Dave Berry
Briefly a big star in Britain in the mid-'60s, Dave Berry faced the same dilemma as several other British teen idols of the era: R&B was obviously nearest and dearest to his heart, but he needed to record blatantly pop material to make the hit parade. It was also obvious that Berry was in fact much more suited toward pop ballads than rough-and-tumble R&B, regardless of his personal preferences. At his peak, his output was divided between hard R&B/rockers and straight pop. Help from ace session players like Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones notwithstanding, his smooth voice was frankly ill-equipped to deliver the goods with anything close to the same panache as Mick Jagger or Eric Burdon on the bluesier items. He made a rather good go of it, on the other hand, with romantic pop/rock ballads, hitting the British Top Ten with "The Crying Game" (1964), Bobby Goldsboro's "Little Things" (1965), and the excruciatingly sentimental "Mama" (1966). "This Strange Effect," written by Ray Davies (though not released by the Kinks), was a huge European hit for him in 1965 as well.
Berry's voice was not exactly teeming with character and he never made the slightest impression on the U.S. market, but the best of his material is quite pleasant period fare. He remains well regarded in his homeland, where the Sex Pistols unexpectedly covered his toughest track, "Don't Gimme No Lip Child." Even more unexpectedly, "The Crying Game" brought Berry's voice to his biggest international audience ever in 1992, when it was used as the theme song for one of the year's most successful films.
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The Collection
Rock - Erschienen bei UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) am 25.06.2015
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Dave Berry
Pop - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 06.01.2022
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This Strange Effect (UK Chart Top 40 - No. 37)
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 19.06.2020
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This Special Sound Of Dave Berry
Pop - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1966
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Mama (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 19.06.2020
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Hit Singles (Re-Record)
Rock - Erschienen bei Purple Pyramid am 01.01.2008
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The Crying Game (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 19.06.2020
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The Hits Of Dave Berry (Rerecorded)
Rock - Erschienen bei Vanilla OMP am 20.07.2009
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68
Pop - Erschienen bei UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) am 01.05.2015
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Memphis Tennessee (UK Chart Top 20 - No. 19)
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 19.06.2020
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Greatest Hits
Pop - Erschienen bei Vintage Jukebox am 08.06.2018
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The One That Got Away / Yesterday's Sunshine
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Farm Records UK am 01.03.2022
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Little Things (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 19.06.2020
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Little Things (Extended (Remastered))
Rock - Erschienen bei Delta Music - Boomerang Records am 08.04.2022
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Morning Walk
Country - Erschienen bei Quickfours Music am 28.04.2022
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Dave Berry
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei PnR am 07.01.2020
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