Coast To Coast – THE DAVE CLARK FIVE***

Anyway You Want It/I Can’t Stop Loving You/I Can’t Stand It/What Is There To Say/Everybody Knows(I Still Love You)/Crying Over You/Say You Want Me/When/Don’t You Know/To Me/Its Not True

British Invasion group The Dave Clark Five notched up their fourth US hit album in less than a year with Coast To Coast. Contains the US No. 14 single Anyway You Want It. (US:6)

"Any album that opens with Anyway You Want It already has a leg up over most of the competition around it. Arguably the jewel of The Dave Clark Five's singles output, it's a song that has aged gracefully. So Coast To Coast opens strong and it gets better, blooming into an amazingly diverse yet consistently powerful record made up entirely of group originals."

"Coast To Coast would probably be regarded today as something close to an essential British Invasion record if, perhaps, not as seminal as say, the Beatles For Sale LP, but definitely more solid and important than all but one other album."

"Somewhat poorly sewn together by worthy representatives of the American musical industry. First of all, it's even shorter (eleven songs this time, instead of the typical American dozen), which probably symbolizes that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel at the time."

"The album's primary bait is definitely the lead-in track, the band's contemporary hit single Anyway You Want It, which, together with Glad All Over, still remains as the DC5 defining tune."

"The band's overall style hasn't changed much since American Tour, but the album is definitely less diverse. I miss all the cute little vaguely experimental instrumentals, for one. Where's that 'hoarse harmonica' thing? Where are the groovy bass lines? Where's the occasionally 'odd' saxophone part?"

"For a short while, it looked like The Dave Clark Five was comparable in talent and potential to The Beatles. Of course time proved that The Beatles were easily the better group and, in my opinion, the greatest singing group ever."