Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Greatest Hits RARE Philips Historia LP Freakbeat

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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich : Greatest Hits Historia De La Musica Rock #23 Full-Length 12" Vinyl Album

Album Description: Cool album cover features the clean-shaven quintet barely forcing a smile. The vinyl record is in glossy clean excellent to near mint condition and in the original Philips Records illustrated discography inner sleeve. The album cover is in very good+/excellent condition with minor surface wear, no seam splits. Manufactured by Philips/Mercury in Madrid, Spain. Please see pictures. Will be sent safely packaged. Check out our store for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please contact us with any questions.
Tracklist: 1    Okay!
2    Zabadak
3    Snake In The Grass
4    The Legend Of Xanadu
5    Last Night In Soho
6    Don Juan
7    Save Me
8    Bend It
9    Hold Tight
10  The Wreck Of The "Antoinette"
11  Touch Me, Touch Me
12  Hideaway
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich are an English rock band active during the 1960s. Formed in Salisbury in 1964, the band consisted of David Harman (Dave Dee), Trevor Ward-Davies (Dozy), John Dymond (Beaky), Michael Wilson (Mick) and Ian Amey (Tich). Their novel name, zany stage act and lurid dress sense helped propel them to chart success with a string of hit singles penned by songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley including "Hold Tight!", "Bend It!" and "Zabadak!". Over the course of the band's career, they played several different genres, including freakbeat, mod and pop cola. Two of their single releases sold in excess of one million copies each, and they reached number one in the UK Singles Chart with the second of them, "The Legend of Xanadu". Unlike many other British bands of the 1960s who were associated with the British invasion of the United States, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich had limited commercial US success. They did better in Canada with 7 songs in the top 100. Since their original break-up in 1973, the band has reunited in various formations. All but the original "Mick" have since returned to the band, with the remaining four continuing without him. The group began in the late 1950s when "the Dozies" came together from various bands of the Salisbury area. Trevor Davies (Dozy), then with the Beatnicks met Ian Amey (Tich) and persuaded him to leave his group Eddy and the Strollers to join the Beatnicks. A few months later David Harman (Dave Dee) from the Coasters and Boppers came in and Tich approached his schoolmate John Dymond (Beaky) who also was a member of the Big Boppers to join in as well. Davies, Amey, and Harman would all be members of a group called Ronnie Blonde and the Beatnicks. They gigged extensively already with a repertoire of classic rockers and contemporary hits plus a few of their own numbers. Ronnie eventually became the group’s front man. The group’s drummers would continuously change but in 1961 when Michael Wilson (Mick) whom Dozy had met while travelling on the bus, joined as their permanent drummer. With this new lineup, they changed their name to Dave Dee and the Bostons. They soon gave up their jobs (Dave Dee was a policeman) to make their living from music. Apart from performing in the UK, they occasionally played in Hamburg (Star-Club, Top Ten Club) and in Cologne (Storyville). Before leaving the Wiltshire police force, vocalist Dave Dee attended the scene of the motoring accident in which the American rock and roller Eddie Cochran was killed and Gene Vincent was injured in April 1960. In summer 1964, the British songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley became interested in recording them. The band was set up in the studio to make recordings with Joe Meek. These recording sessions failed to get off the ground. Dave Dee stated that Meek "had very strange recording techniques. He wanted us to play the song at half speed and then he would speed it up and put all these little tricks on it. We said we couldn't do it that way. He exploded, threw coffee all over the studio and stormed up to his room. His assistant Patrick Pink came in and said, 'Mr Meek will not be doing any more recording today'. That was it. We lugged all our gear out and went back home". The group eventually gained a recording contract with Fontana Records. Ken Howard said that: "We changed their name to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, because they were their actual nicknames and because we wanted to stress their very distinct personalities in a climate which regarded bands as collectives". The distinctive name, coupled with well produced and catchy songs by Howard and Blaikley, quickly caught the UK public's imagination and their records started to sell in abundance. The group made the odd tour 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand. Some of the members' nicknames are obscure. "Mick" is short for "Michael". "Tich" was shorter than his friends as a child, and "Dozy" supposedly originated from Trevor Ward-Davies mistakenly throwing away a bar of chocolate and trying to eat the wrapper. They also scored a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 with "The Legend of Xanadu". The combined sales figures were in excess of one million copies. Their other top-ten UK hits included "Hideaway", "Hold Tight!", "Bend It!", "Save Me", "Okay!", "Zabadak!" and "Last Night in Soho". "Bend It!" was a big hit in Europe, including number one in Germany. To obtain a bouzouki sound on the recording, an electrified mandolin was used. The song was inspired by music from the film sound track of Zorba the Greek. The combined UK and European sales were over one million. However, in 1966, the British music magazine NME commented that dozens of US radio stations had banned the record, because the lyrics were considered too suggestive. The group responded by recording a new version in London with a different set of words, which was rush-released in the US, as the original single was withdrawn from sale. "Bend It!" was later used in an episode of the American animated sitcom Futurama entitled "The Mutants Are Revolting". "Hold Tight!" was used in Quentin Tarantino's 2007 film Death Proof. The band were big sellers elsewhere, particularly in British Commonwealth countries. NME reported that Dave Dee was to play a motorbike gang leader in the forthcoming Marty Feldman film Every Home Should Have One. The rest of the band, re-billed as D,B,M and T, continued releasing records until they broke up in 1973. In July 2005, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich performed at the Merryhill Music Festival at the Merryhill Leisure naturist club in Norfolk, England. (web bio)
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