Dave Berry (musician)

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Dave Berry (musician)

Dave Berry (born David Holgate Grundy, 6 February 1941, Woodhouse

Woodhouse, South Yorkshire

Woodhouse ward—which includes the Districts of Sheffield of Woodhouse and most of Handsworth—is one of the 28 electoral wards in Sheffield, England....
, Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. It is so named because of its origins in a field on the River Sheaf that runs through the city....
, England

England

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
pop singer and teen idol

Teen idol

?Teen idols refers to someone idolized by teens; a teen idol is often young but in many cases no longer teenaged. Often, a teen idol is an actor or a pop singer, but some sports figures have had an appeal to teenagers....
of the 1960s. He had an unusual ambition for a pop performer trying to make a name for himself - to appear on TV

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
completely hidden by a prop. In his own words, to "not appear, to stay behind something and not come out". As a rule he did a good job; hiding behind the upturned collar

Upturned collar

An upturned collar is an otherwise flat, protruding collar of either a shirt, jacket, or coat that has been turned upward. In recent years, some have perceived it as a fashion statement....
of his leather jacket, or even wrapping himself around, and effectively behind, the microphone

Microphone

A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or?more recently?mic, is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal....
's own lead.

ique, and charismatic performer, Berry performed a mixture of hard R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
and pop

Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the nineteenth century and used extensively across Europe and later north America, Australia and north Africa....
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Dave Berry (born David Holgate Grundy, 6 February 1941, Woodhouse

Woodhouse, South Yorkshire

Woodhouse ward—which includes the Districts of Sheffield of Woodhouse and most of Handsworth—is one of the 28 electoral wards in Sheffield, England....
, Sheffield

Sheffield

England

United Kingdom

Teen idol

Television

Upturned collar

Microphone

A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or?more recently?mic, is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal....
's own lead.

Career

A unique, and charismatic performer, Berry performed a mixture of hard R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
and pop

Popular music

Ballad

United Kingdom

Continental Europe

Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas....
. His early hits

Hit record

A Hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a Single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay , Nightclub, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings....
name checked his backing band

Backup band

A backing band or backup band is a Band which accompanies an artist at a live performance or on a recording. This can either be an established group or an ad hoc group assembled for the purpose....
, The Cruisers who at that time were made up of John Fleet (bass

Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
and piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
), Roy Barber (rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
), Frank Miles (lead guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
) and Kenny Slade (drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
). Berry parted company with this line-up around the time of "The Crying Game". He recruited four more local musician

Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s - Frank White, Johnny Riley, Pete Cliff and old friend Alan Taylor to be the second generation of Cruisers, with lead guitarist White eventually replaced by Roy Ledger until around 1965, when personnel changes began to be more frequent.

"The Crying Game

The Crying Game (song)

"The Crying Game" is a song songwriter by Geoff Stephens, and first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart....
" (1964), B. J. Thomas

B. J. Thomas

B. J. Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s....
' sentimental "Mama" (1966) and "This Strange Effect

This Strange Effect

Dave Berry Song "This Strange Effect" is a song songwriter by Ray Davies and released first by Dave Berry in July 1965. It reached chart-topper in Netherlands and Belgium....
" (1965) - the latter written by Ray Davies

Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
, are among his best remembered hits. Indeed, "This Strange Effect" became a Number One hit for him in Holland

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
and Belgium

Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, countries where he still enjoys superstar

Celebrity

A celebrity is a widely-recognized or notable person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb "celebrare" but one may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued....
status, resulting in a Special Award from Radio Veronica

Radio Veronica

Radio Veronica was a pirate radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and has the distinction of having broadcast from offshore for the longest continuous period — more than fourteen years....
, Holland, for their best selling pop single

Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
of all time.

His 1965 hit "Little Things" was a cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
of Bobby Goldsboro

Bobby Goldsboro

Bobby Goldsboro is an United States Country music and Popular music singer-songwriter as well as an accomplished painting and television producer....
's Stateside

Stateside Records

Stateside Records is a British record label which initially released licenced American recordings and is now a reissue label.It was formed in 1962 in music by EMI as a replacement for the Top Rank Records label , which had folded....
Top 40 success.

Another one of his song

Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s, "Don't Gimme No Lip Child", was covered by the Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
. His stage act, drawing largely on Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
, and Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, rockabilly....
, provided an inspiration for Alvin Stardust

Alvin Stardust

Alvin Stardust is an England pop singer and stage actor....
. Such was his enigmatic, and unconventional presence, that several punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
acts, such as the Sex Pistols, later acknowledged him as an inspiration.

Berry used sessions guitarists Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones (musician)

John Paul Jones is an England musician, composer, orchestration, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the bass guitarist, keyboardist and, less often, mandolin player for Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a successful Solo career, and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer....
and Big Jim Sullivan

Big Jim Sullivan

Big Jim Sullivan is an England musician, whose career started in 1959. Best known as a session musician, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s and has performed on more than one thousand charting singles over his career....
extensively.

The Geoff Stephens

Geoff Stephens

Geoff Stephens , was one of the top United Kingdom songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s....
penned

Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
song, "The Crying Game", brought Berry's voice

Human voice

The human voice consists of sound Voice production by a human being using the vocal folds for Speech communication, singing, Laughter, crying, screaming, etc....
to his biggest international

International

International or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries....
audience ever in 1992, when it was used as the theme song

Theme music

The phrase theme music usually refers to that of a radio programming, television program, or movie. It is a Musical composition that is often written specifically for that show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits....
for one of that year's most successful film

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s - Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
's The Crying Game
The Crying Game

The Crying Game is a 1992 in film Cinema of Ireland/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film written and film director by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish The Troubles....
.

Berry also regained some much-overlooked recognition, when he was the surprise hit of the annual Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"....
Tribute in 1995.

In 1998 "This Strange Effect" was covered by the Belgian

Belgium

Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
Hooverphonic

Hooverphonic

Hooverphonic is a Belgium rock /pop music group, formed in 1995. Though early on categorized as a trip hop group, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be described as a lone genre....
, on their album

Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, Blue Wonder Power Milk
Blue Wonder Power Milk

Blue Wonder Power Milk is the second album by the Belgium band Hooverphonic, the first one featuring lead singer Geike Arnaert. The singles released from this album are "This Strange Effect", "Lung", "Club Montepulciano" and "Eden "....
.

Discography

Singles

"Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee (song)

"Memphis, Tennessee" is a song by legendary rock & roll singer?songwriter Chuck Berry. It is sometimes shortened to "Memphis".The song has been covered by many artists, such as George Thorogood, The Grateful Dead, Silicon Teens, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Rivers, The Beatles, The Animals, Paul Anka, Count Basie, The Dave Clark Five, Bo Didd...
" / "Tossin' And Turnin'" - October 1963 UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
#19
"My Baby Left Me" / "Hoochie Coochie Man
Hoochie Coochie Man

"Hoochie Coochie Man" is a 1954 song written by Willie Dixon and first performed by Muddy Waters. The song was a major hit upon its release, reaching number eight on Billboard magazine magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart....
" - January 1964 UK #37
"Baby It's You" / "Sweet And Lovely" - April 1964 UK #24
"The Crying Game
The Crying Game (song)

"The Crying Game" is a song songwriter by Geoff Stephens, and first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart....
" / "Don't Gimme No Lip Child" - July 1964 UK #5
"One Heart Between Two" / "You're Gonna Need Somebody" - November 1964 UK #41
"Little Things" - March 1965 UK #5
"This Strange Effect
This Strange Effect

Dave Berry Song "This Strange Effect" is a song songwriter by Ray Davies and released first by Dave Berry in July 1965. It reached chart-topper in Netherlands and Belgium....
" - July 1965 UK #37
"I'm Gonna Take You There" - November 1965 Did not chart
"If You Wait For Love" - February 1966 Did not chart
"Mama" - July 1966 UK #5
"Picture Me Gone" - November 1966 Did not chart
"Stranger" - March 1967 Did not chart
"Forever" / "And I Have Learned To Dream" - August 1967 Did not chart
"Just As Much As Ever" - February 1968 Did not chart
"Do I Figure In Your Life" (Dello
Pete Dello

Pete Dello is a 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter and now music teacher....
) - 1968 Did not chart
"Oh What A Life" - 1968 Did not chart

EPs

1964 "Me-O-My-O" / "St. James Infirmary" / "If You Need Me" / "Ella Speed"
1965 "Can I Get It From You"

Albums

1964 Dave Berry
"The Crying Game

The Crying Game (song)

"The Crying Game" is a song songwriter by Geoff Stephens, and first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart....
" / "Not Fade Away

Not Fade Away (song)

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, in May 1957....
" / "I Don't Want To Go On" / "Ella Speed" / "The Girl from the Fair Isle" / "Go On Home" / "Everybody Tries" / "God Bless The Child" / "Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee (song)

"Memphis, Tennessee" is a song by legendary rock & roll singer?songwriter Chuck Berry. It is sometimes shortened to "Memphis".The song has been covered by many artists, such as George Thorogood, The Grateful Dead, Silicon Teens, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Rivers, The Beatles, The Animals, Paul Anka, Count Basie, The Dave Clark Five, Bo Didd...
" / "On The Other Side Of Town" / "Go Home Girl" / "My Last Date" / "St. James Infirmary

St. James Infirmary Blues

"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an United States folksong of Anonymity origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose . Louis Armstrong made it famous in his influential 1928 recording....
" / "Just A Little Bit" / "See See Rider

See See Rider

"See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider" or "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider" is a popular American 12-bar blues song. It was first recorded, and copyrighted, by Ma Rainey in 1924, and since then has been recorded by many other artists....
" / "Don't Make Fun Of Me" - Decca

Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

1966 One Dozen Berries
"Hey Little Girl" / "Round And Round" / "Casting My Spell" / "Girl From The Fair Isle" / "Fanny Man" / "If You Wait For Love" / "Sweet And Lovely" / "Tears To Remind Me" / "Baby It's You

Baby It's You

"Baby It's You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach , and Luther Dixon and Mack David . It was recorded by the The Shirelles and the The Beatles, both of whom had hits with the song....
" / "Run My Heart" / "I Love You Babe" / "Heartbeat" - Ace

Ace Records (UK)

Ace Records Ltd. was started in 1981 in music as a separate company from Swift Records Ltd. the limited company Trade as Chiswick Records. The company is not connected to Ace Records out of Mississippi but the company did gain permission to use the name in the UK....
1968 Dave Berry '68 - Decca

1968 Special Sound of Dave Berry - Decca

1976 Remembering - Decca

1983 The Crying Game - Decca

1986 This Strange Effect - See for Miles

1988 Hostage to the Beat
"Searchlight" / "Love from Johnny" / "Heart of Stone" / "Love is a Killer" / "Bring my Cadillac Back" / "God Bless the Child" / "Mountains of the Moon" / "On the Waterfront" / "My Baby Left Me" / "For a Knight to Win His Spurs" / "Boppin' the Blues" / "Tracks of My Tears"

2003 Memphis....in the Meantime
"Mercury Blues" / "Same old Blues" / "Mean 'ol Frisco" / "Are You Going My Way" / "Memphis in the Meantime" / "Cajun Moon" / "Georgia Ray" / "Pony Boy" / "Taking the Midnight Train" / "Boppin' the Blues" / "My Baby Left Me" - Blues Matters! Records

Blues Matters! Records

Blues Matters! Records is a blues-focused magazine and record label based in the United Kingdom. Blues Matters! aims to promote and support blues in all forms, and provide a service to music fans everywhere....

Dave Berry (musician)

Career

Discography

Singles

EPs

Albums

See also

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