1964 The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over

An early entry from the London scene that would tag wrestle with Liverpool for dominance of the zeitgeist before taking over in the music and fashion stakes by the mid sixties, 'Glad All Over' is a drum heavy clumpathon that's short on subtlety but big on tapping into a primitive beat, the kind you hear on recordings by blues players accompanying themselves by stamping their feet. Or would have heard in the dead tone kettle drum beats that galley slaves pulled their oars in time too. Or any other situation where dread or drive takes precedence over melody; there's always room in the charts for a good solid stomper (as Slade, Gary Glitter and Oasis would come to testify), and when the beat is as 'up' as this then it's hard to listen without a grin.