No internet, no social media, no potholes, police were everywhere, you could see a doctor and dentist within 24 hours, EU didn’t exist, freedom of speech, no one getting offended at the slightest little thing-what’s not to like! Great days, great music, no worries, no one getting murdered every 5 minutes like there is today. When you compare it to today, I realise what wonderful days they were! But then, I guess that when you’re kids nothing matters much does it. You have no worries. It’s only when you become adults that the world takes on a whole new picture-one that we may or not like. Situations and circumstances can dictate how much we either enjoy or hate life. So, enjoy it while you can!
@@robertplumley9263 Today we have poor governance, poor stewardship of public funds, no deterrent against crime, immortality is rife, social and international unrest everywhere, huge mistrust between society and government, freedom of speech is frowned upon, if you don’t go along with the establishment then you are considered ‘far right’ whatever that is! I guess the only difference between now and then is that when we were kids, we all saw life so differently. None of the above mattered to us, but it does now because we’ve grown up, seen what the world is like and what it can do to you, and our own children. I truly fear for my kids even though they are all adults now. This truly is a sick world we live and getting sicker by the month! I’m so thankful for my faith in God. Not sure where I would be without Him! You take care of yourself!
I think they try to call it progress driven by popular demand. But they always were liars weren’t they? AI, technology and everything else that comes with Big Brother.
Best ever, and this was just the British contingent, at night listening to luxy on a tiny transistor radio for that motown sound that just plugged right into our souls, I'm privileged to be part of that golden pioneering generation.
I’m 77 and when I look at these videos, I’m transported back to such happy times. We just didn’t realise how great it was. We live in terrible times now…the country we knew has disappeared..never to return.
As for me I'm now 80. 1963 was the year before I went to Aden for two years, seventeen days and nine hours. Must agree that times then seemed far better than now.
I’m 77 too, but they WERE the best times. Best music, best fashion, ( I used to love to see the boys in their shirts, ties & suits, & striped blazers in the Summer). I earned good money, had a good family & was a size 10……what’s not to Love.😊
And it was your responsibility to hand that world on to the next generation and yet, you didn’t, you were given readily available employment, social mobility, cheap housing, a welfare state. What did you do with that, you squandered it and pulled up the ladder
How true. We were quite poor reliant solely on one income. Didn’t have a car, holidays, new clothes but there was always food on the table and we were generally happy. I sought solace in sport and music which didn’t come any better than this. We now live in a world full of avarice, hate and profiteering by crook politicians and their cronies
You have to be kidding, aren't you,? What a ridiculous statement, shitty song from Dusty, naff miming trom Eric Burdon, below average song, turned it off crap unadulterated crap.
The best thing about the 60s is we didn't know what we know now. Greatest time! It could have got better still but it didn't and here we are in this vile time
Vile is right and the main thing that's making it vile is the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Today, more than any time since 1945, including the '62 Cuban Missile Crisis, we're closer to the brink. The war in Ukraine and in the Middle East has increased that possibility tenfold. We're living under this dark cloud that could burst any day, unleashing upon us the most terrifying hell one can imagine. Leave it to the whims of human beings, the most destructive species ever to walk the face of the Earth.
@@celianorris7042 I totally agree, we were always happy, no worries,things were cheap . Once I started work at 17 I could buy a coat and shoes and still pay housekeeping to my mother in Lewis separates or Chelsey girl..groovy and fab were the words of the sixties..and they were great ..now a pensioner of 74 I hate it, things cost a fortune, people moan..can’t get doctors appointments.Times haven’t changed for the better.
@kathleennye262 They really were lovely times. We were so lucky to have had them. That is what makes it so sad now. The contrast is unbelievable. If only the younger generation knew what they had missed out on. We now live in a globalised technological world with everyone's woes on our shoulders. We used to value everything from our books to collecting buttons. We made things last, and things were better made. We had respect. Hold tight to our memories. We had fun 🥰
@@celianorris7042 I’d forgotten that..yes we were given our books at school and had to cover them at home with wallpaper or wrapping paper ..I loved a nice new excercise book,better then that a nice italic pen and bottle of ink..
@kathleennye262 me too, nothing better than that first page of a new exercise book and always plenty of wallpaper , I still love pen and paper. Still have a record player and my records. We had some great music, didn't we. If only we could go back in time. They say history repeats itself, so maybe one day it will come around again . There is no harm in wishing and hoping 🙏 😁❤️
Can't watch this, too many memories of the best childhood ever and knowing that our grandchildren will never experience the joy and excitement of this era.
You’ve hit the nail right on the head there with your comment! You are so right! Even watching this episode from the very beginning and seeing Dusty come on, who can you think of today who could ever match her voice, looks, personality and success. She was amazing, a one off and we enjoyed it all! Those days were certainly amazing. Nothing like it today and never will be again!
Maria, just reading your sentence was enough to bring tears to my eyes. Too many memories, good or bad. Just cannot find adequate words to express my feelings. I turn 82 this month. God bless.
@franciskclee9501 Oh bless you! I'm 70 and watched with envy and excitement as my next door neighbour got dolled up for a Saturday night dance. Bouffant hair, lacquered stiff, black eye liner, panstick lips and a sticky out skirt. The music, the fashion and the dawn of the teenager! X
In 1963 I was 13 and still at school. Boy how the years fly past don’t they I’m 73 now and would love to go back to the sixties. Lovely music lovely clothes and life was so good then.
This was so much better than Top of the Pops. I wanted to look like Cathy McGowan when I was older. Or Cher, I remember seeing her and Sonny for the first time on Ready Steady Go.
@@dorothynewbery5045 oh I see, so you must have had the long dark hair? I think by the time I got to 16 I had a twiggy hairstyle in blonde then a lovely shade of lilac..I was into Mary Quant and Minors make up too..
Yes things have moved on since those good old times, of course they have. I was making a nostalgic comment, about how much I miss them. If you were there, you will know what I mean. @@charlessouthgate606
Each generation brings something new - I was 13 in 1963 loved this programme and most of the sixties music, it was incredibly exciting and new, such a change from my mum's music (skiffle, Cliff Richard, Elvis) but I don't regret its passing. I've not forgotten the agonies of being a young and older teenager, those experiences inextricably part of the memories of that time. I actually really loved mid eighties and nineties music more once we got there... remember the Blitz club? Fabulous...
@@johnfellows2867 hahahaha,sorry but we must have seemed so ‘Sad’ as my grandchildren would say…I use to scream when I saw P J Proby on ready steady go.
@@kathleennye262 What did he sing (playback)? I only saw the 'Around The Beatles' Show where he did a stunning version of The Bachelor's 'I Believe' (live, I'm sure!) A song that unfortunately was never put on his albums.
Dear Mr Roberts, I have an elderly neighbour with no internet or access to RU-vid. I showed him your sixties uploads and He burst out crying....with joy!.The memories flooded back and it was the first time I've seen him actually really smile, priceless in more ways than one.Thank you.
Everyone saying what a great time it was, but for some people it was very hard. I was a child in London through the sixties. We were very poor, not many state handouts, my mum had to work hard for every penny to clothe, feed and care for 3 kids. Hand me down clothes, No washing machine, no central heating, no fridge, every meal cooked from scratch every day. But the best music!
I was the youngest boy. I got the hand me downs after my two older brothers. Trousers were buttons, no zippers, no belts only horrible braces, no elastics from memory. No tv, but did gave a radio. No presents at Christmas. No car, had to walk or bus. Bath was from an old wood fired copper. Not much entertainment though there was a Saturday matinee movie at the picture theatre if I could sneak in. Mainly bodgies and wedgies. Beach was for free. BUT THE MUSIC WAS GOOD.
Georgie FAME was awesome. I love his Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde a few years later. LULU was only 15? Wow. And Sandie Shaw's honesty - she preferred the other side of the 45 she was singing! Peter & Dudley!!! It is a CRIME that ALL of these shows were not preserved.
57+ years ago and many of these young talents are now in (or approaching) their 80s. If you lived through this period, you're likely to think this impossible. But it happens. Damn, it happens. Just look in the mirror. Glad we had those good times while we did, and thanks for this upload to help us remember and appreciate them all the more.
And yet...the Stones have just released their latest album! I recall Jagger being interviewed and questioned about the possible longevity of their musical career. "5 years if we are lucky" replied Mick!
This is totally marvellous. A great window back into the sixties, and like so many commentators here, I think the sixties was such a wonderful decade. What the world needs now, is a return to the vibes of that time...
How has the world got so messed up?? These were the best of times, so innocent in a way but the fun I had as a teen! Wouldn't have wanted to have lived those years in any other time. 👍👍
Lulu was only 15 yrs old yet her voice was so distinctive and powerful singing Shout. Also the Stones were flawless singing Under My Thumb. How times change!
I just remember Friday nights. having my tea and watching this show and wishing I was a bit older so I could date Billy Fury and then Paul McCartney came along. I still play this music. I remember the school dances and then the early disco scene. I was wanting to look like Lulu, because I thought she was so cute and I won a mime competition where I sang the The Boat that I Row. That was the best thing ever. We lived in the greatest era - I even went down to live in London in 1968, when I was 17 and looking in all the shop windows, wanting to buy them clothes and not being able to afford them. And now I just make them - I shall never lose the Sixties vibe!
The first band i saw live in 1963 were the Kinks, as they ran on playing 'You Really Got Me' at Newcastle City Hall ! followed by The Hollies and The Dave Clark Five ! unforgettable.
What a beautiful man Billy Fury was. I’m Just 64. So I was teen in the 70 s decade. But so agree. Times were so Much better. I’m sick to death of seeing what happens out there on the street.
I still watch in wonderment on how such genius in music ever happened. My life changed after watching the NME award show in 1964 when the Stones came out and played. The British music scene in the mid 60s needs to take a long bow as you really did change the world.
I was watching them all those years ago! The Animals were amazing, Eric Burdon ,what a voice! Thanks for saving these priceless programmes , great music and outstanding talent!
Innocent days of the 1960s, the music, the fashion, everything was so fresh and new when you were a teenager in the 1960s, and Ready Steady Go was on the telly every week so fab and groovy.
Wonderful Billy Fury/Ronald Wycherley born 1940, Dingle Liverpool. Gentle soul. Animal lover well mannered. Died aged 42. After recovering from surgery. Had a weak heart, ❤ 84 yrs Liverpool
'Billy Fury was the closest that Britain ever got to producing a genuine rocker, someone almost in the class of Eddie Cochran.' Nik Cohn. Terrible that he seems to have been forgotten. I remember my girl cousins were crazy for him.
In 1963 I was 14 years old, what a wonderful time to be a teenager. I remember all these artists first time round, if you weren’t there then you don’t know. A decent time to live and enjoy life unlike today. What have we lost?
@topslack I was the same age. Being a big sports fan, I would compare being at or watching one of these shows as being the same as being at or watching a pro all star game.
As a 76 yo this brings great memories. in those days these acts appeared live in shows around the country alongside other stars. I saw Lulu with the Beachboys. Dusty Springfield with the Nashville Teens, The Animals with Carl Perkins and Elkie Brooks. Probably the best bill was Them with Nice, Amen Corner, Pink Floyd, The Move and Jimmy Hendrix. I was also at the live recording of Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-ling on the same bill as Slade and Billy Preston. All these shows were in a theatre or dance hall at affordable prices for a schoolboy or apprentice. I had to wait until 2019 to see the Rolling Stones - £250 (my son treated me). Oh to relive those days not a female tattoo, nose ring or Botox in sight.
These are the times you try to explain to your children and grandchildren and see in their eyes that they simply cannot comprehend it all. Suddenly teenagers and early twenty somethings were dictating what good music and fashion is and anyone disagreeing was a square and told to get lost. Boring BBC radio suddenly had illegal competition from the likes of Radio Caroline playing none stop pop day and night and no amount of threatening listeners with prosecution for tuning into these radio pirates could change it. Everyone was buying transistor radios to listen in. I'll never forget how our teachers told us it was all just noise not really music and we'll have forgotten it all by next year. How wrong they were and we knew it. Basically it was a cultural revolution and although a teenager with not much money at the time I'd gladly go back and repeat it all again if I could.
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq The same was going on here in the US at the same time. Interesting that some of the British singers became popular in the US, and some of the US singers became popular over there.
Fab to see this classic show. Arrived back in the UK in 1963 aged 9. Dad had been posted abroad. BRR cold winter! Sent to boarding school so could only watch RSG & TOTP in the school holidays. 😢 4 years later 1967 the family moved to London. What a time and place to be a teenager! My sister bought tickets for the Beach Boys appearing at Finsbury Park Astoria in 1968. My first concert. Those striped shirts and incredible voices. Hi to everyone who, like me, look back on those years with a big smile and a such very happy memories.
I can hear my step dad muttering 'long haired gits' under his breath whilst my mum bobbed me up and down on her knee watching pop programmes.... the Rolling Stones were his favourite targets lol
@@AlanBoddy-fl2qpyour on the wrong channel harsh git. All though you might be Right on some of this layout. I’m pretty sure most of this outfits were pushing up Ladies without hesitation. I would have been.
8 year old when this wonderful breakthrough of great music was taking place, it had a profound effect even at such a young age. Watching this is like being transported back in a time machine.
Watching these guys and girls at the vey start of an era, little did we know they would go on to become household names, Cilla, Dusty, Lulu, the animals and the rest. Amazing times sadly gone.
My heart aches so bad..., wishing to return back to this fabulous time in history..the fashion the music, the vibe, What a mindblast it was !! So sad now, knowing, it will never, ever happen again, to this degree. Thanks for the fab footage, of RSGo Pete Roberts, what a gem. PS Was great to see Pete and Dud !!.
I used to watch this show, religiously, never missing an episode. Everyone is miming, so what, the technology for recording rock music live barely existed in those far off days. It's all so raw and real, very fresh and groundbreaking. Organized chaos? Fridays and the weekend really did start with RSG. I knew people who didn't really sleep through Friday, Saturday and Sunday, turning up for work on Monday like Zombies! Gosh, those really were the days.
❤❤❤❤ o.m.g...REMEMBER IT ALL .WATCHED THIS EVERY WEEK THANKS FOR THOSE AMAZING MEMORIES ...HOW I MISS THOSE WONDERFUL DAYS WE DIDNT REALISE WHAT WE HAD UNTILL IT HAD GONE..😢....NOTHING COMPARES TO THOSE DAYS .😭😭😭😭
Fascinating to see Cilla Black coping with a live interview when she was barely out of the Cavern cloakroom. She was destined to become Britain's queen of TV entertainment hosting with Blind Date and Surprise Surprise. Her singing took a back seat.
Yes. She was a confident scouse lass. She was probably conditioned for all events after handing out the wrong coats to the punters at the end of the night 😊
So lucky to have grown up in the 50/60s - Loved my country back then - Can't deal now with how wrong it has gone - Sad to say it but I'm happy to be 80 now and can remember those good times - Don't like it now!
I was only 8yrs old in 1963, but remember that period vividly, as it was a very magical and exciting time to be alive 😊. So much was happening in the world of pop music and fashion. Nothing since that great 60s period compares in my view. Those of us who were there at the time did not know just how privileged we were! However, we know now!
At 85 now.Loved Top.of the Pops,Old Grey Whistle Test, and Ready Steady🥰Fave Song of those days was. Whiter Shade of Pale... sing it in the shower today 🌞 plus wild thangyou make ma heart sing by The Trogs👍
@dennisevans719 I recently read that about a week ago or so, he went on stage impromptu at an event in the Hamptons( Long Island) and sang an old Beatles song.
As an American I never saw this show until a few years ago I was so in love with anything English I even had a penpal girl from England named Priscilla she wants set me a Sandy shore 45 those were the days my friend they should never have ended
same here,,,,, "Hey google play pure gold oldies",,,, gets you on 95 Seattle and is a great channel to listen to. Also,,,,"Hey google play totally radio sixties",,,, and,,,, "Hey google play totally radio seventies"
Even then Van Morrison had that voice and star quality. Still going strong and has just released another great album containing some old rock and roll faves.
In 1963 I was 14. The music, singers, and groups were absolutely fab! Their hair styles and clothing were very attractive! The 60s was an era that could never be repeated. The world has changed so much. Today, I'm 75 and consider myself as a teenager in an older person's body! My daughter, who is in her late 30s, grew up listening to the singers and groups, and she absolutely loves the 1960s music !
I'm a 64-year-old American, and the first time I ever heard Yeah Yeah by Georgie Fame was at Trader Joe's about 10 years ago. I was so impressed that I remembered the melody and the words yeah yeah and found out who did it. I have a very strong knowledge of 60s music, but that song barely charted in the US. It has gone on to become one of my favorite songs from the era.
'The Weekend Starts Here' was topical as a slogan for RSG in 1963. Britain had only recently adopted the eight-hour day and five-day week as standard: a sign of the growing bargaining power of labor unions. Previously most young people would not have partied hard on Friday night bc they had to work until midday on Saturday, albeit office workers could 'dress down'. Many boys watched or played sports on Saturday afternoon, so they might not have much energy for bopping afterwards.
I had such a brilliant time in the 60s left school in 1964 at 15 soon clubbing, spending my wages on clothes music and clubbing . Wonderful times absolutely loved it 😎
@beatsinabar ... I'm a bloke, and yes the hair lacquer in those days was truly bullet proof. I remember those women who used it. Ha! Like you, I loved this and yes, the memories.
My grandmother own a salon in the 60s - I can still smell the hair lacquer and the ammonia based perming solution. Saturday was hectic as customers had their hair done for Saturday night out. It was all rollers, sit under hairdryers, back combing and lacquer from a squeezy bottle. On the counter she sold Rainmate plastic hoods to protect the coiffure if it rained. The strength of the lacquer often meant the hairstyle lasted for days, most women went out all with the same style!
I saw Sandy Shaw in a boutique in London & i couldn't take my eyes off her, she was extra ordinary looking, with her hight Black hair & blue eyes.. Loved the song, Girl Dont Come Oh theres Cathy McGowan interviewing Pete & Dud, how Hilarious! Funny, my cousin is now 73 & she still looks like Cathy McGowan although she relies on the dark brown hair dye now! Shes still got a great figure & at 5ft 9in can still wear size 10 & looks 30 yrs younger. We seem to retain our youthful looks in my dads side of the family, must be a good Gene pool Peace 🇬🇧👧
Loved watching with the family. All my teachers looked like this. First introduction to pop music. My parents worried to death about the rebellious youth. For us kids it was great, no social media, mobile phones.
This mobile phone thing is weird. Literally everywhere people of all ages walking along holding a phone out looking at it instead of where they are going. I could drive over a few every day if I wasn't looking. It seems a Global Sickness has taken over us.
We were so lucky to live in those fab days,look how close we were to the singers, you couldn’t get within a hundred foot now and they only play in huge arena’s. Our life in the 50’sand 60’s was so good, how different from life now, the world sucks; makes me so sad to know it’s all passed.
It may look a bit 'stilted to kids nowadays, but the times will never be forgotten. I member the dancing girls on the U.S. show used to move like they were filled with rocket aviation fuel. I'll never know where they got their stamina. Ah, memories.
