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Post by williammcgregor on Apr 1, 2014 20:46:24 GMT
Here's a challenge for all you archivists: did this talent show get much press coverage? I suppose local papers would have been keen... It got a slight mention on another thread missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/7773 but I'm wondering what there was in print? (A new thread on the MC site reminded me about this). This is from the Edinburgh Evening News and Despatch 18/6/64Ready,Steady, Win, promises something special for the teenagers-and for those older viewers who dig beat. It is a new series on Channel 10 a contest to find the best new beat group. when the contest was first announced,no fewer than 4000 applications were received. In the series 6 groups will be featured each week; each will play 2 numbers-a standard one and one of their own compositions. The winners each week will move into the finals,which will be the 11th and 12th programmes,and the finalists will be chosen from there.The intros will be done by Keith Fordyce, Gay Shingleton and Michael Aldred. |
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Post by williammcgregor on Jun 13, 2014 15:55:12 GMT
Melody Maker 26th December 1964 and here's what Ringo had to say about judging the competition 
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Post by williammcgregor on Dec 18, 2014 16:35:03 GMT
 * note the cameras have RSW! on the side |
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Post by williammcgregor on Jan 28, 2015 15:23:01 GMT
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Post by John Green on Jan 29, 2015 0:57:01 GMT
You had to do that William.On the following 6 pages of listings,I found half a dozen shows I'd like to see-luckily,I'd just bought a 'Car 54' boxed set today.So there was a programme called 'Futurama' in 1964-a sort of Tomorrow's World from the looks of it. |
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jan 29, 2015 9:34:49 GMT
I find it fascinating looking at these old tv times looking at what was on and what times and checking certain programmes on lostshows to see if they still exist .
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Post by John Green on Jan 2, 2018 22:13:24 GMT
An obituary of comics artist Jim Baikie notes that:"Outside of comics, Jim was a member of various bands, playing bass in Compass, and the R&B band Jaymes Fenda & the Vulcans, who reached the semi-finals of TV talent show Ready Steady Win, releasing one single, “Mistletoe Love” in 1964 and supported The Kinks." downthetubes.net/?p=42074 |
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