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Saturday 30 December 1961

Panel: Carole Carr, Anita Harris, Sid James, Bunny Lewis

Producer: Harry Carlisle

Records played:
Come Running – Marty Wilde (Philips)
Shalom – Eddie Fisher (HMV)
You’re Following Me – Peter Gordeno (Parlophone)
Bachelor In Paradise – Robert Holiday (HMV)
Lonesome No 1 – Don Gibson (RCA)
The Comancheros – Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
Mistakes – Kaye Sisters (Philips)
Revenge – Brook Benton (Mercury)
Big Ben Twist – Fats & the Chessmen (Pye)

Spin-A-Disc: Walk On By (Van Dyke), Turn Around (Campbell), Rock A Hula Baby,

BBC,-TV, 7.15-8pm, A Pair Of Jacks in which Jack Payne and Jack Jackson get together to discuss and demonstrate various aspects of popular music with Billy Fury, Woolf Phillips and Harry Rabinowitz. Producer: Richard Afton

In 1961, Benny Hill did a parody, Soap Box Jury where he impersonated David Jacobs and the whole panel. Fred Curry (Pete Murray) and Lady Edgware (Lady Isobel Barnett). There is a shot of all five together. It is on Benny Hill: The Lost Years (2005).

Programme was 19th in TV ratings, Dec 61