The Dave Clark Five - DC5-DTS-DVD by Sansdancer (SBU)

The Dave Clark Five – DC5-DTS-DVD
5.1 Upmix by Sansdancer


This is my compilation of songs by The Dave Clark Five, upmixed to 5.1 DTS surround sound using the Spec method and tools available on Surroundbyus.com. I also utilized several other audio editing programs. (DTS isn't lossless but there is no upmix section on the site.) This upmix can only be played on PCs and home theater/audio systems capable of decoding and playing DTS files. You can burn it to a DVD using the ISO file. I recommend ImgBurn for best results.

Finding music by The Dave Clark Five can be a bit of a challenge. Dave Clark owns all the masters and only occasionally lets a record company put out a limited edition compilation. None of the original albums have been officially/legally issued on CD. (There are Russian bootlegs out there, sourced from vinyl, not master tapes.) Finding DC5 music in stereo is also very difficult because Dave was not a big fan of stereo and felt they were making hits for AM radio so most of there music was only mastered in mono. Epic used the worst kind of processing to make stereo versions of their albums – treble on one channel, bass on the other. Better to listen to mono versions than that engineering atrocity. (Some of their material is now available on iTunes.)

Finding Dave Clark Five music in 5.1 surround is…well…I think this is it.

I grew up in the ‘60s and like most kids listened to lots of Rock & Roll on the radio. The Dave Clark Five made a big impression on me because of the huge sound and upfront presence of Dave Clark’s drums. I had never heard any drums on a record like the DC5 sounded and it influenced my taste in heavier Rock from that point forward. Other drummer driven records by artists such as Sandy Nelson, Cozy Cole or Gene Krupa sounded tame compared to the machine gun thunder of Dave Clark. (Dave was not as good as those guys and it was actually Bobby Graham playing on the records so Dave could be producing.) The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Small Faces and The Kinks all had great rocking songs, but none had the grit and power drum sound of DC5 hits like Glad All Over, Do You Love Me or Bits and Pieces. Even their softer songs such as Because, Everybody Knows (I Still Love You) and Can’t You See That She’s Mine have a lush, full sound.

The Dave Clark Five were the second major group of the ‘60s British Invasion, appearing on Ed Sullivan two weeks after the Beatles. And there was the drummer – up front – with the keyboards and guitars behind him. I had never seen a group set up like that before. Glad All Over had knocked I Want To Hold Your Hand off the top spot on the charts a couple of weeks prior. The DC5 was promoted as having the “Tottenham Sound” (as opposed to the Beatles “Mersey Beat”). During its peak hit making years the band consisted of Dave Clark (drums), Mike Smith (lead vocals, keyboards), Lenny Davidson (guitar), Rick Huxley (bass) and Denis Payton (sax, harmonica, guitar).

While producing lots of original sounds, they also copied a lot of other successful artists’ styles over the course of their career – The Champs (Chaquita), The Who (All Night Long), Tom Jones (If Somebody Loves You), The Beach Boys (Here Comes Summer), Tommy James (Inside & Out), Charlie Rich (Satisfied With You), The Beatles (Universal Love) and even Badfinger (Right Or Wrong). Towards the end of their career they recorded a cover of Amen Corner’s Paradise (Is Half As Nice) and two Rock & Roll medleys. A final album put together by Dave Clark with Mike Smith and Madeline Bell (credited to Dave Clark And Friends) was made up almost entirely of covers of other artists’ hits including Steam, Tommy James, Ray Stevens/Billy Craddock, The Youngbloods, Jackie DeShannon, The Stampeders and Neil Young. Some of the recordings were new, but some may have actually been unused DC5 tracks.

In March 2008 the Dave Clark Five was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
One bit of trivia: The DC5 is one of the only artists to ever have two different charting songs with the same title: Everybody Knows in 1964 and 1967.

Here’s a great article about the history of the band (I have also included it in the torrent):
http://asithappens.hubpages.com/hub/CuriousStoryofDC5


The Dave Clark Five - DC5-DTS-DVD project started out as a simple greatest hits upmix, but over the course of six weeks it became this 77 song, 3 hour + behemoth you now see before you. Even at this length, I do not claim this to be a definitive anthology but it does have most of their US and UK single sides. The tracks are generally presented in chronological order, grouped more by period than absolute release date and with consideration to tempo, musical key and overall flow of the program.

Each song was processed individually using the best sources available. Some are from CD, my own vinyl rips and (unfortunately) a couple of MP3s (because that was the only way I could get them). Due to different recording production, technology, time period, etc., the sound quality can vary from track to track, especially with the older songs. I don’t use any normalization, so some songs may appear to be louder than others even though overall levels are the same, so have your remote control handy while you listen. Also, I used many different methods to upmix the tracks to 5.1. For the stereo tracks I used Plogue Bidule with Spec set to Slice. On the mono tracks I used a variety of techniques, programs and my own magic. (You may not be able to tell right away which songs are originally in mono.) I used DTS Master Audio for DTS encoding and Audio Muxer to assemble the songs and artwork into an ISO image.

There is artwork to accompany each song, so turn your TV/ monitor on when you listen to this program.

Here’s the track list – Play them loud and get down to the Tottenham Sound!

1. Chaquita
2. Do You Love Me
3. I Knew It All The Time
4. Whenever You're Around
5. Bits And Pieces
6. Remember It's Me
7. Sitting Here Baby
8. Glad All Over
9. Come Home
10. Can't You See That She's Mine
11. First Love
12. That's What I Said
13. Because
14. Thinking Of You Baby
15. Blueberry Hill
16. Reelin' And Rockin'
17. Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)
18. Catch Us If You Can
19. You Don't Play Me Around
20. Anyway You Want It
21. At The Place
22. Over And Over
23. Hurting Inside
24. I Don't Know
25. Ol' Sol
26. Please Tell Me Why
27. Having A Wild Weekend
28. At The Scene
29. Forever And A Day
30. Try Too Hard
31. Good Love Is Hard To Find
32. I'll Be Yours My Love
33. Look Before You Leap
34. Satisfied With You
35. I Like It Like That
36. All Night Long
37. Nineteen Days
38. When I'm Alone
39. Let Me Be
40. Concentration Baby
41. Red And Blue
42. Don't Let Me Down
43. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
44. ‘Til The Right One Comes Along
45. I Need Love
46. Inside And Out
47. You've Got What It Takes
48. I've Got To Have A Reason
49. Man In A Pin-Striped Suit
50. A Little Bit Now
51. Play With Me
52. Tabatha Twitchit
53. Forget
54. Everybody Knows
55. Good Time Woman
56. Red Balloon
57. Lovin' So Good
58. Doctor Rhythm
59. Bernedette
60. If Somebody Loves You
61. Here Comes Summer
62. No One Can Break A Heart Like You
63. Five By Five
64. Live In The Sky
65. Paradise
66. Lost In His Dreams
67. Put A Little Love In Your Heart
68. Good Old Rock 'n' Roll
69. More Good Old Rock 'N' Roll
70. Sha-Na-Na-Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
71. Southern Man
72. Sweet City Woman
73. Draggin' The Line
74. Rub It In
75. Right Or Wrong
76. Everybody Get Together
77. Universal Love

I hope you enjoy this program. Please leave a comment.