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Ready Steady Go

The Weekend Starts Here 10 x 7" Vinyl Box Set

$65.00

Release Date: Sep 4, 2020

Discs: 10

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This new limited-edition vinyl boxset features ten 7” singles from some of the most popular and influential artists to have appeared on the show. Each 45-RPM disc features new in-period artwork and the set includes a 24-page booklet written by author Andy Neill. Andy outlines how the show was conceived and developed by ITV’s Elkan Allen and his young production team of Vicki Wickham and, later, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. It also includes notes on each featured single.

Ready Steady Go! was an innovative British rock/pop music television programme broadcast at 6pm every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966. Conceived by TV producer Elkan Allan as an antidote to the polished theatre-style variety and entertainment shows of the time, it dispensed with the traditional separation of artist and audience.

Its cameras moved seamlessly through the throng, creating an atmosphere of inclusivity hitherto unseen on music programming. The show was initially only broadcast in London but eventually found a home in households across the UK, revolutionising television for young people and setting the benchmark for every youth TV music programme that followed in its wake.

TRACKLIST

1Manfred Mann
Side A - 5-4-3-2-1
Side B - Do Wah Diddy Diddy

2Wilson Pickett
Side A - Land Of 1000 Dances
Side B - In The Midnight Hour

3Dusty Springfield
Side A - I Only Want To Be With You
Side B - Heartbeat

4Marvin Gaye
Side A - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Side B - Can I Get A Witness

5Diana Ross & The Supremes
Side A - Baby Love
Side B - Stop! In The Name Of Love

6The Walker Brothers
Side A - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
Side B - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

7The Kinks
Side A - You Really Got Me
Side B - Tired Of Waiting For You

8Donovan
Side A - Catch The Wind
Side B - Universal Soldier

9 Cilla Black
Side A - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Side B - You're My World

10The Searchers
Side A - Sugar And Spice
Side B - What Have They Done To The Rain