The Dave Clark Five - "Because"

Youtube ^ | 8/27/2014 | Kirill Zaharov

[simpson96]

The Dave Clark Five - "Because"

[simpson96]

*music ping*

[left that other site]

Ooooo....I had such a crush on them back-in-the-day! :-)

[Rashputin]

Whoa, my first girlfriend loved it when I had the local radio station dedicate this song to her on the request line evening. What a memory.

Thanks

[oh8eleven]

Great song - from back in the day when music was music - not the crap they have now.

[SeekAndFind]

Which one in the above pic is Dave Clark?

[jimfree]

Haven’t thought of that song in a while. Might add it to the repertoire I sing for a friend in permanent resident at a nursing home. Chords look easy. Thanks for the ping!

[Huskrrrr]

The young man in the middle.

[treetopsandroofs]

Good to see your music posts again, thanks.

[shadowlands1960]

Dave Clark was the drummer... 3rd from left in this picture..

[CommerceComet]

Because didn’t have one person singing lead so you don’t hear Mike Smith’s voice alone, but it was magnificent. IMO, the two best singing voices of the 1960s, were Mike Smith of the Dave Clark Five and Burton Cummings of the Guess Who.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Burton Cummings. A Canadian leftie who made the big bucks off the protest movements but then there was protest in most of the music back then. American Woman was too direct.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Here's a version which has been digitally enhanced. I usually stick to mono originals of old '60s hits when I buy vinyl, but I enjoyed this version of a song my mom used to play on the turntable during summer vacations back in the '70s when I was a kid.

[Alas Babylon!]

I always thought they sounded most like the Beatles in this song.

I was just a kid when it came out but thought it was the Fab Four until my older sisters corrected me.

[CommerceComet]

My comment was about his singing voice, not his politics. Two unrelated items.

[simpson96]

Thanks! Glad to discover that channel.

[SunkenCiv]

the link gave me a 404, maybe direct will work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbG5iSOe4Y0

DC5 bumped the Beatles out of the #1 spot with, hmm, “Glad All Over”? NAmed for, and managed by, the drummer, the band had a great six year run, which not by coincidence mirrors the six years it takes to go from early adolescence to young adulthood.

Any Way You Want It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23EWrWSGbk4

[faucetman]

Saw them in concert, back in the day.

[faucetman]

Lead singer Mike Smith insulted the audience by not knowing where he was and had the attitude that it was just some podunk American city. My words not his.

[faucetman]

I take it all BACK! MY BAD, I confused the Dave Clark Five with Jerry and the Pacemakers.