The Dave Clark Five (Discography 1964-1968)

The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over (1964)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 KbpS / 44.1 kHz
Size: 34 MB

Review by Richie Unterberger
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.

TrackList:

1. Glad All Over
2. All of the Time
3. Stay
4. Chaquita
5. Do You Love Me
6. Bits and Pieces
7. I Know You
8. No Time to Lose
9. Doo Dah
10. Time
11. She's All Mine

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The Dave Clark Five - Return (1964)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 Kbps / 44.1 khz
Size: 32 MB


Review by Richie Unterberger
The DC5 did manage some good LP-only cuts in the mid-'60s, but you won't find them on their second Epic album. Aside from the hit "Can't You See That She's Mine," and everything is filler, whether the covers of "Rumble," "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," and "On Broadway," or trite, diddling originals, including a flight into a near-Muzak instrumental ("Theme Without a Name"). Among the originals, "I Need You, I Love You" and "Forever and a Day" aren't too bad, but you're best off leaving this in the bin of overpriced collector items in which you'll probably find the record.


TrackList:

1. Can`t You See That She`s Mine
2. I Need You, I Love You
3. I Love You No More
4. Rumble
5. Funny
6. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
7. Can I Trust You
8. Forever And A Day
9. Theme Without A Name
10. On Broadway

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The Dave Clark Five - American Tour (1964)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbpc / 44.1 kHz
Size: 38.6 MB

Review by Greg Adams
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 passe 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.


TrackList:

1. Because
2. Who Does He Think He Is
3. Move On
4. Whenever You're Around
5. I Want You Still
6. Long Ago
7. Come On Over
8. Blue Monday
9. Sometimes
10. Any Time You Want Love
11. I Cried Over You
12. Ol' Sol

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The Dave Clark Five - Coast to Coast (1964)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 29.4 MB

Review by Bruce Eder
Any album that opens with "Anyway You Want It" already has a leg up over most of the competition around it. Arguably the jewel of the Dave Clark Five's singles output, it's a song that has aged every bit as gracefully as, say, "I Saw Her Standing There" or "A Hard Day's Night."So Coast To Coast opens strong and it gets better, blooming into an amazingly diverse yet consistently powerful record made up entirely of group originals. These mostly take us into the DC5's own, uniquely energetic renditions of Merseybeat-style harmonies, on "To Me" (a song that might be as fine as anything that Lennon and McCartney wrote on the Beatles' first three albums, with its exquisitely lyrical saxophone break by Dennis Payton), "I'm Left With You" (which calls to mind "This Boy" in the most favorable way), the soaring "Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)" (which offers some of Lenny Davidson's most flamboyant rhythm guitar work), and the haunting "When," with its larger-than-life piano and rhythm section. Surrounding all of this surprisingly elegant songwriting, singing, and playing is some first-rate rock 'n' roll in the form of "Say You Want Me" (a close cousin of "Anyway You Want It" in sound and timbre), "Don't You Know," and "It's Not True." Had there been an actual rock press in 1964, or if the Dave Clark Five been taken more seriously sooner, Coast To Coast would probably be regarded today as something close to an essential British Invasion record, if, perhaps, not as seminal as, say, the Beatles For Sale LP, but definitely more solid and important than all but one other album: (It's The Searchers) by the Searchers.


TrackList:

1. Anyway You Want It
2. Give Me Love
3. I Can't Stand It
4. I'm Left Without You
5. Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)
6. Crying Over You
7. Say You Want Me
8. When
9. Don't You Know
10. To Me
11. It's Not True

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The Dave Clark Five - Weekend In London (1965)




Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 32.6 MB

Review by Greg Adams
Weekend in London was the least-commercially successful of the Dave Clark Five's first six Epic albums. The slow, bass-driven "Come Home" was the album's hit, just reaching the Top 15 in America. The crunchy-with-horns "I'm Thinking" was recycled as the flip side of "Reelin' and Rockin'" a year later and "bubbled under" Billboard's Top 100. The album is a mixed bag of originals and covers of '50s hits like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Little Bitty Pretty One," following the de facto formula for British Invasion records. The band's own songs vacillate between the pretty Beatlesque pop of "Your Turn to Cry" and moody rockers similar to early Zombies. The Dave Clark Five were putting out about three albums a year at this time, and in spite of its high points, Weekend in London sounds like they were being stretched a little too thin.


TrackList:

1. Come Home
2. We`ll Be Running
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. Hurting Inside
5. I'll Never Know
6. `Til The Right One Comes Along
7. I`m Thinking
8. Your Turn To Cry
9. Little Bitty Pretty One
10. Remember It's Me (Stereo)
11. Mighty Good Loving

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The Dave Clark Five - Having A Wild Weekend (1965)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 40.7 MB
Type: Soundtrack


Review by Richie Unterberger
Like the movie which spawned this soundtrack, this isn't all that bad, but neither is it a lost classic. "Catch Us If You Can," a big hit, is the obvious highlight, and the raucous '50s-styled "Having a Wild Weekend" is okay. "Don't Be Taken In," a fine downbeat Beatlesque midtempo tune that is strongly reminiscent of the "No Reply" kind of material on Beatles For Sale, is a genuinely overlooked gem, but it appears on the History compilation. There are a couple of kinda neat surf-drag-spy-movie type instrumentals with dirty sax, and probably no group harmonized with as much exuberance on shabby original material as the Five did on their album filler, but this isn't an essential addition even for DC5 fans. Note how they try to tap into a Walker Brothers vibe on "Don't You Realise."


TrackList:

1. Having A Wild Weekend
2. New Kind Of Love
3. Dum-Dee-Dee-Dum
4. I Said I Was Sorry
5. No Stopping
6. Don`t Be Taken In
7. Catch Us If You Can
8. When I'm Alone
9. If You Come Back
10. Sweet Memories
11. Don`t You Realize
12. On The Move

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The Dave Clark Five - I Like It Like That (1965)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 40.6 MB

Review by Bruce Eder
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.


TrackList:

1. I Like It Like That
2. Pumping
3. I Need Love (Stereo)
4. Maybe It's You
5. That's How Long Our Love Will Last
6. A Little Bit Of Love
7. I'll Be Yours My Love
8. Please Love Me
9. Goodbye My Friends
10. I Am On My Own
11. She's A Loving Girl
12. You Know You`re Lying

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The Dave Clark Five - Satisfied With You (1966)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 29.2 MB

Review by Richie Unterberger
Give the Dave Clark Five this much credit: on their ninth Epic album in a little over two years, they were at least writing almost all of the material, even if the ten songs altogether clocked in at only about 21 minutes. There were no standout tunes, however, on tracks which mimicked the British Invasion formula of their 1964-65 stuff without either moving forward artistically or coming close to equaling the quality of their hits. Even the one Top 40 hit on the LP, "Please Tell Me Why," was wholly forgettable.

TrackList:

1. Satisfied With You
2. Go On
3. Do You Still Love Me
4. I Meant You
5. Look Before You Leep
6. Please Tell Me Why
7. You Never Listen
8. I Still Need You
9. It'll Only Hurt For A Little While
10. Good Lovin`

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The Dave Clark Five - Try Too Hard (1966)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 24.2 MB

Review by Bruce Eder
Depending on your outlook, this was either one album too many for the Dave Clark Five, or an essential step in their survival after the mid-'60s. By 1966, the Beatles, and even the Rolling Stones, were using sitars on their records; Brian Wilson was composing concept albums and vest-pocket pop symphonies, and folk-rock was so well established as a commercial music genre that its inventors, the Byrds, were compelled to find some new wrinkles to maintain their edge. In that environment, it was inevitable that the DC5 would allow their music to evolve. From the crisp piano chords and lean, restrained guitar and sax sound, as well as the upbeat tone of Try Too Hard there was change in the air from the opening seconds of this LP. "I Never Will" is another cheerful and tuneful rocker with a gorgeous modulation, and "Looking In" is a similarly lyrical piece of rock 'n' roll, driven more by its piano and rhythm guitar parts (all punctuated by a soaring chorus), than by the honking saxes or pounding organ of prior years. "Ever Since You've Been Away" sounds like a theme from a lost western movie (in fact, the melody and the break are very similar to the theme from Hang 'Em High, written a year later). The one track that might not work is the much too retro "Scared Of Falling In Love," but most of the rest makes for an enjoyable, still exciting, if somewhat softer, permutation of their basic sound.

TrackList:

1. Try Too Hard
2. Today
3. I Never Will
4. Looking In
5. Ever Since You've Been Away
6. Somebody Find A New Love
7. I Really Love You
8. It Don`t Feel Good
9. Scared Of Falling In Love

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The Dave Clark Five - 5 By 5 (1967)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 30.2 MB

Review by Bruce Eder
This album, which never saw a U.S. release, is pretty amazing as a dоcument of where the Dave Clark Five were in the last third of the 1960s. Divided between a fast side ("Go!!") and a ballad side ("Slow!!"), the group's pounding beat was still there, albeit just a bit slower; the rhythm guitar had given way to jagged lead lines, and Mike Smith was singing a few shades blacker than he'd sounded in 1964. And the covers of rock 'n' roll standards were replaced by numbers such as "Please Stay," the old Drifters tune authored by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which is done in a blue-eyed soul style, with a gospel-like chorus. On numbers like "Devoted To Me," with lots of echo and acoustic guitar, the group sounds a bit like the Mickie Most-era Yardbirds. The singing is more prominent than on the group's classic releases, yet Five By Five is not that far removed from their mid-'60s material — there's a great beat and chorus on "Just A Little Bit Now" and "Maze Of Love" (which also features some Jimi Hendrix-style guitar), and a good high hat count on "I Still Need You" and "Return My Love," which fit in well with the group's rocking ballads from 1964-65. Most of the music dates originally from 1966 through 1968; its delayed release as an album was the result of EMI's and Epic's general paucity of Dave Clark Five long-players — had they been able to issue this album intact a year or two sooner, it might even have raised the group's fortunes by updating their image and sound.

TrackList:

1. Nineteen Days
2. Something I've Always Wanted
3. Little Bit Strong
4. Bernedette
5. Sitting Here Baby
6. You Don`t Want My Loving
7. How Can I Tell You
8. Picture Of You
9. Small Talk
10. Pick Up Your Phone

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The Dave Clark Five - You Got What It Takes (1967)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 31.1 MB

TrackList:

1. You Got What It Takes
2. I've Got To Have A Reason
3. You Don't Play Me Around
4. Thinking Of You, Baby
5. Lovin` So Good
6. Doctor Rhythm
7. Play With Me
8. Let Me Be
9. Blueberry Hill
10. Tabatha Twitchit

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The Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows (1968)



Label: Epic
Bitrate: 192 kbps / 44.1 kHz
Size: 31.1 MB

TrackList:

1. Everybody Knows
2. A Little Bit Now
3. At The Place
4. Inside And Out
5. Red And Blue
6. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
7. Good Love Is Hard To Find
8. Lost In His Dreams
9. Concentration Baby
10. Hold On Tight
11. I'll Do The Best I Can

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