DAVE CLARK FIVE Session with V Rare Orig UK 1964 Columbia Mono Beat Psych LP

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The Dave Clark Five

Session With

Very Rare Original UK LP Released on Columbia Records in 1964. 1st UK pressing on the Blue and Black Label, the sleeve is Laminated on the front with Flipbacks on the rear.

Matrix Numbers

Side One - XAX 2615-1N

Side Two - XAX 2616-1N

For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five. From the Tottenham area of London, the quintet had the fortune to knock "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the British charts with "Glad All Over," and were championed (for about 15 minutes) by the British press as the Beatles' most serious threat. They were the first British Invasion band to break in a big way in the States after the Beatles, though the Rolling Stones and others quickly supplanted the DC5 as the Fab Four's most serious rivals. The Dave Clark Five reached the Top 40 17 times between 1964 and 1967 with memorable hits like "Glad All Over," "Bits and Pieces," "Because," and a remake of Bobby Day's "Over and Over," as well as making more appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show than any other English act. The DC5 were distinguished from their British contemporaries by their larger-than-life production, Clark's loud stomping drum sound, and Mike Smith's leathery vocals. Though accused by detractors of lacking finesse and hipness, they had a solid ear for melodies and harmonies and wrote much of their early material, the best of which endured quite well. Interestingly, and unusually for that era, bandleader Dave Clark managed and produced the band himself, negotiating a much higher royalty rate than artists of that period usually received. After a couple years of superstardom, the group proved unable to either keep up with the changing times or maintain a high standard of original compositions, and called it quits in 1970.

The group's debut LP did well in England but, as was the custom in the early days of the British Invasion, it had to be finessed into the United States. For the Dave Clark Five's U.S. debut, Epic Records wisely decided to combine the band's British singles and B-sides onto what became the Glad All Over album, delivering one of the label's biggest selling long-players up to that time. With that success behind them, and the public eager for more, the label then released A Session With The Dave Clark Five virtually intact in America, but titled Return!. As the group's first venture in making an LP, it's not as strong as their later efforts, though it does show off their range around the sound that would make them international stars. The lack of the presence of a hit single, however, leaves it weaker than most of the group's American-released LPs.
 

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

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. On Broadway

Side Two

1. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
2. Can i Trust You
3. Forever And a Day
4. Theme Without a Name
5. She's All Mine
6. Time

• Released on Columbia Records in 1964

• Catalogue Number 33SX 1598

• Record is in Mint condition

• Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition (due to name on back)

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