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    Music on Film & TV TV Shows - 1950s Variety 3 Mins Read

    Oh Boy!

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    Everyone knows thatΒ Cliff RichardΒ is hardly a bad boy, but back in 1958 he was the enfant terrible of the British music scene, considered to be a corrupting influence on teenagers and definitely too hot for television.

    The series that earned Cliff such an awful reputation was Jack Good‘sΒ Oh Boy!, the ITV pop show which first blasted onto TV screens on Saturday 13 September 1958 and reflected the change in musical tastes and in youngsters generally.

    Good, producer of the BBC’s teen series Six-Five Special, had tried to persuade the broadcaster to play down the show’s sports and general interest content and focus more on music, rightly believing that this was what its audience wanted.

    The BBC rejected his proposal which frustrated Good, who then resigned at the start of 1958, taking his programme concept with him to ITV, where he met a warmer reception.Β Oh Boy!Β blew the BBC away.

    In 1957 Cliff had been an unknown Β£4-a-week clerk called Harry Webb, butΒ Oh Boy!Β rocketed him to fame and parental disapproval. But the kids worshipped him – so did some posh people. Lady Jellicoe said at the time: “I really think Cliff Richard is quite an alarmingly entertaining young man. AndΒ Oh Boy!Β is simply heavenly.”

    Besides Cliff, other regulars onΒ Oh Boy!Β – broadcast live from the Hackney Empire in London – included The Dallas Boys (who despite their Texan name were from Leicester), The Vernons Girls (a singing group put together by the Vernons Pools company in Liverpool),Β Billy FuryΒ and Marty Wilde.

    Oh Boy’s house band was Lord Rockingham’s XI, a bunch of jazz musicians and session men including saxophonist Red Price (pictured at left) – plus 23-year old South African organist Cherry Wainer perched behind a white leather Hammond studded with diamantes – who combined to produce an unusually crunchy sound – heard to good effect on their debut #1 single Hoots Mon.

    But most of the home-grown talent on display was fairly mediocre by American standards: The Dallas Boys were notΒ Dion and The Belmonts, and The Vernon Girls were notΒ The Shirelles.

    Kerry Martin leftΒ Six-Five SpecialΒ to joinΒ Oh Boy!. She was sacked from the BBC show because she wiggled too much in a dance routine and she went to the rival channel as a singer.

    ITV eventually droppedΒ Oh Boy!Β to launchΒ Boy Meets GirlsΒ featuring Marty Wilde and a young guitarist calledΒ Joe Brown.

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