The band leader, Billy Cotton, was a larger-than-life Cockney character who started each show with the cry "Wakey-Wake-aaaay!
The show transferred to BBC Television in 1956, usually on Saturday evenings at 7.00 pm.
[1] Regular entertainers included Alan Breeze, Kathie Kay, and the pianist Russ Conway.
An additional regular act was the Leslie Roberts Silhouettes, recruited to the line-up before the television series began[2] Terry Jones and Michael Palin, both later to become members of Monty Python, wrote jokes for the show.
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