The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over

This programme contains some strong language.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

hereby inducts as members

the Dave Clark Five.

Dave Clark Five. For Christ's sake,

they're as huge, well known

as the English Dictionary.

# Watch me now, oh!

# Work it all

# I said work it all, baby... #

The Dave Clark Five were a big live band.

Played great rock'n'roll songs, and they had a lot of...

If you listen to the records, they had a lot of raw power in them.

Every song had its hook, that piece that we could all hang on to

and sing collectively.

# I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over... #

It was such a boom that if you had a big hit like Glad All Over

or I Want To Hold Your Hand, you sold millions of records.

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# Since you left me and you said goodbye... #

They were hot. They were hot. They really were.

Well, they were gorgeous and they were great songs.

And, you know, we were teenage girls.

# Give me, give me

# A chance to be near you

# Because, because

# I love you. #

I admired their individuality and their spunk

and their beauty and their sounds, which were exciting.

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can. #

My sister used to run his fan club from our home.

I said, "Run the Dave Clark Fan Club? Pfft!"

-Let me ask the first question.

-Yes, go on.

What was the first drum kit that you ever had? Now, come on.

The first good one I got was a German kit called a Trixon.

-A Trixon? Yes, I know a Trixon.

-Wonderful. It was all red glitter.

There you are. Did you know that?

I wanted to be a member of Dave Clark Five.

It made drumming look sexy, you know.

# Having a wild weekend

# We're having a wild weekend

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin'. #

There are certain songs you hear

and then it stamps a time and place in our lives forever.

# I said over and over and over again

# This dance is gonna be a drag

# I said over and over and over again

# This dance is gonna be a drag. #

The thing that people have kind of missed

in reference to the Dave Clark Five is those were

big, powerful, nasty-sounding records, man.

Bigger, much bigger sound than, say, the Stones or the Beatles.

-Or the Beatles.

-Much bigger sound.

# Any way you want it

# You can always hear me say

# Hey, hey, hey

-# It's all right

-It's all right

-# It's all right

-It's all right

-# It's all right

-It's all right

-# It's all right

-It's all right

# Any way you want it... #

It was huge, you know.

I mean, we were kids from Liverpool, they were kids from London.

So that amount of success was fantastic.

It's what we were aiming for and we were lucky enough to get it.

The three giants that came out of Britain in the '60s

were the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones.

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Oh, I want to show you

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# The name of the place is I Like It Like That... #

Went across to America and nailed it. So huge.

It connected with me.

It was sort of modern electric church

and I just wanted to yell, "Hallelujah."

# Hallelujah

# Hallelujah

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# Hallelujah. #

Our music depicted how I felt in the '60s.

It was fun, optimistic, great.

CROWD CHANTS: We love Dave! We love Dave!

The Mecca of music lovers tonight is the Royal, Tottenham,

home of Mecca dancing.

And the big-news attraction, the Dave Clark Five,

back, you might say, at their own home. And what a return.

You had a residency at the Tottenham Royal

and, you know, you play it four or five times a week.

When they were ready,

when they broke, they did many more shows than the Beatles ever did.

They were much more of a live band than the Beatles were.

They had already played their dues

before the Royal, Tottenham, going around the Army bases

and, you know, all piling into a van and driving around the country.

# Stuck in

# Ah, just a little bit longer

# A little bit longer. #

The DC5 first started playing at American bases

and military bases in the UK and used to...

I mean, that's where we got our grounding because we used to

have to play three or four hours a night, and during the intermission

they'd put the jukebox on and they'd play these fantastic records.

That was the first time I heard Do You Love Me

by the Contours, and I said, "Oh, I love that."

I used to say to the Base Commander, "Could I have copies of them?"

Do You Love Me, You Got What It Takes,

I Like It Like That, Over And Over...

I picked all these songs up from the US bases in the UK

and used to play them as a part of our repertoire in our act,

long before we ever made records.

We never used to play what everybody else used to play.

We used to do different stuff.

By the time they got to the Royal, Tottenham,

they were confident and knew how to put on a great show.

The music was something you only saw

on films from America, and we had it in north London.

It was exciting, for a start.

I mean, there was a buzz before you got in the place.

Everybody waiting for them to come on to do their bit

and then the whole place jumped. It was just very exciting.

You wondered if you was going to go through the floor

and it was fantastic, and everybody was in time.

6,000 people stamping, it was like soldiers going over a bridge.

And it rocked, and the management tried to stop us doing it.

We nearly destroyed the Royal, Tottenham.

# And that's the way it'll always be

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# You said you loved me and you'd always be mine

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# We'll be together till the end of time... #

There was about 500 people there on a Saturday night

and it was licensed for about 1,500,

and after about two months, they were cramming 6,000 in there.

I mean, they were putting up crash bars, everything, it was unheard of.

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# You said you loved me and you'd always be mine... #

You used to get crushed at the front

and they had to send us offstage.

But it was fun, it was great fun,

but that was the beginning of the mania.

# Now you're saying it was just a game... #

And they were so vibrant, you know.

I'd never seen a live group that were so obviously destined for fame.

It was just a great night, a great night.

Couldn't wait, it was like going on holiday every week.

Dave Clark Five band live was out of this world.

# You said you loved me, never make me blue

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces... #

Everybody was there for the music, everybody mixed together.

It doesn't matter whether they were the Kray gangsters or the Tottenham

Hotspur football team, everybody was on the floor having a good time.

It became our place. You hear a lot about the Beatles had the Cavern.

Well, the Dave Clark Five had the Tottenham Royal,

that was theirs, and that was ours.

It was north London's finest.

For three years, I'd been doing film extra work.

I appeared in over 40 films, but if you sneezed you'd miss me.

I was appearing with Elizabeth Taylor

and Richard Burton in The VIPs

and with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther film A Shot In The Dark.

I was in Becket,

I was fifth soldier from the right, but it was great for me.

I was interested in film and it gave me

a chance to see great directors at work.

OK, boys, let's have another go, we'll get it this time.

# You know I can do the blues

# Do the blues

# And I can do the twist... #

I studied karate and martial arts from eight years of age

and I got a great job. It was crashing a car and it wasn't,

again, heroic, it was, you know...

You were strapped in and with roll bars

and things and it was very choreographed.

But the great thing is it was a night call, so it ran

for three nights and I got £300, which was a lot of money in those

days, and that enabled me to go and spend it and make the first record.

So when I made the first record and I took it in to EMI

and I found out what independent producers got

and I thought, "I'll ask four times what they ask,

"and then with a bit of luck I might get whatever everybody else gets."

And to my amazement they agreed and they paid me four times the amount,

and I was very, very, very lucky.

And the records came back to me after three years,

so I owned the masters and the rest was history.

Making records was a bonus. I mean, I couldn't believe it.

"Wow," you know, "all my heroes make records."

The ironic thing was I was paid £5 a day as a film extra

to sit in the audience at the London Palladium on a film called I Could

Go On Singing with the amazing Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde.

A year later, in February '64, I was actually topping the bill

on Sunday Night At The London Palladium, and this

was in the days when there were 20, 25 million people who watched it.

There was always one big show a week.

Over here it was Sunday Night At The London Palladium,

that if you got on that, everyone watched you.

# I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over

# Baby, I'm glad all over

# So glad you're mine... #

Glad All Over came on the scene

and it was a really good record, it was an obvious hit.

The band looked great, so you had to hand it to them,

you know, reluctantly.

Congratulations, Dave, on toppling the Beatles from

the number one spot on the hit parade. How do you feel today?

Well, as the record says, glad all over.

# I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over... #

What is this Tottenham Sound that has swept you to the top?

It's something we created through doing a lot of one-night stands.

I think what happened was the newspapers

started to say, "Oh, the Tottenham Sound," because we were,

you know, called the Mersey Sound, the Mersey Beat,

so I think it was a good story for the newspapers.

And there was an enormous debate of is it

the Beatles or the Dave Clark Five, you know?

And there were magazines that came out,

"Beatles versus Dave Clark Five".

# Can't you see that she's mine?

# We've been together for a long, long time

# And it will stay that way... #

It was always a big competition in schools

about the fight about the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five and who the

girls liked, and you'd have names carved in your desks and things.

And I actually liked them both.

I mean... But, you know, there'd be like a war on at school

and, you know, "You have to like the Beatles,"

"You have to like the Dave Clark Five." It was like...

I didn't understand why there had to be a fight.

I didn't get it.

Why did you have to like one more than the other?

Why couldn't you like everybody?

So then you became particularly aware then

because this was... They were being made out to be our rivals.

I don't think you'd say we'd be rivals

because we've got a completely different line-up to the Beatles.

We've got an organ and a sax, you've got a completely different sound.

So from that point of view,

we weren't really worried because they were different.

# Don't you know I love her so

# And I'll never, never let her go

# No matter what the people may say

# Or try to do

# Can't you see that she's mine?

# We've been together for a long, long time

# And it'll stay that way

# Because I know she loves me too. #

Dave's stuff had balls.

I mean, it was balls to the wall.

Dave Clark Five had the girls screaming, going insane.

# Well, do you love me?

# I can really move

# Well, do you love me?

# I'm in the groove

# Well, do you love me?

# Do you love me?

# Now that I can dance?

# Watch me now, oh

# Work it all

# I said work it all, baby

# Work it all

# Oh, you're driving me crazy

# Work it all

# With a little bit of soul now... #

Went across to America and nailed it, so huge,

so huge, and had one hit single after another.

There was this tsunami of pop culture and it started,

I suppose, with the Beatles.

And very quickly by something called the Tottenham Sound,

these guys that banged away at the drums like, you know, like...

I don't know - wild men from Borneo.

..who provide the sound you need so you can stomp your feet,

the song you need so you can rock your head

and the music you need so you can roll your soul in abandon.

And why? Why do you need this music so?

Because on a specific day, a definitive moment

in the history of the world, in November of 1963,

a terrible storm pounded your classroom

and your town and your country.

Down this avenue of sadness

they bring President John F Kennedy, marked hero,

to lie in state under the Great Dome of the Capitol.

I mean, I remember, we were backstage

somewhere and the news came through and we were all, like, horrified,

like as if he was our president, because he was a ray of hope.

He was a new, young, charismatic president who we all looked up to.

And for weeks and for months, for the longest time,

your heart and your world have been wrapped in black and the head

of every single person you look up to is still bowed in mourning.

It was the bleakest winter of your discontent.

But then mourning became morning

as the sun rose in the east,

coming out of England.

# I'm feeling... #

You want to hear a song that will make you feel

Glad All Over, by the Dave Clark Five.

# Glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over

# Baby, I'm glad all over

# So glad you're mine... #

I wanted to be a member of Dave Clark Five.

I remember being at the school dance, right?

Glad All Over came on and every time they went, "And I'm feeling..."

Boom boom! It sent chills up my spine.

# I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over... #

Once it's in your mind, you remember it forever.

It makes you "glad all over".

Glad All Over came on, which was their first hit in the States.

It sounded like it was ripping out of the radio.

It's fantastic. Dave Clark mania hits America,

and what a great piece of history.

As a kid, it was a gift from another country

that was actually meant for me.

# And I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over

# Baby, I'm glad all over... #

And I gave my job up on a Friday. Dave said, "Give your job up

"on Friday because we're going to America."

You've got to remember, I'd never been out the country before,

and then on Saturday we get on a plane -

I'd never been on an aeroplane before - flew to America,

and then on Sunday I played in front of 70 million people.

And I'd never stayed in a hotel before,

I'd never seen a limousine before.

And the size of the buildings were so immense.

How do you feel about being in the United States?

We're thrilled to bits.

We've always wanted to come to the States, it's a big opportunity.

Ed Sullivan invited us onto his show.

There was no bigger stage for presentation

in the States at that time.

If you were on The Ed Sullivan Show, you were huge.

Ed Sullivan was it.

Four guys for three weeks in a row in February.

Then in March,

the Dave Clark Five for two weeks in a row,

and then some other UK band, and then the Dave Clark Five again.

Then another UK band and then the Dave Clark Five again,

another UK band, the Dave Clark Five again...

They did The Ed Sullivan Show more times than any other British act.

-I think they did it 18 times.

-We were being invaded.

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces... #

This three-minute record is taking our joylessness

and smashing it to pieces -

to Bits And Pieces, so turn up the radio, Dad.

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# You went away and left me misery

# I'm in pieces

# Bits and pieces

# And that's the way it'll always be... #

And our shores were spontaneously welcoming these Brits,

like centuries before when the English brought enlightenment to

the Dark Ages with not just Shakespeare, but with Ben Jonson

and Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe,

the pantheon of literary sensation.

This was a pop reprise of our mother country's gift to humanity.

They forgave us our revolution by starting up another,

the red coats replaced by lads in matching suits

and armed with guitars and drums and an organ and a sax.

The result was more than just audiences filled with

screaming teenagers and school yard arguments over who was better,

this quintet or that quartet from the northern part

of the Queen's Isle. No, the true product...

The true product was joy, unparalleled,

unstoppable, undeniable joy, the joy to be alive, the joy to be young!

MUSIC: We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

'This is Dave Clark.

'This is Mike Smith.

'This is Denis Payton.

'This is Rick Huxley.

'This is Lenny, Lenny Davidson.'

# But I know we'll meet again

# Some sunny day... #

DAVE CLARK: The wartime was very sad for our family,

like many other families, because my mum lost three of her brothers.

But what amazed me, my dad said it was the happiest time for him,

because in England, you had a class system,

you had the upper class, the middle class and the working class,

and in those days the working class weren't treated very well,

it was very Dickensian in a way,

but during the war, everybody got together as one.

Everybody was helping one another.

-MIKE SMITH:

-There was a lot of bombed-out areas in London.

It was still very poor here, compared to America.

DAVE CLARK: It takes something like that tragedy to bring

everybody together, which is very sad, but there's something about it.

That's what gave England

and the British people that sort of will to want to improve your life.

MUSIC: Glad All Over

# You say that you love me all of the time

# You say that you need me... #

DAVE CLARK: We played on bomb sites, I remember that.

And my childhood was wonderful.

We didn't have any money,

and looking back, I mean, we were always...the family were

broke by the middle of the week, but we never went without,

whether it was second-hand clothes or whatever, we never went without.

We had a lot of love in the family, which... I feel very blessed.

# Glad all over, baby

# Glad all over, so glad you're mine... #

MUSIC: Good Old Rock'n'Roll

# When I was just a little boy

# You know my one and only joy

# Was listening to that good old rock'n'roll

# Now I'm just turned 23

# And if you want to get a message to me

# All you gotta do is play that good old rock'n'roll... #

-MIKE SMITH:

-I had the radio on, I heard this guy from America,

and he went... # Well, since my baby left me... #

I thought, what is that? Wow, I love that!

DAVE CLARK: Elvis changed everything.

When that came on the radio, it was, "Wow!"

And Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard.

It was American music and very, very rock'n'roll.

-INTERVIEWER:

-Dave, you've been together as a band for four years.

Where did you meet the other boys?

In the gymnasium in Tottenham.

We all trained there every Monday night, that's where we met.

Well, I myself personally, I do unarmed combat and karate,

but it's just general physical training the boys do,

football, boxing, the lot, we do everything there just to keep fit.

# Her wall is filled with pictures

# She'd get 'em one by one

# Yeah, she'd get so excited

# Oh, won't you look at her run?

# I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John

# He says he's got the blues, but I know he's having fun... #

DAVE CLARK: It's not because it's the Dave Clark Five,

it's because it's Mike, Denis, Rick and Lenny,

and people go for either one of the boys or for the five.

And I think the success is because they work so well as a team.

And, you know, the boys have been great, and I think I owe

my success and we owe all of our success to one another.

# To the end of time... #

I'll always look on Tottenham as my home.

I was born there,

and only until about eight months ago, I moved from Tottenham.

You know, we lived in a flat on top of a grocer's shop.

But I loved it, you know, because it was my home.

# Cos I'll always be true

# And I'm feeling glad all over... #

You know, I'm a Cockney and I'm proud of it,

and the people around me are just ordinary, working-class people.

Never be ashamed of where you live.

I was born in Tottenham. This is my home, I'm proud of it.

# Glad all over... #

-PRESENTER:

-Dave Clark's allegiance to his working-class background

becomes more tenuous with every high-heeled boot step that he takes.

At 23, he's already rich enough to stop working altogether,

but he's still aiming himself at the centre, the centre

of profitable attention in an arena that grows constantly bigger.

The first loud applause that he ever heard

came from the Tottenham Hotspur's football ground, close to his home.

CROWD CHEERING AND SINGING

# Feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over

# Baby, I'm glad all over

# So glad you're mine

# I'm feeling glad all over

# Yes, I'm glad all over... #

-PRESENTER:

-It was Dave's enthusiasm for football that first took him into the pop business.

He was in a youth club team that had the chance of playing

a match in Holland if they could raise enough money for their fares.

So, he formed a skiffle group

and raised £200 by playing at local dances.

His team went to Holland, won their match, and the skiffle group,

with some jet streamlining and professional polish,

has been raising money ever since.

-CROWD SINGING:

-# Glad all over

# Feeling glad all over... #

DAVE CLARK: Everyone dreams of winning the football pools

and you know, deep down inside, you'll never win the pools.

But this is LIKE winning the football pools.

-CROWD SINGING:

-# Glad all over

# So glad you're mine. #

CROWD CHEERING

-ED SULLIVAN:

-Lenny Davidson, Denis Payton, Rick Huxley,

Mike Smith and Dave Clark -

the Dave Clark Five.

Dave Clark Five.

The Dave Clark Five.

The Dave Clark Five.

The Dave Clark Five.

The Dave Clark Five.

# Cos can't you see that she's mine?

# We've been together for a long, long time

# And it'll stay that way because I know she loves me too... #

You had the eyes and ears of America, from the kids

to their families, because everybody watched it at the same time.

Nothing was as big as that for at least a decade.

The DC5 were on there 18 times.

I mean, this was as if God had anointed you -

it's OK, America will now accept you.

# ..to pull us apart

# But we don't care what they say

# We're gonna keep on lovin' this way

# But if they break us up, you know it'll only break my heart. #

They found a way to encompass the R&B sound,

which was saxophone, actually.

And this is where we start to get

the interesting parallels, I think, with our band.

They were unique in that, very simply, because of the saxophone.

That's right! I wondered if you were going to say that.

I mean, like, the Dave Clark Five, they had the saxophone,

they had the saxophone.

# Any way you want it

# You can always hear me say, hey, hey, hey

# It's all right, it's all right

# It's all right, it's all right

# It's all right, it's all right

# It's all right, it's all right

# Any way you want it

# That's the way it will be

# Any way, any way you want it

# That's all right by me

# Any way, any way you want it

# That's the way it will be

# Any way you want it

# You can call me any day... #

That was probably the toughest thing,

was in the '60s when the groups all started coming.

The Beatles came in, you know, Dave Clark Five.

They were all coming in on the scene,

and Elvis was having a really tough time, he felt out of the loop.

He was still involved with all his movies,

and he wasn't really recording and putting anything out there.

We arrived at JFK,

all these limousines and things,

and never seen a car that big, they were monstrous!

And there's 20,000 kids, you think, "What the hell is going on here?"

And then you realise they've all got banners, with your name on.

"How do they know me?!"

# Whoa!

# I got love if you want it

# Hear what I say, I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# I got love if you want it

# Yeah

# I got love if you want it Baby, love if you want it by the mile

# You got me if you want it

# Hear what I say

# Got me if you want it... #

We feel proud, we are honoured that we can bring

so much enjoyment to so many people, you know, well, we hope we do.

And if they enjoy theirselves by coming to our concerts

and screaming their heads off,

or if they want to sit down and listen

or do anything they like, you know,

as long as they're happy, that's what we're there for.

An unexpected appearance by one of England's top recording groups -

the Dave Clark Five.

SCREAMING

I mean, all those guys were good-looking.

And I think that, for girls anyway, the idea that you could be

so overwhelmed that all you could do

was scream seems strange,

until it was pointed out to the adults that they themselves

had gone through the same phase with Frank Sinatra.

We'll be right back after these words.

We'll be right back, ladies and gentlemen.

# Gonna tell you again

# Got to tell you again

# Take me now

# Ohh...! #

DAVE CLARK: By 1965, Epic Records - who was our American label -

announced that we had over 500,000 people in the fan club,

which is astronomical.

I couldn't believe it.

But the thing that was even more crazy, my dog -

I had a boxer dog called Spike -

and he was always in the magazines

and they had the Spike Clark Fan Club

and he had over 50,000 in his fan club, which was crazy.

But even crazier than that,

a magazine came out with a hairstyle called Dave Clark Spike.

I couldn't believe that, because boxers are short-haired.

People don't realise how big they were.

They were absolutely huge.

That great American singer Sam Cooke came along with Muhammad Ali,

who'd just become Heavyweight Champion of the World.

They came to see us play, which blew the boys away!

I am the greatest!

We used to go in the supermarket and put on an English accent

at the checkout for the checkout girl, you know.

It was like all the guys used to prac...

you know, everybody practised an English accent, you know,

for about a year after the British invasion, you know.

# I'm thinking of you, baby

# Every day and night... #

The Dave Clark Five,

capturing the beating heart of fans from New York to Tokyo.

# ..every day and night

# Now I don't want no other lover

# Cos I know you're gonna treat me right

# You're gonna treat me right now

# I'm thinking of you, baby

# And all the things that you said

# I'm thinking of you, baby

# And all the things that you said

# Oh, when your mama, papa told me

# Well, it nearly drove me out of my head

# Well, it drove me out of my head now

# The things we used to do

# And all the fun that we had

# It makes me feel mad

# To think you used to love me

# And now you're making me feel sad

# I feel so bad

# Oh, I'm thinking of you, baby

# Every day and night

# Oh, I'm thinking of you, baby

# Every day and night

# Now I don't want no other lover

# Cos I know you're gonna treat me right

# You're gonna treat me right, oh!

# Well, I'm thinking of you, baby

# Every day and night

# I said I'm thinking of you, baby

# Every day and night

# No, I don't want no other lover

# Cos I know you're gonna treat me right

# She's gonna treat me right, oh! #

CHEERING

So very nice to have you back with us.

SCREAMING CONTINUES

They're all flying back to England

to appear at the Royal Command Show for the Queen and Prince Philip.

# Only one thing I want to do

# Come home

# Whoa, yeah

# Come home

# Long as I know

# I'm coming home to you... #

Of course it's always a very great honour

and pleasure to do any Royal performance.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Dave Clark Five.

# In nineteen days

# In nineteen days

# Nineteen days

# Each town I go to

# Brings me nearer home

# Nineteen days

# Been working too hard

# Every finger to the bone

# I'm gonna be moving on home

# Baby, moving on home

# Moving on home

# I hope I find you waiting there

# In nineteen days

# In nineteen days. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you and good evening.

And now we'd like to change the tempo

with our arrangement of Georgia.

# Georgia

# Georgia

# My sweet loving Georgia

# A song of you

# A song of you

# Comes as sweet and clear

# As crystal moonlight through the pines

# Hey, and no peace

# No peace can I find

# Just, just an old sweet song

# Keeps Georgia on my mind

# Mind

# Hey!

# Just an old sweet song

# Keeps loving Georgia on my mind

# She's keeping on my mind

# Hey, yeah, oh! #

CHEERING

Mike was an amazing voice, he was the most underrated rock'n'roll singer,

and he underrated himself.

He didn't realise how good he was.

Maybe that's what was the magic.

# Well, do you love me?

# I can really move

# Well, do you love me?

# I'm in the groove

# Well, do you love me?

# Do you love me?

# Now that I can dance?

# Watch me now, oh!

# Work it all

# I said work it all, baby

# Work it all

# Oh, you're driving me crazy

# Work it all

# With a little bit of soul now... #

The DC5 connected to me because there was a sound I wanted.

If I was going to be in a rock band I wanted to sound like that,

I wanted to look like that.

There was a real connection between American music and the DC5.

They were one of the all-time great singers.

And Mike's Smith's voice, oh, one of the greatest rock'n'roll singers.

You listen to him on I Like It Like That.

# Come on! #

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at... #

And the name of the place...

# ..is I Like It Like That

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Oh, come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Oh, I wanna show you

# Let me show you where it's at

# The name of the place... #

..is I Like It Like That.

# Come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at

# Oh, come on

# Come on, let me show you where it's at... #

He had that thing that set them, just tweaked them.

They were different and that's why they stood out.

# You don't drive a big fast car

# No, you don't look like a movie star

# And on your money we won't get far

# But, baby

# You got what it takes

# Ow, to satisfy... #

You're a blue-eyed soul. You're just a soul, dude,

but then you're a British guy, and OK, that's cool.

There was one voice in the DC5 and Mike Smith had it.

Mike Smith is really an unsung voice, unsung hero vocally,

and not a lot of people point to him,

but that's one of the great voices of rock'n'roll.

He has the sweet quality, but he also had

that raucous rock'n'roll quality.

He was a great keyboard player as well, and he was gorgeous.

# Ow, to satisfy

# You got what it takes to set my soul on fire

# But oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah

# You got what it takes for me... #

You Got What It Takes really is something that makes me think about

wow, you know, I can almost see him performing it live.

And so that kind of thing was, to me, really, really cool. As a...

rhythm track, it kind of almost had...in-between, I'd say,

the Otis Redding, um... Can't Help Myself kind of feel.

# ..in the best of taste

# And nature didn't give you such a beautiful face

# But, baby

# You got what it takes

# Ow, to satisfy

# You got what it takes to set my soul on fire

# But oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah

# You got what it takes for me... #

It's one thing being a drummer in a band,

it's another thing shaking the rafters

and grabbing the public by the scruff of their neck

and say, "Look at me, don't look at Mike Smith". That's balls.

It just immediately became a much more aggressive...

It felt like much more of a live band in the studio.

# And nature didn't give you such a beautiful face

# But, baby

# You got what it takes

# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #

It's well known I was influenced by the Beatles,

but I was also influenced with Dave Clark

with the heaviness of the drums.

He made drumming look sexy, you know.

Dave Clark on drums, blasting with so much power,

any longer and you'd stomp your hands and clap your feet.

You could always tell Dave Clark's drumming

by his signature snare drum sound.

The build on the tom and the snare drum

was something Dave would do, you know...

da-da-da-da-da, pom-pom-pom-pom.

And that's how I learned how to play the drums.

# Well, do you love me?

# I can really move

# Well, do you love me?

# I'm in the groove... #

The Dave Clark Five are one of the few British bands of the day

that never replaced their drummer.

The band was led by a drummer.

There's not that many of those out there, you know.

And arrangements that were built around the drums.

You match that with a guy that knew what to do with that.

I don't know what Dave did, but the production,

as Steve can tell you, was unmatched still in many ways, you know.

One of the most powerful records ever made.

On a nightly basis, if I played 20, 25 songs

with Bruce and the E Street Band, I would say in at least 20 or 25 songs

you will hear a lot of Dave Clark rolls, as we refer to them.

And little things, builds on the tom-toms, you know.

# Tell me

# Tell me

# Well, do you love me?

# I can really move

# Well, do you love me?

# I'm in the groove

# Well, do you love me?

# Do you love me...? #

STEVIE WONDER: I always think about, when I think of Dave Clark Five,

you know, is the fun of it all.

It's like, you know, a love song, you know,

it's a serious thing, a love song,

but, you know, how about the joy of love,

and that's kind of what I, you know, I got as well as...

Even with that song Do You Love Me?,

the dance, the fun of it all. To me it's cool.

..one of the greatest,

and you're going to hear them right now, England's Dave Clark Five.

SCREAMING

# Everybody knows you've been treating me bad

# Everybody knows you've been makin' me sad

# Well, you don't have to lie cos I'm no fool

# I can see you don't want my love at all

# I know, I still love you

# Everybody knows he's been hanging around

# Everybody knows you've been painting the town

# He could never love you the way that I do

# And maybe I'll find somebody else

# But oh, I still love you... #

There was a lot of dreaming about the Dave Clark Five and,

as I say, Dave and Mike, and yeah,

I suppose it's the first time you actually thought about

things like that, things that you weren't supposed to think about.

# I'll be yours, my love

# I'll be yours

# We'll stay together forever

# I'll be yours, my love... #

And we all had crushes on them, of course,

especially the drummer.

I used to love that drummer with his white teeth

and big eyes and floppy fringe.

God, we all had a crush on him.

But you never mentioned the word "sex" or "sexy",

I mean, I'm a Catholic girl, for God's sake.

I had a band picture of obviously the whole group,

but I did have pictures of Dave on his own

right opposite my bed,

and right next to my Margot Fonteyn and my ballet pictures.

# The little things you do

# Things you do

# That mean so very much to me... #

I had this great poster,

and for some reason I thought he could see me

through the poster, that he would know that I was a huge fan.

# ..would mean nothing without me

-# Now I know that you mean, oh, oh

-That you mean

-# Every word you say

-Word you say

# I will love you

# Oh, oh, forever... #

One of my first jobs ever was to do this piece of filming

as kind of... I think I was one of the dolly birds of London,

and...

for a special with Lucille Ball and Dave Clark Five.

And I was so nervous because, again, it's that weird thing,

you know, a year before I'd been one of the little teenybopper girls,

you know, loving this band

and then suddenly you've got to meet them

and behave like a normal human being.

Dave Clark, would you consider yourself a trendsetter in mod clothing?

Well, it's very hard to say really.

I think anybody that's in the public eye

I suppose people take notice of, but whether you set trends or not,

well, that's up to the people to answer themselves, you know.

With the Dave Clark Five and their look was, you know,

they were really cool-looking.

# I know they're wrong

# Cos there are no regrets for us... #

I loved the way they dressed.

The French sort of shirts and boots.

It was sharp, really sharp.

I thought that was important, you know,

presentation, visual presentation.

Everybody in those days wore suits and shirts and ties,

the Beatles, the Stones the first few years, you know.

And I thought, you know, "We look the same as everybody else,"

so I thought, "We've got to change the whole look".

So I was on holiday in Spain, I saw this white shirt,

it was a one-off in a boutique, and I bought it,

and it was white, like a doctor's collar,

and it had buttons down the side,

and I got them copied for the group.

Something about the collars that I remember in the band

somehow in my head. I see an album cover.

And I'm menopausal, so I could be dreaming,

but the collars were much higher, like really,

and the cuffs,

I mean, they just looked good.

Yeah.

I mean, sex was a big part of it,

and the look of the Dave Clark Five,

yeah, they all shaved, didn't they?

They clearly shampooed, or somebody shampooed for them.

No, they were very clean-cut,

they were very clean-cut, kind of like the Beatles.

If you look at the photos of the period

suddenly everyone looked... we've all got a look,

and we're all young 20s,

and we've all got shirts and gear

and buttoned-down collars and the suits,

we're all checking out each other's fashions, "All right, mate?"

We're all smoking, you know, Peter Stuyvesants or Rothmans.

We thought we were so cool,

and we were.

SCREAMING

# It's right that I should care about you

# And try to make you happy when you're blue

# It's right, it's right to feel the way I do

# Because, because I love you... #

You can take any DC Five song, including Because,

one of my favourites was the rising chord pattern,

and take a look at that lyric -

"Because, because I love you", but the name of the song is not I Love You, it's Because.

It's the coolness of it. It's the understatement.

# Give me one kiss and I'll be happy

# Just, just to be with you

# Give me, give me

# A chance to be near you

# Because, because I love you... #

STEVIE WONDER'S PLAYING CONTINUES

I began to play some of the stuff but, you know,

the things I really enjoyed or the kinds of songs I enjoyed doing

and writing were songs that really you begin to hear later on.

You could hear those influences of, say,

whether it be something that I may have heard from Dave Clark Five

or, you know, the Beatles or Otis Redding.

They came up with those songs, you know.

-They just had great, great...

-And Mike and Dave deserve to be

that sort of famous songwriting duo just like, you know...

Just great stuff, man.

I think like Lennon/McCartney or Jagger/Richards.

-Yeah.

-I mean, obviously, they were that good.

# As I write my letter today

# Tears start falling from my eyes

# I remember things we used to say

# And the ties that bind our love

# Only one thing I want to do

-# Come home

-Whoa, yeah

# Come home

# Long as I know

# I'm coming home to you... #

The melodies were great, the songs seemed to be

almost autobiographical, seemed to be about...

The songs seemed to be about a lifestyle,

singing about what you believed in, how you felt,

what you wanted to do, your aspirations, your dreams.

# Of the things

# Of the fun

# While we were one... #

Well, my drumming hero was Buddy Rich,

but he's a jazz drummer, and one of my biggest thrills

was Buddy came to see one of our shows,

which blew me away,

and also embarrassed me in a way.

I said... I told him he was my hero, and I said,

"Buddy, I couldn't drum one tenth or one hundredth as good as you."

He said, "Don't knock it, Dave,"

he said, "What you are doing is great for us drummers."

He said, "I couldn't sell millions of records

"and I couldn't pack out 30 or 40,000 people,"

so he said, "Don't knock it."

And that was the best compliment I could have.

# Oh, we're havin' a wild weekend

# We're havin' a wild weekend

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin'... #

Well, the concert that I saw the Dave Clark Five

perform live it was just

a life-changing experience for me. I couldn't get over

the fullness of the sound. It sounded great.

Of course they played, you know, several hits.

They played so well, he sounded so great on the drums,

I just never heard a sound like that, and I was sitting

close enough to be able to actually, you know, hear every note.

HE PLAYS A DRUM SOLO

Are you all right, Dave? You'll have to move in to the mic more.

All right, roll them, take three. Dave Clark Five Wild Weekend.

A-one, two, three, four!

# Saturday night, everybody havin' fun

# You don't know it but I'm havin' me some

# You left me at home, thought I would die

# Down and lonely, thought I would cry

# Oh, havin' a wild weekend

# We're havin' a wild weekend

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin'... #

The actual sound of the band was the band,

and when you go and see them live they sounded like that.

I mean, you know, it was like,

wow, there are a lot of parallels to our band, you know,

in that sense of having the performance band cooking, you know,

before...maybe even before they were recording.

# Havin' a wild weekend

# We're havin' a wild weekend

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin'...

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin'

# Whoo! Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin' Rockin' and a-rollin'

# Reelin' and a-rockin'

# Rockin' and a-rollin' Oh! #

These guys must have killed people in clubs!

Pounding out in 4/4 time the message that to be joyful

is to be alive, and joy was in the music of the Dave Clark Five.

# Tell me, do you want my love?

# Tell me what you're thinking of

# I've been waiting round so long

# You don't try too hard

# You don't try too hard

# I hope you're not trying to make a fool of me

# Cos if you are I know there's going to be

# Some tears falling and they won't be mine

# You don't try too hard

# You don't try too hard... #

All the initial hits, they had enormous impact

when they first hit in the States.

Yeah, the Dave Clark Five were everywhere in that period

from around '64 to '66.

You know, I looked it up,

they scored 15 consecutive Top 20 hits on the US charts.

That's more than any other band in the world, except the Beatles.

Being in America at that time,

I mean, you couldn't turn on the TV without Dave Clark Five.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, the talented and beautiful Miss Dionne Warwick.

Hosting Hullabaloo was a major accomplishment.

It was a fun show to do.

It was all about recording artists and records,

and to have someone from England host it

had to be a double accomplishment.

The song was written by Burt Bacharach...

And Hal David. I thank you!

We'll be back later in the show to sing more of their hits,

so, in the meantime, a word from our sponsor.

# Give me one kiss and I'll be happy... #

It was unbelievable to meet and work with some of my

American heroes, like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Lucille Ball.

Lucy was a huge favourite in our house,

and my mum and dad couldn't believe it when I said that we were

filming a show with her - Lucy In London with the Dave Clark Five.

# Because, because I love you. #

A couple of years ago in England a bill collector met a draughtsman.

Now, the two of them met a couple of factory workers

and they all met a bartender!

LAUGHTER

Between the group they could hardly afford a haircut,

so they became the Dave Clark Five.

Now they're such a success with their rock'n'roll record,

they don't NEED a haircut.

Here they are, the Dave Clark Five!

APPLAUSE

# Here they come again, mmm

# Catch us if you can, mmm

# Time to get a move on, mmm

# We will yell with all of our might

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can. #

Who can tell what the future holds?

Speaking of your future

and your excursion into films, now you're no stranger to films.

Well, I've been an extra,

which is equivalent to a tea boy in a television studio.

-And you've learnt a great deal about it.

-I learnt a lot, yes.

Now what about the acting and how do you see yourself as an actor?

It was always my ambition to be an actor,

but after seeing that first film it's quite frightening,

because then you realise you've got a lot to learn.

I'd like to go into films, and so would the boys.

I don't think there's any doubt of how big they were.

Doing a Hollywood movie must have been extraordinary.

I mean, let's face it, you know,

it's pretty cool to be asked to do a movie.

# Now we gotta run, mmm

# No more time for fun, mmm

# When we're getting angry, mmm

# We will yell with all of our might

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can. #

-You do look a bit like her. Doesn't he, Steve?

-What?

-He looks a bit like Dinah.

-Yeah, he does, but he's far lovelier.

-Don't you think so, Steve?

-I think what?

Thinks he looks a bit like your girl.

Look. How many times have I told you? She's not my girl.

Don't touch me. I've got a contagious rash.

And you may think the band made two feature films,

but it was only one, titled Catch Us If You Can in the UK,

but called Having A Wild Weekend in the United States,

a brilliant marketing decision, you must admit.

By the time Catch Us If You Can became

Having A Wild Weekend, the DC5 were entrenched in the American psyche.

It's been excitingly photographed

and the story itself is a mirror of youth kicking over the traces,

refusing to be bound by the traditions of the past.

The film looked at alternative lifestyles

and tried to put across a message.

In the film, Dave and the boys head for the West Country

and fall in with some hippies.

Director John Boorman used genuine hippies, believing their

attitudes and outlook to be unusual and interesting.

-Got any spliffs, man?

-"Spliffs"?

-Pot.

-No.

-Got any H? Horse.

-No.

King normal.

Richard Lester.

The nice thing of that film is that there was a genuine filmmaker...

working to learn his craft and to develop his craft.

John Boorman, your first feature film in 1965 was

Catch Us If You Can with the Dave Clark Five.

It was very successful, wasn't it?

Pauline Kael took to it

and wrote a rave review about it in the New Yorker

and that sort of gave me some kind of, you know, reputation in America,

which really, I suppose, led on to my next film, Point Blank.

Because that starred Lee Marvin,

and, what, he read about the Dave Clark Five and sent for you?

# Here they come again, mmm

# Catch us if you can, mmm

# Time to get a move on, mmm

# We will yell with all of our might

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can

# Catch us if you can. #

Dave Clark, the pop star with the Midas touch.

Every song had its hook,

that piece that we could all hang on to and sing collectively,

no matter where you were.

You could be in Japan, you could be in Botswana, it didn't matter.

You could hear that song

and you'll hear every person in their broken English

singing the same song together.

# Think of your fellow man

# Lend him a helping hand

# Put a little love in your heart

# You see it's getting late

# Oh, please, don't hesitate

# Put a little love in your heart

# And the world

# The world

# Will be a better place

# And the world

# The world

# Will be a better place

# For you

# For you

# And me

# And me

# You just wait

# You just wait and see

# Another day goes by

# Still the children cry

# Put a little love in your heart. #

We were touring Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand,

the Philippines, the Far East, Europe and Scandinavia.

It became enormous.

It was not having a manager.

I said to the boys, "We're going to enjoy this,"

and that's the reason we got the DC5 plane,

so we can take off whenever we wanted to.

We were not going to work more than five days a week,

so whenever we toured we would stop off somewhere for a couple of days

and just chill out.

On the longer trips we'd stop off for a week or so in Fiji or Hawaii,

all these different places to recharge the batteries,

and it was so exciting.

And looking back I realise how lucky we were.

# And the world

# The world

# Will be a better place

# And the world

# The world

# Will be a better place

# For you

# For you

# And me

# And me

# You just wait and see

# Put a little love in your heart

# Put a little love in your heart

# Put a little love in your heart

# And just a little bit of love

# Put a little love in your heart... #

We had fun.

You've got to have time to have fun and take it in.

And I think if the fun goes out of it that's the time you stop.

# Put a little love in your heart. #

They obviously got on together really well.

They liked each other.

They were having great fun.

They were living the dream.

Once that's gone, they had that four years of doing that,

then you don't get it back.

But those four years are just magical.

We toured the world for about four years

and were having hits everywhere, which was great fun, enjoyment.

But the excitement had gone and it had really become a slog, hard work.

They did that amount of work in that incredible amount of time.

13 albums in four years, with all that amount of touring

and stuff, is quite phenomenal.

I mean, no other British band did that amount of work, no question.

In '67, I felt we'd gone as far as I wanted to go.

I always wanted to stop while you're still on top.

Touring, I found was you were losing your own identity

because you're locked away.

You have press conference after press conference,

in each city you went in, and I felt I was beginning to lose my identity

and I wanted to get back to Dave Clark being Dave Clark the person.

The boys were getting also tired of touring,

so I said, "Well, we'll stop while we're still selling out."

So we gave up touring, came back to England

and all we did was record and do television from the UK.

British groups have taken their music all over the world

and our next group are as famous in America

as they are here.

With enough gold records to put Fort Knox out of business, it's

the Dave Clark Five.

# Everybody knows you said goodbye

# Everybody knows we're through

# Now they all can see the tears I cry

# Running down my face for you. #

Eddie, don't go into the kitchen

because you know what's coming on next.

-ALL:

-A message from the sponsor.

I wanted to make a television special,

and I'd already shot some filmed sequences with the boys on location

water-skiing, which was premiered on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1966.

You'll see the guys here doing some startling water-skiing in England.

# Nineteen days

# Before I get to see my loving girl again. #

DAVE CLARK: It was the first time Ed had shown a music film,

because it was a live show,

but Ed took a chance and it got such an amazing reaction

that he asked me to film another one.

Well, that gave me the confidence to go on and write and direct

a television special that became Hold On, It's The Dave Clark Five.

# H

# O

# L

# D

# O

# N

# Hold on, yes, hold on

# Oh, hold on

# From England to the USA

# All around the world we'll go

# And every country that we visit

# We hope you're gonna like our show

# So hold on, yes, hold on

# Oh, hold on... #

DAVE CLARK: Well, after doing the Sullivan Show I storyboarded it

and we shot it on location and at Pinewood Studios.

# ..and everybody's gonna know... #

Got American star Richard Chamberlain

and the gorgeous Lulu as guests.

It was very off-the-wall.

# So hold on, yes, hold on

# Oh, hold on... #

It was showing the boys in another light, see us perform,

see us in the studio, see us on location, some comedy sketches.

It was like a really glossy one-hour television commercial.

And as we'd stopped touring,

it was a great way of still being seen by the fans around the world.

# And on your money we won't get far

# But, baby

# You got what it takes

# Oh, to satisfy

# You got what it takes to set my soul on fire

# But oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah

# You got what it takes for me

# You don't live in a beautiful place

# And you don't dress in the best of taste

# Oh, nature didn't give you such a beautiful face

# But, baby

# You got what it takes. #

MUSIC: I Need Love

# You know I need love

# Yes, I need love

# You see me with another girl and that starts complications

# Don't be angry, baby, please be patient

# Cos I need love

# Love

# You know what I need, I need love

# Love... #

CHEERING

I don't know. All this fuss just for the groceries! Well, it's a living.

# ..you know I need love

# Oh-whoa, I need love

# You know what I need, I need love

# Love, love, I need love, love, love

# Love, I need love, love, love... #