Brian Poole & The

Over the next few years RSG proved to be the best television pop show ever.The studio disco set alowed the general public onto the studio floor for dancing and mingling with the appearing stars.The show featured both new releasees aswell as existing hits and off-the-cuff interviews the stars.

It made stars of people like Donovan, and a 19 year old "typical teenager" from Streatham, South London - Cathy McGowan.

The tenner-a-wek secretary, Cathy answered an advertisment for a teenage adviser to the show - along with 600 other hopefuls, but she impressed the shows producer Elkan Allan so much, that she was given the job as presenter along side Fordyce. The young girl, who constantly flicked hair out of her eyes, soon became "Queen Of The Mods" and received 600 fan letters a week.She was totally un- spoiled, she lived with her parentsand admitted that her favourite TV program was Danger Man.

The show featured all the top stars of the day, The Beatles, Stones, Kinks Manfred Mann The Who, and one of the regulars to appear was The top mod band The Small Faces. The show also brought over the big names from the States, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Four Tops all made appearences on RSG, but by far the best show was a 60 minute special that starred OTIS REDDING CHRIS FARLOWE & ERIC BURDON...great!!!! The original theme music to RSG, was "Wipeout" by The Sufaris, which was soon replaced by Manfred Manns 5-4-3-2-1, and finally "Land Of A 1000 Dances" by Wilson Pickett. All copyrights to the show now belong to Dave Clark..he of the Dave Clark Five fame.......................So lets turn the clock back to the 60s..and if you are Ready Steady...the lets GO..the weekend stars here.