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Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five album)

1968 studio album by the Dave Clark Five

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Everybody Knows is the twelfth US album by the British band the Dave Clark Five. Released in January 1968 on Epic Records, it contained four hit singles, a rock cover version of the old Bing Crosby hit "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", the band's guitarist Lenny Davidson's song "Red and Blue", cover of the Majors soul song "A Little Bit Now", and the UK chartbuster "Everybody Knows". It is the band's last American album and the first not to enter the Billboard Top 200 chart.

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“Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five album)” enters the record as 1968 studio album by the Dave Clark Five. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Everybody, Knows and Dave can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Everybody, Knows and Dave.
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“Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Everybody, Knows and Dave provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.