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''Go Man Go'', featuring David Ede and the Rabin Band, was one of British radio’s flagship lunchtime pop music shows during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ==Background and evolution== At that time, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which was responsible for all radio broadcasting in the country, had three big-band music shows on weekday lunchtimes: ''Make Way for Music'' featuring the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra (originally conducted by Alyn Ainsworth and later by Bernard Herrmann); ''Parade of the Pops'' featuring Bob Miller and the Millermen; and ''Go Man Go'' featuring David Ede and the Rabin Band. ''Make Way for Music'' was broadcast from the north of England without a studio audience, and the latter two were broadcast live from the BBC studio at the Paris Theatre in London’s Lower Regent Street in front of an audience. The Rabin Band evolved from a highly popular British dance band in the 1940s known as the Oscar Rabin Band, directed by bass saxophonist Oscar Rabin. Following Oscar’s death in 1959, the band became known as David Ede and the Rabin Band under the musical direction of one of the band’s saxophonists, David Ede. By the late 1950s, rock and roll, particularly on records from USA, had begun to take a firm hold on the popular music scene in Britain, and the BBC began to adjust its programming to accommodate the new trends. However, the powerful and protective Musicians Union had a strict policy that only a designated proportion of music broadcast on radio could be in the form of gramophone records and that the remainder must be provided by musicians performing live (or recorded) in the BBC studios. Dance-halls were a popular form of entertainment at the time and the Rabin Band, which was the resident band at the Wimbledon Palais in London, was playing this music six nights a week. The band was invited to appear in a weekly one-hour radio show on the BBC Light Programme performing the pop music of the day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Go Man Go (radio show)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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