Kev Hunter
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Post by Kev Hunter on Feb 9, 2015 15:08:59 GMT
What's the betting that two DC5 albums - The Best of the Dave Clark Five (Starline) and If Somebody Loves You (Columbia) - will never ever make it onto CD, as their covers now look slightly dodgy?!
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Post by John Green on Feb 9, 2015 16:05:41 GMT
Yes John, it was disappointing there was no mention of any RSG releases, would presumably need a more informed interviewer than Steve "I'm everybody in showbiz's best mate" Wright to get such details. If only DC would do an interview with Record Collector or Kaleidoscope we might find out more about what is in his archive and likely to see the light of day. Hence-possibly-the reason he doesn't! (But isn't he supposed to have provided a complete list of his RSG holdings?). |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Feb 10, 2015 23:25:49 GMT
Old Dave was on Loose Women today plugging the film - they didn't ask about Ready Steady Go, as you would imagine.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Feb 11, 2015 8:24:19 GMT
Old Dave was on Loose Women today plugging the film - they didn't ask about Ready Steady Go, as you would imagine. It wouldn't suprise me if they had never heard of Ready Steady Go Chris. |
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Post by markboulton on Feb 11, 2015 22:48:01 GMT
At present just a few 'Hits' CDs and the odd copy of Polydor's successful '25 Thumping Great Hits' mid seventies compilation turn up plus maybe the EMI Budget Starline (& MFP) 'Best of..' & 'Rock & Roll' compilations occasionally surface, otherwise the handful of original UK Columbia albums from 1964 to 1970 are quite rare (& expensive !) I Thank My Lucky Stars I have these two items... www.dropbox.com/s/kprw83f8tanzkh6/8-Tracks%20DC5.JPG?dl=0...in my 8-track collection, part of which can be seen here (the first wave of EMI Executive releases, which is what tape versions of Regal Starline releases appeared on): www.dropbox.com/s/b0dvrge7isbeq4t/8-Tracks%20EMI%20Executive%201-37.JPG?dl=0 |
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Post by tombeveridge on Feb 13, 2015 4:19:49 GMT
What's the betting that two DC5 albums - The Best of the Dave Clark Five (Starline) and If Somebody Loves You (Columbia) - will never ever make it onto CD, as their covers now look slightly dodgy?! Blimey! I'd not noticed that before--ah, the innocence of bygone days. Damn good band though! |
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Post by markboulton on Feb 13, 2015 21:54:30 GMT
What's the betting that two DC5 albums - The Best of the Dave Clark Five (Starline) and If Somebody Loves You (Columbia) - will never ever make it onto CD, as their covers now look slightly dodgy?! Blimey! I'd not noticed that before--ah, the innocence of bygone days. Damn good band though! The fact that that should in today's society be seen as "dodgy" and can't ever be seen as something else, makes me weep... It's such a shame that we've all been trained to look for the suspicion in any adult/child interaction...(think Fiona Bruce gesticulating with her hands, shaking her head with a concerned wince, followed by a shot of a playground deliberately out of focus). Beyond the scope of this forum of course, don't want to start such a debate here, but still. No doubt any re-issue would be given a new cover image, maybe with liner notes describing the originals but explaining they weren't used "due to today's sensitivities". Edit: Oh, how inventive :\ m.ebay.co.uk/itm/331470841362?nav=SEARCH |
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Post by John Green on Feb 13, 2015 23:56:32 GMT
Or generally 'Honi thing qui mal whatsit".On the other hand,I've heard Americans say "Wasn't Saville making it clear enough for you?".
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Kev Hunter
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Post by Kev Hunter on Feb 14, 2015 12:12:46 GMT
Cover artwork aside, "25 Thumping Great Hits" (even though this one had the most predictable and uninmaginative sleeve ever.. the office junior must have knocked it up in his ciggie break) was slightly misleading as it only contained 20 tracks, and not all were hits. The "Good Old Rock 'n' Roll" medley of six songs was cheekily counted in the total as being separate hits, and "Sha Na Na" and "Sweet City Woman" never even got near the singles charts. Give that marketing man an award or a stern letter from Trading Standards!
Incidentally, I was gobsmacked to see that in the preview of my post, a slang term I had used ("f*g") had mysteriously been asterisked by some politically correct piece of software, so I changed it to "ciggie", which doesn't seem to have any possible offensive connotations. I felt like a right count.
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Post by markboulton on Feb 14, 2015 19:46:36 GMT
Incidentally, I was gobsmacked to see that in the preview of my post, a slang term I had used ("f*g") had mysteriously been asterisked by some politically correct piece of software, so I changed it to "ciggie", which doesn't seem to have any possible offensive connotations. I felt like a right count. It's a good job you didn't say anything about taking a drag, Kev!   |
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Post by ashleywood on Feb 14, 2015 23:57:06 GMT
so i'm watching the doc again on bbc and they're saying wow he was such an incredible genius for keeping his masters wow how amazing.
where can i buy the dc5 albums ?
also they're going on about how important it was to buy the RSG masters to preserve it for future generations and so on...
so here i am in the future generation....where's my rsg dvd/blu ray ?
it took 20 minutes or so for me to hear the other members of the DC5's names apart from DC and Mike Smith.
You can insert your own swear words here.
I remain convinced that the only reason Sir Macca appeared in this crap was to get a favorable rate for Apple leasing RSG clips.
Can anyone here explain ...?
Personally i think Hanks got it as wrong with the DC5 as he did with Oswald. What a thingy.
a/ why are there no RSG dvd's/blu rays if it's as important as DC makes out and he's so effing clever to buy it.
b/ where are the DC5 albums if DC was so effing clever to retain control of the masters.
Elton, Freddie, Sir Ian McKellen and Whoopi are so keen to proclaim his genius. I see no evidence and if anything i think the guy was an even bigger thingy than i thought he was before i watched this. Plus i just listened to the band's 1964 Saturday Club appearance and they are worse than bad. Sounds like without Bobbie Graham and Adrian Kerridge they would've been Freddie and The Dreamers at best...not to mention Ron Ryan.
Anyone want to explain why he's a genius ?
To be quite frank i am steaming angry.
Unfortunately i signed a non-disclosure agreement and am unable to express my full opinions.
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Post by James C on Feb 15, 2015 10:43:56 GMT
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Kev Hunter
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Post by Kev Hunter on Feb 15, 2015 10:46:26 GMT
Couldn't agree with you more, Ashley - the whole thing was a sycophantic back-slapping waste of time, and although it may have been 'made' in 2014, none of the interviews were that recent, surely? Macca looks at least five to ten years younger than he does now, as do Dionne Warwick, Bruce Springsteen, Elton et all. And I don't think Gene Simmons has done an interview wearing his Kiss makeup for yonks. Baffling.
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Post by johnpoole on Feb 15, 2015 10:56:23 GMT
I had to give up on it less than halfway through - it was so dull I was losing the will to live.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Feb 15, 2015 14:39:30 GMT
I nodded off less than 20 minutes in but will give it another go later in the week. It's available on iPlayer for 30 days (in HD) so no need to buy the BD or DVD...
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