A couple of tracks from the eponymous Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mich & Tich debut album from 1966. They were an odd band. A curiosity. In Quentin Tarantino's also decidedly odd film Death Proof he features Hold Tight, again from this record and uses it to soundtrack a car conversation between the four girls the film focuses upon driving home from a Friday night out just before they're killed by a full on collision quite deliberately set up by a psychopathic nutter. In the discussion the DJ of the group talks about the band as it plays on the radio mentioning that at one point Pete Townshend had an opportunity to leave The Who and join the band and probably made the wrong move in not doing so.
He didn't, but the band are still worth a listen fifty years down the line just to give you a fuller picture of what the British pop scene was like back then. They're poppy to a ridiculous degree, seem to be targeted at eleven and twelve year olds rather than the sixteen or seventeen year group that most of their contemporaries coveted. Built on music hall values but not taking the dadaist route that The Bonzo band chose, they were a novelty band that was built to last, scoring hit after hit in the UK between '66 and '68 when at one time were so successful that they were spending more time on the singles charts than The Beatles.
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