BBC - Juke Box Jury - 1966
BBC Juke Box Jury 1966 Programmes. Room for Rop Comments.
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Saturday 1 January 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
Panel: Max Bygraves family with Uncle Eric
Max Bygraves, Maxine Bygraves, Anthony Bygraves, Eric Sykes
Producer: Stewart Morris
Records played:
Love Bug – Jack Jones (London)
Girl – St Louis Union (Decca)
Sound Of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel (CBS)
Getting Nowhere – Friday Browne (Parlophone)
Wait – Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
Another Year, Another Love, Another Heartache – Julie Rogers (Mercury)
Michelle – Overlanders (Pye)
Creation – Rick And Sandy (Decca)
Dream Child – Toni Eden (United Artists)
What Do You Say About That – Phase 4 (Fab) -
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Saturday 8 January 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Paul Jones, Pete Murray, Dee Dee Warwick
Producer: Stewart Morris
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Saturday 15 January 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
Panel: Tito Burns, Libby Morris, Veronica Strong, Colin Blunstone
Producer: Stewart Morris
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Saturday 22 January 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Peter Cook, Bryan Forbes, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman
Producer: Stewart Morris
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Saturday 29 January 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
Panel: Spencer Davis, Maurice Kinn, Marion Ryan, Sara Leighton
Teenage casting vote panellist: David Rose
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
There Isn’t Anything – Gidian (Columbia) HIT
Sha-la-la-la-leee – The Small Faces – Decca
It’s All Right – The Hot Springs – Columbia
I’ll never Quite Get Over You – Billy Fury – Decca
You Baby – Jackie Trent – Pye
My Garden of Love – Benny Hill – Pye
There Isn’t Anything – Gidian – Columbia
Waiting Hero For Someone – Neil Landon – Decca
Teenage Failure – Chad and Jeremy – CBS
A Walk in the Black Forest – Salona Jones – Columbia
David Rose’s story of an appearance on Juke Box Jury
We are indebted to David Rose, a teenage casting vote panellist on an episode of Juke Box Jury in January 1966. Not only has he provided us with his story of that day, but also exceedingly rare photos of his appearance, taken by his grandfather, via tripod aimed directly at the family TV set. This was about the only way of getting a memento of a TV appearance in those days, well before home video and with no chance of subsequent video or DVD releases:
Presented by the very un-hip, slightly balding, 40-year-old David Jacobs, Juke Box Jury was panel show where four show business guests (the word “celebrity” had yet to be invented!) reviewed new record releases. David Jacobs would push a button on a juke box and a record would play whist the cameras randomly roved around the audience’s smiling faces, bored-looking panellists and various tapping feet and nodding heads – it was a pretty pedestrian show even by the standards of 60s telly. When the record was faded out after about a minute-and-a-half the four panellists would make inane comments and try to forecast whether it would be a “hit” or a “miss”. A hit was signalled with a “Ding” from a hotel porter’s bell, whilst a miss garnered a low farty noise from a hidden source under the desk. In the event of a tie the deciding vote was made by three members of the audience sitting in the front row who would each hold up a large circular disc with “Hit” on one side and “Miss” on the other.
So on 29th January we all – about 40 of us – met at the church hall, which was right behind the church, and while we were waiting for the coaches to arrive Pat, our organiser, said that the BBC had told them that for this new series instead of the three audience members holding up Hit and Miss discs, they were trying out having a young fifth panellist to give a “teenager’s view” and make the casting vote in the event of a tie – and, would they pick a member of our party to be that extra member of the panel.
A vote resulted in me being chosen to be the guinea pig. How that happened I can’t remember but I’m sure I didn’t volunteer. Maybe it was because I was dressed for the part — I was wearing a shirt from which I’d removed the collar and cuffs and dyed them black, whilst the body of the shirt I’d dyed purple. I stitched it all back together again – by hand! – and wore it with a yellow tie and my new first made-to-measure suit with twelve-inch flares and flared cuffs in a bright fawn corduroy with a bright red lining. I felt the bee’s knees! Sadly, it wasn’t colour TV in those days.
As soon as we arrived at the BBC TV Theatre (now the Shepherd’s Bush Empire) they asked me to fill out a release form with my name and contact details – and to write my name in capital letters on another sheet, before being whisked into the makeup room to emerge a few minutes later looking like I’d arrived fresh from the Bahamas.
In the green room I met my fellow panellists. There was Spencer Davis (of the Spencer David Group who had hit number one that week with “Keep on Running”); and Marion Ryan, a pretty blonde singer who had no hits but was still famous – probably because she was a pretty blonde singer. (She was also the mother of twins Paul and Barry Ryan who would be famous in their own right in the 1970s.)
Also in the green room I met Alan Freeman (one of the top djs on the BBC), Haley Mills (film star) and Marianne Faithfull – they were all there for the next episode of Juke Box Jury, which was to be recorded immediately after ours went out live.
I was ushered onto the stage to cheers of approval from the club and shook David Jacob’s hand before taking my seat behind my name, which they had obviously just put together from plastic letters slotted into a black velvet stand.
We then did a short run-through of a couple of records, chat and voting and then a man with a clip board and head set chatted to the audience about when to clap and to be “natural” and not to look into the camera if it was pointing at them – and then he counted down from ten, at 5.15 the theme music started – conveniently called “Hit and Miss”, performed by Ted Heath and his Orchestra.
During the programme I was called on several times to give my esteemed “teenage opinion” and vote – but the record that stood out for me was “I’ll Never Quite Get Over You” sung by Billy Fury. After some chat from the panel the record had two “Hits” and two “Misses”. The celebrity panel was split. My moment had arrived…
“So let’s see what our teenager makes of this one…” said David Jacobs, “over to you, David.”
I loved Billy Fury. Before the Beatles came along I wanted to be Billy Fury; then I wanted to be John Lennon – but, strangely, never Paul McCartney, Elvis or Cliff. I used to mime in my bedroom mirror “Halfway To Paradise” and “Jealousy” and I even sported a Billy Fury quiff. So it was a no-brainer. I said I loved the song, the orchestra, the words… and it would be a huge hit.
Meanwhile, back at home, my grandparents were watching the show. Grandpa set up his camera on a tripod and started to take photographs of the tiny TV screen. I contacted the BBC to see if the show exists in the archives but as the programme went out live, it seems no record of it exists – except my grandfather’s snaps.
David Rose, June 2020.
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Saturday 5 February 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Marianne Faithfull, Alan Freeman, Jimmy Greaves, Hayley Mills
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 12 February 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
Panel: Eddy Arnold, Lulu, Pete Murray, Barbara Windsor
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 19 February 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
Panel: Eva Bartok, Mike Douglas, Manfred Mann, Emily Young
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 26 February 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
Panel: Judy Geeson, Don Moss, Evelyn Taylor, Scott Walker
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 5 March 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Eric Burdon, Briony Newton, Malou Pantera, Gene Pitney
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 12 March 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
Panel: Bert Kaempfert, Brian Matthew, Patsy Ann Noble, Wendy Varnals
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
The Ballad of the Green Berets – S/Sgt Barry Sadler
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Saturday 19 March 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
(Recorded 12 March)
Panel: Jeannie Carson, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Jimmy Young
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 26 March 1966, 5.50-6.15pm
Panel: Ray Davies, Adrienne Posta, Nina & Frederik
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
Twinkle Toes – Roy Orbison (London) HIT (4-0)
Nina & Frederik at The Savoy
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Saturday 2 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Vikki Carr, Millicent Martin, Pete Murray, Kenneth Williams
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 9 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Dave Clark, Stubby Kaye, Sandie Shaw
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
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Saturday 16 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Simon Dee, Val Doonican, Rosemary Nicols, Julie Rogers
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 23 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Barbara Hawkins (Dixie Cups), Samantha Juste, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Savile
Casting voter: Terry Hillman
Producer: Terry Henebery
The Big Hurt – Del Shannon (Liberty) HIT
I Wanna Go Home – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT (Casting vote)
Love Ya Illya – Angela & the Fans (Pye) HIT
My Girl At The Dance – Frank D’Rone (CBS) HIT
I Could Make You Fall In Love -Rockin’ Berries (Piccadilly) HIT
Rhapsody In The Rain – Lou Christie (MGM) HIT
I Do – Goldie (Fontana) HIT
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Saturday 30 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Judith Chalmers, Ian Fenner, Roy Hudd, Liz Fraser
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 7 May 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Georgie Fame, Spike Milligan, Marianne Faithfull, Elaine Taylor
Casting vote: Jill Oakes
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Hey Girl – Small Faces (Decca)
Promises – Ken Dodd (Columbia)
Downtown – Mrs Miller (Capitol)
Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35 – Bob Dylan (CBS)
Life And Soul Of The Party – Mally Page (Pye)
Two Days Monday – Scaffold (Parlophone)
Never Leave Your Baby’s Side – Tony Jackson (CBS)
Monday Monday – Mama and Papas (RCA)
‘Never Leave Your Baby’s Side’ by Tony Jackson was released on 29 April 1966. He was previously with The Searchers.
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Saturday 14 May 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Frank de Vol, Helen Shapiro, Jimmy Weatherspoon, Janice Whiteman
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 21 May 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Maureen Cleave, Pamela Donald, Jonathan King, William Mann
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 28 May 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
Panel: Maurice Kinn, Trini Lopez, Lulu, William Mann
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 4 June 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
Panel: Eric Burdon, Petula Clark, Geraldine Sherman, Billy Walker
Casting voter: Stephen Dwight
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Hideaway – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch
Nobody Needs Your Love – Gene Pitney
Paperback Writer – Beatles (60 secs)
Don’t Answer Me – Cilla Black
Mame – Louis Armstrong
You’ve Made Your Choice – The Rothchilds (Mason, Williams, Fraser) Decca
Sunny Afternoon – Kinks
The Second Time Around – Tony Bennett
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Saturday 11 June 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Anne Allen, David Jay Black, Pete Murray, Suzanna Leigh
Casting voter: Janet Wakeling
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Please Don’t Sell My Daddy No More Wine – Cup O’Kindness (Parlophone)
It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s Man’s World – James Brown
The More I See You – Joy Marshall (Decca)
Sandy – Swingin’ Blue Jeans
Come And Get Me – Susan Maughan (60 secs)
Come And Get Me – Lisa Shane (75 secs)
Lana – Roy Orbison
A Street That Rhymes At 6am – Norma Tanega
No One Will Ever Know – Frank Ifield
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Saturday 18 June 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
Panel: Ernestine Anderson, Richard Anthony, Sam Costa, Anne Nightingale
Casting voter: David Skinelay
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Getaway – Georgie Fame
Mama – Dave Berry
I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – New York Public Library (Columbia)
Excuse Me Baby – Magic Lanterns (CBS)
Hello Lover – Jordan Christopher
Bus Stop – Hollies
Have I Stayed Too Long – Sonny & Cher
This Door Swings Both Ways – Herman’s Hermits
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Saturday 25 June 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Susan Maughan, Betty Marsden, Denny Piercy, Gene Pitney
Casting voter: Suzanne Varney
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Aggravation – Chris Curtis
Come and Get Me – Jackie DeShannon
Just Outside The Door – Frugal Sound
To Show I Love You (Hatch) – Peter and Gordon
I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love – Petula Clark
Can I Trust You – Bachelors
I’m Me – Blossom Dearie
Willow Tree – Ivy League
No show 2 July 1966 because of Wimbledon and Test Match
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Saturday 9 July 1966, 5.05-5.35pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Blossom Dearie, Alan Freeman, Genieveve, Frederick Woods
Casting voter: Millie London
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
I Love How You Love Me – Paul and Barry Ryan
Let Me Love You – Oliver Bond
Cloud 9 – Winston G
Summer In The City – Lovin’ Spoonful
Grandstand extended to 5.20. This edition lasted 14m 09s.
No show 16 July 1966 because of World Cup
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Saturday 23 July 1966, 5.30-6pm
Panel: Katie Boyle, Paul Jones, Brian Matthew, Penny Valentine
Casting voter: Colin Hobbs
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
Records played:
The World’s Been Good To Me Tonight – Young Idea
Tell Her I’m Not Home – Ike & Tina Turner
In My Memory – Claude Francois
Visions – Cliff Richard
Hanky Panky – Tommy James
Don’t Come Runnin’ To Me – Madeline Bell
I Saw Her Again – Mamas & Papas
I Want You – Bob Dylan
Where Did We Go Wrong – Sands Of Time
Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Suzie & Big Dee Irwin (Polydor) -
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Saturday 30 July 1966, 5.40- 6.05pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Dave Cash, Susan Hampshire, Joy Marshall, Jackie Stewart
Casting voter: Linda Penn
Producer: Terry Henebery
Records played:
Kick Off – Bert Weedon
Headline News – Edwin Starr
I Feel Something In The Air – Cher
Yellow Submarine – Beatles
Friday’s Child – Nancy Sinatra
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Saturday 6 August 1966, 5.10-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Barry Alldis, Bernard Cribbins, Katy Medford, Rosemary Squires
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 13 August 1966, 5.10-5.40pm
Panel: Anthony Booth, Simon Dee, Sheila Southern, Viviane Ventura
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
It’s Too Soon To Know – Roy Orbison -
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Saturday 20 August 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Fred Emney, Don Moss, Patsy Ann Noble, Meg Wynn Owen
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 27 August 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Juliet Harmer, Engelbert Humperdinck, Sarah Ward, Danny Wells
Producer: Terry Henebery
No show 3 September 1966, final of Gillette Cup
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Saturday 10 September 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Judith Arthy, Chris Farlowe, Pete Murray, Jackie Trent
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 17 September 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Fanny Cradock, Mike D’Abo, Chris Denning, Marian Montgomery
Producer: Terry Henebery
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Saturday 24 September 1966, 5.15-5.45pm
Panel: Jimmy Henney, Lulu, Reg Varney, Alma Cogan
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Alma Cogan was to be on the panel but was taken into hospital.
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Saturday 1 October 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Kenneth Horne, Lena Martell, Una Stubbs, Jimmy Young
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 8 October 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Lionel Bart, Ronnie Carroll, Lynn Redgrave, Penny Valentine
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 15 October 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Scott Hamilton, David Hughes, Julie Rogers, Truly Smith
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 22 October 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Mike Felix, Marion Ryan, Sandie Shaw, Gary Stephens
Gary Stephens, New York DJ
Mike Felix, ex-Magil 5
Producer: Albert Stevenson
I aim to speed up the show so that we can feature up to 10 records. There should be about 65 seconds for comments after each disc. Some panellists go on and so the record quota has sometimes been reduced to six. Albert Stevenson, Disc, 221066
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Saturday 29 October 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Johnny Devlin, Adam Faith, Moira Lister, Rita Tushingham
Johnny Devlin, Aussie DJ and songwriter
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 5 November 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Dave Clark, Julia Foster, Francoise Hardy, Brian Poole
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 12 November 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Carole Carr, Bobby Goldsboro, Susan Maughan, Ted Rogers
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 19 November 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Katie Boyle, Ron Goodwin, Mia Lewis, Peter Noone
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 26 November 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Eric Burdon, Virginia Ironside, Cleo Laine, Brian Matthew
Casting voter: Dave Russon
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Knight In Rusty Armour – Peter & Gordon (Columbia)
That’s Life – Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Walk With Faith In Your Heart – Bachelors (Decca)
You Keep Me Hangin’ On – Supremes (Tamla-Motown)
There Won’t Be Many Comin’ Home – Roy Orbison (London)
East West – Herman’s Hermits (Columbia)
She’s Coming To Me (D & T O’Brien) – O’Brien Brothers (Major Minor) -
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Saturday 3 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
Casting voter: Katerine Bodman
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Never Knew Lovin’ Could Be So Doggone Good – Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers (Parlophone) HIT
Sunshine Superman – Donovan (Pye) HIT
In The Country – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Colour My World – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Happy Jack – The Who (Reaction) HIT
If Every Day Was Like Christmas – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Both Cliff Bennett and Donovan were guests
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Saturday 10 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 3 December 1966)
Panel: The Bachelors (Con Cluskey, Dec Cluskey, John Stokes), Julie Felix
Casting voter: Carolyn Sowell
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Going Nowhere – Los Bravos (Decca)
Deadlier Than The Male – Walker Bros (Philips)
Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies –Association (Warner)
That Special Way – Nancy Wilson (Capitol)
Anyway That You Want Me – Troggs (Page One)
When Will The Good Apples Fall – Ronnie Hilton (HMV)
Nashville Cats – Lovin’ Spoonful (Kama Sutra) -
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Saturday 17 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Rose Brennan, Paul Jones, Mickie Most, Judith Durham
Producer: Albert Stevenson
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Saturday 24 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 17 December 1966)
Panel: The Seekers (Judith Durham, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley, Athol Guy)
Casting voter: Linda Shiel
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Listen To My Heart – The Bats (Decca)
Single Girl – Sandy Posey (MGM)
The Rising Of The Moon – Tinkers (Pye)
Sitting In The Park – Georgie Fame (Columbia)
From A Distance (P F Sloan) – Odin’s People (Major Minor)
Love In The Open Air (McCartney) – Tudor Minstrels (Decca)
Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies) – Cher (Liberty)
The Angel And The Stranger – Eddy Arnold (RCA) -
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Saturday 31 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
Casting voter: Nick Hallett
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Hard Lovin’(Kerr, Peel) – Richard Kerr (Decca)
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago – Dr West’s Medicine Show & Junk Band (CBS)
Listen To the River Roll Along – Wee Willie Harris (Polydor)
Sugar Town –Nancy Sinatra (Reprise)
Matthew and Son – Cat Stevens (Deram)
I’m A Believer – Monkees (RCA)
You and Me (Tubbs) – H T (Polydor)