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Oh Boy! (TV series)

Index Oh Boy! (TV series)

Oh Boy! was the first teenage all-music show on British TV airing in 1958 and 1959. [1]

45 relations: Abbey Road Studios, Alvin Stardust, Associated British Corporation, BBC Television, Billy Fury, Billy Hartman, Boy Meets Girls, Brenda Lee, Celebrity, Cliff Richard, Conway Twitty, Cuddly Dudley (singer), EMI, Freddie 'Fingers' Lee, Fumble (band), Hackney Empire, Hamlyn (publishers), Harry Robertson (musician), Hoots Mon, ITV (TV network), Jack Good (producer), Jazz, Joe Brown (singer), Les Gray, Lonnie Donegan, Lord Rockingham's XI, Lulu (singer), Marty Wilde, Mr. Lee Grant, Norman Newell, Parlophone, Pop music, Shakin' Stevens, Shane Fenton and the Fentones, Shirley Bassey, Six-Five Special, The Dallas Boys, The Ink Spots, The John Barry Seven, The Midlands, The Shadows, The Vernons Girls, Tony Sheridan, United States, Vince Eager.

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Alvin Stardust

Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor.

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Associated British Corporation

The Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television) was one of a number of commercial television companies established in the United Kingdom during the 1950s by cinema chain companies, in an attempt to safeguard their business by becoming involved with television, which was taking away their cinema audiences.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Billy Fury

Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s.

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Billy Hartman

Billy Hartman (born 1957) is a Scottish actor, well known for playing the part of Terry Woods on ITV's Emmerdale from 1995 until his character was killed off in 2011 after 16 years.

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Boy Meets Girls

Boy Meets Girls was a UK popular music TV show which was launched in September 1959 replacing the earlier show Oh Boy!.

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Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley; December 11, 1944) is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s.

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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American country music singer.

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Cuddly Dudley (singer)

Cuddly Dudley (22 May 1924 – 15 July 2011), born Dudley Heslop, was an English rock & roll singer, and actor, who came to fame on the Oh Boy! TV series, and is noted for being "Britain's first black rock & roller".

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Freddie 'Fingers' Lee

Freddie 'Fingers' Lee (November 24, 1937 – January 13, 2014) (born Frederick John Cheesman) was a British singer, guitarist and pianist.

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Fumble (band)

Fumble were an English rock and roll revival group, that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1982.

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Hackney Empire

The Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a music hall.

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Hamlyn (publishers)

Hamlyn is a UK publishing company founded by Paul Hamlyn in 1950 with an initial investment of £350.

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Harry Robertson (musician)

Harry Robertson (19 November 1932 – 17 January 1996) was a musician, bandleader, music director and composer.

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Hoots Mon

"Hoots Mon" is a song written by Harry Robinson, and performed by Lord Rockingham's XI.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jack Good (producer)

Jack Good (7 August 1931 – 24 September 2017) was a British television producer, musical theatre producer, record producer, musician and painter of icons.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Joe Brown (singer)

Joseph Roger Brown, MBE (born 13 May 1941) is an English entertainer.

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Les Gray

Thomas Leslie "Les" Gray (9 April 1946 – 21 February 2004) was an English musician best known for his work with glam rock pop band Mud.

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Lonnie Donegan

Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians.

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Lord Rockingham's XI

Lord Rockingham's XI was a group of British session musicians, led by Harry Robinson (1932–1996), who had a No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1958 with "Hoots Mon".

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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Marty Wilde

Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Mr. Lee Grant

Bogdan Kominowski (born 22 April 1945) is a New Zealand pop star.

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Norman Newell

Norman Newell OBE (25 January 1919 – 1 December 2004) was a Golden Globe award winning English record producer, mainly active in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as co-writer of many notable songs.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Shakin' Stevens

Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known as Shakin' Stevens, is a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

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Shane Fenton and the Fentones

Shane Fenton and the Fentones were an English group fronted by Shane Fenton.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

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Six-Five Special

The Six-Five Special was a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain.

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The Dallas Boys

The Dallas Boys were a five-piece vocal group from Leicester, England who were regular performers on British television in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The John Barry Seven

The John Barry Seven was a band formed by John Barry in 1957, after he abandoned his original career path of arranging for big bands.

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The Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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The Shadows

The Shadows (originally known as The Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, having also collaborated again on numerous reunion tours.

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The Vernons Girls

The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists.

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Tony Sheridan

Tony Sheridan (born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity; 21 May 1940 – 16 February 2013) was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vince Eager

Vince Eager (born Roy Taylor, 4 June 1940, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England) is an English pop singer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Boy!_(TV_series)

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