PBS' 'Glad All Over' celebrates Dave Clark Five
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Oh, RMartinez...what are we gonna' do with you?
Of course, producers have done that. A lot of people don't know this, but Ray Parker, Jr. wrote Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," but Sayer's producer didn't credit Parker -- but himself! And he's just as much of a sh-tbag as Dave Clark. -
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Oh, RMartinez...what are gonna' do with you?
Of course, producers have done that. A lot of people don't know this, but Ray Parker, Jr. wrote Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," but Sayer's producer didn't credit Parker -- but himself! And he's just as much of a sh-tbag as Dave Clark.Ok. I'm still going to enjoy GLAD ALL OVER and CATCH US IF YOU CAN when I hear them on the radio!
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So will I. After all, Dave Clark is on neither of them.
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Here is my band a few years ago doing a DC5 song, it was fun!
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That's not The Daddy Os -- that's Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney!
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audi:
That's not The Daddy Os -- that's Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney!
Could be!
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audi:
So Dave Clark taking credit for hit songs that he didn't write is acceptable in your book? How... ...conservative of you.
Thanks for the information on the DC5 Audi. I looked at one rock site and someone wrote that the only thing Dave Clark ever wrote for the DC5 was a weekly check.
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We do CATCH US IF YOU CAN in our set, it is a great song and people LOVE hearing it!
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I heard all of Paul McCartney's singing vocals on every single Beatles recording (for the exception of "Revolution #9") were performed by Marni Nixon.
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audi:
I don't care for Beach Boys. But I do know that Brian Wilson would use a gazillion musicians for a single session.
Including Glen Campbell.
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Nancy R:
audi:
I don't care for Beach Boys. But I do know that Brian Wilson would use a gazillion musicians for a single session.
Including Glen Campbell.
And John Stamos and Daryl Dragon (The Captain of The Captain & Tennille)
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Regardless of credit issues, I watched a fair amount of the PBS special and came away with my feelings about the Dave Clark 5 pretty much unchanged: They were a second-rate imitation Beatles who had a few catchy singles, and that's about it. Eminently forgettable.
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Nancy R:
audi:
I don't care for Beach Boys. But I do know that Brian Wilson would use a gazillion musicians for a single session.
Including Glen Campbell.
One of the best guitarists on the planet -- love that guy!
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Bruce M.:
Regardless of credit issues, I watched a fair amount of the PBS special and came away with my feelings about the Dave Clark 5 pretty much unchanged: They were a second-rate imitation Beatles who had a few catchy singles, and that's about it. Eminently forgettable.
Their tracks were much more raw. Sometimes that's all ya' need.
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Bruce M.:
Regardless of credit issues, I watched a fair amount of the PBS special and came away with my feelings about the Dave Clark 5 pretty much unchanged: They were a second-rate imitation Beatles who had a few catchy singles, and that's about it. Eminently forgettable.
Kind of like every band from the UK in the mid 60s. No one was of the caliber of the Beatles back then. Yes, the Stones were ok, and the Who. But they really did not get a foothold in music until the Beatles broke up. They were all copying the Beatle formula. But yeah, DC5 were third level, below the Stones and the Who.
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audi:
Nancy R:
audi:
I don't care for Beach Boys. But I do know that Brian Wilson would use a gazillion musicians for a single session.
Including Glen Campbell.
One of the best guitarists on the planet -- love that guy!
And he got his start in Albuquerque!
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didn't know that.
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RMartinez:
Bruce M.:
Regardless of credit issues, I watched a fair amount of the PBS special and came away with my feelings about the Dave Clark 5 pretty much unchanged: They were a second-rate imitation Beatles who had a few catchy singles, and that's about it. Eminently forgettable.
Kind of like every band from the UK in the mid 60s. No one was of the caliber of the Beatles back then. Yes, the Stones were ok, and the Who. But they really did not get a foothold in music until the Beatles broke up. They were all copying the Beatle formula. But yeah, DC5 were third level, below the Stones and the Who.
The Rolling Stones didn't get a foothold in music till the Beatles broke up?!?!? They had 10 U.S. top 5 albums in the sixties and five U.S. #1 singles in that period -- and their UK chart performance was even better. Lots of artists would die for that sort of foothold. And pretty much from day one the Stones had a musical identity that was distinctly different from the Beatles -- they were considered the bad boys to the Beatles nice guy image, at least from "Satisfaction" in 1965 on.
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Bruce M.:
RMartinez:
Bruce M.:
Regardless of credit issues, I watched a fair amount of the PBS special and came away with my feelings about the Dave Clark 5 pretty much unchanged: They were a second-rate imitation Beatles who had a few catchy singles, and that's about it. Eminently forgettable.
Kind of like every band from the UK in the mid 60s. No one was of the caliber of the Beatles back then. Yes, the Stones were ok, and the Who. But they really did not get a foothold in music until the Beatles broke up. They were all copying the Beatle formula. But yeah, DC5 were third level, below the Stones and the Who.
The Rolling Stones didn't get a foothold in music till the Beatles broke up?!?!? They had 10 U.S. top 5 albums in the sixties and five U.S. #1 singles in that period -- and their UK chart performance was even better. Lots of artists would die for that sort of foothold. And pretty much from day one the Stones had a musical identity that was distinctly different from the Beatles -- they were considered the bad boys to the Beatles nice guy image, at least from "Satisfaction" in 1965 on.
Exactly...that's why is was a common question back then...Stones or Beatles. Books have even been written about the competition.
