Weekend Starts Here

UK three CD set. Every Friday evening at exactly 6.08pm, over 10 million teenagers tuned in to the most popular live TV show ever made in the UK: Ready Steady Go!. Hosted by Cathy McGowan and Keith Fordyce, it was THE music show for the in-crowd, the Carnaby Street set where Pop, Soul and R&B mixed with the latest fashions and the latest dance craze. The Weekend Starts Here!, a musical overview of acts featured on that show, is the greatest collection of 60’s classics ever put together. Includes cuts from Booker T & The MG’s, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Floyd, Edwin Starr, Ike & Tina Turner, Isley Brothers, James Brown, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger, Little Richard, Long John Baldry, Lulu, Manfred Mann, Martha & The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder, The Animals, The Four Tops, The Small Faces, The Temptations, The Who, The Yardbirds and many others. 75 tracks. Virgin. 2008.