752 The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over (1964)

 752 The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over (1964)

Studio Album - Rock and Roll


About the Act:

The Dave Clark 5 were a guy called Dave Clark, and four other guys. They were contemporaries of The Beatles at the time of the "British Invasion" in the mid 60s - when the US went mad over British bands, and they did well, better in the USA than in the UK. They lasted from 1959 until 1970

About the Album:

This was an era when bands who sold in both the USA and the UK had different albums in the different countries. This was the band's first US album.

My History with this Album:

None

Review:

You probably know "Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles and "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles. That's the sound of this album. 1960s rock and roll. You might even know some of the songs. I knew "Glad All Over" and "Do You Love Me" and "Bits and Pieces". For the time, this is actually hard rocking stuff. It's raw at the edges, there's a growl and almost shout to the vocals, and it is not polished. This was part of the stuff that led the way to rock. It has an energy about it that says that these are Bad Boys despite the ties and jackets. Those three songs are good, I also liked the instrumental Chaquita which was kind of a take-off of Tequila, and Time, which is another instrumental, that sounds like Minnie The Moocher. Unlike "vocal groups" that were around at the time, they were the instrumentalists as well as the singers (like the Beatles) and so there is an authenticity to it, increased by writing most of the songs on the album. 

This was in the vanguard of The British Invasion, and they are so different to the polished stuff the US market was dominated by, I can see why, like Punk ten years later, it caught the imagination of the young. Now, looking back over the gulf of my lifetime, it's predominantly mono, and lacking in production, and there has been so many more bad boys since, and so much badder. Still, it has an energy and an enthusiasm that I enjoyed. It was fun. 

7/10


Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6v5uK6Y4PbR2jIIGwJrsuL

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2HAzKCAHKxXr72vSP9xEo6e4HTDDwUcB

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_All_Over_(Dave_Clark_Five_album)



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