For one of its most eclectic classes ever, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct Material Girl Madonna, heartland rocker John Mellencamp, British Invasion popsters Dave Clark Five, guitar virtuoso instrumentalists The Ventures and poet-rocker Leonard Cohen next year.
Blues harmonica great Little Walter will be inducted in the Sidemen category. Producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, architects of the Philly soul sound, will be inducted in the non-performer category, which has been renamed the Ahmet Ertegun Award in honor of the late Atlantic Records co-founder who also launched the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The inductees will be honored at a ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan on March 10 and they will join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
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A few quick comments - in case you never knew…
The DC5 were huge in the 60’s (over 100 million records sold!! and a string of 15 top twenty hits in the short span of 2 years!!)
And the reason they are “the Dave Clark who “now, is that the radio industry has devolved into “niche” sounds and slices of demographics
For advertisers
No where do they play DC5 music, except for oldie stations which do not appeal to the under 30 crowd
Hell its hard to find a 40 year old that knows the DC5 !!
When “Top 40 radio” was the format of choice you could hear the current hits mixed in with solid gold songs of the past
And get exposure to all music
By the way it’s a major failure of this so called Hall of fame not to have put the DC5 in back in the 90’s ( when all the members were alive)
– when groups like the Animals
Got in . to put that into focus, The Dave Clark 5 were much bigger and more popular than the Animals and many bands ever were
Thanks
Ron Kurz