"OH BOY!" Show #38 - [1of3]

SHOW # 38 (FINAL SHOW) 30th MAY 1959 (1 of 3)
Compered by Jimmy Henney and Tony Hall

-- TV Hop (Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Bill Forbes & Dickie Pride)
Rip It Up (2 Vernons Girls)
Lonesome Traveller (4 of Lord Rockingham's XI + Cliff et al)

-- Rah Rah Rockingham (Lord Rockingham's XI)

-- Let's Rock While the Rockin's Good (Cuddly Dudley)

-- Don't Knock Upon My Door (Billy Fury)

-- Looby Doo (Cherry Wainer)

-- All American Boy (Marty Wilde)

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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:

Music

Tags:

• Oh
• Boy
• 1959
• Jack
• Good
• Cliff
• Richard
• Marty
• Wilde
• Billy
• Fury
• Dickie
• Pride
• Vernons
• Girls
• Dallas
• Boys
• Cherry
• Wainer

[sallie6]

Fantastic clips - my mother in law absolutely loved them...brought back some great memories Do you have any more?

thanks for sharing xx

[lmj22]

these two episodes are the only surviving 'Oh Boy' shows.

[cookiesdaddy]

The precursor to "Shindig"!

[lmj22]

and the same producer - Jack Good :)

[thecubanism]

Marty Wilde was always better than that big posing phoney Cliff Richards, at least he wasn't faking it like that big queen.

[rgjraccoon]

rah rah rockingham sure sounds like it's a hop and skip from Kingston ska

[philipjohnhomewood]

my mums in this a vernon girl

[jt123egypte]

Where is Vince Taylor ???????????

[5151emily]

Unbelievable material. But my favourite has to be BILLY FURY. So gorgeous. So missed. RIP.

[atletico45]

Oh Boy I am just shivering watching those old clips that I saw live on TV.

There's nothing bigger than those good-old rockin' days.

[stagggloves]

@paulmccartney7ElvisP

They were probably told to mimic some Elvis moves by Larry Parnes (manager) .

But to put it into context, some of Elvis moves were copied from 1940's performers.

The big difference being Billy wrote a lot of his songs himself, including this one!

[paulmccartney7ElvisP]

Billy Fury looks and sounds like Elvis in this video :) + The way he moves and the little twitch he done 4:44 and the way he moves his mouth hehe if you get what i mean xxxxxxxxxxx  And the finish when he put his hands up x <3

[hotdog4sex]

this is music :)