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2 unusual facts about Get Ahead


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Get Ahead: 1960s BBC TV programme sponsored by the paper.

Peter West

He presented many BBC programmes that were not connected with sport, including the original version of Come Dancing (1957–72), What's My Line? and presented Get Ahead (1958–62), about business entrepreneurs.



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Thymme Jones

He has appeared on a number of Bobby Conn albums, playing drums on Conn's biggest hit "Never Get Ahead", as well as trumpet, piano and moog synthesizer on Conn's later albums "Rise Up!" and The Golden Age".