The Six-Five Special

 

Pete Murray was featured on the BBC New last night as he reached his 100th birthday. He fronted the BBC's very first rock-and-roll programme at 18:05 on a Saturday, which was introduced in 1957 just after the "Toddler Truce" (a gap in programming between 6 and 7pm so that parents could put their toddlers to bed!) was dropped.

I know the theme tune for the Six-Five Special very well, though I don't remember watching it. (I was only 5 and it only ran for 2 years), but it clearly had an impact...

On the "Favourites Songs" page of my baby book, Mum wrote "Quite likes Rock & Roll - 6-5 Special on T. V.".  

I do remember, though, singing Cliff Richard hits, and even playing air guitar to Hank Marvin solos, in the playground of Clifton Without County Primary a couple of years later.

So there we have it. I didn't hear The Who until 1965, or the Grateful Dead until 1970 but the seeds were sown many years before.

Rock on Pete!

(In other news my baby book also states "Soon learnt how to say "Pussy".)