THE BEST OF THE DAVE CLARK FIVE SRS 5037 (-70) UK EXPORT

A genuine floor filler at the school dances and teen parties where I grew up was "Glad All Over". It couldn't get happier or more positive than that. Two plus minutes of pure joy and everyone was dancing. Back then we didn't know DC5 for a short while was one of the sixties top groups with a stack of million sellers world wide, twelve top 40 hits in UK and seventeen top 40 on Billboard. They were one of the first UK bands to tour US and filled arenas through the country, had eighteen guest appearances at Ed Sullivan Show and their own TV special. All we cared about was the music and some of the groups other '45:s, like "Do You Love Me" and "Bits And Pieces was also true party savers. However the songwriting and style, with short up-tempo rock numbers and clean cut ballads, were very much tied to the early sixties and as the big scene moved towards psych and more drug infested rock, sales started to drop and the band broke up 1970. In a few years they released over 20 original LP:s in US and UK together. To my taste they were at their best with the singles. I've had a number of original albums but non of them got me 100% - a few good songs on each, but also rather meaningless fillers. So if you gonna have one album with the group I recommend a compilation. This was a UK low budget one with all their best songs and top audio, still possible to get for a good prize. It has about the same songs as the UK 14 track version (Columbia SX 6105) of US Epic collection "Dave Clark Five's Greatest Hits" (LN 24185/BN 26185). But while that UK issue was mono only this has all tracks in true stereo, probably using the Epic mixes. 1:st press with label as shown here and laminated flip/back cover. (ÖXÄP*)(SXS*)