Talk:Ready Steady Go!

Infobox image
Can anyone get the image to appear inside the infobox because I can't?  Lumos3 22:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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Mistake in Description
The fourth par of the description of RSG claims: "The show was recorded at small studios in Rediffusion's headquarters in Kingsway, London."

Wrong. RSG was not recorded but broadcast live, like TOTP. (You could also correct the word "studios" plural to Studio 9, singular.)

In the early 1960s in the UK commercial broadcast videotape was prohibitively expensive, and the time taken and difficulty of editing 2-inch tape meant it would not have been practical for a topical weekly show. (Telecine recording, ie, on a film camera pointed at a TV screen, was the favoured medium for syndicating popular shows abroad.)

So don't be confused by the later reference to the music going "live" on RSG in 1965. This refers to the music. Before that, as with TOTP, artists on RSG mimed to the playback of their records until that daring switchover to singing live.


 * Not so - The Beach Boys performed live in November 1964, as witnessed by the horrendous false start to "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) ! 81.100.43.193 (talk) 22:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

See http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/old%20bbc%20studios.htm http://www.articles.adsoft.org/postproduction.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 (talk) 02:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Removed deadlink and included new references
Discovered one of the links was no longer working, removed and updated, also included additional detail and links for some of the VHS videos Zerosprite (talk) 09:33, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Guardian article.
The Guardian - Simon Napier-Bell - [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/11/ready-steady-go ''Ready Steady Go! Pop dances on to TV''], 11 June 2011.    ←   ZScarpia  10:43, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Paul Oakenfield
It seems likely the Paul Oakenfield track "Ready Steady Go!" is a reference to the show?

Common usage
By the way the phrase was in common use at the time as a phrase to start kid's races and similar games. The phrase was not originated by the show, they just adopted it from popular language. So recognising the phrase may be diagnostic of the era, but it's not necessarily diagnostic of knowing the TV show.
 * It had also been used in various forms in a number of rock and roll recordings of the 1950s and early 1960s. 136.159.160.122 (talk) 17:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Spinoff
Article is missing discussion of the show's spin-off series, "Ready, Steady, Win!". Details about the spin-off here. 136.159.160.122 (talk) 17:29, 21 August 2019 (UTC)