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"8×10" was released as a single by Decca Records in August 1963. [3] The single spent 23 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, peaking at number two in October 1963. [ 4 ] It was Anderson's third single to place on the Billboard Hot 100 , reaching number 53 around the same time frame.
Singing Together was a BBC Radio schools series which ran from 25 September 1939 to 29 March 2001, with repeats until 25 June 2004. [1] Its origins were in Community Singing which was considered necessary at the outbreak of the Second World War following the mass evacuation of children.
Sing Something Simple was a half-hour radio programme, which featured Cliff Adams and The Cliff Adams Singers, with Jack Emblow on accordion. The programme, which featured arrangements of popular easy-listening songs, ran for 42 years from 1959 until 2001, initially on the BBC Light Programme and later on BBC Radio 2, and earning itself the title of the longest-running continuous music ...
Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 [1] and 1964. [2] Originally intended as a morale-booster for industrial workers in Britain during World War II, the programme was broadcast at lunchtime, three times a week, live from a factory canteen "somewhere in Britain".
[7] [8] Music While You Work ended in 1967 when the BBC Light Programme transformed into BBC Radio 2. It was revived for a week to mark the BBC's 60th anniversary in October 1982 and then as a regular part of Radio 2 from January 1983 to January 1984. There were two short revivals in 1990 and 1991, and a final one-off programme in 1995.
David Vine, who was the main presenter of the BBC programme from 1973 to 1985, said, "In 1972, Ron Pickering, myself, Don Revie, Billy Bremner and TV producer Barney Colehan sat in a hotel in Leeds and formulated Superstars, but the BBC dismissed the idea. Then Dick Button started it in the States, and the BBC bought the rights".
Prior to filming, all performers choose the song they want to sing. The 100 learn the words to all the songs before the show, but they don't know who is going to come out and sing said songs to them. Each song is approximately 90 seconds long, but importantly the 100 can only join in for the final 60 seconds as signified by a lighting change.
The two remaining teams must identify a range of song titles and artists by listening to the very beginning of the songs. Each team is given a 45-second clock and take turns going through several "Hit Lists", each of which has four songs, each of which contains a visual theme; for example, an image of an artist mentioned in the lyrics of a track.