"OH BOY!" Show #38 - [3of3]

SHOW # 38 (FINAL SHOW) 30th MAY 1959 (3 of 3)
Compered by Jimmy Henney and Tony Hall

-- Turn Me Loose (Cliff Richard)

-- Good Cat (Neville Taylor & The Cutters)

-- Percy Green (Don Lang)

-- Three Cool Cats (Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Dickie Pride)

-- Early in the Morning (Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard)

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Oh Boy! was the first teenage all-music show on British TV airing in 1958-1959. It was produced by Jack Good for ITV.

Within the first 6 weeks, the show became a smash hit and the number of viewers had doubled.
Many top British vocalists who went on to achieve international fame made their early TV appearances on the show. Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Shirley Bassey, John Barry, Marty Wilde and Billy Fury are some examples.
The cast listings read like a who's who of UK 'Hit Paraders' of the time and were household names - The Dallas Boys; Ronnie Carroll; The Vernons Girls; Emile Ford; The King Brothers; Lonnie Donegan; Vince Eager; Dickie Valentine and Alma Cogan.
The show was even blessed with appearances by non British acts: The Inkspots; Conway Twitty and Brenda Lee from the USA and the Marino Marini Quartet from Italy all appearing to promote their latest recordings.

The show was transmitted on Saturday evenings and was in direct competition to the BBC's 6.5 Special. Each week it featured resident artists plus a selection of special guests. The residents included Cliff Richard and the The Vernons Girls.
The last of the original show went on air on 30th May 1959.

Category:

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• Richard
• Marty
• Wilde
• Billy
• Fury
• Dickie
• Pride
• Vernons
• Girls
• Dallas
• Boys
• Cherry
• Wainer

[sallie6]

wow - how young was Cliff Richard??

[lmj22]

he was 18 :)

[Khaosity1]

@thecubanism U TOSSER!

[thecubanism]

What a phoney, a little boy thinking he's Elvis, you can see it's all an act and he's faking it, trying to look sexy when in fact he's batting for the other side, flogging his button around Picadilly, I have always detested him since I first saw him and I always will.

[aldeb456]

This was the final episode of this show? Why was it canceled?

[bille1131]

I was 15 years old when I used to watch this every week. It catapulted Cliff into his long career! It was so much better than the Six Five Special which was on the other side BBC at the same time!

[sportsaddict1942]

Cliff stoled this song from American rocker Fabin Forte a early Elvis look a like.

[valkour22]

man he was a direct rip off of Elvis

[D1lk]

Certainly not the BBC in 1959...

This ragged tape from British commercial television captures the export of American "popular culture" through music directed at adolescents; it shows the emerging social importance of the teen and, implicitly, the subordination of European popular music to new trans-Atlantic rhythms and tones.

The new Empire was making its values dominant in post-war Europe...

[Zipgunn1]

@elvisfan22 For my money the "nobody" was the most interesting of the bunch.

[RebelVoDKa]

Back September the 12th.

But they weren't. What happened?