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.

28th ABC, Northampton

29th Gaumont, Wolverhampton

30th Gaumont, Taunton