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. It contains the single "Come Home" and covers of "

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. The album also features "Hurting Inside" and Till the Right One Comes Along", both of which later appeared on ''The Dave Clark Five'' (1971) compilation album. In Canada, it was released as ''Encores'' on

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Reception

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, Greg Adams said the band's own songs on ''Weekend in London'' "vacillate between the pretty Beatlesque pop of 'Your Turn to Cry' and moody rockers similar to early

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" and that as the band released three albums around that time, "Weekend in London sounds like they were being stretched a little too thin."

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Clark and Mike Smith, except were noted.

Side one

# "Come Home" – 2:49 # "We'll Be Running" (Dave Clark, Denis Payton) – 1:32 # "

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) – 1:44 # "Hurting Inside" – 2:37 # "I'll Never Know" (Dave Clark, Denis Payton) – 1:45 # Til the Right One Comes Along" – 2:11

Side two

# "I'm Thinking" (Dave Clark, Denis Payton) – 1:29 # "Your Turn to Cry" – 3:12 # "Little Bitty Pretty One" ( Robert James Byrd) – 1:30 # "Remember it's Me" – 2:19 # "Mighty Good Loving" (Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson) – 2:40

Personnel

;The Dave Clark Five * Dave Clark -

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, backing vocals ;Technical * Jay Thompson - cover photography

Charts

References

{{Authority control The Dave Clark Five albums 1965 albums Epic Records albums