The Record Star Show BBC query

[Jeff Leach]

Came across a Listing on the BBC Genome page for The Record Star Show which apparently ran for several years in the sixties.

The synopsis reads :

It's the highlight of the pop year ... the show that packs together more stars and more disc-jockeys than any commercial management could ever afford to put on the same bill. The big names all appear free-to raise money for the Stars Organisation for Spastics. There were two performances at the Empire Pool Wembley last Sunday and a BBC-tv outside broadcast team was there to record the programme you'll see tonight. With a line-up that reads like a hit-parade chart, you're certain of fifty swinging minutes.

Tv Brain says the 1968 and 1969 shows are missing, but nothing about the April 66 and April 67 shows - Anyone has any info ?

SOS The Record Star Show 1966

Presented by the Stars Organisation for Spastics
Part of the Pop Event of the Year at the Empire Pool, Wembley
Big names in popular music donate their services for charity
CHRIS ANDREWS and the Hook
KENNY BALL and his Jazzmen
GEORGIE FAME and the Blue Flames
ADAM FAITH and the Impacts
WAYNE FONTANA
THE FORTUNES
ROLF HARRIS with The Tony Hatch Group
BILLY J. KRAMER and the Dakotas
MANFRED MANN
THE MOODY BLUES
CLIFF RICHARD
PAUL AND BARRY RYAN with Rob Storme and the Whispers THE SHADOWS
SANDIE SHAW and The Streamliners
THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP
JACKIE TRENT
With The Tony Hatch Group
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Comperes,
Alan Freeman , David Jacobs Don Moss , Peter Murray
Organised by DAVID JACOBS Staged by JOHNNIE STEWART


1967

THE RECORD STAR SHOW
Presented by the Stars
Organisation for Spastics
Artists who regularly top the charts give their services freely for charity
Highlights from the Pop Event of the Year at the Empire Pool, Wembley, which featured a score of stars including:
PAUL JONES
THE KINKS
LULU
GENE PITNEY
THE ALAN PRICE SET
GINO WASHINGTON and the Ram Jam Band and the Disc Jockeys
Simon Dee
Alan Freeman
David Jacobs
Don Moss
Pete Murray

[williammcgregor]

I previously gained permission from Keith Badman to reproduce this article from his great series of the time...

[John Green]

Is he relying on memory for "a spirited rendition","a rousing version" etc.?

[Jeff Leach]

Thanks for the info William - Possibly a show(s) that might be out there somewhere.

[paul carney]

My brother Pete Carney was the bass player in the Ram Jam Band at this time and has a pretty large collection of surviving tv broadcasts of the time but never seen any footage of the 1967 broadcast.

Also as a pretty avid follower of pop on tv in those days I'm surprised that I have no memory of these programmes

[Thomas Walsh]

How many of these shows were actually made? I found this listing from the Coventry Evening Telegraph which has a line-up I never knew about including The Move. It's from late March 1968.

[williammcgregor]

Hi Thomas,

Your post is great thanks

I don't know the answer to your question but, your post has inspired me to check things out at the library in Edinburgh

[williammcgregor]

Listed as Missing.

It is just possible The Daily Express hold a copy of the Event ? ...


Friday 29th March 1968

BBC1 The Record Star Show 7.30 - 8.20 pm

From Radio Times "Televised by arrangement with the Daily Express and The Stars Organisation for Spastics." Two live sets were recorded Sunday 24th March 1968 at The Empire Pool, Wembley

Featuring...

Radio One DJs - Tony Blackburn, Pete Brady, Dave Cash, Simon Dee, Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman, David Jacobs, Don Moss and Peter Murray

Cliff Richard

The Foundations

Amen Corner

Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich

The Spencer Davis Group

Simon Dupree & The Big Sound

The Easybeats

Chris Farlowe

The Flowerpot Men

The Move

The New Vaudeville Band

Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band

P J Proby

[paul carney]

9 DJs for a 50 minute programme.🥵