The Best Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

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Product Details

Artist : Beaky, Dave Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 7314551823234
Label : Commercial Marketing
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1998-01-26
Running Time : 52minutes
UPC : 731455182323

ASIN : B000007U0A

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. The Legend Of Xanadu
2. Bend It
3. Save Me
4. Hold Tight
5. Touch Me Touch Me
6. The 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. Hideaway
15. Don Juan
16. The Sun Goes Down
17. Is It Love
18. Last Night In Soho

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Customer Reviews

Hit After Hit After Hit... (2008-08-17)

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. Along with their side-kicks from nearby Andover in The Troggs, together, these two 'West Country Bands' virtually dominated the UK Top 40 from 1966 and into the early 1970's.Agreed, I bought this for my wife who is a massive fan still to this day, and although the tracks are the same we were disappointed in getting a black and white picture of the band on the CD cover rather then this lush, colour jobby. But hey, it's about the music, isn't it, and here on one fabulous CD you have all their major Hits, of which the vast majority of this CD is bursting as they had so many.They played Bournemouth's Winter Gardens on package tours back in their heyday and are still thrilling audiences on the Butlin's 60's Festival circuit. But for anyone born in the 50's who grew up with these songs on Top Of The Pops on the telly and Pick Of The Pops on the radio, then this is the one for you, as you'll be singing along word-perfect to virtually every track.

A silly name but quite a few good pop/rock songs - merseybeat with fun! (2007-05-03)

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.

Buy it at this price if only for "Last Night in Soho" (2007-02-09)

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 classics and the guitar work is superb. I always thought it was a tragedy that they got sucked into pop when they were obviously extremely talented and could have made it as a rock band - not that they don't have a huge following in Europe but what they have always missed is for people in general to take them seriously. Listen to "Last Night in Soho" and you'll hear what I mean.

With a little luck (2006-11-22)

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 right.An idea Joe Meek had nicked from the American black group the Flares,who went on to inspire hit singles in the States by Kenny Dino and Alice Wonderland.If it hadn't been the Flares though it could have been the Dave Clark 5-Meek was not beyond nicking ideas from anybody else even if he once accused Phil Spector of copying him!Whatever Howard & Blaikely saw an opportunity to further their success by writing a series of nondescript songs for a group once known as Dave Dee & the Bostons who did at least improve later with things like Legend of Xanadu and Zabadak.They had no American career but Bend It-once called suggestive but then what wasn't?-was covered,for what its worth by Little Eva.Their music was straight ahead mindless pop and their writers went on to supplying Elvis with songs in the 70s

Still at the top of their game ...... (2006-01-01)

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?

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