Category: Dave Clark Five

WKNR GLAD ALL OVER PRESENTING THE DAVE CLARK 5

From the MCRFB MUSIC NEWS archive: 1965

‘WKNR Adds DC5 Cobo Hall Show with High School Journalists’ Press Conference’

 

 

 

FROM THE BACK-PAGES of the DETROIT FREE PRESS

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1965

 

DETROIT (DECEMBER 17) —At least 150 high school journalists were “glad all over” last Friday night. WKNR invited them to question the Dave Clark Five at a press conference before their Cobo Arena concert. The minute Dave Clark, Mike Smith, Lenny Richardson, Denis Payton and Rick Huxley into the Polar Bear Room in the Veteran’s Memorial, flashbulbs and question started popping.

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— DETROIT FREE PRESS

Detroit Free Press Friday, December 17, 1965
Detroit Free Press Friday, December 17, 1965

Detroit Free Press. December 1965

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The Dave Clark Five (L-R): Lenny Davidson, Dave Clark, Rick Huxley, Denis Payton, and Michael Smith. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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WKNR PRESENTS! A DAVE CLARK 5 1966 NEWSPRINT AD

Detroit Free Press June 3, 1966

Friday, June 3, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WKNR

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A BILLBOARD CLASSIC ’45 AD FLASHBACK! 01/22/1966

A EPIC RECORDS AD BILLBOARD PAGE RIP: “At The Scene” Dave Clark Five January 22, 1966 (click on image 2x for largest view)
A EPIC RECORDS AD BILLBOARD PAGE RIP: “At The Scene” Dave Clark Five January 22, 1966 (click on image 2x for largest view)
“AT THE SCENE” * The Dave Clark Five

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THIS WEEK 50 YEARS AGO: THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE USA!

the-dave-clark-five-over-and-over-1965-(mcrfb)NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA ’65 * Dave Clark Five * WEEK OF 12/19/65 – 12/25/1965

  FOURTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Over And Over” by the Dave Clark Five peaked this week at No. 01 (one week) on the Billboard Hot 100, week of December 19 through December 25, 1965. (source: Billboard)

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DAVE CLARK FIVE TO TOUR U.S., CANADA . . . NOVEMBER 7, 1964

From the MCRFB news archives: 1964

DC5 Offered Guarantees for 7 -Week Tour of U.S. and Canada

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK — Bookings of the Dave Clark Five for it’s seven-week tour of the United Sates and Canada which began on Sunday, November 2, has varying guarantees for the English group scaled from $9,000 to $15,000, plus a percentage over a certain gate.

The Dave Clark Five on tour in 1965, Toronto, Canada. Prior the DC5’s performance, CKEY Dave Mickie introduced the Esquires on stage (click on image for larger view).

Size of the guarantee depends on the seating capacity of the hall and price of the tickets.

At Memphis, for example, where the show is scheduled for Sunday, December 13, the seating in the new $4.7 million Coliseum is 12,050 and a sell-out will bring in $42,000. The popular British band’s guarantee for the expected-sellout in Memphis will be approximately $9,000, by all estimations. The Memphis contract calls for the group to cash in 50 per cent of any amount over a gross gate of 18,000.

Thus, if the show is sold out at $42,000, the DC5 combo would claim $9,000 plus an additional $12,000, with a total for $21,000 for the booking. In larger cities, the scale will reap much higher. The tour was booked by Spotlight Productions, Inc., New York, with local promoters at cities the shows play will furnish preliminary acts.

DC5 concert poster november 4, 1964.The seven-week tour, which began Sunday, November 1, in Montreal, ends Sunday, December 20 in Buffalo, New York. The DC5 tour is expected to gross from $1.5 to $2 million. The British group will play at least 50 shows during their stay here and in Canada.

Ray Brown, of National Artists Attractions, a local sponsor, said his contract calls for him to provide local preliminary acts before the band’s appearance on stage. And Brown said that has presented a unique problem.

“I’m getting calls from many acts who want to appear on the show free,” said the puzzled Brown. “I never had been confronted with that situation before,” Brown said. END.

The Dave Clark Five on the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS television in 1965.
The Dave Clark Five on the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV in 1965
DC5 in 1965.
DC5 in 1965

 (Information and news source: Billboard; November 7, 1964).

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