ALBUM: The Best of the Dave Clark Five (1970).
MVC Ratings: 4.0/$$$
‘Glad All Over,’ ‘Bits and Pieces,’ ‘Catch Us if you Can,’ ‘Do you Love Me’ — the hits kept coming from this Fab Four plus One.
No, not really close to the Beatles in both performance and songwriting, although ‘Glad All Over’ and “Because’ and ‘Can’t You See that She’s Mine’ — which the vocalist, Mike Smith, vows to ‘keep on holding her hand — sound just like early Beatles. ‘Because’ is the name of a Beatles song — but not this one.
This is one of the better British invasion bands and there were many.
The interesting anomaly here is Blueberry Hill, the song made famous by Fats Domino. Smith does some hard-kick vocals here, channeling, or trying to channel Wilson Pickett or Otis Redding and gets close enough to make it interesting.
It’s rock and soul and I like it.
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.
Both “Can’t You See That She’s Mine” and “Blueberry Hill” are sung by the group’s usual lead vocalist – Mike Smith, not Dave Clark!
As with the Spencer Davis Group and Manfred Mann, the person in the group name was not the singer.
Good knowledge. Also kind of like Van Halen was not lead singer.