Temptations - It's Growing (18th March, 1965)Taken from a UK Motown TV special with Martha & Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Dusty Springfield, Earl Van Dyke & The Supremes. Great camera angles used in this series, lots of side shots because the camera's mainly used wide angle lens' and a side shot would get more action in the frame!
This special was put together by Vicki Wickham & Dusty Springfield, and if it wasn't for Dusty's input it would never have happened. It was a complete eye-opener for UK audiences to the exciting sounds of Detroit.
The TV show was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. RSG! was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV, who wanted to try a music radio show. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966.
It was produced by Associated-Rediffusion (later re-named Rediffusion) which had the ITV franchise for London. The show eventually went out live nationally. It was contemporary with the surge in British pop music of the 1960s. It last aired on December 23, 1966.
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