Saturday 19 October 1963, 6.05-6.35pm

Panel: Terence Edmond, Susan Hampshire, Steve Race, Dusty Springfield
Terence Edmond was P C Sweet in Z-Cars.

Producer: Richard Evans

Daily Mirror 251063
Lost 1m viewers in a year. Down from 4.3m homes to 3.2m homes.

291163
Talk of a permanent panel on Juke Box Jury with Steve Race
This had been mentioned to him after an earlier appearance (19 Oct) on JBJ.

Disc 261063
US-TV may revive original US versions of Juke Box Jury.

Disc 021163
Peter Thomson: I heard that Juke Box Jury will continue for at least two more years.

Saturday 9 November 1963, 5.45-6.10pm

Panel: Alan Freeman, Fergus McClelland, Annie Ross, Sylvia Syms

Producer: Neville Wortman

Screened early because of Festival of Remembrance
Fergus McClelland was a child star.

Saturday 7 January 1961

Panel: Lisa Gastoni, Jimmy Henney, Pete Murray, Shirley Anne Field

Daily Mirror, 090161
25 year old Italian actress Lisa Gastoni fumed yesterday because women viewers complained that her low-cut gown made her look naked during JBJ. Shocked women viewers phoned the BBC after the show on Saturday night. They said when the shoulder strap of Lisa’s gown slipped down, she looked naked in head and shoulder close-ups. At the end of the show, David Jacobs jokingly asked the blonde actress to stand up and show viewers that she was wearing a dress. “These women viewers make me so mad,” said Lisa, “I’ll put on the dress for you, ducky, and you can judge for yourself.”

Saturday 10 February 1962

Panel: Frances Bennett, Leslie Crowther, Alan Dell, Monica Evans

Producer: Harry Carlisle

PFTP
Not A Shining Example
Don’t the audience in JBJ ever polish their footwear? Without exception every foot is encased in a totally uncared-for covering. Please issue these people with shoe-cleaning outfits before the camera sees them.
V S F Dunton, Kingsbridge, Devon

Saturday 17 February 1962

Panel: Petula Clark, George Elrick, Jean Metcalfe, Jimmy Young

Producer: Harry Carlisle

PFTP 120462
During the JBJ of 17 February, a record of Shenandoah was played, the tune of which was ‘arranged’. Do you think that a code of honour could be arranged amongst arrangers at least to leave sea shanties alone in this respect?
R D Smith, Master Mariner, Hindhead

PFTP 030562
May I say a few words in support of Capt R D Smith. Once a sea shanty is arranged, it ceases to be a shanty as, unless it is rendered in exactly the same metre, it cannot fulfil is only function, which is to coordinate the efforts of the sailors in their various tasks about the ship.
F McLachlan, Wallasey

Saturday 10 March 1962

Panel: Catherine Boyle, Alan Freeman, Steve Race, Lita Roza

Producer: Harry Carlisle

Spin-A-Disc: Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night (Dino), Drums Are My Beat, Jeepers Creepers (Hayley Mills)

140462 Spin Along, Alan Freeman host. Had panel for new releases.

Saturday 11 August 1962

Panel: Stubby Kaye, Bunny Lewis, Juliet Mills, Nancy Spain

Producer: Neville Wortman

Records played:
So Do I – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
Shamrocker – Zen Tracy (Decca) HIT
Call Me Mr In-Between – Burl Ives (Brunswick) HIT
Some People – Jet Harris (Decca) MISS
Pick A Bale Of Cotton – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT
I’ve Got To Learn To Forget – Susan Maughan (Philips) MISS
Ballad Of Paladin – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
Puff – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Quando Quando Quando – Joe Loss (HMV) HIT

Shirley Bassey’s next single, What Now My Love, with Nelson Riddle’s Orchestra is her best ever.
Alley Cat, 17 August 1962
…and voted a Hit on Juke Box Jury too.

Saturday 25 August 1962

Panel: Dora Bryan, Jack Jackson, Malou Pantera, David Tomlinson
DB in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at Prince’s
DT in Boeing-Boeing at Apollo

Producer: Neville Wortman

Records played:
Jazz Theme From Dr Kildare – Stan Getz (HMV) MISS
Don’t Let Me Stand In Your Way – Frankie Avalon (Pye) HIT
Tell All The World About You – Peggy Lee (Capitol) HIT
Your Tender Look – Joe Brown (Piccadilly) HIT
Party Lights – Stephen Sinclair (HMV) HIT
Hidden Persuasion – Frank Sinatra (Capitol) HIT
She’s Not You – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Everynight – Paul Anka (RCA) HIT
Baby Baby – Perry Ford & the Sapphires (Decca) HIT

8 hits and one miss.

Daily Mirror 250862 with photograph
Lovely Italian actress Malou Pantera, 24, is on JBJ this evening – all because of her voice. TV producer Neville Wortman heard Malou presenting her late night disc show, Bonne Nuit, on the Light Programme. “A lovely voice,” he said, “I wonder what she looks like.”

Saturday 1 December 1962

(Recorded Nov 23)

Panel: Arthur Askey, Johnny Mathis, Janette Scott, Helen Shapiro

Producer: Neville Wortman

Records played:
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby – Little Eva (London) HIT
Go Away Little Girl – Ray Bennette (Decca) MISS
Me And My Shadow – Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
Jingle Bell Rock – Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell (Cameo Parkway) MISS
Merry Christmas You Suckers – Paddy Roberts (Decca) MISS
He’s Got Love – Tommy Steele (Decca) HIT
Tell Me Again In The Morning – Anne Shelton (Philips) MISS
Tom Hark – Jimmy Powell (Decca) MISS

Askey paid 30g, Mathis the same.

Mathis highly critical of Tommy Steele disc in particular, resulting in a backlash.

Marty Wilde: “I liked watching JBJ more than being on it. You had to give opinions. Johnny Mathis gave opinions on some British artists and it did him a lot of harm. If you were a DJ you had to be careful too. If you were a singer, then the show was the kiss of death. If I had knocked the Beatles, it would have done for me, so I had to be more tactful. At the end of the day, people put their hearts and souls into making records and to hear them cut to shreds must have been terrible. I did knock a record, Wipe Out, by the Surfaris. I thought it was dreadful and I got such abusive letters that I knew I’d never do it again. Never tell the truth.”

Cracked Bob Hope: “For his next record, Tommy Steele is dedicating Come Outside to Johnny Mathis.”
NME, 4 January 1963

Producer Neville Wortman: “I didn’t think that Johnny Mathis was going to be controversial at all. He was doing a BBC show for Yvonne Littlewood and I thought that he would be understanding and polite about the records. We all called him the African Queen (laughs). He started to let go, particularly on Tommy Steele, much to the shock of everyone really, that an American should be criticising our singers in this way.”

Saturday 8 December 1962

Panel: Carole Carr, Adam Faith, Edmund Purdom, Linda Ludgrove

Producer: Neville Wortman

Records played:
Pastures Of Plenty – Karl Denver (Decca) HIT
Dear Lonely Hearts – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) MISS
Dance On – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter – Connie Francis (MGM) HIT
Big Noise From Winnetka – Cozy Cole (Coral) MISS
Your Cheatin’ Heart – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
Love Came To Me – Dion (Stateside) MISS
Don’t You Think It’s Time – Mike Berry (HMV) HIT
Chains – Cookies (London) HIT
Greenback Dollar – Lee Corvette (Decca) MISS

TW3 era

JBJ usually too easy, too unadventurous and the programme is invariably ruined by the comments of the panel.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald,101262

Saturday 15 December 1962

Panel: Lonnie Donegan, Nancy Spain, Ron Randell, Mai Zetterling

Producer: Neville Wortman

Records played:
You Gotta Have Love – Cleo Laine (Fontana) HIT
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth – Dick Emery (Philips) MISS
How Did He Look – Ruby Murray (Columbia) MISS
Fly Over – Frank Barber (Ember) MISS
Comin’ Home Baby – Mel Torme (London) HIT
The Alley Cat Song – David Thorne (Stateside) HIT
The Hipster – Cyril Stapleton (Decca) HIT
Gonna Settle Down – Col James (Oriole) MISS
I’ll Cross My Fingers – Allisons (Fontana) HIT
I Can’t Help It – Johnny Tillotson (London) MISS

BBC drops plans to do a new big teenage show on Saturday evening.
Was to be produced by Neville Wortman and was to rival TYLS
JBJ said to have audience of 9m.
Goes to 3.8m homes (10m) whereas ITV has 3.6m.

Saturday 14 January 1961

Panel: Dick Bentley, Catherine Boyle, Steve Race,. Patricia Roc

Sheila Greenwood (15), Enfield
“The programme is often spoilt by a rather old-fashioned square jury who vote songs misses which are bound to be hits. Nothing pleases me more than when David Jacobs offers his opinion at these times and says that they will definitely be hits.”

Steve Race, letter 160161 to Stewart Morris
It was something of an ordeal for a first time panellist but I hope the result was the kind of thing you wanted.

Letter 180661:
“How good it was to see Steve Race injecting some good sense and judgment into JBJ.”
“The press I got after last year’s appearance made me think I’d done a good job.”Record Retailer.
“Steve Race and Dick Bentley analysed the tunes and the performances but Patricia Roc smiled and waffled.
Anne Scott-James, Observer

Saturday 21 January 1961

Panel: Petula Clark, Peggy Mount, Dickie Valentine, Jack Hawkins

Dickie Valentine’s only appearance as a panel member.
210260 – Letter to JBJ from his agent.
“Dickie Valentine has expressed a desire to act as a panellist on Juke Box Jury. Is there any possibility of him appearing on March 12, 19 or 26?”
Letter has No written on it.

Saturday 28 January 1961

Panel: Gloria De Haven, Pete Murray, Frankie Vaughan, June Thorburn

De Haven billed as appearing with David Nixon in Startime on Sunday

Hit Parade, Feb 1961
C.R.Allenby, Leeds
“Tuned in late to a recent JBJ just after one of the discs had been announced and felt sure I was listening to another recording by the Shadows. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was Rhet Stoller’s Chariot. What a pity this talented group had to cash in on someone else’s sound to reach the charts. Oh for a bit of originality in instrumentals!”

040261 Shirelles, Will You Love Me Tomorrow
“After a four way slating by the experts on Juke Box Jury, it is only fair to point out that this is No. 1 in America. Not my personal choice, but it does have teenage appeal” (Jo Day, World’s Fair) Amazing when it is such a brilliant record.

Saturday 4 February 1961

Panel: Monty Babson, Keith Fordyce, Marion Ryan, Anne Heywood

Keith Fordyce was a Cambridge MA

Saturday 11 February 1961

Panel: Catherine Boyle, Sidney James, David Kossoff, Mary Peach

Saturday 25 February 1961

Panel: Glen Mason, Lita Roza, Susannah York, Russ Conway

Glen Mason making his first appearance: “The trend today might be said to be the noise.” (Radio Times) He watched football every Saturday and got home in time for Juke Box Jury. On Sunday he played with the Showbiz XI.

Saturday 4 March 1961

Panel: Shirley Abicair, David Gell, Frankie Howerd, Alma Cogan

Abicair at the Albert Hall on Sunday was making her first JBJ appearance. She said, of hit songs: “It seems that repetition is the thing. Repetition, plenty of noise and some sort of gimmick like leaving out words or notes.”

Radio Times, 090361
T. Hillyer, Trowbridge
“The Juke Box Jury panel was 100% in favour of 76 Trombones becoming a hit. The morning after the panel of Easy Beat voted 75% against the tune becoming a hit, so any bets?” (The Easy Beat feature was called Going Up”)

Saturday 11 March 1961

Panel: Catherine Boyle, Eric Skyes, Jimmy Young, Anne Shelton

Excellent contribution by Jimmy Young to recent ‘Juke Box Jury’ must earn return visit.
Alley Cat, 24 March 1961

Saturday 18 March 1961

Panel: Alan Freeman, Glynis Johns, Lita Roza, Kenneth Connor

Saturday 25 March 1961

Panel: Lana Morris, Ray Orchard, Wolf Mankowitz, Betty Hutton

Radito Times, 300361
M A Lyon, Cheshunt
“To raise money for school funds, we held a Juke Box Jury of our own. The members of the panel were teachers and so was the chairman. Halfway through the scenery collapsed and everyone killed themselves with laughter. One of the teachers used to teach Cliff Richard and when this was announced all the girls screamed. Altogether we made more than £8 as the entrance fee was sixpence a head.”

Radio Times, 060461
Anne Morehouse, Joan Blackburn and Margaret Danes, Bromyard
“We are now watching Juke Box Jury and are disgusted to see once more that not one of the jury is under 25. This is the case nearly every week. We like the programme but we want a younger panel – there are many young celebrities who could appear. Being teenagers ourselves – the section of the public that buys these records – we would like to see our generation represented.” (Probably watching 250361)

Saturday 1 April 1961

Panel: Jean Bayless, Brian Matthew, Eric Sykes, Beatrice Lillie

Radio Times says this is the 86th edition.
Audience is said to be 15 million!
Stewart Morris: “The big names of show business are seldom averse to jury service.”
Panel of three teenagers is called “the ultimate authority”.

Biggest disappointment of the week: Beatrice Lillie on ‘Juke Box Jury’.
Alley Cat, 7 April 1961

Daily Mirror, 070461
Producer Russell Turner, 33, provides his last programme for the BBC tonight with Robert Harbin’s Mystery And Magic. After six years with the Corporation, Turner is going into freelance TV, film and stage production work. “I’ve done all I can at the BBC,” he said, “We mutually agreed to part.”

First Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1 April 1961, ABC-TV
Shameless rip-off of JBJ with Spin-A-Disc, marks out of five.
Janice Nicholls, emphasising show’s Birmingham link.
Brian Matthew host.

080461 World’s Fair Little Boy Sad “real swinger with lots of appeal. If you are still in doubt, well, that certain TV programme voted it a Miss.”

Saturday 8 April 1961

Panel: Janet Munro, Ray Orchard, Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan

Cliff Richard was going straight to Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Beat Show

Saturday 15 April 1961

Panel: Catherine Boyle, Zena Marshall, Harry Robinson +1

Voted a miss by last Saturday’s ‘Juke Box Jury’ – Duane Eddy’s ‘Theme From Dixie’ – with teenager from audience, Graham Hughes, on panel too!
Alley Cat, 21 April 1961

Saturday 22 April 1961

Panel: Frances Bennett, Jill Browne, Ian Carmichael, Jack Jackson,

In sharp contrast to predecessor, Bill Cotton Jr’s presentation credit on last Saturday’s ‘Juke Box Jury’ couldn’t have been smaller.
Alley Cat, 28 April 1961

Radio Times, 270461
Susan Webb, Wratting, Cambs:
May I offer my suggestion as to the composition of a perfect Juke Box Jury panel?
(1) A teenager, preferably an unknown one,
(2) A pop disc-jockey of any age
(3) A comedian as, for example, Eric Sykes
(4) An older person with mature musical tastes, but broadminded enough to accept popular music)
With these four, a judgement could be made to please everyone. I myself would like a teenager because I am one myself, and a person with better musical taste because I like classical music as well.”

Bill Cotton Jr in NME 1962 Annual: “David Jacobs never falls short. He’s always there doing the right thing at the right time. He’s always completely unruffled – I’ve never known him to be thrown out of his stride.”

Saturday 29 April 1961

Panel: Arthur Askey, David Gell, June Murdoch, June Goodkind

Askey paid 30g

Saturday 6 May 1961

Panel: Tony Bennett, June Thorburn, Eric Winstone +1

Saturday 13 May 1961

Panel: Catherine Boyle, Stubby Kaye, Bunny Lewis +1

Stubby paid 30g for 6.5.61 so show must have been recorded

‘Juke Box Jury’ panel slammed Roy Orbison’s ‘Running Scared’.
19 May 1961
A classic example of a record which grows on you.

Saturday 20 May 1961

Panel: Michael Bentine, Jean Metcalfe, Freddie Mills +1

Return of Bill Cotton Jr

Saturday 27 May 1961

Panel: Alan Freeman, Jack Payne, Richard Todd +1

Saturday 3 June 1961

Panel: Russ Conway, Jack Jackson, Kim Tracy +1

Radio Times: “Jack Jackson’s brand of irreverent humour needed when things are getting too serious.”

Times, 070661
Jacqueline Gander, aged 15, of Eastbourne admitted stealing £80 which had been sent to the British Youth for Christ movement. She had appeared on JBJ last Saturday and she was told she must pay the fine of £15 when she receives the 30 guineas for appearing on the programme. She worked for a hairdresser under the office of the Movement and had collected mail for both of them. She said, “One I had started, I found it easy to continue.”
Daily Mirror 070461
“Her father thought his daughter had done ‘a disgraceful and terrible thing’.”

Saturday 17 June 1961

Panel: Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan, Mandy Miller, Nelson Riddle

Pat Doncaster, Daily Mirror, 220661
If you looked in on JBJ at the weekend, you will have heard Bob Wallis’ new record, I’m Shy, Mary Ellen, I’m Shy. Lonnie liked the record and hoped it would be a hit “because Bob Wallis owes me £8.10s.”
In 1955 Bob had bought a camera from Lonnie for £10 but only had £1.12.9 on him at the time. Lonnie signed a picture of himself with the caption, You owe me £8.7.3d. Bob said, “I had forgotten all about it until he mentioned it on JBJ. It’s about time I coughed up.”
Bob gave Pat Doncaster a cheque for the correct amount.

Voted a hit by Juke Box Jury’s most distinguished panel (Nelson Riddle, Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan and Mandy Miller), Tommy Cooper’s ‘Don’t Jump Off The Roof, Dad’.
Alley Cat, 23 June 1961

Points From The Post, Radio Times.180561
“Why do Juke Box Jury panellists nearly always refer to ‘the lyrics’ as if each number had several?” (Bernard Campion, Manaton, Devon)