Anyway You Want It

Not to be confused with the Journey song Any Way You Want It.
"Any Way You Want It"
Single by The Dave Clark Five
from the album Coast To Coast (The Dave Clark Five album)
B-side "Crying Over You", "Because" for U.K. release
Released October 1964
Format Vinyl
Genre Pop rock, Beat
Length 2:29
Label Columbia DB 7377
Writer(s) Dave Clark
Producer(s) Adrian Clark
The Dave Clark Five singles chronology
"Thinking of You Baby"
(1964)
"Any Way You Want It"
(1964)
"Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)"
(1965)

"Any Way You Want It" is a single by The Dave Clark Five from the US album Coast to Coast (1964). It hit number #25 in the UK and #14 in the US. The song is written by Dave Clark. The song is notable for its use of echo and reverb made by an Echoplex. The song has been performed on many variety shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, Shindig!, etc. Since the song used so many production techniques like echo, reverb, and compression; the song had to be lip-synched on TV performances. In the U.K., the b-side to "Any Way You Want It" was Because (The Dave Clark Five song).

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The song was covered by Kiss on the studio side of their second live album, Alive II (1977).

It was also performed by the Ramones, featuring Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam as a guest vocalist, at their last show, August 6, 1996, at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA. This version can be found on the band's last live album We're Outta Here! (1997), while the studio version, which features CJ Ramone as Joey Ramone's duet partner instead of Vedder, appears as a bonus track on Greatest Hits Live (1996).

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers include a cover of the song on their career-spanning box set, The Live Anthology (2009), appearing on Disc 3 of 4.