THE DAVE CLARK FIVE - “Glad All Over”
(18th January 1964)
London answers back. A quick search for info on the Five draws out this gem - “Contemporaries criticised them for lacking finesse” - well, who’d have thought it? Frenetic, lairy, noisy - there’s hardly anything to “Glad All Over” beyond call-and-response chanting and stomping but it’s close to irresistible.
This is a fast, hard record - apt that the drummer gave his name to the band as the track shows perfectly the way rhythm and speed were becoming a motor in pop. The crudest No.1 to date, perhaps - nobody was going to be comparing this to Schubert. 7
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bramble on September 8th, 2006
For about a month the DC5 were hailed as the Tottenham Sound that would topple the Mersey Sound.Then Dave Clark -always more a business man than a musician -quickly set about establishing the group as the respectable face of British pop in America, alongside Herman’s Hermits - cleanliving young men out to make a lot of money.Bits and Pieces was OK but after that their credibility was shot
Marcello Carlin on September 27th, 2006
Marcello Carlin on September 27th, 2006
can somebody sort the graphic options out on this effing board I’m trying to post a stork-boy innit
FT's Tom on September 27th, 2006
Sorted.
FT's Lena on March 16th, 2008
I heard this again last night and I love the pause between “Oh yes I am” and “Glad all over” - like he’s actually taking a moment to think of how to describe how completely wonderful he feels.
Marcello Carlin on March 17th, 2008
Oh, and just so it gets acknowledged here - Mike Smith, singer and organist with the DC5, passed away recently from pneumonia aged 64. One of the great unacknowledged screamers in Britbeat (see “Do You Love Me?” - much better than weedy Brian Poole and the Trems - or “Bits And Pieces” for proof) and it’s a real shame he didn’t survive to attend the group’s RnR Hall of Fame induction. RIP, big man.