Bits and Pieces - 2019 - Remaster

This rousing number was officially credited as being written by Dave Clark and lead singer/keyboard player Mike Smith. Some theater owners wouldn't let them play this at concerts because they were worried that fans would jump up and down in time to the beat and damage the venue.

Like the rest of the Dave Clark Five catalog, this song wasn't issued on CD in America until 1993 with The History Of The Dave Clark Five collection, which was distributed by Hollywood Records, a division of Disney. Clark had held back the rights to the group's catalog, which made their music difficult to find - even for radio stations, many of which didn't play DC5 tracks because they didn't have them. In signing with Hollywood, Clark was hoping to get songs like this one used in Disney movies, but that didn't happen. With the catalog held back for nearly two decades, interest in the group's music waned, and many of their songs - including this one - never had a popular resurgence through use in a movie or commercial.

Dave Clark recalled to Uncut: "At a lot of gigs, we used to do some instrumentals because it was a long stint, three and a half hours. We often started with The Routers' 'Half Time,' and we'd stop, carry on with just the drums going, with everybody in the band stomping - all the audience would start to stamp, and you can imagine what it was like when it got 106,000 people." "The guy on the lights at the Tottenham Royal had no lighting board, but I got him to switch the lights on and off from the mains, in time with the music. It got amazing reactions, and that's how Mike and I got the idea for Bits and Pieces and Glad All Over."