Glad All Over Again by The Dave Clark Five

Glad All Over Again

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Glad All Over Again

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Dave Clark and his group were the first British group to tour America in the sixties, spearheading what came to be known as the British invasion - a much more successful (and friendlier) invasion than the battle of New Orleans. Because of their extensive touring schedule, the Dave Clark Five were more successful in America, where their many hits included fourteen consecutive top ten hits, than in their homeland, where their career total of twenty-two hits included just eight top ten hits -good by most standards, but it could have been better. In Britain, the Dave Clark Five began their run of hits with Do you love me, a cover of an early Motown song. Despite the song having already been an American hit (for the Contours), this was a huge American hit. By contrast, it was only a minor British hit, losing out to a rival version by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, who took it to number one. Next came the two songs for which the group is best remembered in Britain - the UK number one hit, Glad all over (it has since been adopted as an anthem by a football club) and the UK number two hit, Bits and pieces. These two monster hits were followed by Can't you see that she's mine, which also made the British top ten. After that, most of their British hits failed even to make the top twenty, but as their British popularity faded, their American popularity gained momentum. Among their other songs, two completely different hits share the same title (Everybody knows), one of them providing the group with their second and last British number two hit. It is fairly common for different songs to share a title (and not that rare for artists to record different songs with the same title) but I can't think of another act that has charted with two such songs. Catch us if you can (its American title is Having a wild weekend), Red balloon, Good old rock'n'roll (a medley of covers) and Everybody get together complete their list of British top ten hits. Only one other record, Come home, made the British top twenty. Over and over, a very minor UK hit, made number one in America. This compilation includes all the tracks I've mentioned and most but not all of their other hits. Dave owns all the group's recordings and only occasionally leases them to record companies for limited periods. This means that the music is very hard to obtain most of the time, so if you get a chance to buy, make sure you take advantage.

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