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Dave Dee (Solo)

A WELL KEPT SECRET

The decision of Dave Dee, to leave the group, was one of the best kept secrets in the showbizz. Eighteen months before the offical announcement it was already known that he would leave. At least, we can read that in the Record Mirror of 26-7-1969.
Dave Dee about the split-up: "I felt my life passing without seeing any challenge. When we started with the five of us, that challenge was there. It was the challenge to succeed as a band. But it became boring and I would turn into a different style of music. I felt that I could do more, than just sing popular songs. The succes we had could not go on for ever."
In one thing Dave Dee was right. The succes had reached a plateau and it would be boring to him.
The split up however did not bring him more succes. As D.B.M. & T. got more appreciation for, for instance, there Fresh Ear album, it went downhill for Dave Dee.
His solo singles were not bad and some even very good, but it didn´t matter. A very small hit with his first solo single 'My womans man' was all he really had in terms of commercial success.
But het remained populair in Germany, where he even worked as a co-presenter for a pop programma. Eventually he founded his own record company showing to have more in him as just a singer.

BULLDOG BOBBY

In june 1982 Dave Dee released his fifth solo-single. Not as "Dave Dee", but as "Dave And The Bulldogs".
It is, so we read in the Zabadak Magazine, an anthem dedicated to the English Football team visiting Spain for the 1982 World Cup Finals. The picture sleeve is a reproduction of the English World Cup Logo for that year.
It is a most unusual release being withdrawn a couple of weeks after it was released, as it came out so late almost missing the 1982 World Cup. A very rare piece of vinyl therefore.
It was the first studio vocal performance on vinyl from Dave since the Jean Musy album, seven years earlier.
The record has a spanish flavour complete with canasta, crowd noises and som of it is very similar to the Spanish influenced 'Don Juan'. The melody of the song is that of 'Sloop John B.'

The lyrics:

DAVE DEE IN A MOVIE

In 1970, after he started his solo-carreer, Dave Dee played a small part in the Marty Feldman movie: Every Home Should Have One. He is the leader of a gang of motor cyclists.

Below: Article from the Dutch magazin Muziek Express,nr. 166, October 1969

DAVID: I'M GOING BACK / SELPPIN

Does it belong to the Dave Dee section? It's a discussion that will never end. David is the backing group of Dave Dee and Dave is clearly singing on this vinyl.
In Germany there was even a performance in Beat Club. Nevertheless it failed to chart.
The song is written by Dave Dee and Peter Mason and is included on some C.D.'s of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, making it obviously 'linked' to the band.

Fontana TF 1081 (Dee / Mason)

ALBUM: FEW AND FAR BETWEEN

In September 1975 Dave Dee's first solo album was released. But... Dave is not credited as the artist on the LP cover or disc label. There is only a small photo on the inner foldout sleeve and he is mentioned at the back.
Nevertheless he is the singer, so it is stranged to see the name of the composer: Jean Musy on the album.
Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley translated the (originally) French songs into English and asked Dave Dee to sing them.
Dave did a wonderful job. Ron Cooper about this album: "Few and Far Between is an exhilerating album and can be likened to either a bumpy bus trip from hell to paradise, or 36 minutes of unbridled and exhausting love."

Atlantic K50081

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