Ready Steady Go! — Season 1, Episode 40: Cilla Black; Billy Fury; The Four Pennies

Episode synopsis

Scheduled guests: --Cilla Black - ""You're My World"" --Billy Fury --The Four Pennies - ""Juliet"" --Freddie and the Dreamers - ""I Love You Baby"" --Tommy Quickly --Bobby Shafto Surviving footage (probably from 1 May 1964): --Lulu - ""Shout"" --Cilla Black - ""You're My World"" --Billy Fury - ""I Will"" and ""Nothin' Shakin' (but the Leaves On The Trees)"" --The Four Pennies - ""Juliet"" --""Mime Time"" contest - Four girls mime to Ella Fitzgerald's ""Can't Buy Me Love"" Judge: Lionel Morton (of the Four Pennies). --Keith Fordyce interviews P.J. Proby. Proby talks about his previous career...doing demo discs for Elvis Presley. The audience dances to Proby's record ""Hold Me.""

About Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go! is one of the UK's first rock/pop music television programmes and was a forerunner of MTV-type programming. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the show's producer, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg who was appointed the show's director in 1965. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966. It was produced by Associated-Rediffusion the weekday ITV contractor for London, called Rediffusion-London post 1964. The live show was eventually networked nationally. The show gained its highest ratings on 20 March 1964 when it featured the Beatles being interviewed and performing their songs "It Won't Be Long", "You Can't Do That" and "Can't Buy Me Love" - the last of which was a hit at the time. RSG! USA! was a Dick Clark production in 1964. A trademark infringement ended the show after six episodes. Its last episode was broadcast on 23 December 1966.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Pat Boone; Billy Fury; Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
• E216 August 1963
• E3Rolling Stones; Peggy March; Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
• E4The Springfields; Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
• E5The Searchers; Tommy Roe; Jimmy Justice
• E6Freddy and the Dreamers; Kenny Lynch
• E7Acker Bilk; Hank Locklin; Duffy Power
• E8Cilla Black; Adam Faith and the Roulettes
• E9The Beatles / Helen Shapiro / Dusty Springfield
• E10Brian Poole & The Tremeloes / Polly Perkins
• E11Brook Benton; Dee Dee Sharp; Dion; Timi Yuro
• E12Del Shannon; Joe Brown & the Bruvvers; Billy J. Kramer