M'God was THIS early! The moves are dorky, indeed (probably proscribed by the shows "choreographer") and Rick Huxley and Lenny Davidson are using Vox "teardrop" guitars, likely a tie-in to the "Vox" name, as Mike Smith always used the Vox Continental organ. Huxley and Davidson abandoned the Vox guitars quickly, and relied on Gibson and Fender after that, as all Brit musicians of the era did. Fender and Gibson were the "Holy Grail" of guitars to the British lads at that time
ABC minors 1965 they showed this on the big screen.I just couldnt resist stomping my winkle picker feet to the beat,the 0ther 200 children joined in resulting in a massive dust fog the sort of dinner lady minders yelled for us to pack it in...We emerged into daylight after another episode of Captain Marvel looking like coal miners...SHAZAM
The lead singer's name is Mike Smith not Schmidt. He did know he was elected to the Hall but died a few days before the induction ceremony. Great lead singer of the '60's
If anyone wants to know what John Kerry did before he went into the Navy in 1966 . . . he played keyboards for the Dave Clark Five. Seriously, the keyboard (and lead singer) was Mike Schmidt, who passed away only days before the DC5 was inducted into the R n R Hall of Fame. Great group! "The Rich Man's Beatles"
I was born (and live in) London, and the way everyone says "the British invasion", it sounds bad lol. Although I know it's not. Invasion just sounds negative lol :)
Did anyone else notice that if you watch from about 0:22 to 0.26 right when they're saying "bits and pieces" its looks like the drummer is going backwards for a second, but the other guy in the shot doesn't seem to be going backwards?
I believe that drummer who "looks like Chekhov" is Dave Clark. Smart dude... probably ended up more wealthy than any of the Beatles or Stones. Invested his "hit singles" money in British REAL ESTATE... any profits gained the next 20-30 years by acquiring that at 60's prices?? Ya think??
I Just might be the Biggest Beatle fan on the planet.. I'll Never say that the DC5 were close to the Beatles, But I will say they were Highly Underrated.
Gay, r u nuts...this is the way bands had to appear before getting in front of camera's back then or they would NOT be ALLOWED to play, period. Later years after '68 rules were relaxed but earlier days this is how it was. DC 5 were better than Beatles at this time, where do u think they (JPRG) got there sound from thin air?!?
It's been well over 40 years since this song was released ..... and it STILL rocks! Love it! Thanks for posting it. 13 people did not like it .... too earthy a beat??
A superb song for 1964. Ten years later, we (my gen) were STILL going beserk on the dance floor & at raging parties, whenever this song was put on the record-player (yes, youngsters, we actually still used to put vinyl on the player, back then) ...
A Top 5 hit for The Dave Clark Five in May 1964. Though they made their mark, I feel that they could never get out of the shadow of The Beatles. I remember my cousins had this in their record collection.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
well the first band of the british invasion were The beatles but after them there were a lot of more bands like dave clark five herman's hermits peter and gordon etc. I do not hear any organ in the song it's strange it supossed to be played by smith but It's a great song and it's better than actually times
The drummer here is Peter Criss, from the rock band KISS. Peter Criss started with Dave clark five. Wow, look at Peter criss go. I bet peter is thinking I went from this band to a jewish band that has gene simmons.
What the fuck is wrong with you cunts; "did they become The Kinks", "Status Quo", fucking "Star Trek". Fucking arseholes you are. If you don't like it, fuck off instead of leaving your inane pointless posts you fucksticks.
They came to America before the Beatles did. they were the rock n' rollers and the Beatles did the pop style.(At the time mainly). But the DC5 didn't have to break up when they did. They just needed a little time off but they could have made a huge come back had they chosen to do so.
I'm a teenager and all I listen to is classic Rock. Most of my friends listen to that crap called rap, that's not real music. Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, etc, now that's real music. Rock and Roll will never die, Rock On!!!!!!
@DigJam53 the movie that thing you do starring tom hanks son colin reminds me of an american version of dave clark 5 which may be what the "one-ders" were sort of based on
Imagine how their music would sound with modern technology. Something that they and other great bands of the 50's and 60's did not have the benefit. Now marginal performers do well because of technoloyg and the computer background music as well as backup singers.
@tegeagent007 Not true, the bands of today hardly sound as good as The Beatles, The Who, The Stones, The Kinks, The Searchers or DC5. Why? because they use computers and other technology... bands of the 50s, 60s and 70s concentrated on making REAL music, with REAL instruments and REAL singers... no technology will ever be able to better that!
Dave Clark was a wierd cat in my view. And there are many people who have bad stories to tell of him trying to steal credit for writing songs ect. He was not even a good drummer and had other often play on the studio sessions. Of course he gave himself credit.
@LTFC1992 Yep, Dave Clark looks like Chekov all right, and the keyboardist sounds like Paul McCartney when he was blues-ing it up, and at 0:27 the sax player vaguely resembles Jemaine from "Flight of the Conchords."
Anyone notice at 0:23 when the shot goes back to Dave Clark (the Drummer) away fro the keyboard player, its actually backwards footage that then plays forward after about a second!!!
Ah...saw the regularly at the Royal in Tottenham High Road, they moved off down to Essex somewhere and girls beseiged the dance hall - prob a press stunt. He lived above a wool shop in Tottenham and his porchway was covered in graffitti. Pretty tame now but not then !!
The organ part is a mellow sound and quite low (not just in volume) but definitely there. Bearing that in mind, listen again.You should be able to hear it.
In most bands, the singer is the centre of attention. That was never the case with the Dave Clark Five. Mike Smith was always at the side (I've never heard any organ on Bits and Pieces), and Dave Clark was often in the middle, while Smith hardly ever had a close up. Clark was the man in charge, and when he bought the rights to Ready Steady Go and they were on C4, every commercial break featured .... the Dave Clark 5.
Mike Smith (RIP) was a great singer. Clark and Lenny Davidson had weak voices.
@duckie333 We must agree to differ. It's the second Everybody Knows I'm thinking of. Mind you, judging by Clark's singing of the verses of Red Balloon, he was worse.
@cbak12sg Agreed, I think the vocal on Red Balloon is one if the worst in pop history, anong with Terry Wogan's Floral dance. He only got away with it because it was his band and his money, he probably thought, hey, I could sing lead on a song, not only am I a great drummer but I can sing too!
@cbak12sg If you listen closely to the bridge you'll hear the organ, but it's buried in the mix during the versus. What a song, what great energy. Mike Smith had one of the finest voices of the decade.
Snuck into one of their afternoon rehearsals when I was a kid. The security guard kept kicking us out, and we would find a way back in. Finally Dave Clark told him to let us stay because they were rehearsing a new song, and needed to try it out on an audience! One of the highlights from my childhood!
I only heard about this band recently when I was looking at a news article on the internet about some music venue (could've been TOTP).
It mentioned that when this song was played it was such a foot stomper that the floor needed repairing afterwards due to people listening and dancing to it.
So glad I found this because I'm 19 and had never heard of the Dave Clark Five (only really heard about the Beatles from the 60s doing this kind of music).
Yeh, when the DC5 were doing their stuff at the Basildon Locarno, I was longing for them to finish and get the records on - decent sounding groups like Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Beach boys, Rolling Stones.
@Multi1628 I grew up with them when they were resident at the Basildon Locarno. Thought they were awful then and now they just look plain stupid. If you think clark can drum, you must have no comprehension of what it is to be a drummer. He was just whack, whack, whack.
@MrArnold1972 This is a matter of dispute, many claim it was him, many claim it was dave clark. From what I am aware of Dave was the owner of the group and all the other members of the band were on wages, it seems strange (though not impossible) he used another drummer.
@MrArnold1972 Never said it mattered, so long as the music is good, it dosen't matter. However, I don't recall Clark himself ever admitting he used a session drummer.
@Multi1628 Actually, Dave Clark is the drummer. The singer is Mike Smith, though I can see why you'd assume that the band was named after the singer. That's usually how it is nowadays, but not back in the sixties. For example, Paul Revere in Paul Revere and the Raiders was not the singer in that band.
@Calriec Also Manfred Mann ("Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Quinn The Eskimo", & "Blinded By The Light")was the keyboardist of the group that bore his name. Spencer Davis ("Gimmie Some Lovin") was the lead guitarist of The Spencer Davis Group, and Bob Kuban, like Clark, was the drummer of his group Bob Kuban and The In-Men ("The Cheater").
@Multi1628 Dave Clark wrote a part of all their songs and he was the DRUMMER fool,Mike Smith on the organ was the lead singer so yes he had a great voice sad you listen to these great songs but know nothing about them,Mike Smith long may his voice be heard,REST IN PEACE
@MrArnold1972 The Beatles were the biggest for a reason, they were the best. Proven by the fact that by the mid-60s they changed direction and were still doing original material while the DC5 were doing tribute medleys to earlier rock n roll songs. Also, the DC5 only got their big break as "the next Beatles", so w/o the Beatles you would have never heard them, the stones and other 60s beat type bands!
@MrArnold1972 It's not a stupid pissin match just because someone else has their say and disagrees with you. Only one thing worse than a pissin match and that's people who post comments about how they don't want to post comments.
Yes, their was more to the 60s than the beatles, but they influences the vast majority of it!
BeAtles Still Rule.....it was thier hair.. thier boots,,, the back beat of ringo.. the look that all the others followed.. DC5 was a great band. but also on the heels of the Beatles. like all the rest ..........not to mention over 180 songs L&M wrote.
M'God was THIS early! The moves are dorky, indeed (probably proscribed by the shows "choreographer") and Rick Huxley and Lenny Davidson are using Vox "teardrop" guitars, likely a tie-in to the "Vox" name, as Mike Smith always used the Vox Continental organ. Huxley and Davidson abandoned the Vox guitars quickly, and relied on Gibson and Fender after that, as all Brit musicians of the era did. Fender and Gibson were the "Holy Grail" of guitars to the British lads at that time
MelosAntropon 1 day ago
I dig this song, but they look like freakin dorks with there moves
capitolemiproducer 6 days ago
ABC minors 1965 they showed this on the big screen.I just couldnt resist stomping my winkle picker feet to the beat,the 0ther 200 children joined in resulting in a massive dust fog the sort of dinner lady minders yelled for us to pack it in...We emerged into daylight after another episode of Captain Marvel looking like coal miners...SHAZAM
glanrafon2 1 week ago
The lead singer's name is Mike Smith not Schmidt. He did know he was elected to the Hall but died a few days before the induction ceremony. Great lead singer of the '60's
jel1115 1 week ago
are they in bits and pieces ?????
lawseyd 1 week ago
If anyone wants to know what John Kerry did before he went into the Navy in 1966 . . . he played keyboards for the Dave Clark Five. Seriously, the keyboard (and lead singer) was Mike Schmidt, who passed away only days before the DC5 was inducted into the R n R Hall of Fame. Great group! "The Rich Man's Beatles"
rewood3 2 weeks ago
I was born (and live in) London, and the way everyone says "the British invasion", it sounds bad lol. Although I know it's not. Invasion just sounds negative lol :)
MrClassicDoctorWho 2 weeks ago
fab
kezie666666 3 weeks ago
Dave Clark still looks like star treks Chekov lol
ThePonko92 1 month ago
his toms are bigger than his kick drum
erosromeo 1 month ago
Did anyone else notice that if you watch from about 0:22 to 0.26 right when they're saying "bits and pieces" its looks like the drummer is going backwards for a second, but the other guy in the shot doesn't seem to be going backwards?
ssjtrunks628 1 month ago
I skipped school to go to New Jersey Symphony Hall in Newark to see this group. That was a Long time ago.
margaretb57 1 month ago
my father, born 1938, sings the chorus to me whenever i'm running out of pot, they used to sing this in the haight in '68 when they were dry hahaha
MrAsdf2020 1 month ago
this was the hottest British Invasion Band
swmiczek 1 month ago
Where are the Microphones?
tombetts28 1 month ago
@tombetts28 lip synced not guitar cables either
bobluman4 1 month ago
@bobluman4 Yes. Thankyou, but I was being sarcastic
tombetts28 2 weeks ago
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I believe that drummer who "looks like Chekhov" is Dave Clark. Smart dude... probably ended up more wealthy than any of the Beatles or Stones. Invested his "hit singles" money in British REAL ESTATE... any profits gained the next 20-30 years by acquiring that at 60's prices?? Ya think??
axisroto 1 month ago
had this 45 as a child I grew up on the british invasion
Syzygy60 2 months ago
Without George Martin this is probably how the Beatles would've ended up
(don't hit Dave in the head with that guitar!)
RollingOrmond 2 months ago 4
sooo damn catchy
Ajhkatsumoto 2 months ago
I Just might be the Biggest Beatle fan on the planet.. I'll Never say that the DC5 were close to the Beatles, But I will say they were Highly Underrated.
KREEPNASTY1 2 months ago 3
@KREEPNASTY1 So true, It all started here for me.
CosmikDebrisFZ 2 months ago
Gay, r u nuts...this is the way bands had to appear before getting in front of camera's back then or they would NOT be ALLOWED to play, period. Later years after '68 rules were relaxed but earlier days this is how it was. DC 5 were better than Beatles at this time, where do u think they (JPRG) got there sound from thin air?!?
01Shorthanded 2 months ago
Gay(s) in this band
PleaseGoAway1000 2 months ago
It's been well over 40 years since this song was released ..... and it STILL rocks! Love it! Thanks for posting it. 13 people did not like it .... too earthy a beat??
VrgniaMailman 2 months ago in playlist VrgniaMailman's favorites
THE BEATLES ARE BETTER PERIOD
TheNuber10 2 months ago
THAT DRUMMER IS DAVE CLARK,THE FOUNDER OF THE BAND THE DAVE CLARK 5
akilababy14 2 months ago
@MichaelakaMickyFudge i made people laugh when they read that about those 9-11 idiots, so my karma is good bro.
wangobangodango 2 months ago
this song is dedicated to the 9-11 jumpers "i'm in pieces bits and pieces!....i'm in pieces bits and pieces!".
wangobangodango 2 months ago
Glad all over !!!
lovemetu 3 months ago
They look like metronomes ...side to side....Beatles lite...way lite...catchy tunes though...almond pieces...
UNDERGROUND2000 3 months ago
this is the only good song in black and white
matchattaxboy1966 3 months ago in playlist good songs
I just head some organ during the bridge, I think you call it. Not much of it. Playing on the beat.
vcx9dfne 3 months ago
@vcx9dfne : not only the bridge. Mike Smith is playing the whole bassline
hm25332 3 months ago
@hm25332 What's the bass player doing?
vcx9dfne 3 months ago
guess
riegeorgia2 3 months ago
A superb song for 1964. Ten years later, we (my gen) were STILL going beserk on the dance floor & at raging parties, whenever this song was put on the record-player (yes, youngsters, we actually still used to put vinyl on the player, back then) ...
colindominy 3 months ago
A Top 5 hit for The Dave Clark Five in May 1964. Though they made their mark, I feel that they could never get out of the shadow of The Beatles. I remember my cousins had this in their record collection.
mkl62 3 months ago
This song makes me happy!
friendoftheood18 3 months ago
that 45 is at my parents house I know it
Syzygy60 3 months ago
Pop singers today need to learn from groups such as the DC5 how to produce music
plateshutoverlock 4 months ago
Great stomping here we come track i love it. Timeless. When the Brits were actually bloody good at something.
ByronRaver 4 months ago
the foot work is great
cddbowers 4 months ago
Cekaj male, kj vi delate budalu s mene ?
DieScreaming1 4 months ago
@ 0:23 the fotage is reversed for a few seconds. Note the strange arm movements on dave clark on the drums !
spikeman14 4 months ago
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robertoamor2011 4 months ago
well the first band of the british invasion were The beatles but after them there were a lot of more bands like dave clark five herman's hermits peter and gordon etc. I do not hear any organ in the song it's strange it supossed to be played by smith but It's a great song and it's better than actually times
princess199609 4 months ago
AH!!!! Look how young Dave was back then!!
theaws0m3guy 5 months ago
It doesn't look like the guitarists are actually playing
joshster89 5 months ago
They look silly
slowdream101 5 months ago
The drummer here is Peter Criss, from the rock band KISS. Peter Criss started with Dave clark five. Wow, look at Peter criss go. I bet peter is thinking I went from this band to a jewish band that has gene simmons.
XYtruck25 5 months ago
@XYtruck25 thats dave clark on drums you stupid cunt
pleasend 4 months ago
@XYtruck25 Nope, that's Dave Clark on the drums!
Lloydhl 4 months ago
Is that Mr. Chekov from Star Trek at 0:11....Walter Koenig is a better drummer than Spock.
The United Federation of Planets and The Dave Clark Five Connection---
Coincidence? Hmmmmmmm...........
Interview1998 5 months ago
@Interview1998 silly boy.
homelesshannah50 5 months ago
am i the only one that thinks the lead singer sounds like John Lennon when he was in the Beatles ??
thebeatles962 5 months ago 17
@thebeatles962 i thought that too! xD
sallyg270 2 months ago in playlist Songs i like :D
@sallyg270 hhahaha xx
thebeatles962 2 months ago
@thebeatles962 yes
Hirsute63 2 months ago
@Hirsute63 ohh well thats nice to know
thebeatles962 2 months ago
@thebeatles962 Nope. I do, too. Except I actually like the DC Five singer better.
VrgniaMailman 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
The drummer looks like Chekov of Star Trek.
hakafos44 5 months ago 35
@hakafos44 You are absolutely right! It IS Mr. Chekov!
hypnosis121 4 months ago
@hakafos44 haha That's Dave Clark!
spjunkie 3 months ago
@hakafos44 hahhhhhhha yeh he does
SuperMark77777 3 months ago
@hakafos44 lmao thats sooo funny
TimBec2 2 months ago
@hakafos44 You're right, he does look like Chekov! But that is Mr. Dave Clark!!!
TheBrendadale 1 month ago
@hakafos44 I wonder if he pronounces a warship that runs on plutonium or uranium a "nuclear wessel?" From Star Trek 4. In San Francisco.
VrgniaMailman 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
didnt joan jett cover this song?
MichaelHansenFUN 6 months ago
@MichaelHansenFUN Yep, a very nice cover too, love Joan Jett, but the original can never be beaten :)
BeanWayne 6 months ago
hah cool
TheScarface650 6 months ago
the acceptable face of Fascism
LimeyIce 6 months ago
it bit and q-bits information technology Hans Christian text ;Info" Bits and pieces greater than the sum of the parts.
divisorplot 6 months ago
Joan Jett recorded a great cover version on her first solo album.
ZLUGGO 6 months ago
As a drummer, on TV, this group was hard to beat. That bright red sparkle set of ROGERS drums was STUNNING !!
gaspo2180 6 months ago
What the fuck is wrong with you cunts; "did they become The Kinks", "Status Quo", fucking "Star Trek". Fucking arseholes you are. If you don't like it, fuck off instead of leaving your inane pointless posts you fucksticks.
garylufc 6 months ago
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elenimariex 6 months ago
curious did they become the kinks? they have the same sound
wasabi51569 6 months ago
Love their improv. of using their legs.......a truely good band !
DylanF1RB8 6 months ago
Only Bristish Invasion band I like & can stand!! Love their songs!!! Thanks for posting!!!
riv4life618 6 months ago
Is the drummer from star trek...Koenig? looks like him.
fogologo100 6 months ago 2
Did this band later become known as Status-Quo?
mistersmith6000 6 months ago
They came to America before the Beatles did. they were the rock n' rollers and the Beatles did the pop style.(At the time mainly). But the DC5 didn't have to break up when they did. They just needed a little time off but they could have made a huge come back had they chosen to do so.
norseleague 7 months ago
They good but it looks like they trying to be 5 john lennons....
mickkey7 7 months ago
@mickkey7 twat
garylufc 6 months ago
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GilgilKenya 7 months ago
love this song very much
sandi43able 7 months ago
I love this song. :D
vampirexion 7 months ago
Still have this album... Great ol music..
CosmikDebrisFZ 7 months ago
the foot stomp thing is what Mowtown players did to open
BABY LOVE
oldermusiclover 7 months ago
I'm a teenager and all I listen to is classic Rock. Most of my friends listen to that crap called rap, that's not real music. Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, etc, now that's real music. Rock and Roll will never die, Rock On!!!!!!
rsb3118 7 months ago
What's all this "@" business. I don't understand.
GilgilKenya 7 months ago
@GilgilKenya Its when you reply to someones comments
MissTLI1980 7 months ago
the ''best'' 1 minute 52 song ever !!!
stewgotz1 8 months ago
notice THE VOX - Keyboard... ;-)
HoodlumRobin 8 months ago
Mike looks like Hugh Grant!
kangadillo 8 months ago
lmao! ok whatever ?good song though :)
JOLENE2008 8 months ago
Tom Hanks intro'd these guys into the R&R Hall of Fame,, wonderfully,, if you've neverf heard it,,, its worth listening to
DigJam53 9 months ago
@DigJam53 the movie that thing you do starring tom hanks son colin reminds me of an american version of dave clark 5 which may be what the "one-ders" were sort of based on
moxie96 8 months ago
check out the beatle boots
HSECMAN 9 months ago
@HSECMAN Don't you mean "Check out the DC-5 boots on the Beatles?" The battle continues!
hamlanzon6 8 months ago
Imagine how their music would sound with modern technology. Something that they and other great bands of the 50's and 60's did not have the benefit. Now marginal performers do well because of technoloyg and the computer background music as well as backup singers.
tegeagent007 9 months ago
@tegeagent007 Not true, the bands of today hardly sound as good as The Beatles, The Who, The Stones, The Kinks, The Searchers or DC5. Why? because they use computers and other technology... bands of the 50s, 60s and 70s concentrated on making REAL music, with REAL instruments and REAL singers... no technology will ever be able to better that!
FabFM 8 months ago
love the walk on.
mackinl 9 months ago
Haha :)
windmeupandwatchmego 9 months ago
Dave Clark was a wierd cat in my view. And there are many people who have bad stories to tell of him trying to steal credit for writing songs ect. He was not even a good drummer and had other often play on the studio sessions. Of course he gave himself credit.
DAVWAVE 9 months ago
The drummer is Chekov out of startrek
southlondon63 9 months ago
@southlondon63 Not hardly...lol
eversafe1963 9 months ago
thats one well rehearsed band
HSECMAN 9 months ago
GREAT. Thanks.
TheTip64 9 months ago
This is great. Thanks vinylsolution.
mrREDBIRDFAN 9 months ago
Ichang was in junior high when The Bitish Invasion started. ..From Blues to Pop Their influence is stll felt today
calman1951 9 months ago
THEY HAD A THUNDEROUS SOUND....IT WAS CALLED THE NOTTINGHAM SOUND
09bnunez 9 months ago
@09bnunez
Nope, it's the "Tottenham" sound
MrDmarcus30 9 months ago
Cool.
MaverickJimBob 9 months ago
@LTFC1992 Yep, Dave Clark looks like Chekov all right, and the keyboardist sounds like Paul McCartney when he was blues-ing it up, and at 0:27 the sax player vaguely resembles Jemaine from "Flight of the Conchords."
grouchomarx4 9 months ago
Anyone notice at 0:23 when the shot goes back to Dave Clark (the Drummer) away fro the keyboard player, its actually backwards footage that then plays forward after about a second!!!
spikeman14 9 months ago
SHAKE IT BOYS ! LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT. GOOD OLD 60s NUMBER. colindaleradiosutch
colindaleradiosutch 9 months ago
Sorry i came back. This song is like the mister blobby song, or the teletubbies. Or crazy frog.
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
worst song ever!
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
"By George" said "Paul" I left me "Ringo" In the "John"
TheObladee 9 months ago
i love this song infact i like all of dark clark fives songs these geezers are great.
danlen86 9 months ago
RIP Mike Smith the cutest keyboardest!!
bowiemichelle 10 months ago
Ah...saw the regularly at the Royal in Tottenham High Road, they moved off down to Essex somewhere and girls beseiged the dance hall - prob a press stunt. He lived above a wool shop in Tottenham and his porchway was covered in graffitti. Pretty tame now but not then !!
Lemsterspurs 10 months ago
Awww I was 14 and in the audience they where so handsome!! Then my friend married Dave Clark's brother!!! lol xx
scatzta 10 months ago
The organ part is a mellow sound and quite low (not just in volume) but definitely there. Bearing that in mind, listen again.You should be able to hear it.
ifthecapfits 10 months ago
Motion, man! Motion in harmony! Back and forth together now!!! Yeah!!!
lcr1955 10 months ago
In most bands, the singer is the centre of attention. That was never the case with the Dave Clark Five. Mike Smith was always at the side (I've never heard any organ on Bits and Pieces), and Dave Clark was often in the middle, while Smith hardly ever had a close up. Clark was the man in charge, and when he bought the rights to Ready Steady Go and they were on C4, every commercial break featured .... the Dave Clark 5.
Mike Smith (RIP) was a great singer. Clark and Lenny Davidson had weak voices.
cbak12sg 10 months ago 12
@cbak12sg Lenny actually had a great ballad voice, listen to him on "Everybody knows".
duckie333 8 months ago
@duckie333 We must agree to differ. It's the second Everybody Knows I'm thinking of. Mind you, judging by Clark's singing of the verses of Red Balloon, he was worse.
cbak12sg 8 months ago
@cbak12sg Agreed, I think the vocal on Red Balloon is one if the worst in pop history, anong with Terry Wogan's Floral dance. He only got away with it because it was his band and his money, he probably thought, hey, I could sing lead on a song, not only am I a great drummer but I can sing too!
duckie333 8 months ago
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@cbak12sg Lenny had a great voice for ballads, listen to him on "everybody knows."
duckie333 8 months ago
@cbak12sg If you listen closely to the bridge you'll hear the organ, but it's buried in the mix during the versus. What a song, what great energy. Mike Smith had one of the finest voices of the decade.
joe44850 6 months ago
Dave Clark was not a great Drummer, but he owned the band, put together a great bunch of musicians and DC5 sold a ton of reconrds/
pjzdriver 10 months ago
hahaha this the real shit for sure :D
Justfill25 10 months ago
This was a great band, as a kid I had their records
chihene 11 months ago
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!
RockHistoryTube 11 months ago
Dave Clark wasnt' much of a drummer,he admits it.Mike Smith was a great singer.
ayotteable 11 months ago
same castering as ringo starr
rogerfabon 11 months ago
ken merken dat ik ouder word.vind dit leeeuuuukkkkk
SuperRon1962 11 months ago
Snuck into one of their afternoon rehearsals when I was a kid. The security guard kept kicking us out, and we would find a way back in. Finally Dave Clark told him to let us stay because they were rehearsing a new song, and needed to try it out on an audience! One of the highlights from my childhood!
Bluelady4848 11 months ago 2
@Bluelady4848 How cool!!
OPIE916 11 months ago 2
I only heard about this band recently when I was looking at a news article on the internet about some music venue (could've been TOTP).
It mentioned that when this song was played it was such a foot stomper that the floor needed repairing afterwards due to people listening and dancing to it.
So glad I found this because I'm 19 and had never heard of the Dave Clark Five (only really heard about the Beatles from the 60s doing this kind of music).
MrMatdalegend 11 months ago
Brilliant memories from my childhood! This music will never catch on! (ONLY JOKING)
RAIN12FORD 11 months ago
The old ones are definatly the best !
thewaltzingweasle 1 year ago
Absolutely Fantastic! I Love the DC5...
DSOCTORAPK 1 year ago
nice
doford 1 year ago
you gotta love the 60's
stevenjsmith1903 1 year ago
Yeh, when the DC5 were doing their stuff at the Basildon Locarno, I was longing for them to finish and get the records on - decent sounding groups like Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Beach boys, Rolling Stones.
tikouka87 1 year ago
@tikouka87
They were so bad that you went to see them 27 times..lol
Its like me, I've seen Ken Dodd 32 times and I can't stand him! Whack !
Isleofskye 9 months ago
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Multi1628 1 year ago 3
@Multi1628 I grew up with them when they were resident at the Basildon Locarno. Thought they were awful then and now they just look plain stupid. If you think clark can drum, you must have no comprehension of what it is to be a drummer. He was just whack, whack, whack.
tikouka87 1 year ago
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Multi1628 1 year ago
@Multi1628 As far as im aware dave clark never actually did the drumming.
It was someone by the name of bobby graham.
MrArnold1972 1 year ago
@MrArnold1972 This is a matter of dispute, many claim it was him, many claim it was dave clark. From what I am aware of Dave was the owner of the group and all the other members of the band were on wages, it seems strange (though not impossible) he used another drummer.
FabFM 1 year ago
@FabFM well its neither here nor there for me.
i have the utmost respect for dave clark.
Apparently there are not many recordings of them playing live because they couldnt re-create the studio sound live on stage.
And another drummer was brought in to do the studio stuff.
MrArnold1972 1 year ago
@MrArnold1972 Never said it mattered, so long as the music is good, it dosen't matter. However, I don't recall Clark himself ever admitting he used a session drummer.
FabFM 1 year ago
@Multi1628 Actually, Dave Clark is the drummer. The singer is Mike Smith, though I can see why you'd assume that the band was named after the singer. That's usually how it is nowadays, but not back in the sixties. For example, Paul Revere in Paul Revere and the Raiders was not the singer in that band.
Calriec 1 year ago
@Calriec Also Manfred Mann ("Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Quinn The Eskimo", & "Blinded By The Light")was the keyboardist of the group that bore his name. Spencer Davis ("Gimmie Some Lovin") was the lead guitarist of The Spencer Davis Group, and Bob Kuban, like Clark, was the drummer of his group Bob Kuban and The In-Men ("The Cheater").
disneyfan81 1 year ago
@Multi1628 THE DRUMMER IS DAVE CLARK
RICKYB1908 1 year ago
@Multi1628 THE KEYBOARD PLAYER HAS THE BEST VOICE,AND DAVE CLARK IS THE DRUMMER.
RICKYB1908 1 year ago 12
@RICKYB1908 LOL. back when star trek came out, I thought DC was playing chekov, lol touche!
ztlost 11 months ago
@RICKYB1908 ....... that's mike smith ..... he passed away last year!
frizzlefrap 9 months ago
@Multi1628 Dave Clark wrote a part of all their songs and he was the DRUMMER fool,Mike Smith on the organ was the lead singer so yes he had a great voice sad you listen to these great songs but know nothing about them,Mike Smith long may his voice be heard,REST IN PEACE
JJMFB1 1 year ago
ooooooooooh yes
stevenjsmith1903 1 year ago
Does anyone know if "Having a Wild Weekend"
ever came out on VHS or DVD the music & performances
in that movie were great
Nuerth 1 year ago
@exgroupie ...... I doubt it but Id love to see that Stones Documentary. lol ' Stone Boots?
thanks
TheObladee 1 year ago
this is priceless
westrokker 1 year ago
STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP !!!!! ONE HELLUVA OPENING !!! DC5 RULES
Pukeman44 1 year ago
I must've seen this off air, soon after my parents relented and got a TV (and shortly before forking out my £0/6/8 for the single).
But in my memory there's "Licence to stomp" written across the floor. Anybody else remember that?
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markiliff 1 year ago
They definately did have the Beatles haircut thing going on with them. lol
001GenLee 1 year ago
@001GenLee they were better than the beatles.IMO
MrArnold1972 1 year ago
@MrArnold1972 Funny,in a way I kind of always held that opinion also.
FRANK1FM 1 year ago
@FRANK1FM ive never liked the way other groups never got a look in because off the "fab four."
Im sorry but i found it very unfair and a bit arrogant of the beatles to say they were the best.
And ringo didnt fit somehow.
MrArnold1972 1 year ago
@MrArnold1972 The Beatles were the biggest for a reason, they were the best. Proven by the fact that by the mid-60s they changed direction and were still doing original material while the DC5 were doing tribute medleys to earlier rock n roll songs. Also, the DC5 only got their big break as "the next Beatles", so w/o the Beatles you would have never heard them, the stones and other 60s beat type bands!
FabFM 1 year ago
@FabFM im not going into a stupid pissin match over this.
ive had my say on this.
more to the 60s than beatles.
MrArnold1972 1 year ago
@MrArnold1972 It's not a stupid pissin match just because someone else has their say and disagrees with you. Only one thing worse than a pissin match and that's people who post comments about how they don't want to post comments.
Yes, their was more to the 60s than the beatles, but they influences the vast majority of it!
FabFM 1 year ago
love the choreography! i think Freddie & the Dreamers were the only other band to do this
LightSnowOvernight 1 year ago
BeAtles Still Rule.....it was thier hair.. thier boots,,, the back beat of ringo.. the look that all the others followed.. DC5 was a great band. but also on the heels of the Beatles. like all the rest ..........not to mention over 180 songs L&M wrote.
PeAce
TheObladee 1 year ago