The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there.


In school as a young teen ager, we has two groups....the Beatles fans and the Dave Clark Five fans, which I was one of.  In your youth did you have different cliques (I am thinking high school) based on what bands/singers they liked?  I was also in the minority by being a Del Shannon fan.  (yes, I am a dinosaur! ).  Thankfully I aged into Jazz and Classical for the most part, but did enjoy some popular music in the 80s.   And you?
    




jusam
"...I didn't know that the Dave Clark Five were a Brit group..."

From London.
I played DC5 in the hotel room before the R & R Hall. Not much mention there or the Nashville Hall either of the two Jerry's - Reed and Lee Lewis.
We had some of the best local bands here:
The Shadows, Maids, Saturday's Children, H.P. Lovecraft and Nugent's Amboy Dukes.
In between traveling acts like The Who, Cream, The Byrd's, and Buffalo Springfield.

The Mommas and the Pappas, CREAM, Erick Burden, Twiggy :-) Rod the Mod, Justen Wilson, ALL of the outlaws, The 4 Tops, The Miracles, The Monkeys, Deno, Blue Eyes, Cool and the Gang, Dick VanDike in chitty chitty bang bang.. Franky Avalon, Phillis Diller, Zero Mostel, and Jack Bennie. I forgot my cousin Lula, she's pretty good, too.

I remember "Beatniks". Dobie Gillis

BUT the Dave Clark 5, what am I missin' here? I'm 67. I was gone for 5 or 6 years as a kid in Europe.. No TV.. Maybe that's what I missed..

LOL Regards :-)
I remember radio stations doing battle of the bands between the Beatles and the DC 5.  Can't remember who won though.