Alec (03.02AM)

It wasn't The Mike Sammes Singers on Sing Something Simple, it was The Cliff Adams Singers. But you're right; SSS was the most monumentally boring and depressing music programme in the history of radio. It followed on from the Chart Show (or the Hit Parade as we quaintly called it then) and meant the end of the weekend. I always saw it as a symbolic handing back of the network to the adults after the outrageous and decadent jollities of Alan Freeman and his dangerously modern music.
We mentioned this some time ago in (I think) a thread about Barber Shop Quartets.