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This is a classic number for sure. Believe it or not, the first version I heard of this song was by the Dave Clark Five. They certaily did a great cover of this song and according to Billboard reached number 11 in May 1964 in the US. Who do you consider made the best recording of this classic?

The Dave Clark Five did give "Do You Love Me" a bit of a remake. The drums were attention getting, moved the song along nicely and added a twist. I like this song because it is an up tempo feel-good song about a relationship.

DO YOU LOVE ME
(Berry Gordy Jr.)[/size]

Well do you love me (I can really move)
Well do you love me (I'm in the groove)
Ah do you love me (do you love me)
Now that I can dance

Watch me now, oh
(work it all) I said-a work it all baby
(work it all) ah, you're drivin' me crazy
(work it all) a-with a little bit of soul now

Mmm, now I can do the blues (do the blues)
And I can do the twist (do the twist)
I said now tell me baby (tell me baby)
Mmm, now do you like it like this (like it like this)
Whoa, tell me, tell me, tell me

Ah, do you love me (I can really move)
Well do you love me (I'm in the groove)
Well do you love me (do you love me)
Now that I can dance

Watch me now, oh
(work it all) I said-a work it all baby
(work it all) mmm, you're drivin' me crazy
(work it all) a-with a little bit of soul now

Now I can do the blues (do the blues)
Mmm, I can do the twist (do the twist)
I said now tell me baby (tell me baby)
Ah, do you like it like this (like it like this)
Whoa, tell me, tell me, tell me

Ah, well do you love me (I can really move)
Well do you love me (I'm in the groove)
Well do you love me (do you love me)
Now that I can dance

Ah, do you love me (I can really move)
Well do you love me (I'm in the groove)
Well do you love me (do you love me)
I said that now that I can dance

Ah now do you love me (I can really move)
Well do you love me (I'm in the groove)
Well do you love me (do you love me)
Now that I can dance

Do You Love Me - Contours
Do You Love Me - Dave Clark Five
Do You Love Me - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes

Dave Clark Five made number 30 in UK in Oct 63 but Brian Poole and The Tremeloes made number 1. Also done by a merseybeat band called Faron's Flamingos but failed to chart. Contours did the original of course.

Some may not be aware of the tragedy that befell Mike Smith lead singer of the Dave Clark Five, he had started to do gigs again and did a small tour of US, as Mike Smiths Rock Engine about 18 month ago. He has a house in Spain and shortly after returning from the tour he was doing some repair to his roof, fell and is now paralaysed, a tragic story.

Roy: Should you be able to round up the version by Brian Poole and The Tremeloes please let me know.

Very sad about Mike Smith.

So guys and gals as a famous english DJ Jimmy Savile is famous for saying, which of the three is the best, personally never enamoured with the song but I'll go for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes.

A tough call Roy. I like different versons for different reasons. While I give Brian Poole and The Tremeloes more marks for instrumental variation, I give the DC5 the edge when it comes to the vocals.

My pick is The Dave Clark Five on this one. Which of the two was released first? I am guessing that it was Brian Poole, otherwise surely the DC5 wold have done better than #30!

I've got Brian Poole and the Tremelos' version on vinyl.... short of putting a mike in the room and cranking up the volume, I don't know how I'll post it here.

Great song! Their other big one over here was "Silence Is Golden".

By the way, Peter. "Clough's Classics" is a brilliant innovation. Thank you!!!

Howard: There are three versions of "Do You Love Me" linked above and Brian Poole and the Tremelos is one of them. Right click, "save target as" should do it for you.

Some photos of The Tremeloes in 1963 and The Contours. Looks like the Tremeloes were a Fender band.

To continue a thread I started about 1960's music and today's access to hard-to-find music, I have recently bought several CD's featuring Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. The best is on Beat Goes On Records. Their disc BGOCD645 contains the 'Twist and Shout' and 'It's About Time' LP's together with their 'Swinging On A Star' and 'Time Is On My Side' EP's (39 tracks total). A pair of discs from Oxford Records add another 62 tracks culled from 'Twist and Shout' together with 'Big Hits of 62', 'Big Hits of 63' and various singles and 45's. Most of this music is in glorious mono, and I doubt it ever sounded better. It's amazing that I can walk into a store in Dallas, Texas and pick-up this kind of music. Of course, they do cater to me somewhat as a good customer with special interests in music. I think there's no better time to be a student of music from the 1960's. Now let me plug in the AC30 and rock-out on an old Vox Teardrop guitar for a few minutes...

A great find Randy. If you ever get the chance I would love to hear a couple of mp3s from the songs that you have talked about here.

Peter, I'm afraid I've never played around with mp3's. I've got a new HP multi-media computer, so maybe I can create mp3's. I think it's amazing that these CD's contain a total of (101) tracks. Of course a few are repeats, but I think it's terrific to hear so much music that was largely unheard in the USA until now. I'm listening to some of these tracks for the first time tonight, and while several sound almost exactly like 'Do You Love Me', they were definitely influenced by American doo wop music of the 1950's on many other songs.

I hear both the DC5's and The Contours version a lot on the radio here.
I love the DC5 "Can't you see that she's Mine" is a direct rip off of "I Saw Her Standing There" but still a great song. "Everybody Knows" "Bits and Pieces" is the first song I ever heard with a tuned down bass E string.

Howard may I correct you slightly if you don't mind on Silence Is Golden this was the Tremeloes only after they spilt from Brian Poole, some rumours suggest they got rid of him because they felt they were limited with him. Best thing Brian Poole and The Tremeloes did in my opinion nturally was their very first single Twist Little Sister did nothing but pure simple beat music at it's best. Strangely I mentioned this to him a while back and his retort was You must be the only bloke who remembers it.!

Roy, You probably are!

No probs, Roy. I'm going from memory in these threads and the fog's getting thicker every day.