It’s Saturday morning and I’m a bit tired and still a little wired from the Yankees’ comeback win last night so I think I’ll just put up a song so I can get to work.
I came across a nice video of The Dave Clark Five and was reminded of their impressive string of hits in the mid-1960’s. Bits and Pieces, Glad All Over, Catch Us If You Can, I Like It Like That and several more. They were always put up as rivals to the early Beatles, being the second of the British Invasion bands to play Ed Sullivan. Fan magazines always pitted them against one another on their covers. To me, they were always a bit too squeaky clean and fratboy-like when compared to the other British bands suchs as the Beatles or the Stones or the Kinks but they had a great sound for their time and occupy a distinct moment in evolution of pop music.
DC5, as they were called, never really evolved beyond their initial burst and disbanded in 1970 and so, like a movie star that dies young, they are preserved in the pop culture collective memory as they were in their matching outfits and well-coiffed hair. But they had a great sound and catchy tunes. They remain a guilty pleasure for me.
I remember the above album cover well. My sister had this record and it was well played in our house. I have her copy now and it shows the wear of kids holding and looking at it as the songs played on the hi-fi. A bit worn like memory.
Here’s Bits and Pieces. Have a great Saturday.
Redtree Times 
I loved that album!!!
As did I. To me, they were the best of those British Invasion bands that never made it beyond that time.
For me, the most evocative word in your entire post is “hi-fi”. It’s hard to remember today what a leap it was from Victrolas and record players to hi-fi and then stereo.
They were big, clunky and cabineted, but lo! you could turn one on in the house and hear The Dave Clark Five outside on the patio! Neighbors had to begin calibrating decibel levels and time of night to know when complaints were acceptable…
Yeah, “hi-fi” is definitely a term specifically evocative of an era. It’s hard to describe how lush the sound of a hi-fi was when compared to the sounds coming from little transistor radio speakers or from the personal record players with one speaker that looked like a typewriter case. Even though the quality of the sound has improved since that time, I can’t believe it ever sounded any better, relatively.