The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there.

Guess you just had to be there- Hearing Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys while the British Invasion was taking over the airwave on radios everywhere?

I've tried a few times-Beatles.  Just can't feel the DC5. That skinny Mick guy  who imitates Black R&B singers and the Rolling somethings...??

Dave Clark Five chart history, U.S. and U.K.

Just some useless links:

https://tsort.info/music/6rk46n.htm

DAVE CLARK FIVE | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company

https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10856/dave-clark-five/

https://www.google.com/search?q=dave+clark+U.S.+chart+history&sxsrf=AOaemvKa63V1aoX1WbmcyZ2sfHw9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dave_Clark_Five

ABBA is back.!
My favorite quote from the article:
" "Bringing the ladies in, we didn't really know what to expect," said Andersson. "Because I mean, they're not 30 anymore, they're 70-plus. They came in and they started to sing, it was like bang! Spot on."

I'm in pieces, bits and pieces at the very thought the DC5 were once held as equal to the Fab Four.  We were too young at the time to understand it was all about the enduring ability to write songs.  That has always been the secret to longevity in the Rock & Roll game.  A very few exceptions come to mind.  Joe Cocker would be one.  

No Dave Clark Five or Beatles cliques I can recall. Dave Clark Five were pretty much flash in the pan with a few hits, Beatles much more. I do recall Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, watching with my grandparents, thought their long hair appalling, hilarious! While I did like the Beatles from the beginning, it was 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' that made me respect them.

The Brits certainly were ahead of us at that time in bringing new form of rock to USA. Soul was newer form of pop here, what passed for rock was stuff like Frankie Avalon, Brian Hyland etc. Also served to spur American artists to offer more mature offerings over the long term.

On the other side of the globe, when I was in primary school, it was ABBA.
Kids had AB on the left shoe, and BA facing them on the toe of the right shoes. They were from Sweden.

Pink Floyd, the Stones, U2 in Australia was a pretty massive movements too.

Simon and Garfunkel. Never occurred to me to think of it as a clique. To me it was just the kids with good taste in music.

Once a Beatles fan, always a Beatles fan. Not something you outgrow or get over. 

Tomcy6 ….Pretty sure the Beatles won 😜

I remember radio stations doing battle of the bands between the Beatles and the DC 5.  Can't remember who won though.

The Mommas and the Pappas, CREAM, Erick Burden, Twiggy :-) Rod the Mod, Justen Wilson, ALL of the outlaws, The 4 Tops, The Miracles, The Monkeys, Deno, Blue Eyes, Cool and the Gang, Dick VanDike in chitty chitty bang bang.. Franky Avalon, Phillis Diller, Zero Mostel, and Jack Bennie. I forgot my cousin Lula, she's pretty good, too.

I remember "Beatniks". Dobie Gillis

BUT the Dave Clark 5, what am I missin' here? I'm 67. I was gone for 5 or 6 years as a kid in Europe.. No TV.. Maybe that's what I missed..

LOL Regards :-)

jerry reed is a great evening of music!!

good stuff.

I played DC5 in the hotel room before the R & R Hall. Not much mention there or the Nashville Hall either of the two Jerry's - Reed and Lee Lewis.
We had some of the best local bands here:
The Shadows, Maids, Saturday's Children, H.P. Lovecraft and Nugent's Amboy Dukes.
In between traveling acts like The Who, Cream, The Byrd's, and Buffalo Springfield.

"...I didn't know that the Dave Clark Five were a Brit group..."

From London.

I didn't know that the Dave Clark Five were a Brit group.  Or, are you comparing Brit to American, a la the Beatles (Brit) and the Dave Clark Five (American ?).
Also, don't forget, "Herman's Hermits."

grew up from an early age listening to much of these records from my parents collection. the who, stones, zeppelin, thin lizzy, yardbirds, still love Jeff Beck solo stuff, 
as mentioned a lot of blues as well, bb king, clarence brown, buddy guy, junior wells, kook taylor, muddy waters, etc, we lived in the chicago burbs for a while, and parents had a lot of records. a nice big collection of rock/blues/psychedelic/ folk, etc etc/............

 don't think i qualify, as i was just a wee mite listening to my parents records, which my Dad would put a couple quarters or a half dollar on the head shell for better sound :)

  im glad i  always loved music, it has helped me through tough times!!

I forgot Creedence Clearwater Revival.. Mercy that was a main stay, the heart of rock and roll, Led Zeppelin too..

Lawrence Welk was my grandmothers stuff.. She loved him..

Regards

It was a War, Santana, Grand Funk Railroad, The Temptations, The Supremes, James Brown, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Tiny Tim?

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and a little Jene Autry.

Hi-yo silver, and Mister Green Jeans was cool.. SO???

Dave Clark 5? I don’t think so.. BB King, Little Richard maybe the Everly Brothers..

Regards

Beatles and , being from Illinois,  listened to a lot of Chicago blues guys.

Love it all!

I look at the post WWII generation with much admiration particularly those who were teens during the time R&R was brewing.

At least the stories I’ve heard, it was a magical time to be a music freak in SoCal, where I live.

Being at the tail end of the BB generation, I missed just about everything that essentially changed the face of music.

The late 70’s-80’s and present have moments, but they are tiny blips compared to the earlier times. I am grateful to have at least experienced a taste of why radio was such a big deal. Now that’s just reduced to PBS. Depending where you’re located, maybe you have a dying station hanging on.

The upside- I have an ENDLESS source of music discovery going backwards. My record stores have plenty of cheap LP’s of fantastic music.

DC5.

Don't you just love age prejudice, it is so intellectual.

Much of the Jazz I love is from the 40s through the 60s, so I guess Miles, Chet, Bach and Mozart are simply just old fashioned music for those not with it. 

For me it was the Kinks,Yardbirds and Manfred Mann against the world, but the big battle was the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones.  And there was those people who preferred Donovan to Dylan.

I’m not that old. Beatles fan all the way but did listen to the only rock AM station we could get.  My parents listened to KFI for all the non rock and the Dodgers and watched both tv channels. Gary and Pacemakers, and Herman’s Hermits for me....
Wait am I that old?

I liked most of what I heard on our local AM radio station and wasn't really in with any cliques, except most of what I liked was British and/or psychedelic. Then went on to prog rock, metal, punk, post-punk, indie, reggae, and Grateful Dead, and at age 70, all those genres are still what I listen to. Never enjoyed jazz, country, blues, Elvis, etc ... I can listen to some classical on Qobuz or something, but very seldom and I don't own any. I'd say probably 70% of my music collection is UK artists. 

Ahh , Back there in  1812 ................

Let me get this straight... You were a member of the Dave Clark Five? In any case, I loved 'em. My Dave Clark Five LP seems to have gone MIA at the moment but me and my sister played the record all the time. I remember seeing them on several pop music/dance shows of the day. I loved Del Shannon and most all of the bands that played driving rock-and-roll and were fronted by a rangy, folkie tenor. Roy Orbison makes regular appearances on my stereo. It's actually that style of rock/pop music that induced me to put something other than classical on the radio/hi-fi.