Artist's albums
Little Things (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
1990 · single
Mama (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
1990 · single
Memphis Tennessee (UK Chart Top 20 - No. 19)
1990 · single
The Crying Game (UK Chart Top 10 - No. 5)
1990 · single
This Strange Effect (UK Chart Top 40 - No. 37)
1990 · single
Little Things [Extended (Remastered)]
2022 · single
The One That Got Away / Yesterday's Sunshine
2022 · single
The Collection
2015 · album
The Crying Game (Rerecorded)
2015 · single
Dave Berry
2014 · album
Mama
2013 · single
The Hits Of Dave Berry (Rerecorded)
2009 · EP
Hit Singles
2008 · EP
Dave Berry - His Very Best
2007 · EP
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1964 · album
Dave Berry
1964 · album
This Special Sound Of Dave Berry
1966 · album
Crying Game (Demo)
1966 · single
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Biography
Briefly a big star in Britain in the mid-'60s, Dave Berry faced the same dilemma as several other British teen idols of the era: R&B was obviously nearest and dearest to his heart, but he needed to record blatantly pop material to make the hit parade. It was also obvious that Berry was in fact much more suited toward pop ballads than rough-and-tumble R&B, regardless of his personal preferences. At his peak, his output was divided between hard R&B/rockers and straight pop. Help from ace session players like Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones notwithstanding, his smooth voice was frankly ill-equipped to deliver the goods with anything close to the same panache as Mick Jagger or Eric Burdon on the bluesier items. He made a rather good go of it, on the other hand, with romantic pop/rock ballads, hitting the British Top Ten with "The Crying Game" (1964), Bobby Goldsboro's "Little Things" (1965), and the excruciatingly sentimental "Mama" (1966). "This Strange Effect," written by Ray Davies (though not released by the Kinks), was a huge European hit for him in 1965 as well. Berry's voice was not exactly teeming with character and he never made the slightest impression on the U.S. market, but the best of his material is quite pleasant period fare. He remains well regarded in his homeland, where the Sex Pistols unexpectedly covered his toughest track, "Don't Gimme No Lip Child." Even more unexpectedly, "The Crying Game" brought Berry's voice to his biggest international audience ever in 1992, when it was used as the theme song for one of the year's most successful films. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi