Who was the first presenter of the British TV music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test"?

"The Old Grey Whistle Test" was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers, commissioned by David Attenborough and aired on BBC2 from 1971 to 1988. The original producer, involved in an executive capacity throughout the show's entire history, was Michael Appleton.

According to presenter Bob Harris, the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys – doormen in grey suits. Any song they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.

The first presenter of the show was Richard Williams. After doing 43 episodes he handed over to Bob Harris in 1972.

Richard Williams (born in 1947 in Sheffield) is a British music and sports journalist. As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly music newspaper "Melody Maker", he became an influential commentator on the rise of new forms of rock music at the end of the 1960s. Williams and "Melody Maker" helped promote and contextualise the progress in pop music.