The DC5 Diary 1964 January-April
January
1st Appeared on first “Top of the Pops” UK TV show in person and lip-synched “Glad All Over”
4th Dave Clark appears on Juke Box Jury shown on TV on 11th Jan
5th Basildon Locarno
8th Appeared on TOTP in person and lip-synched “Glad All Over”
11th Appeared on BBC Radio Saturday Club also appeared on the Arthur Haynes Show on ATV
12th Basildon Locarno
17th Tottenham Royal
18th Tottenham Royal
19th Tottenham Royal
22nd Appeared on TOTP in person and lip-synched “Glad All Over”
25th Tottenham Royal
26th Tottenham Royal
February
1st Tottenham Royal
2nd Tottenham Royal
8th Tottenham Royal
9th Appeared on the UK TV show “Sunday Night at the London Palladium”,performed “Zip a Dee Doo Dah” & “Big Noise From Winnetka”
14th filming of Warner-Pathe newsreel at the Tottenham Royal
15th Tottenham Royal also Appeared on “Thank Your Lucky Stars” ( “Bits & Pieces”)
16th Tottenham Royal
19th Appeared on TOTP in person and lip-synched “Bits & Pieces”
20th Appeared on UK TV "Scene At 6.30"
21st Appeared on “Ready Steady Go!” performed “Bits and Pieces”
22nd Tottenham Royal
23rd Tottenham Royal
26th Appeared on TOTP in person and lip-synched “Bits & Pieces”
March
2nd Arrive in N.Y. by plane from London
4th Photo shoots Central Park & other locations,also appeared on TOTP "previously recorded" and lip-synched “Bits & Pieces”
7th Appeared on BBC Radio "Saturday Club"
8th Ed Sullivan show, lip-synched “Glad All Over”
10th-14th 5 days holiday in Montego Bay
14th DC5 officially become professional
14th Appeared on “Thank Your Lucky Stars”
15th Ed Sullivan show, lip synched “Bits and Pieces” ,”Do You Love Me” and “Glad All Over”
16th Fly home from the U.S.A.
17th-21st Empire Theatre,Liverpool with Mark Wynter, Susan Maughan, George Meaton, Alan Field, Dave Nelson and McAndrews & Mills.
22nd Performed in “Record Star Show” in the UK for the “Stars Organisation for Spastics” charity
23rd Birmingham Hippodrome with McAndrews & Mills, George Meaton, Dave Nelson, Alan Field, Susan Maughan and Mark Wynter (show possibly ran until 28th )
29th Begin UK Tour at the Coventry Theatre, Coventry. Other acts on tour, Hollies, Kinks,Mojos,Trebletones,Mark Wynter,Frank Berry.
30th Futurist Theatre, Scarborough
31st De Montfort Hall, Leicester
April
1st ABC Cleethorpes
2nd ABC Carlisle,
3rd Newcastle City Hall,
4th Sheffield City Hall
5th Gaumont, Bradford
6th Granada, Woolwich
7th ABC, Gloucester
8th Granada, Tooting
9th ABC, Cambridge
10th Granada, Bedford
11th Theatre Royal, Norwich
12th Embassy, Peterborough
14th ABC, Dover
15th ABC Romford
16th Odeon, Chelmsford
17th ABC Lincoln
18th Ardwick, Manchester
19th Odeon, Guildford
21st Gaumont, Doncaster
22nd Granada, Mansfield
23rd Granada, Shrewsbury
24th Capitol, Cardiff
25th Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
26th Hippodrome Brighton
26th Appeared at New Musical Express Poll-Winners' Concert (Wembley) with The Beatles, The Merseybeats, The Searchers, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, Brian Poole & the Tremeloes, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, the Swinging Blue Jeans, Kathy Kirby, Freddie & the Dreamers, the Hollies, Manfred Mann, Joe Brown, Roy Orbison.
