Diddley Daddy [Studio Version] - Dave Berry, Fuqua
Not Fade Away [Version 2] - Dave Berry, Hardin
I Don't Want to Go On - Dave Berry, Berns
Ella Speed - Dave Berry, Traditional
The Girl from the Fair Isle - Dave Berry, Guest
Go on Home - Dave Berry, Clark
Everybody Tries - Dave Berry, Carter
God Bless the Child - Dave Berry, Holiday
On the Other Side of Town - Dave Berry, Richards
Go Home Girl - Dave Berry, Alexander
My Last Date - Dave Berry, Bryant
St. James Infirmary - Dave Berry, Primrose
Just a Little Bit - Dave Berry, Gordon
C. C. Rider - Dave Berry, Rainey
Don't Make Fun of Me - Dave Berry, Greenfield
Track Listings (28) - Disc #2
One Heart Between Two [#] - Dave Berry, Stephens
You're Gonna Need Somebody - Dave Berry, Berry
Me-O-My-O - Dave Berry, Veronica
If You Need Me - Dave Berry, Bateman
Little Things - Dave Berry, Goldsboro
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail - Dave Berry, Howard
Can I Get It from You - Dave Berry, Conrad
Why Don't They Understand - Dave Berry, Fishman
He's with You - Dave Berry, Berry
Always Always (Yesterday's Love Song) - Dave Berry, Taylor, C.
This Strange Effect - Dave Berry, Davies
Now - Dave Berry, Berry
I'm Gonna Take You There - Dave Berry, Gouldman
Just Don't Know - Dave Berry, Gouldman
If You Wait for Love - Dave Berry, Goldsboro
Hidden - Dave Berry, Canter
I Ain't Going with You Babe - Dave Berry, Brooks
It's Gonna Be Fine - Dave Berry, Mann
So Goes Love - Dave Berry, Goffin
You Made a Fool of Me - Dave Berry, Ife
Sticks and Stones (Marble Breaks) - Dave Berry, Bruhn
Now and from Now On - Dave Berry, Cooper
Same Game - Dave Berry, Botsman
Alright Baby - Dave Berry, Dee
I Love You Babe - Dave Berry, Softley
Soft Lights (And Sweet Music) - Dave Berry, Venet
Green Grass - Dave Berry, Cook
Love Has Gone out of Your Life - Dave Berry, Hazzard
Digitally remastered two CD collection featuring the Sheffield singer's complete early recordings for Decca from 1963 to 1966. Comprising 57 tracks drawn from two albums, two scarce EPs, a raft of singles and some rare Dec... more »ca compilation LPs; kicking off with two previously unissued pre-Decca demos by Berry with Joe Browns Bruvvers (produced by Mickie Most in 1963!) and includes the #1 smash 'The Crying Game' as well as 'Memphis Tennessee', 'My Baby Left Me', 'Baby Its You' and 'One Heart Between Two'. Complete with a picture booklet containing extensive sleevenotes and new quotes from Dave. RPM. 2009.« less
Digitally remastered two CD collection featuring the Sheffield singer's complete early recordings for Decca from 1963 to 1966. Comprising 57 tracks drawn from two albums, two scarce EPs, a raft of singles and some rare Decca compilation LPs; kicking off with two previously unissued pre-Decca demos by Berry with Joe Browns Bruvvers (produced by Mickie Most in 1963!) and includes the #1 smash 'The Crying Game' as well as 'Memphis Tennessee', 'My Baby Left Me', 'Baby Its You' and 'One Heart Between Two'. Complete with a picture booklet containing extensive sleevenotes and new quotes from Dave. RPM. 2009.
"Dave Berry - The Strange Effect: The Decca Sessions 1963 - 1966 is another case of too much not being a good thing. No, that's not really the case. This compendium of virtually everything ever issued and/recorded by this artist - 57 tracks from albums, EPs, singles and radio shows - shows us another performer from that odd period from immediately before The Beatles hit through the first three waves of the British invasion. And, like all such singers and groups, the material is a mixture of US covers, some dreary middle-of-the-road songs aimed at pleasing, a few songs that are better appreciated when heard done by other artists, and one massively popular song.
The two-disc set contains `The Crying Game' and `This Strange Effect' and `Don't Give Me No Lip;' three songs that - looking back across the span of time - that are - in all likelihood - stronger and better known than Mr. Berry. The first is more-or-less the main theme from the eponymous movie; the second is a song written by Ray Davies of The Kinks. Both songs sound nice - that word being deliberately selected as an example of `damning with faint praise.' The third song, a boy fighting with his girl and basically telling her to shut up is presented in a way that reminded me of what a priest might tell a nun; a delivery that is bland in the extreme. That this song, a decade later, would be transformed into a belligerent rail of near `Like A Rolling Stone' intensity by none other than The Sex Pistols only serves to verify the mediocrity of Berry. This is why Dave Berry was, at best, a footnote in the chronology of The British Invasion.
Should you buy this CD set? Well, only if you are a fan of this sort of music; that is to say a tepid sub-par Cliff Richard imitation or if you are a Brit Invasion completist. RPM Records, the releasing label, is contributing to that genre with this and other product."
Track Listings (29) - Disc #1
