1964 Top Ten: Glad All Over (#10)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (65390)
United States
June 21, 2024 11:10am CST
Fifty five pounds. 
It’s been quite a journey these past two and a half years, lookie where I am now! Thanks to @LouAvul for wanting to start Weight Watchers back in December 2021. (I went on it to be a “support” to her.) Let’s celebrate with some great music that’ll make you get up and sweat to the oldies. Here’s the first song in the top ten of my favorites from 60 years ago.
#10: Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five
It’s hard to explain the British Invasion or the effects of Beatlemania on music in the 60s. After the Beatles, anybody with an English accent and a guitar could get a record deal. While that resulted in a lot of one-hit wonders, we also got a lot of great bands. Would the Stones have made it without Beatlemania? Thankfully, we can only speculate over what bands we would or wouldn’t have been able to enjoy.
There was a media-created “rivalry” between the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, probably started when this song knocked “I Want to Hold Your Hand” out of the #1 spot in England. Needless to say, the DC5 didn’t amass the worldwide recognition of the Fab Four; however, they are both in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
And for the Dave Clark Five, it started with this terrific tune.
Glad All Over
Written by Dave Clark and Mike Smith
Recorded by the Dave Clark Five
From Glad All Over, 1964
You say that you love me:
It’s been quite a journey these past two and a half years, lookie where I am now! Thanks to @LouAvul for wanting to start Weight Watchers back in December 2021. (I went on it to be a “support” to her.) Let’s celebrate with some great music that’ll make you get up and sweat to the oldies. Here’s the first song in the top ten of my favorites from 60 years ago.
#10: Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five
It’s hard to explain the British Invasion or the effects of Beatlemania on music in the 60s. After the Beatles, anybody with an English accent and a guitar could get a record deal. While that resulted in a lot of one-hit wonders, we also got a lot of great bands. Would the Stones have made it without Beatlemania? Thankfully, we can only speculate over what bands we would or wouldn’t have been able to enjoy.
There was a media-created “rivalry” between the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, probably started when this song knocked “I Want to Hold Your Hand” out of the #1 spot in England. Needless to say, the DC5 didn’t amass the worldwide recognition of the Fab Four; however, they are both in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
And for the Dave Clark Five, it started with this terrific tune.
Glad All Over
Written by Dave Clark and Mike Smith
Recorded by the Dave Clark Five
From Glad All Over, 1964
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
This is one you bop back and forth with in your sleep!
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
I feel tons better, and that’s more important. I told my pulmonologist I wouldn’t have believed weight loss would have improved my breathing this much.
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
@JudyEv — I know what you mean. I have a dear friend who, at one time, was over 400 pounds. She still needs to lose about 50 pounds more to be at the BMI where they’ll do a knee replacement.
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@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jun
@FourWalls We have a (very) overweight friend. She must be putting so much stress on her legs and hips.
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@crossbones27 (49050)
• Mojave, California
22 Jun
People are so weird in music. You know how military says do not take it personal. I think people take every thing personal/ The only time you stop is when you been called everything bad in the book. Hey, at least me and Trump have something in common. 
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@crossbones27 (49050)
• Mojave, California
22 Jun
@FourWalls See, you know. After a while, I cannot be that bad. Its just them hating something others did.
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
Ah, yes, those days of the garlic-breathed drill instructor two inches away from your nose….
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@just4him (317038)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Jun
@FourWalls Thank you. That's the plan.
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
21 Jun
You are so uncorrigated, or incorrigible, or whatever. Go sit by the pool and take some 60s music with you! 
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@NJChicaa (118480)
• United States
21 Jun
@FourWalls Fine I'll take that punishment.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
22 Jun
First of all, congratulations on the weight loss. I remember so well when the Beatles vs. the Dave Clark Five was going on. I was for the Beatles of course. I think I did buy a DCF album though. Have a good weekend.
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
Everyone picked the Beatles in the long run, didn’t they. 
Thanks, I’m enjoying the weight loss journey. I pray I never go back to the old way of eating….but in reality, I just modified the way I had been eating instead of a “drastic change.” It’s the latter that usually causes people to fail.
Thanks, I’m enjoying the weight loss journey. I pray I never go back to the old way of eating….but in reality, I just modified the way I had been eating instead of a “drastic change.” It’s the latter that usually causes people to fail.1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
23 Jun
@FourWalls I think that's how I lost my 25 pounds. VERY slowly and without cutting way back on food.
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@BarBaraPrz (46490)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Jun
Yup, my brother and I would stomp the house down when that came on the radio...
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
I think their most-often played hit anymore is “Catch Us If You Can.” They had a lot of good songs.
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@RasmaSandra (77609)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Jun
I love the song and the band, During my more active days the volume on this went up and the dancing started, Once the ceiling started shaking and the floor joined in my mom would tell me to stop, I had the radio on constantly, and if not that then my collection of 45s playing
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@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
22 Jun
This was a song to get everyone jumping or stomping!
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@dgobucks226 (34957)
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26 Jul
What a great tune. I was not a big fan of Dave Clark 5 when they arrived on the scene, but I am now. I definitely underrated those guys. 
17 Top 40 hits in the US. "Because" is one of my favorite love songs.
17 Top 40 hits in the US. "Because" is one of my favorite love songs.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (65390)
• United States
27 Jul
We miss a lot of stuff the first time around.
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