Dave Clark 5 Sept 30,1965 - Catch Us If You Can (Dean Martin Intro & Sc's fr Movie (StereoMixed)

DC5 made 1 appearance on the Dean Martin show to perform Catch Us If You Can & Having a Wild Weekend.
"Catch Us If You Can" is a 1965 song by The Dave Clark Five, written by the group's drummer Dave Clark and guitarist Lenny Davidson. After their success had waned slightly in the UK, the Dave Clark Five focused on America. There, Clark met with Jack L. Warner and envisioned the movie Catch Us If You Can for release in 1965. "Catch Us If You Can" was inspired by Mary Wells and Major Lance and recorded at Lansdowne Studios in London with audio engineer Adrian Kerridge and produced by Clark. Musically, "Catch Us If You Can" features a sparse arrangement during the opening and verses that feature prominent finger snapping and has a harmonica solo, which was rare on a record by the band. Lyrically, the song features elements of youth liberation and anti-establishment.
The initial release of "Catch Us If You Can" occurred on the American soundtrack album Having a Wild Weekend on 28 June 1965. Shortly before Catch Us If You Can (retitled Having a Wild Weekend in the US) premiered, "Catch Us If You Can" was released as a single A-side in the UK on 2 July 1965 through Columbia Records and on 5 August 1965 through Epic Records in the US. It was a commercial success, reaching number five on the Record Retailer chart in the UK, where it was their first top-ten single in over a year, and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 in addition to reaching the top-ten in various other countries. Critically, the song was praised for being a "rocker", but criticized for being more commercial than their previous singles. Retrospectively, the song has received praise, and has influenced other songwriters.
In 1964, the Dave Clark Five broke through in England, scoring three consecutive top-ten singles with "Glad All Over" (1963), "Bits and Pieces" and "Can't You See That She's Mine" (both 1964).According to Jim Beviglia, their initial burst of success there "tailed off a bit",leading to their focus on America in the wake of the British Invasion, where in 1964 and 1965 they were selling "selling a million records a month".They had already starred in the movie Get Yourself a College Girl (1964), when drummer Dave Clark was contacted by Jack L. Warner, who wanted to contract the band for a three-film deal as his daughter was a fan.Though Clark turned down the offer,it was agreed that they would star in one motion picture directed by John Boorman as long as it was "ready for the drive-ins" by the summer of 1965.
The idea to the song "Catch Us If You Can" was initialized by Clark, who came up with the track's hook and finger snapping, the latter of which were conceived in a "Mary Wells / Major Lance-type feel".Clark then consulted the band's vocalist Mike Smith and saxophonis Denis Payton for ideas, though it was guitarist Lenny Davidson "who was going in the direction" Clark was aiming for with the song.As with the Dave Clark Five's other output from the 1960s, "Catch Us If You Can" was recorded at Lansdowne Studios in Holland Park.Present in the studio was audio engineer Adrian Kerridge, who also "recorded most of the band's early core hit catalog". The song was produced by Dave Clark himself.
As recorded by the Dave Clark Five, "Catch Us If You Can" runs 1:54 minutes in length,and was written in the key of G major.The song opens with a "two-note ascending riff" performed on an acoustic guitar alongside finger snaps,something that AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger characterizes as "unusually spare" by the band's standards.The hook featuring the fingersnapping "anchors half the song" whereas the song's refrain turns into a "shaggy rocker" that features a full band performance with the "expected saxophone and layers of harmony vocals pile on with force". The transition between the song's verse and bridge features a similar drum roll to the band's other hits. Unusually for a Dave Clark Five song, "Catch Us If You Can" features a "bluesy" harmonica solo performed by Payton, rather than organ or saxophone.Lyrically, Beviglia identifies the song as a "kind of a youth anthem" despite the contentless words,[3] as does Unterberger, who further believed that there additionally was a thematical element of anti-establishment in them.