 Nineteen Days..........Sitting Here Baby
18.) 12/66, #44 I've Got to Have a Reason...Good Time Woman
19.) 3/67, #7 You Got What It Takes....Doctor Rhythm
20.) 6/67, #35 You Musta Been a Beautiful Baby...Man In the Pin-Striped Suit
21.) 8/67, #67 A Little Bit Now........You Don't Play Me Around
22.) 10/67, #89 Red And Blue...........Concentration Baby
23.) 12/67, #43 Everybody Knows........Inside And Out
24.) 5/68, #115 Please Stay............Forget
25.) 8/68, dnc The Red Balloon.........Maze of Love
26.) 4/69, dnc (If) Paradise (Is Half as Nice)...34-06
27.) 7/69, dnc If Somebody Loves You...Best Days Work
28.) 11/69, dnc Bring It On Home to Me..Darling I Love You
29.) 12/69, #101 Good Old Rock&Roll/Lucille....Reelin&Rockin/Memphis
30.) 7/70, dnc Here Comes Summer.......Five By Five
31.) 10/70,dnc More Good Old R&R/One Night...LovingYou/LawdyMissClawdy
32.) 12/70,dnc Southern Man............If You Wanna See Me Cry
33.) 6/71, dnc Won't You Be My Lady....Into Your Life
34.) 7/72, (DC&Friends Rub It In.......I'm Sorry Baby
(Un-numbered singles, marked with "x" were re-releases of earlier British recordings.)
(Some believe that #31,32,33 were actually Dave Clark and Friends.)
USA Albums
Glad All Over
Dave Clark Five Return
American Tour
Coast to Coast
Weekend In London
Having A Wild Weekend
I Like It Like That
Try Too Hard
Satisfied With You
Five By Five
You Got What It Takes
Everybody Knows
Greatest Hits
More Greatest Hits
Double LP Compilation
]
Breaking Clay Makes My Day!
http://www2.excelr8.net/allowell/dcf.html
http://www2.rpa.net/~theboltons/DC5main.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6742/daveclark.html
http://www.rhino.com/features/61482p.html
http://www.tsimon.com/dcfive.htm
The Dave Clark Five was one of the top British Invasion bands of the 60's and a lot of the group's success was a result of the efforts of its hard-driving, entrepreneurial leader, Dave Clark. They put eight songs in the top ten on the American pop charts in the 60's.
Dave Clark was born in 1942. He was somewhat of a daredevil and always had a strong entrepreneurial flair. Clark worked as a stuntman in over 40 films. When his soccer team, the Tottenham Hotspur, needed money in 1960, he decided to form a band. He bought a set of drums and learned how to play them. He recruited Lenny Davidson on guitar, Rick Huxley for bass, Dennis Payton on sax, and Mike Smith on keyboards and vocals. The group played locally in Tottenham, a suburb just north of London, and became enormously popular. They signed a recording contract with Ember/Pye in 1962, and became more and more popular in England. Their first single in the UK was Do You Love Me. In March of 1964 they had their first big hit in the United States with Glad All Over, this time with the Epic label on which all of their following hits would be released.
In the same month, just weeks after the spectacular television introduction of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Dave Clark Five made its first appearance on the same show and became an immediate sensation. Six more records from the group were released that year that reached the top fifteen in the US, including the top ten songs Bits and Pieces, Can't You See That She's Mine, and Because. The group mostly recorded songs that had been composed by Dave Clark [Clark was careful to retain the rights to them], or were covers of songs by other artists. There were reports that the Tottenham Sound might eclipse the Mersey Beat that was coming out of Liverpool by such groups as the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
The Beatles had a hit film with A Hard Day's Night and Dave Clark answered it with Catch Us If You Can, a 1965 film that was to be the directorial debut of John Boorman [who would later direct a number of major motion pictures including Deliverance and Exorcist II]. The title song was one of three top ten hits for the DC5 in 1965. The others were a cover of Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That and the group's only number one record, Over and Over.
The Dave Clark Five continued to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US; to this day they hold the record for most appearances on that show by any rock band. There were more hits, including a cover of Marv Johnson's You Got What It Takes, which would prove to be their last top ten entry in the US charts, in 1967. Dave Clark had been a drama student at one time and, while keeping up with the still very popular band, he turned his attention to directing and producing. He made a very successful television production in the UK titled Hold On It's The Dave Clark Five and bought the rights to the UK television series Ready Steady Go!, a show that featured all of the major recording artists of the day from both sides of the Atlantic.
Times were changing in the music business. Psychedelia was the rage in the late 60's, but the Dave Clark Five didn't get on that bandwagon. Their popularity diminished somewhat in the US. Without resorting to using modern studio technology, they still had some top ten songs in the UK including Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, and Everybody Get Together. The band split up in the early 70's.
Dave Clark still had his flair for business. An album was compiled titled Thumping Great Hits and it reached the top of the British charts in 1977 at a time when punk rock was at the height of its popularity. A video cassette was made from the Ready Steady Go! tapes in 1983 and was on the best sellers chart for six months, peaking at number one. Other videos compiled by Clark did nearly as well. In 1985 Clark's compilation of video tapes from the Ready Steady Go! series drew large amounts of viewers to British television. Dave Clark wrote a London stage musical titled Time that was a huge success in 1986.
The Dave Clark Five was one of the most successful of the British Invasion bands. Dave Clark is a good musician, and an even better businessman.
Throughout their sixties success, the DC5 had set a goal of keeping things going to the far-off date of 1970. As American popularity began to fade in 1967, British popularity resurged, and so the decade of the sixties was filled with great success. But by 1970, the world had been toured, records had ceased charting, and life had other adventures to offer. The last DC5 single was "Here Comes Summer", mid-1970. The band broke up right around that time, though Dave and Mike still had a passion to do some more recording. There was also a contract to be kept with EMI, a 10-year deal that had begun in 1963. So Dave and Mike joined forces with three others: Eric Ford, Alan Parker and Madeleine Bell, forming "Dave Clark and Friends".
As to which recordings after "Here Comes Summer" were DC5 vs DC&Friends, it's impossible to be dogmatic. John Briggs describes the sorting process as a "minefield" in his message board post. I'm told by some "experts" that Dave Clark and Friends then recorded "More Good Old Rock And Roll", a maxi-single similiar to their 1969 recording. It was released as "The Dave Clark Five". . Then in December of 1970, they released a fantastic version of Neil Young's "Southern Man", again using the DCFIVE name. That same month, the album "If Somebody Loves You" came out, truly a collection of DC5 recordings, mostly their singles from 1969 and 1970. Then in July of 1971, DC& Friends released "Won't You Be My Lady", again attributing it to the DC5. Again, there is debate as to who truly recorded it. All three of these singles could have been by the original five, but from earlier recordings, we just don't know.
After that, they officially adopted the name "Dave Clark and Friends", releasing five more singles. None charted. The b-side of "Sweet City Woman" was actually an older DC5 recording, "Love Comes But Once". In September 1972, they put out the album "Dave Clark and Friends". It included three DCFive singles (Bring It On Home to Me, Paradise, and Put a Little Love In Your Heart), plus eleven other songs. There is some debate as to all eleven being DC&Friends or the original DC5. In the 1990s, when compilation CDs started coming out, the UK "Glad All Over Again" CD picked up two DC&Friends songs, ("MoreGORR"? and "Sha-Na"), still attributing the entire album to the Dave Clark Five. So there you have it. Just because a record label says "Dave Clark Five", it might be "Dave Clark & Friends", or vice-versa. Just because a record was released after mid-1970, doesn't guarantee it's not the DC5. Good luck.
Discography
http://www2.rpa.net/~theboltons/DC5discog.htm
No..DATE..PEAK...."A" SIDE......."B" SIDE
1.) 1/64, #6 Glad All Over..........I Know You
2.) 2/64, #4 Bits And Pieces........All of the Time
x.) 3/64, dnc (Rust) I Walk the Line....First Love
3.) 4/64, #11 Do You Love Me........Chaquita
x.) 4/64, #53 (Congress) I Knew It All the Time...That's What I Said
x.) 5/64, dnc (Jubilee) Chaquita (earlier version)...In Your Heart
4.) 6/64, #4 Can't You See That She's Mine...No Time to Lose
5.) 7/64, #3 Because..............Theme Without a Name
6.) 9/64, #15 Everybody Knows (I Still LoveU)....Ol' Sol
7.) 11/64, #14 Any Way You Want It......Crying Over You
8.) 1/65, #14 Come Home.............Your Turn to Cry
9.) 4/65, #23 Reelin' And Rockin'......I'm Thinking
10.) 6/65, #7 I Like It Like That.......Hurting Inside
11.) 7/65, #4 Catch Us If You Can.......On the Move
12.) 10/65, #1 Over And Over...........I'll Be Yours, My Love
13.) 1/66, #18 At the Scene............I Miss You
14.) 3/66, #12 Try Too Hard............All Night Long
15.) 6/66, #28 Please Tell Me Why......Look Before You Leap
16.) 8/66, #50 Satisfied With You......Don't Let Me Down
17.) 10/66, #48 Nineteen Days..........Sitting Here Baby
18.) 12/66, #44 I've Got to Have a Reason...Good Time Woman
19.) 3/67, #7 You Got What It Takes....Doctor Rhythm
20.) 6/67, #35 You Musta Been a Beautiful Baby...Man In the Pin-Striped Suit
21.) 8/67, #67 A Little Bit Now........You Don't Play Me Around
22.) 10/67, #89 Red And Blue...........Concentration Baby
23.) 12/67, #43 Everybody Knows........Inside And Out
24.) 5/68, #115 Please Stay............Forget
25.) 8/68, dnc The Red Balloon.........Maze of Love
26.) 4/69, dnc (If) Paradise (Is Half as Nice)...34-06
27.) 7/69, dnc If Somebody Loves You...Best Days Work
28.) 11/69, dnc Bring It On Home to Me..Darling I Love You
29.) 12/69, #101 Good Old Rock&Roll/Lucille....Reelin&Rockin/Memphis
30.) 7/70, dnc Here Comes Summer.......Five By Five
31.) 10/70,dnc More Good Old R&R/One Night...LovingYou/LawdyMissClawdy
32.) 12/70,dnc Southern Man............If You Wanna See Me Cry
33.) 6/71, dnc Won't You Be My Lady....Into Your Life
34.) 7/72, (DC&Friends Rub It In.......I'm Sorry Baby
(Un-numbered singles, marked with "x" were re-releases of earlier British recordings.)
(Some believe that #31,32,33 were actually Dave Clark and Friends.)
USA Albums
Glad All Over
Dave Clark Five Return
American Tour
Coast to Coast
Weekend In London
Having A Wild Weekend
I Like It Like That
Try Too Hard
Satisfied With You
Five By Five
You Got What It Takes
Everybody Knows
Greatest Hits
More Greatest Hits
Double LP Compilation
] Breaking Clay Makes My Day!
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