Glad All Over

GLAD ALL OVER
 
 
“Glad All Over”  is a song written by Dave Clark and Mike Smith and recorded by The Dave Clark Five.  In January 1964, it became the British group’s first big hit, reaching No.1 on the UK Singles Chart.  In April 1964, it reached No. 6 on the American U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the first British Invasion hit by a group other than The Beatles.  “Glad All Over” was the No. 2 selling single of 1964 in the U.K. (behind “Can’t Buy Me Love” by The Beatles), with suggested total U.K. sales for “Glad All Over” of around 1,000,000 units by the end of 1964.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Part of the reason has to do with the Liverpool music scene in the 1960’s:  Other than you-know-who, most of the big British Invasion bands came from somewhere else.  The Beatles’ early competitors on the American charts were the Dave Clark Five; their first big hit song “Glad All Over” hit the Top Ten in February 1964, though the Five wouldn’t make #1 until “Over and Over” came out in November 1965The Dave Clark Five were from North London and were being promoted as the progenitors of the “Tottenham Sound”. 

 

(July 2013)

 

Last edited: April 3, 2021