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1-The Legend Of Zanadu 2-Bend It 3-Save Me 4-Hold Tight 5-Touch Me, Touch Me 6-Wreck Of The Antoinette 7-Snake In The Grass 8-No Time 9-My Woman's Man 10-Zabadak! 11-Okay 12-You Make It Move 13-Mr. President 14-Hideway 15-Don Juan 16-The Sun Goes Down 17-Is It Love? 18-Last Night In Soho (1995/SPECTRUM) 18 tracks Mercury 1965-70
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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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The other reviewer (# 1 reviewer too!) is right in that it may be a silly name - but it really is their nicknames. The other thing that he got right is that they were really very very good indeed. Anybody who saw them on stage in their heyday will know that very few bands ever wanted to follow them. And before you sneer, oh doubtful ones, remember that Tich was voted World's Best guitarist in the 60s and nobody argued: he was a friend of, and jammed with, Jimi Hendrix: he played some cracking guitar on stage at the Heartbreak Hotel Club on Ibiza (Phil Carson's gaff) when the band backed .... Robert Plant (with a little help from Tony Kaye and Chris Squires of Yes): and that in the sixties the Boys outsold the Beatles in many counties.
This run through of their greatest hits shows that they could sing and play to perfection, with fantastic vocal harmonies, honed by what must be a million gigs over the last 40-plus years. "Hold Tight", "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "Xanadu" are all great pure pop songs and the only tragedy is that they were all written by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, the Stock Aitken Waterman of the day, and that the Boys' own songs were largely unrecorded until late in the day.
Remember that these lads shared the stage with everybody, and I mean everybody, from the Beatles to the Stones to Hendrix to you name it and never came off second best. A fantastic and overlooked band, with a lot of these songs being recorded in a few hours in one or two takes.
Do yourselves a favour, I dare you - listen to this disc and then get tickets to see Dave Dee, D B M and T at Salisbury City Hall in March 2006. This still-gigging band, still huge in Europe, will blow away all your pre-conceptions.
I am absolutely delighted to inform you that The Boys have been honoured with a Blue Plaque on the wall of the City Hall in Salisbury,as from 14th March 2008, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Xanadu being number one in the UK charts and the Boys having been on the road almost continuously for 45 years. The ceremony included a presentation by the Mayor of Salisbury in front of a large crowd before they played the hall that night as part of a 40-date sold-out tour. Fantastic. Real real class.
Stop press 8/10/08 - unbelievable as it may sound, I am delighted to tell you that the new CD, The Very Best Of DDDBMandT entered the charts this week at no. 24. How about that for staying power? Nice one, Tich and the boys - NOW will you let me borrow your Fender Twin Reverb again? Please?
UPDATE - it is with a huge sadness and a great sense of loss that I have to report that Dave Dee died on 9th January 2009 after a long battle with cancer. This funny, talented and lovely man carried out a massive tour last year without missing a gig and gave his all to every performance. RIP Dave, you left the world a nicer place. Dave, between 67 and 69 the only band to outsell you was the Beatles, and you outsold them in Europe. I hope you meet Eddie Cochran and all those great rockers and have the jam session to end all others.
This run through of their greatest hits shows that they could sing and play to perfection, with fantastic vocal harmonies, honed by what must be a million gigs over the last 40-plus years. "Hold Tight", "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "Xanadu" are all great pure pop songs and the only tragedy is that they were all written by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, the Stock Aitken Waterman of the day, and that the Boys' own songs were largely unrecorded until late in the day.
Remember that these lads shared the stage with everybody, and I mean everybody, from the Beatles to the Stones to Hendrix to you name it and never came off second best. A fantastic and overlooked band, with a lot of these songs being recorded in a few hours in one or two takes.
Do yourselves a favour, I dare you - listen to this disc and then get tickets to see Dave Dee, D B M and T at Salisbury City Hall in March 2006. This still-gigging band, still huge in Europe, will blow away all your pre-conceptions.
I am absolutely delighted to inform you that The Boys have been honoured with a Blue Plaque on the wall of the City Hall in Salisbury,as from 14th March 2008, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Xanadu being number one in the UK charts and the Boys having been on the road almost continuously for 45 years. The ceremony included a presentation by the Mayor of Salisbury in front of a large crowd before they played the hall that night as part of a 40-date sold-out tour. Fantastic. Real real class.
Stop press 8/10/08 - unbelievable as it may sound, I am delighted to tell you that the new CD, The Very Best Of DDDBMandT entered the charts this week at no. 24. How about that for staying power? Nice one, Tich and the boys - NOW will you let me borrow your Fender Twin Reverb again? Please?
UPDATE - it is with a huge sadness and a great sense of loss that I have to report that Dave Dee died on 9th January 2009 after a long battle with cancer. This funny, talented and lovely man carried out a massive tour last year without missing a gig and gave his all to every performance. RIP Dave, you left the world a nicer place. Dave, between 67 and 69 the only band to outsell you was the Beatles, and you outsold them in Europe. I hope you meet Eddie Cochran and all those great rockers and have the jam session to end all others.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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With the very successful writing team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley providing the words and - most importantly - the hooks (except for "Hold Tight") the-quintet-with-the-very-long-name (nicknames actually) was really big on the mid-60's British charts. From 1965 to 1969, it was difficult to listen to British radio without hearing one of their singles.
Behind the big arrangements, the individual member's contributions were hard to assess. Therefore, the band members were a bit faceless.
However, to the public, the songs spoke for themselves and sold by the truckload. These songs have managed to stay imbedded in the minds of everybody who heard them at the time.
Although some of the songs are rather silly, there are also very good songs like "Bend It", "Hold Tight", "Zabadak" and "The Legend of Xanadu".
Although huge in Continental Europe, and in other countries around the world, they only achieved a small hit in the USA.
So, if you have fond memories of them, this low-priced album is the one to buy as it includes their 13 Top 30 British hit singles (including 8 Top Ten singles.) Their first, non charting single "No Time" and the post-Dave Dee "Mr. President", which reached # 33 in the UK, are included, as well as some B-sides.
Behind the big arrangements, the individual member's contributions were hard to assess. Therefore, the band members were a bit faceless.
However, to the public, the songs spoke for themselves and sold by the truckload. These songs have managed to stay imbedded in the minds of everybody who heard them at the time.
Although some of the songs are rather silly, there are also very good songs like "Bend It", "Hold Tight", "Zabadak" and "The Legend of Xanadu".
Although huge in Continental Europe, and in other countries around the world, they only achieved a small hit in the USA.
So, if you have fond memories of them, this low-priced album is the one to buy as it includes their 13 Top 30 British hit singles (including 8 Top Ten singles.) Their first, non charting single "No Time" and the post-Dave Dee "Mr. President", which reached # 33 in the UK, are included, as well as some B-sides.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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This was not the only sixties group to have a silly name – Creedence Clearwater Revival was another that immediately comes to mind – and it didn’t stop them making some upbeat, guitar-based rock music of really quality. It seems that they failed to make any impact in America, but they had thirteen hits in their native Britain between 1966 and 1969, many going high in the top ten.
Their only number one hit was The legend of Xanadu, but Zabadak reached number two while Save me, Bend it and Hold tight all reached number four. All these hits plus all their lesser hits and a few misses are included here.
Although most (but not all) of the songs are upbeat, fun songs, there is a remarkable variety of styles within this collection. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich may well be the best British group of the sixties to fail in America. Although not up to the standard of the Beatles or the Rolling stones (who else was?), they were certainly as good as many British groups that did make it in America.
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60s Music
This download is as good as it gets of 60s music, DD,D,B,M & T sang funny catchy songs as well as straight songs, I think they were a very under-rated group, if you get this... Read more
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when i ordered this disc ,the one advertised had a coloured sleeve,but the one i had delivered was in black and white, it wont spoil my enjoyment of this music but dont display... Read more
Published 3 months ago by MISTERBLUESKYE
Fab gear
All the best stuff from the Dave Dee mob and my personal favourite Zabadak. Lovely original sound, amazingly low price.
Published 7 months ago by M. P. Campbell
Great compilation of a good little sixtie's group
This is a cd that is on my Xmas want list, that has all the hit records on it and really is great value at the price on offer. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. M. Walsh
The Very Best Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Titch - the name...
They might have had the longest and silliest name in pop history, but Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Titch were a classic band who put out some essential `60s pop tracks. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2010 by Victor
Dave Dee Tribute
Having twice seen Dave Dee live in 2008, I wanted a CD with all their hits on. This has them all plus some other songs which although unfamiliar with, I found them a contrast. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2009 by Jeff M. Best
Hit After Hit After Hit...
There will be some younger rips who have never heard of this band of 5 young men from Salisbury in Wiltshire in England, but what a great deal of amazing music they have missed. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2008 by Alan Burridge
Buy it at this price if only for "Last Night in Soho"
DDDBMT - one of the best of many groups from the sixties and seventies who are now overlooked. One or two of the pop songs are almost unlistenable to now BUT there are some... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2007 by Mr. Stephen Carter
With a little luck
With the advent of the one time DDDBM&T opportunism rose for a couple of songwriters who carried on with the bootstomping as displayed on the Honeycomb's 1964 hit Have I the... Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2006 by Richard
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