Dave Clark Five Singer Mike Smith Dies of Pneumonia

Reuters ^ | 2-29-08 | JILL SERJEANT

[My Favorite Headache]

Jann Wenner (editor of Rolling Stone and...the head of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), should burn in eternal hell for what he has done to these real rock acts from the 60s, 70s, and 80s who he has had passed over. The DC5 was passed over last year so they could let in a rap act. They kept getting passed over and over in favor of some of his favorite artists and friends instead.

The amount of bands not in there who will have members in their 60s soon is criminal. Rush, Kiss, Boston, Journey, Chicago, Foreigner etc...not in the rock hall. Smith waited and waited and waited...now he won't be alive to be inducted.

Jann Wenner...burn in hell.

[the invisib1e hand]

did he die, or did the New York Times just report that he died?

[GSWarrior]

Wow. I am in pieces. Bits and pieces.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sad news. A landmark band from the 60s.

I guess he's not feelin' Glad All Over anymore.

[abb]

Accurate assessment of Wenner. The Dave Clark Five personified the British Invasion and are pivotal in the history of Rock & Roll.

[I still care]

My husband passed about 5 years ago. He was a guitarist, and loved the Dave Clark 5. I still have many of their original 45s and LPs.

Sad, nostalgic ping.

[Lancey Howard]

It makes me laugh every time another “rapper” or “hip hop” act I never heard of gets inducted into the Rock and Roll “Hall of Fame”. That thing is a joke, and Wenner is nothing but a washed-up little mouse.

[rockrr]

One of my early favs (NOT Jann!)...RIP Mike

[I still care]

I was listening to our oldies station a few weeks ago and the DJ went off on this guy. I think it was Scott Shannon - remember him?

[originalbuckeye]

Really loved the Dave Clark Five. I saw them in concert when I was a teenybopper in the mid 60’s. Mike Smith had been in ill health and in a wheelchair for several years.

RIP Mike, you gave us a lot of listening pleasure.

[My Favorite Headache]

The Dave Clark Five personified the British Invasion and are pivotal in the history of Rock & Roll. They were up there with The Who, The Stones, The Beatles...all of those bands...they just didn’t last as long...but their influence was HUGE...thing is..when Smith got hurt a few years back...he said...they better hurry up getting the DC5 in the hall of fame because it’s clear God wants me home soon...with a laugh...then they got nominated again...last year and Jann Wenner put in Afrikan Bambaataa instead of DC5 although DC5 had the votes to get in

[My Favorite Headache]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q26yIGPT3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6GRYerfD3E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-p9fwHuFwc

[Rb ver. 2.0]

My older sister listened to the DC5 albums when I was a little kid. I remember the music as happy, fartsy sing alongs. That was before my older brother corrupted me with Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Jefferson Airplane, Zappa, Janis Joplin, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, Doors, Steppen Wolf, Santana, etc.

[EyeGuy]

Vocal genius from Mike Smith in the great:

Catch us if you ca-AA-aa-an, catch us if you ca-aa-aa-an, catch us if you ca-aa-AA an, catch us if you can.

Beats all hell out of:

I got my b!tches and my Ho’s and my Dom, in the Pres’dent’s Suite

[acapesket]

This makes me so sad. I have so many fond memories of dancing on the piano bench to the DC5 as a little one, making my bro and all of his friends laugh at little sister!
Bro is gone now some 6 years..
just all makes me sad.

[vetvetdoug]

Johnny Rivers.....I think Wenner has a hard on toward him. Rivers belongs there above many of them before.

[MrLee]

Heard he was saved. “Glad All Over” I’m certain he is tonight if that’s true.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's the link to an article on this that you posted last year that I recalled reading:

Rock Hall Voting Scandal: Dave Clark 5 Actually Won (Jann Wenner FINALLY EXPOSED)

-PJ

[Riverman94610]

Don’t forget Try Too Hard from 1966.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.