Programmes
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08
Monday 10 August 1959, 7.30-7.55pm
(Recorded)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Jill Chadwick, Eric Sykes and all three Poni-Tails
Duration: 25’40”
Opened with 15 seconds of Born Too Late
Records played:
Lonesome – Chris Barber’s Jazz Band (Columbia) 1’48”
Only Sixteen – Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
Only Sixteen – Sam Cooke (HMV)
And The Angels Sing – Johnny Nash (ABC Paramount logged, HMV here)
All My Own – Richard Lyon (Fontana)
Lavender Blue – Sammy Turner (Decca)
Teenie Weenie Bikini – Upbeats (Pye International) 0’47”
Souvenirs – Barbara Evans (RCA)
Milk From The Coconut – Johnny Gentle (Philips)
Camera script: Souvenirs replaced My Unbreakable Heart
Jill Chadwick, a 22-year-old actress from Bury, had been a record plugger “so perhaps I do know something about hits and misses.” (Radio Times)
The Poni-Tails were also featured on Drumbeat, but not on that evening. -
09
Monday 17 August 1959, 7.30-7.55pm
Panel: Sheila Buxton, Dickie Dawson, Diana Dors, Pete Murray
Records played:
With Open Arms – Jane Morgan (London)
China Tea – Russ Conway (Columbia)
High Hopes – Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
High Hopes – Dave King (Pye)
It Was I – Skip & Flip (Top Rank)
Run – Jeri Southern (Capitol)
For You For You – Michael Holliday (Columbia)
Taboo – Arthur Lyman Group (Vogue)
What Is Love – Playmates (Columbia)
Dickie Dawson, husband of Diana Dors
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10
Monday 24 August 1959, 7.30-7.55pm
Panel: Judy Carne, Dickie Dawson, Pete Murray, Venetia Stevenson
Records played:
A Hoot An’ A Holler – Don Lang (HMV)
I’m Gonna Get Married – Lloyd Price (HMV)
Plenty Good Lovin’ – Connie Francis (MGM)
Cry – Knightsbridge Strings (Top Rank)
Midnight Flyer – Dave Cavanagh (Capitol)
One More Sunrise – Leslie Uggams (Philips)
A Girls Work Is Never Done – Chordettes (London) 1.52 -
11
Saturday 5 September 1959, 6.55-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Cleo Laine, Eric Robinson, Susan Stranks, Eric Sykes
Records played:
I Ain’t Gonna Lead This Life – Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
Til I Kissed You – Everly Brothers (London)
Adonis – Petula Clark (Pye)
Sal’s Got A Sugar Lip – Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
Morgen – Ivo Robic (Polydor)
The Three Bells – The Browns (RCA)
Johnny Reb – Johnny Horton (Philips) -
12
Saturday 12 September 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Peggy Cummins, Eric Robinson, Susan Stranks, Eric Sykes
Records played:
Peggy Sue Got Married – Buddy Holly (Coral)
Cry Baby Cry – Bernie Fenton (Philips)
Lady May – Eddie Hickey (Decca)
Smile Smile Smile And Sing Sing Sing – Russ Hamilton (Oriole)
My Funny Valentine – Shirley Bassey (Philips)
The Shape I’m In – Johnny Restivo (RCA) -
13
Saturday 19 September 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Judy Carne, Petula Clark, Bill Maynard, Peter Noble
Reccords played:
I Want To Walk You Home – Shane Rimmer (Columbia)
Angel Face – Billy Fury (Decca)
Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (Pye)
Sleepwalk – Ken Mackintosh (HMV)
You Were Mine – Tommy Steele (Decca)
Someone To Love – Anthony Newley (Decca)
Mack The Knife – Bobby Darin (London) -
14
Saturday 26 September 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 12 September 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Dickie Dawson, Diana Dors, Eunice Gayson, Tony Vlassopulo
Records played:
Battle Rhythm – Bob Summers (Capitol)
What Would I Do Without You – King Sisters (Capitol)
I’ve Been There – Tommy Edwards (MGM)
Cat On A Cool Tin Roof – Ragpickers (Saga)
Cap And Gown – Marty Robbins (Fontana)
The Mummy – Bob McFadden & Dor (Coral)
Primrose Lane – Dickie Pride (Columbia)
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Johnnie Ray (Philips) -
15
Saturday 3 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 19 September 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Petula Clark, Dickie Dawson, Diana Dors, Tony Osborne
Records played:
Treble Chance – Joe ‘Mr Piano’ Henderson (Pye)
Makin’ Love – Floyd Robinson (RCA)
So High So Low – Danny Williams (HMV)
Broken Hearted Melody – Tony Raymond (Fontana)
But Not For Me – Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
Jenny – Ray Sone (Decca)
She Came As A Stranger – Perry Ford (Parlophone)
Oh What A Fool – Impalas (MGM) -
16
Saturday 10 October 1959, 6.50-715pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Gloria Kindersley, Gary Miller, Milton Subotsky, Venetia Stevenson
Records played:
Doodles – Eddie Layton (Mercury)
Love Potion No 9 – Clovers (London)
A Worried Man – Kingston Trio (Capitol)
Mr Blue – David Macbeth (Pye)
Mr Blue – Mike Preston (Decca)
Just Ask Your Heart – Frankie Avalon (HMV)
Wish It Were Me – Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
Old Shep – Hank Snow (RCA) -
17
Saturday 17 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Alma Cogan, Louie Ramsay, Jimmy Savile, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Destiny – Henry Rene (London)
Put Your Head On My Shoulder – Paul Anka (Columbia)
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For – Emile Ford (Pye)
Teach Me – David Hughes (Top Rank)
Candlewick – Winifred Atwell (Decca)
My Only Love – Allan Bruce (Fontana)
Oh Carol – Neil Sedaka (RCA) -
18
Saturday 24 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Winifred Atwell, Paul Carpenter, Sandra Dorne, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Shout – Isley Brothers (RCA)
Lonely Street – Chris Martin (HMV)
Heartaches By The Number – Guy Mitchell (Philips)
The Best Of Everything – Johnny Mathis (Fontana)
Tucumcari – Jimmie Rodgers (Columbia)
I’ll Stay Single – Jerry Lordan (Parlophone)
Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Backseat) – Avons (Columbia) -
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Saturday 31 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Lynn Curtis, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Backseat) – Avons (Columbia)
Alice Blue Gown – Leroy Holmes (MGM)
My Blue Heaven – Platters (Mercury)
What Do You Want – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Snowcoach – Russ Conway (Columbia)
Dear Daddy – Petula Clark (Pye)
Hushabye – Dene Four (HMV)
The Merry Men – Don Robertson (Capitol)
No show on Saturday 7 November 1959 because of British Legion Remembrance Service and a Semprini concert
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20
Saturday 14 November 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 31 October 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Jeanne Baldwin, Bunny Lewis, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson
Records played:
Happy Little Caterpillar – Sam Tacit (Decca)
The Ways Of Love – Tommy Edwards (MGM)
Unforgettable – Dinah Washington (Mercury)
Fool’s Hall Of Fame – Pat Boone (London)
Little White Bull – Tommy Steele (Decca)
Talk To Me – Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
So Many Ways – Brook Benton (Mercury) -
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Saturday 21 November 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Alan Freeman, Joan Heal, Venetia Stevenson, Milton Subotsky
Records played:
Dear Daddy – Petula Clark (Pye)
While Paris Sleeps – Tony Osborne (HMV)
San Miguel – Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
The Village Of St Bernadette – Anne Shelton (Philips)
Ivy Will Cling – Arnold Stang (Fontana)
If I Had A Girl – Jerry Keller (London)
If You Were The Only Girl In The World – Steve Marsh (Decca)
Who Made The Morning – Max Bygraves (Decca)
True Love, True Love – Mudlarks (Columbia)
Only 18 seconds of Dear Daddy played, but 1 minute 43 seconds of Arnold Stang.
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22
Saturday 28 November 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Judy Carne, Peter Noble, Sylvie St Clair, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Happy Prancer – Dance, Prancer & Nervous (Capitol)
Still Small Voice – Perry Como (RCA)
Loving Is A Way Of Living – Ilse Werner (Qualiton)
Just About This Time Tomorrow – Tony Reese (London)
The Meaning Of The Blues – Kalin Twins (Brunswick)
Among My Souvenirs – Connie Francis (MGM)
Roses From Venice – Donald Peers (Columbia) -
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Saturday 5 December 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Russ Conway, Joan North, Nancy Spain, Eric Sykes
Records played:
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans – Freddy Cannon (Top Rank)
Starry Eyed – Gary Stites (London)
You Deserve – Peggy Lee (Capitol)
Wildcat – Gene Vincent (Capitol)
In The Chapel In The Moonlight – Kestrels (Pye)
Some Kinda Earthquake – Duane Eddy (London)
Happy Anniversary – Joan Regan (Pye)
Be My Guest – Fats Domino (London)“Opinion of your Alley Cat disagrees with Juke Box Jury panel but endorses David Jacobs’ view that Some Kinda Earthquake is another Duane Eddy smash hit.” Alley Cat, 11 December 1959
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24
Saturday 12 December 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Russ Conway, Jayne Mansfield, Venetia Stevenson, Eric Sykes
Records played:
In The Mood – Ernie Fields (London)
Turnabout Heart – Eve Boswell (Parlophone)
Career – Dean Martin (Capitol)
Not One Minute More – Della Reese (RCA)
Marina – Gary Miller (Pye)
The Christmas Song – Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
Who Do You Think You Are – Four Lads (Philips) -
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Saturday 19 December 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Catherine Boyle Patricia Bredin, Gary Miller, Eric Sykes
Records played:
Lotta Piano – Martinas & his Music (Columbia)
Too Young – Bill Forbes (Columbia)
Talk That Talk – Jackie Wilson (Coral)
The Singing Piano – Tolchard Evans & his Singing Piano (Decca)
Holiday Of Love – King Sisters (Capitol)
Reveille Rock – Johnny & the Hurricanes (London)
It Must Have Been Something Wonderful – Ronnie Carroll (Philips)
I Wish That I Could Be Father Christmas – Lenny the Lion with Terry Hall (Parlophone)
Mary’s Boy Child – Nina & Frederik
“Starting in the new year every alternate transmission will be telerecorded the previous Saturday, immediately following the live presentation.” (NME, 4 December 1959)Eric Sykes on Reveille Rock: “That would work. I would have to get up to turn the darn thing off.”Feature on David Jacobs, NME, 25 December 1959:
Juke Box Jury is excellent musical entertainment for the whole family. And it’s done far more for pop music than most people think. The records we play are more or less all made with the teenage market in mind. But on Juke Box Jury, viewers have seen adults voicing approval of the very same discs – the adults being the panel, of course. The net result is that the Jury has encouraged people to be far more tolerant towards pop discs. It has also stopped a lot of parents sneering at pop music and made them realise that it is an everyday part of their children’s lives. -
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Saturday 4 January 1964
Panel: Dora Bryan, David Gell, Peter Sellers, Cilla Black
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
That Boy John – Billie Davis (Columbia) HIT
Acapulco 1922 – Johnny B Great (Decca) MISS
Fever – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
I’m The One – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) HIT
No Strings – Mike Preston (Decca) MISS
Baby I Love You – Ronettes (London) HIT
That Lucky Old Sun – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT -
232
Saturday 11 January 1964
(Recorded 4 January 1964)
Panel: Andrea Allan, Eva Bartok, Pete Murray, Dave Clark
Producer: Neville Wortman
On Juke Box Jury, Dave Clark was hard to please.
Alley Cat, NME, 17.01.64Johnny Mathis returned the contract for appearing on this programme. He wasn’t going to be caught twice.
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233
Saturday 18 January 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Vic Lewis, Robert Morley, Millicent Martin
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Have You Ever Been Lonely – Caravelles (Decca) HIT
Candy Man – Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Decca) HIT
For You – Rick Nelson (Brunswick) MISS
On My Mind – Mike Berry (HMV) HIT
Until I Met You – Bobby Rydell (Cameo Parkway) MISS
Brian Poole was in the ‘hot seat’ and gave the panellists sticks of Candy!
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234
Saturday 25 January 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Adam Faith, Carole Ann Ford, Jean Metcalfe, Phil Spector
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Alley Alley Oh – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) MISS
Lady Bird – Ladybirds (Columbia) MISS
Make Love To Me – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
Anyone Who Had A Heart – Cilla Black (Parlophone) HIT
I’m The Lonely One – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Thank You – Petula Clark (Pye) MISS
Blue Beat – Beazers (Decca) MISS
Probably the other guest was Phil Spector
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235
Saturday 1 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Ian Fenner, Susan Maughan, Jane Morgan, Bruce Prochnik
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
A Fool Never Learns – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
I Love How You Love Me – Maureen Evans (Oriole) HIT
Come On – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
Green Fields – Unit 4+2 (Decca) MISS
Shake And Scream – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Who Was That Girl – Al Saxon (Mercury) HIT
Go On And Cry – Conway Twitty (MGM) MISS
Caterina – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT -
236
Saturday 8 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Alan Freeman, Allan Sherman, Vivienne Taylor, Elke Sommer
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Bits and Pieces – Dave Clark Five (Columbia) HIT
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ – Louise Cordet (Decca) MISS
You Were There – Heinz (Decca) HIT
Let Me Go Lover – Kathy Kirby (Decca) HIT
I Wonder – Crystals (Decca) MISS
Over You – Freddie & the Dreamers (Columbia) HIT
Stay Awhile – Dusty Springfield (Philips) HIT -
237
Saturday 15 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Lesley Duncan, Steve Race, Sally Smith, Pete Murray
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Just One Look – Hollies (Columbia) HIT
I Love You Because – Jim Reeves (RCA) MISS
Tell Me When – Applejacks (Decca) HIT
That Girl Belongs To Yesterday – Gene Pitney (United Artists) HIT
She’s Sorry – Bobby Vee (Liberty) MISS
If You Love Me – Jackie Trent (Piccadilly) HIT
Little Children – Billy J Kramer & Dakotas (Parlophone) HIT -
238
Saturday 22 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Cilla Black, Sam Costa, James Garner, Susan Hampshire
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Big Town – Clevelands (Philips) HIT
We Love You Beatles – Carefrees (Oriole) MISS
Theme For Young Lovers – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Not Fade Away – Rolling Stones (Decca) HIT
Blue Winter – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Big Bad Bass – Jet Harris (Decca) MISS
You’re Gonna Be My Girl – Chris Sandford & the Coronets (Decca) MISS
Little Bitty Pretty One – Paramounts (Pye) HIT -
239
Saturday 29 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Jane Asher, Dora Bryan, Brian Epstein, Gerry Marsden
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
If He Tells You – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Every Day I Have To Cry – Julie Grant (Pye) MISS
Liverpool Lou – Dominic Behan (Piccadilly) MISS
Good Golly Miss Molly – Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV) HIT
A World Without Love – Peter and Gordon (Columbia) HIT
Jailer Bring Me Water – Trini Lopez (Reprise) HIT
Stardust – Nina Tempo & April Stevens (London) HIT
It’s In His Kiss -Ramona King (Warners) HIT
Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon: “Jane was always very sensible and so she was very good on Juke Box Jury. They promised her that they weren’t going to play our record that week as she was on the panel, but of course they did. She had to vote it a hit or a miss and she voted, thank goodness, for a Hit. That turned out to be correct.”
Epstein paid 30g for appearance
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240
Saturday 7 March 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Annette, Terence Edmond, Karen Elliott, Bob Monkhouse
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Baby Don’t You Cry – Ray Charles (HMV) MISS
Bad Time – Roulettes (Parlophone) HIT
Unchained Melody – Jimmy Young (Decca) HIT
I Know – Chick Graham (Decca) MISS
Like I Love You Today – Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde (Ember) HIT
Viva Las Vegas – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Tennessee Waltz – Alma Cogan (Columbia) MISS
I’ve Been Crying – Denny Mitchell & the Soundstations (Decca) HIT
Bob Monkhouse on Today in Jan 1962 had called the show Junk Box Jury.
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241
Saturday 14 March 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Maureen Cleave, Millicent Martin, Matt Monro, Bobby Vee
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Once In A While – Brooks Brothers (Pye) HIT
Who’s Been Sleepin’ In My Bed – Carol Deene (HMV) MISS
I Believe – Bachelors (Decca) MISS
Lonely Avenue – Crickets (Liberty) HIT
The Spartans – Sounds Inc (Columbia) MISS
Can’t Buy Me Love – Beatles (Parlophone) HIT
Tower Tall – Don Charles (HMV) MISS
Shake Shout And Go – Brian Diamond & the Cutters (Fontana) MISS
Shimmy Shimmy – Orlons (Cameo Parkway) HIT
The Walker Brothers’ first single Pretty Girls Everywhere was a voted a Hit and they were the surprise guests. As Scott and John were so tall, the viewers only saw them from the neck down until the cameras got their faces into the shot. They then sang it on Ready, Steady, Go!
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242
Saturday 21 March 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Kathy Kirby, Henry Mancini, Jean Metcalfe, Spike Milligan
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Why Did You Bring Him To The Dance – Peter’s Faces (Piccadilly) MISS
Only You – Mark Wynter (Pye) (not given)
I’m In Love With You – Golden Crusaders (Columbia) HIT
Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing – Linda Saxone (Pye) HIT
I’ve Got That Feeling – Orchids (Decca) HIT
Worried Guy – Johnny Tillotson (MGM) MISS
Tired, Broken And Busted – Duffy Power (Parlophone) MISS
That’s How It Goes – Breakaways (Pye) HIT -
243
Saturday 28 March 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Arthur Askey, Ted King, Beverley Todd, Shirley Eaton
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Baby Let Me Take You Home – Animals (Columbia) MISS
Think – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
Don’t Throw Your Love Away – Searchers (Pye) HIT
I’m On Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis (Philips) MISS
Stand By Me – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Got My Mojo Workin’ – Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers (Parlophone) HIT
Silly Boy – Craig Douglas (Fontana) HIT
Regular panellist Nancy Spain died on the way to the Grand National, 210364
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244
Saturday 4 April 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Julia Foster, Derek Johnson, Eric Sykes, Mary Travers
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Hubble Bubble Toil And Trouble – Manfred Mann (HMV) HIT
Angry At The Big Oak Tree – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
Walk On By – Dionne Warwick (Pye Int) HIT
365 Rolling Stones – Andrew Oldham Orchestra (Decca) MISS
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’ – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) HIT
She Loves Me – Jack Jones (London) MISS
Don’t Turn Around – Merseybeats (Fontana) HIT -
245
Saturday 11 April 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Sid James, Sarah Miles, Jimmy Young +1
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
I Don’t Wanna Know – Mike Cotton Sound (Columbia) HIT
Wrong For Each Other – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
Walking The Dog –Dennisons (Decca) HIT
Look Over Your Shoulder – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) MISS
Dominique – Dutch Swing College Band (Philips) MISS
Lovesick – Mike Berry (HMV) MISS
Stella By Starlight – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
A Little Loving – Fourmost (Parlophone) HIT -
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Saturday 18 April 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Cilla Black, Catherine Boyle, Iain Gregory, Tommy Trinder
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Can’t Buy Me Love – Ella Fitzgerald (Verve) MISS
Constantly – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
It’s Great – Monotones (Pye) MISS
Shout – Lulu & the Luvvers (Decca) HIT
I Will – Billy Fury (Decca) MISS
I’ll Be There, I’ll Be Waiting – Chimes (Decca) MISS
This Is My Prayer – Vera Lynn (HMV) MISS
What’s The Secret – Sammy King (HMV) MISS
Cilla Black paid 30g
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247
Saturday 25 April 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Honor Blackman, Dick Emery, Alan Freeman, Mia Farrow
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Mexican Drummer Man – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (Stateside) MISS
In Love – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Show You Mean It Too – Me & Them (Pye) MISS
The Matador – Major Lance (Columbia) HIT
You’re My World – Cilla Black (Parlophone) HIT
She’s My Girl – Bobby Shafto (Parlophone) HIT
You’re The One – Kathy Kirby (Decca) HIT
Rain Rain Go Away – Eden Kane (Fontana) MISS -
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Saturday 2 May 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Maureen Cleave, Freddie Garrity, Dick Haymes, Barbara Windsor
P J Proby, mystery guest
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Brazilian Shake – Tom Springfield Combo (Philips) MISS 3-1
You Might As Well Forget Him – Tommy Quickly (Piccadilly) HIT 3-2
Hold Me – P J Proby (Decca) HIT
Skin – Allan Sherman (Warner) MISS 3-2
We Will Make Love (Remake) – Russ Hamilton (Ember) MISS 3-1
One And One Is Two – Mike Shannon and the Strangers (Philips) MISS 3-1
No Particular Place To Go – Chuck Berry HIT 4-0
Someone, Someone – Brian Poole and the Tremeloes HIT 4-0
You Are Here – Carvelles (Fontana) MISS 3-1
P J Proby: “When Hold Me came out, I was sure it was going to be a Miss on JBJ because Dick Haymes was on the panel. I’d done a rock version of his beautiful ballad and when I shook hands with him, I said, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.’ I told him afterwards, ‘I can sing ballads, you just haven’t heard me yet.’ He said, ‘I was in the era of crooners and we had to sing like that. You’re with the Beatles now and you’ve done a great job.’ I thought, ‘If the Beatles accept me, if Dick Haymes accepts me, I’ll stick around.”
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249
Saturday 9 May 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Carole Carr, Millie, Pete Murray, Frankie Vaughan
Producer: Neville Wortman
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250
Saturday 16 May 1964, 6.20-6.45pm
Panel: Roy Castle, Judith Chalmers, Libby Morris, Billy Walker
Producer: Barry Langford
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251
Saturday 23 May 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Stratford Johns, Jean Metcalfe, Lance Percival, Polly Perkins
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Can You Do It – Contours (Stateside) MISS
Nobody I Know – Peter and Gordon (Columbia) HIT
Funny Things – Redcaps (Decca) MISS
Hello Dolly – Louis Armstrong (London) HIT
Ramona – Bachelors (Decca) HIT
Near You – Migil Five (Pye) HIT
Keep On Lovin’ Me – Kaye Sisters (Philips) MISS -
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Saturday 30 May 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Ken Dodd, Pete Murray, Rosemary Nicols, Marjorie Proops
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Alright Baby – Quotations (Decca) HIT
Hello Dolly – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) HIT
La-Den-Da-Da –Gene Vincent (Columbia) MISS
Chapel Of Love – Dixie Cups (Pye Int) HIT
Ain’t She Sweet – Tony Sheridan & the Beatles (Polydor) HIT
I Don’t Want To Be Hurt Anymore – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) HIT
Like Dreamers Do – Applejacks (Decca) HIT
Ken Dodd: I gave everybody top marks. One thing any entertainer needs is encouragement. That’s why Liverpool and Merseyside has produced so many famous showbiz people. It is a huge list, why, Merseyside audiences always give you a good gee, they applaud you if you look like you are having a go.
The waxwork dummies of the Beatles prepared by Mme Tussaud’s were displayed on the show.
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Saturday 6 June 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Charlie Drake, Diana Dors, Bunny Lewis, Jessie Matthews
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Bama Lama Bama Loo – Little Richard (London) HIT
I Like The Look Of You – Fortunes (Decca) HIT
I Love You Too – Matt Monro (Parlophone) MISS
Liza Jane – Davie Jones & the King Bees (Vocalion) MISS
When You Walk In The Room – Jackie de Shannon (Liberty) HIT
Why Not Tonight – Mojos (Decca) MISS
If You Don’t Know – Don Charles (HMV) HIT
Liza Jane was David Bowie’s first single. R&B track with David on vocals and tenor sax. Only Charlie Drake voted the record a hit! Mrs Dale didn’t like it. David Bowie was in Hot Seat
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254
Saturday 13 June 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Adam Faith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Des O’Connor, Juliet Prowse
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
That’s Alright – Jimmy Powell (Pye) HIT
So Long Little Girl – Dictators with Tony and Howard (Oriole) HIT
Kissin’ Cousins – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
I Don’t Want To Know – Shirley & Johnny (Parlophone) HIT
Sweet William – Millie (Fontana) HIT
House Of The Risin’ Sun – Animals (Columbia) HIT
You Came Along – Warriors (Decca) MISS -
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Saturday 20 June 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Anne Heywood, Davy Kaye, Stirling Moss
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
It’s So Exciting – Sinners (Columbia) MISS
A Sad Story – George Bean (Decca) MISS
Long Tall Sally – Beatles (Parlophone EP track) HIT
Tears And Roses – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
You’ll Be Mine – Long John Baldry (United Artists) HIT
Say You Love Me – Gary & the Ariels (Fontana) MISS -
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Saturday 27 June 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Owen, Jimmy Savile, Janette Scott
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Reelin’ And Rockin’ – Micky Finn & the Blue Men (Oriole) HIT
In A Matter Of Moments – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
A Hard Day’s Night – Beatles (Parlophone) HIT
The Wedding – Julie Rogers (Mercury) MISS
It’s All Over Now – Rolling Stones (Decca) HIT
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Saturday 4 July 1964, 7.10-7.35pm
(Recorded 27 June, just before Stones on Top Of The Pops)
Panel: The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts)
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Tobacco Road – Nashville Teens (Decca) MISS
I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Dusty Springfield (Philips) HIT
Just For You – Freddie & the Dreamers (Columbia) HIT
My Baby Don’t Dig Me – Ray Charles (HMV) MISS
Play Me A Sad Song – Christine Holmes (Mercury) MISS
Someday We’re Gonna Love Again – The Searchers (Pye) HIT
There’s Gold In The Mountains – Elvis Presley (RCA) (No vote taken)
The Ferris Wheel – Everly Brothers (Warner) MISS
Info from the TV Pop Diaries website:
The band had to be brought into the studio by armoured truck to be able to get through the crowd outside. Producer Barry Langford later said it took two hours for the band to get out of their transport and ready to record the show. The band had misbehaved during rehearsals, until Brian Jones, sensing David Jacob’s annoyance, cracked the whip and the band behaved during the actual recording. Barry Langford talking to Disc magazine predicted “we expect a minimum viewing audience of twenty million as compared with the regular eleven or twelve million. We have already had over 8000 applications for the 500 tickets available”. Normally the audience in attendance would be 150 only and broadcast from Television Centre, studio 2, so a larger studio had to be used. Because there was an odd number of jurors this week the teenage panel was dropped. Also dropped was the usual hit or miss board, while a new but temporary set design was employed. Among the records they judged was a new Elvis disc, The Zephyrs and The Nashville Teens ‘Tobacco Road’.
** You will note from the above info that the Rolling Stones also heard The Zephyrs (‘A little bit of soap’).
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Saturday 11 July 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Lionel Jeffries, Stubby Kaye, Anne Nightingale, Tessie O’Shea
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Doo Wah Diddy Diddy – Manfred Mann (HMV) HIT
The Girl From Ipanema – Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto (Verve) MISS
She’s Fallen In Love With The Monster Man – Screamin’ Lord Sutch (Oriole) HIT
As Tears Goes By – Marianne Faithfull (Decca) HIT
Happiness – Ken Dodd (Columbia) HIT
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Saturday 18 July 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Dora Bryan, Brian Epstein, Ian Hendry, Nancy Roberts
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Huntingdon Beach – Van Doren (Decca) MISS
Rosie – Chubby Checker (Cameo Parkway) MISS
Lollipop – Glenda Collins (HMV) MISS
I Found Out The Hard Way – Four Pennies (Philips) HIT
I Want To Hold Your Hand – Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops (RCA) MISS
The Crying Game – Dave Berry (Decca) HIT
Handy Man – Del Shannon (Stateside) MISS
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Saturday 25 July 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Carole Ann Ford, George Harrison, Reg Varney, Alexandra Bastedo
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
I Should Have Known Better – The Naturals (Parlophone) MISS
What Am I To You – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT(check this)
Soulful Dress – Sugar Pie Desanto (Pye) HIT
How Can I Tell Her – Fourmost (Parlophone) HIT
Heart – David Nelson (Philips) MISS
Spanish Harlem – Sounds Inc (Columbia) HIT
All Grown Up – Crystals (London) MISS
She’s Not There – Zombies (Decca) HIT
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Saturday 1 August 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
(Recorded 25 July)
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Judy Cornwell, Ray Martine, Ringo Starr
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Thinking Of You Baby – Dave Clark Five (Columbia) HIT
Don’t It Make You Feel Good – Overlanders (Pye) HIT
It’s For You – Cilla Black (Parlophone) HIT
Move It Baby – Simon Scott (Parlophone) HIT
I Wouldn’t Trade You For The World – Bachelors (Decca) HIT
Not For Me – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
A Summer Song – Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde (United Artists) MISS
Jeremy Clyde: “I remember Ringo saying, ‘This will be big in America but it’s too sweet for England’ and he was right as it was our biggest record in America and went gold. I suppose it was an early example of what they now call Adult Contemporary Music in Music in America.”
George and Ringo filmed appearances on same day
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Saturday 8 August 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Unity Hall, Kenneth More, Chita Rivera, Cardew Robinson
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
I Want You To Meet My Baby – Eydie Gorme (CBS) MISS
Rag Doll – Four Seasons (Philips) MISS
The Time It Takes – Alan Dean & his Problems (Decca) MISS
I Don’t Understand – Nola York (HMV) HIT
Such A Night – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Non E Niente Lasciami Stare – Gigliola Cinquetti (Decca) HIT
Dang Me – Johnny Duncan (Columbia) MISS
Kenneth More had not really listened to Elvis Presley before and was impressed. He had disliked him previously.
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Saturday 15 August 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Max Bacon, Caroline Charles, Maureen Cleave, Laurence Harvey
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Twelve Steps To Love – Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Decca) HIT
Kelly – Wayne Gibson (Pye) MISS
You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry (Pye International) HIT
Promise You’ll Tell Her – Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV) HIT
It’s Gotta Be – Ray Singer (Ember) MISS
Who Can I Turn To – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) MISS
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Saturday 22 August 1964, 5.55-6.20pm
Panel: Bernard Bresslaw, Derek Johnson, Brenda Lee, Ginette Spanier
Producer: Barry Langford
Records Played:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Jimmy Smith (Verve)
Come To Me – Julie Grant (Pye)
Can’t Hear You No More – Lulu (Decca)
I Want So Much To Know You – Alan David (Decca)
It’s Gonna Be Alright – Gerry & The Pacemakers (Columbia)
Where Did Our Love Go – The Supremes (Stateside)
Shop Around – Helen Shapiro (Columbia)
Tell Me Why – Me & Them (Pye)
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Saturday 29 August 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Susan Baker, Millicent Martin, Jimmy Savile, Stanley Unwin
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Hey Hey Hey – Tammy St John (Pye)
Seven Daffodils – Cherokees (Columbia)
Is It True – Brenda Lee (Brunswick)
Young Love – Bo & Peep (Decca)
Rhythm & Greens – Shadows (Columbia)
I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You – Rockin’ Berries (Pye)
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Saturday 5 September 1964, 5.55-6.20pm
Panel: Anthony Booth, Diane Cilento, Laurie Henshaw, Barbara Roscoe
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Bread And Butter – Barry St John (Decca)
Walk Away – Matt Monro (Parlophone)
Head Over Heels – Mike Rabin & the Demons (Columbia)
Love, Let Me Not Hunger – Jan Burnette (Oriole)
Chills & Fever – Tom Jones (Decca)
Only One Such As You – Adam Faith (Parlophone)
My Kind Of Town – Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
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Saturday 12 September 1964, 5.55-6.20pm
Panel: Dawn Addams, Bill Haley, Don Moss, Viviane Ventura
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
We’re Through – Hollies (Columbia) HIT
Don’t Cry Little Girl – Peter & the Headlines (Decca) MISS
When You Walk In The Room – Searchers (Pye) HIT
People Say – Dixie Cups (Pye International) MISS
Oh Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison (London) HIT
Ringo For President – Young World Singers (Brunswick) MISS
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Saturday 19 September 1964, 6-6.25pm
Panel: Arthur Askey, Honor Blackman, Adam Faith, Lulu
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Jury’s decision not given in RR
I’m Crying – Animals (Columbia)
People – Barbra Streisand (CBS)
Three Little Words – Applejacks (Decca)
I’m Yours – Jimmy Young (Columbia)
Bye Bye Baby – Tony Jackson (Pye)
Goldfinger – Shirley Bassey (Columbia)
There’s No Need To Cry – Don, David & Dean (United Artists)
Camera script also gives Makin’ With The Magilla (Little Eva), One Way Love (Cliff Bennett).
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Saturday 26 September 1964, 5.45-6.10pm
Panel: Roy Castle, Pete Murray, Adrienne Posta, Georgia Brown
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Little Richard (Stateside) HIT
The Twelfth Of Never – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
The Weaver – Pendulums (Pye) HIT
Don’t Walk Away – Kathy Kirby (Decca) MISS
Don’t Let Her Get Away – John Leyton (HMV) MISS
Look Homeward Angel – Fortunes (Decca) HIT
Always Something There To Remind Me – Sandie Shaw (Pye) HIT
I’m On The Outside Lookin’ In – Little Anthony & the Imperials (United Artists) MISS
RT 240964
27,000 jukeboxes in UK and over 1,000 panellists so far.
Discs chosen with “a good beat, a strong melody and excellence of performance”
12m viewers and 700 letters a week.
Panel is right two times out of three
David Jacobs: “Nobody has pretended that JBJ was an authoritative programme of predictions. It is intended simply to be jolly good entertainment based on discs.” -
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Saturday 3 October 1964, 5.45-610pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Alan Freeman, Gene Pitney, Julie Rogers
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Sha La La – Manfred Mann (HMV) HIT
What’s Easy For Two Is So Hard For One – Mary Wells (Stateside) HIT
Google Eye – Nashville Teens (Decca) MISS
I Love The Way You Love – Millie (Fontana) HIT
Cousin Of Mine – Sam Cooke (RCA) MISS
Now We’re Thru – Poets (Decca) MISS
Baby Love – Supremes (Stateside) HIT
La La La La La – Blendells (Reprise) MISS
She Wants T’Swim – Chubby Checker (Cameo Parkway) MISS -
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Saturday 10 October 1964, 5.45-6.10pm
Panel: Judith Chalmers, Peter Cook, P J Proby, Julie Rogers
Producer: Neville Wortman
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Saturday 17 October 1964, 5.45-6.10pm
Panel: Des O’Connor, Jimmy Young, Barbara Kelly, Sandie Shaw
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Any Way You Want It – Dave Clark Five (Columbia) HIT
Blowin’ In The Wind – Marianne Faithfull (Decca) MISS
Don’t Bring Me Down – Pretty Things (Fontana) MISS
The Door Is Still Open – Dean Martin (Reprise) MISS
When I Grow Up – Beach Boys (Capitol) HIT
So Little Time – Diana Dors (Fontana) MISS
Where In The World – Ray Merrell (Pye) MISS
Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Richard Evans produced documentary on A Hard Day’s Night for BBC.
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Saturday 24 October 1964. 5.45-6.10pm
Panel: Sid James, Andrew Oldham, Marchioness of Tavistock, Diana Dors
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Hide’n’Seek – Thyrds (Decca)
Smack Dab In The Middle – Ray Charles (HMV)
Losing You – Dusty Springfield (Philips)
Black Girl – Four Pennies (Philips)
A Boy I Used To Know – Andee Silver (HMV)
All Day And All Of The Night – Kinks (Pye)
And I Love Her – Mark Wynter (Pye)
I Don’t Know What Time It Was – Gloria Roma (Decca)
Bad Blood – Paramounts (Parlophone)
David Jacobs was also in the Light Programme thriller, Follow That Man
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Saturday 31 October 1964, 5.45-6.10pm
Panel: Petula Clark, Marianne Faithfull, Stubby Kaye, Don Wardell
Producer: Neville Wortman
Susie-Q – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) MISS
I Keep Forgettin’ – Hi-Fis (Pye) MISS
I Wish I’d Never Loved You – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Tango – The Mark Five (Fontana) MISS
There’s A Heartache Following Me – Jim Reeves (RCA) HIT
Over Susanne – Tommy Bruce (Columbia) MISS
I’m Gonna Be Strong – Gene Pitney (Stateside) HITMarianne Faithfull: “I’d like it at a party if I was stoned.” Of Tango by The Mark Five
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Saturday 7 November 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Rolf Harris, Portland Mason, Gene Pitney, Margaret Stredder
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Baby I Need Your Lovin’ – Fourmost (Parlophone) HIT
Get Away – Maureen Evans (Oriole) HIT
Playing Around – Eden Kane (Fontana) HIT
Here Comes The Night – Lulu (Decca) MISS
L-O-V-E – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) MISS
Downtown – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Message To Martha –Adam Faith (Parlophone) MISS
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Saturday 14 November 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Joe Brown, Terence Edmond, Jackie De Shannon +1
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Softly In The Night – Three Bells (Columbia) MISS
We’ll Sing In The Sunshine – Lancastrians (Pye) HIT
Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) MISS
One Heart Between Two –Dave Berry (Decca) HIT
Oh Oh Seven – Dora Bryan (Fontana) HIT
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Saturday 21 November 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Alma Cogan, Spike Milligan, Liza Minelli, Pete Murray
Producer: Neville Wortman
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Saturday 28 November 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Lulu, Jean Metcalfe, Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Tears And Kisses – Peter & the Headlines (Decca) MISS
I Could Easily Fall – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Now – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
What Have They Done To The Rain –Searchers (Pye) HIT
Like A Child – Julie Rogers (Mercury) HIT
The Organ Man – Norman Vaughan (Pye) HIT
Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
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Saturday 5 December 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Diahann Carroll, Vic Lewis, Pete Murray, Sandie Shaw
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
No Arms Can Ever Hold You – Bachelors (Decca) HIT
How Soon – Jackie Trent (Pye) MISS
Genie With The Light Brown Lamp – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
I Think I’m Goin’ Out Of My Head – Dodie West (Decca) MISS
Ferry ’Cross The Mersey – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) HIT
Funny Girl – Barbra Streisand (CBS) MISS
Sandie Shaw: “I was awful as a panellist. Quite scathing. ‘No, don’t like that. Rubbish. It’ll never be a hit.’ And then that person would come out from behind the screen so it was quite embarrassing.”
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Saturday 12 December 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Lonnie Donegan, Shirley Eaton, Jimmy Edwards, Polly Elwes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Now – Wolves (Pye) MISS
Getting Mighty Crowded – Betty Everett (Fontana) HIT
Walk Right Back – Mark & John (Decca) HIT
For Mama – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
Love Me Darling – Howlin’ Wolf (Pye International) HIT
Et Meme – Francoise Hardy (Pye) MISS
While discussing Love Me Darling, Lonnie spat on the floor and said the Rolling Stones’ version of Howlin’ Wolf’s Little Red Rooster was a bowdlerisation of the song and a terrible version. Bill was very upset about that and when he met him, he said that was the pot calling the kettle black. They ended up as good friends.
Howlin’ Wolf the Mystery guest
Donegan said, “I don’t care of that kind of blues” that is electric blues. Part of the anti-electric feeling of trad people at the time. -
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Saturday 19 December 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 12 December)
Panel: Marianne Faithfull, Sheila Hancock, Tony Hatch, Kenneth Williams
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
California Bound – Ronny & the Daytones (Stateside)
Lollipops And Roses – Danny Williams (HMV) 1.43
It Isn’t There – Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV)
Jive Jimmy – The Socialites (Warner)
Lookin’ For Love – Hummelflugs (Pye)
If I Fell – Keely Smith (Reprise)
Que Sera Sera – Earl Royce & the Olympics (Columbia) -
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Saturday 26 December 1964, 5.30-5.55pm
Panel: Alan Freeman, Nyree Dawn Porter, William Rushton, Susannah York
Producer: Neville Wortman
Specifications 29.12.64 for January 1965 include 10 scribbling pads, 10 pencils, five thick cushions and one desk bell, one klaxon, 9 Hit and Miss discs
I Juke box (Rock-Ola, Grand Prix, Ruffler and Walker) for 9.1.65
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Saturday 5 January 1963
Panel: Alan Freeman, Spike Milligan, Anne Shelton, Eric Sykes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Dance The Bossa Nova – Frankie Avalon (Pye) HIT
Don’t You Ever Change Your Mind – Patsy Ann Noble (Columbia) HIT
Diamonds – Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (Decca) HIT
All Alone Am I – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
It’s Up To You – Rick Nelson (London) MISS
Some Kinda Fun – Chris Montez (London) HIT
Bossa Nova USA – Dave Brubeck (CBS) MISS
Little Town Flirt – Del Shannon (London) HIT
I Will Follow Him – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Dick James was told Please Please Me would be reviewed on this show
For the first time, Eric Sykes wore a hearing aid on television. He felt he needed it to hear the records properly. Several papers commented on his hearing loss.
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Saturday 12 January 1963
Panel: Stubby Kaye, Pete Murray, Sian Phillips, Una Stubbs
Photo on ebay
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
The Boy I Saw You With – Beverley Jones (HMV) MISS
Rhumba Boogie – Jimmy Rodgers (London) HIT
Teenage Has been – Barry Mann (HMV) HIT
Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia – Philip Green (Columbia) HIT
Hand A Handkerchief To Helen – Susan Maughan (Philips) MISS
Trouble Is My Middle Name – Bobby Vinton (Columbia) MISS
A Taste Of Honey – Acker Bilk (Columbia) HIT
Sounds Funny To Me – Eden Kane (Decca) HIT
Blame It On My Youth – Eydie Gorme (CBS) HIT
Walk Right In – Rooftop Singers (Fontana) MISS
The Times 190163
Commenting on panel games.
On What’s My Line and Juke Box Jury. “Both of them are conducted by ringmasters of exceptional professional competence. Eamonn Andrews and David Jacobs seem impervious to the temptations which beset many other quiz masters. They reveal no mannerisms, they exercise an easy authority and although they radiate good humour, they never indulge in that deadly sin of broadcasting bonhomie.” -
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Saturday 19 January 1963
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Rolf Harris, Jack Jackson, Susan Maughan
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Loop De Loop – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) HIT
I’m A Woman – Peggy Lee (Capitol) HIT
What Now – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
My Colouring Book – Nana Mouskouri (Fontana) MISS
Hava Nagila – Spotnicks (Oriole) HIT
The Wayward Wind – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Tell Him – Alma Cogan (Columbia) HIT
I May Not Live To See Tomorrow – Brian Hyland (HMV) MISS
Town Crier – Craig Douglas (Decca) HIT
There Ain’t A Boy In The World – Wendy Walker (Decca) MISS
Ruby Baby – Dion (CBS) MISSOn Juke Box Jury, jurist Jack Jackson said that Wayward Wind was written by Carbonate Of soda.
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Saturday 26 January 1963
Panel: Jane Asher, Carroll Baker, Brian Hyland, Pete Murray
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Keep A Walkin’ – Bobby Darin (London) HIT
Queen For Tonight – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Take Your Time – Jess Conrad (Columbia) MISS
My Own True Love – Danny Williams (HMV) HIT
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes – Bobby Vee (Liberty) HIT
Little Girl – Steve Aliamo (Pye) MISS
The Lonely Bull – Jack Jones (London) HIT
Gonna Take A Chance – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
Bahia Bossa Nova – Barbara Law (Decca) MISS
Followed by PC Dixon episode, The Bitter Taste Of Youth
On Juke Box Jury, Pete Murray quipped, “If Helen Shapiro’s voice gets any lower, she’ll be giving Paul Robeson a run for his money.”
NME, 1 February 1963PFTP 240163
After a year’s careful viewing of JBJ, I should like to nominate the following team to counteract the sort of pretentious drivel which is normally talked on the programme.
Mai Zetterling, Spike Milligan, Elaine Stritch and David Kossoff with Eric Sykes to stand by and David Tomlinson as a sleeping partner.
A consolation prize to Pete Murray who really belongs to us eggheads but doesn’t like to say so.
J D Palmer, Manchester 19PFTP 140263
My team would be Jane Asher as she always knows her mind and sticks to it; Carole Carr because she knows a good song or tune; Steve Race for his technical knowhow; and Sid James because, well, he is just Sid James. As reserves, Judith Chalmers and Jimmy Young.
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Saturday 2 February 1963
Panel: Sean Connery, Diana Dors, Jean Metcalfe, Mike Sarne
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
I’m In Love – Buddy Greco (Columbia) HIT
Like I’ve Never Been Gone – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
Boss Guitar – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
Hey Paula – Paul & Paula (Philips) MISS
That’s What Love Will Do – Joe Brown (Piccadilly) HIT
Ooh ’e Didn’t – Jan & Kelly (Philips) HIT
What Will Mary Say – Johnny Mathis (CBS) MISS
The World Of Lonely People – Jimmy Justice (Pye) MISS
Oo La La Limbo – Danny & the Juniors (London) HIT
Dr No star, Sean Connery said ‘No’ to most Juke Box Jury discs.
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Saturday 9 February 1963
Panel: Anthea Askey, Arthur Askey, Steve Race, Anne Rogers
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Summer Holiday – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
That Was The Week That Was – Millicent Martin (Parlophone) MISS
One Day – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
Pin A Medal On Joey – James Darren (Pye) MISS
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
Cupboard Love – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
What Kind Of Fool Am I – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
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Saturday 16 February 1963
Panel: Pete Murray, Robin Richmond, Annie Ross, Nancy Spain
Records played:
Alice In Wonderland – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
Johnny Day – Rolf Harris (Columbia) HIT
I Wanna Be Around – Tony Bennett (CBS) MISS
Popsy Wopsy – Clinton Ford (Oriole) MISS
Big Wide World – Teddy Randazzo (Pye) MISS
Return Of The Outlaws – Outlaws (HMV) MISS
Meditation – Pat Boone (London) MISS
Brotherhood Of Man – Jaye P Morgan (MGM) MISS
My Kind Of Girl – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) HIT
The Times 160263
Feature, Functions Of The Captive Audience
The intrusive nature of the studio audience is mitigated by television, and there are programmes, indeed, of which it could be said that audience participation is a paramount element. It can be said, for instance, of Juke Box Jury, an old favourite distinguished by some brilliant camera work. As the record is played the camera picks out the unformed face of a teenager mesmerised by the beat, the pointed shoe tapping out the rhythm, the hand of a lover seeking that of his mate. Without the unconscious cooperation of its fans, Juke Box Jury would lose three-quarters of its fascination.23.2.63 – No Juke Box Jury. Instead, A Song For Europe introduced by David Jacobs
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Saturday 2 March 1963
Panel: Alan Dell, Harry H Corbett, Dusty Springfield, Millicent Martin
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Look Out Chattanooga – Johnnie Ray (Brunswick) HIT
Count On Me – Julie Grant (Pye) HIT
The Desperadoes – Cambridge Strings (Decca) MISS
One Broken Heart For Sale – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
He’s Got The Power – Exciters (United Artists) HIT
Say Wonderful Things – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
Foot Tapper – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Our Day Will Come – Ruby & the Romantics (London) MISS
Darkest Street In Town – Jimmy Clanton (Stateside) MISS
Harry H Corbett raved about Our Day Will Come and said there was a lot of good music coming from America. (Brian O’Connell)
PFTP 070363
Why do members of the JBJ panel have to be so sarcastic to each other? This spoils an otherwise enjoyable programme.
Miss B Bellis (16), HolywellPFTP 070363
Could we have some pictures of pretty girls? The concentration seems to be on expressionless head-nodders. Often the subjects chosen are bizarre in styles, ranging from near beatnik to femme fatale, while others are undeniably plain. Where is the warmth, sparkle and vivacity that we associate with youth. Surely there are pretty girls in the JJB audience who could charm our eyes, even though our ears are suffering.
Miss Winifred Williams, Liverpool 25Suggested fee for serial rights of David Jacobs’ magazine biography – £20,000.
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Saturday 9 March 1963
Panel: Carole Carr, Spike Milligan, Chris Montez, Janette Scott
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
How Do You Do It – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) MISS
I See The Moon – Nancy Sinatra (Reprise) HIT
Code Of Love – Mike Sarne (Parlophone) HIT
Can’t Get Used To Losing You – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
Robot – Tornados (Decca) MISS
Sparrows Can’t Sing – Barbara Windsor (HMV) MISS
Let’s Limbo Some More – Chubby Checker (Cameo-Parkway) HIT
So It Always Will Be – Everly Brothers (Warner) MISS
The Folk Singer – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
Why Can’t We Love – Sounds of Les & Mitch (Fontana) HIT
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Saturday 16 March 1963
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Angela Douglas, David Gell, Sid James
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Punish Her – Mike Preston (Decca) HIT
Walk Like A Man – Four Seasons (Stateside) HIT
Tomorrow Is Another Day – Maureen Evans (Oriole) MISS
Cigarettes And Coffee Blues – Marty Robbins (Fontana) HIT
Them Terrible Boots – Orlons (Cameo Parkway) HIT
Follow The Boys – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Misery – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Say I Won’t Be There – Springfields (Philips) MISS
Can You Forgive Me – Karl Denver (Decca) MISS
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Saturday 23 March 1963
Panel: Jane Asher, Henry Mancini, Pete Murray, Marcie Blaine
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Baby Workout – Jackie Wilson (Coral) HIT
Don’t Play Me A Love Song – Shirley Jackson (Decca) MISS
Losing By A Hair – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) MISS
Losing You – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
The Jive Samba – Cannonball Adderley (Riverside) MISS
Flash, Bang, Wallop! – Tommy Steele (Decca) HIT
Why Do Lovers Break Each Other’s Hearts – Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans (London) HIT
Little Band Of Gold – James Gilreath (Pye) MISS
By Hook Or By Crook – Sandra Browne & the Boy Friends (Columbia) MISS
Aladdin’s Lamp – Mark Wynter (Pye) HITProducer Neville Wortman: “I went for all sorts of people. I went for Maria Callas at one point and her manager was horrified – there was a terrible silence at the end of the phone. He said, “You might just as well ask her to stand on her head.”
Producer Neville Wortman: “Steve Race was really good, he was an expert and could speak eruditely. Nancy Spain who wrote for the Daily Express was brilliant. She lived with Sheila Van Damn and they were killed in an air crash. Bunny Lewis wasn’t one of my choices but he certainly knew about the scene. Really we were looking for attractive personalities who could relate to an audience. Henry Mancini was a regular guest. He was marvellous and could speak knowledgably. Annie Ross was very good.”
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Saturday 30 March 1963
Panel: Jimmy Henney, Hattie Jacques, Eric Sykes, Margaret Whiting
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Call Me B’wana – Bob Hope (United Artists) MISS
The Boy I Used To Know – Jan Burnette (Oriole) MISS
Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Keep On Dancing – Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Decca) HIT
It Looks Like They’re In Love – Cleo Laine (Fontana) HIT
Manana Pasado Manana – Acker Bilk (Columbia) HIT
My Love – Christine Campbell (Parlophone) MISS
On Broadway – Drifters (London) HIT
My Little Baby – Mike Berry (HMV) MISS
Margaret Whiting had million seller with Billy Reid’s Tree In The Meadow
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Saturday 6 April 1963
Panel: Alan Freeman, Dolores Gray, Barbara Windsor, Jimmy Young
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
He’s So Fine – The Chiffons (Stateside) HIT
Mississippi Mud – Winifred Atwell (Pye) HIT
Heartbreak Avenue – Patsy Ann Noble (Columbia) MISS
Do The Bird – Dee Dee Sharp (Cameo Parkway) HIT
Casanova – Petula Clark (Pye) MISS
Casablanca – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
I Will Follow Him – Little Peggy March (RCA) HIT
La Malaguena – Caterina Valente (Decca) MISS
Tomcat – Rooftop Singers (Fontana) HIT
I’m Gonna Let My Hair Down – Vernons Girls (Decca) MISS
Half A Sixpence – Billy Cotton & Kathie Kay (Columbia) MISS
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Saturday 13 April 1963
Panel: Arthur Askey, Steve Race, Sabrina, June Thorburn
From what I recall, Sabrina didn’t say a word.
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
It’s A Pity To Say Goodnight – Donna Douglas (Pye) HIT
Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad About My Baby – The Cookies (London) MISS
More – Danny Williams (HMV) HIT
Scarlett O’Hara – Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (Decca) MISS
Here I Stand – The Ripchords (CBS) MISS
Young Lovers – Paul & Paula (Philips) MISS
Watermelon Man – Mongo Santamaria (Riverside) HIT
Some Other Guy – Big Three (Decca) MISS
Night Cry – Bert Weedon (HMV) HIT
According to Mark Lewisohn, From Me To You was played.
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Saturday 20 April 1963
Panel: Alan Dell, Louise Dunn, Harry Fowler, Julia Lockwood
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
The Girl I Love – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
What Are Boys Made Of – The Percells (HMV) HIT
There’s No Such Thing As Love – Anthony Newley (Decca) HIT
Like Lazy – Barry Alldis (Decca) MISS
Two Kinds Of Teardrops – Del Shannon (London) MISS
Woe Is Me – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Call Me Irresponsible – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) HIT
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love – Tommy Bruce (Columbia) HIT
She’s New To You – Susan Maughan (Philips) MISS
Gone With The Wind – Duprees (London) MISS
There Are 8,000,000 Cossack Melodies And This Is One Of Them – Group X (Fontana) HIT
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Saturday 27 April 1963
Panel: Keith Fordyce, Sheila Hancock, Henry Mancini, Jean Metcalfe
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Let’s Make A Habit Of This – Doug Sheldon (Decca) HIT
Sunday – Tony & the Velvets (Decca) MISS
Wishing Star – Maxine Starr (London) MISS
I Loved You – Tony Osborne (Decca) HIT
Harvest Of Love – Benny Hill (Pye) HIT
Lost Dreams And Lonely Tears – Dickie Valentine (Philips) HIT
If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody – Buddy Britten (Oriole) MISS
I’ll Walk The Rest Of The Way – Ruby Murray (Columbia) MISS
I Got What I Wanted – Brook Benton (Mercury) HIT
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Saturday 4 May 1963
Panel: Dora Bryan, Judith Chalmers, Pete Murray, Andy Williams
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Remember Diana – Paul Anka (RCA) MISS
Ups And Downs Of Love – Freddie Cannon (Stateside) MISS
What A Guy – Raindrops (London) MISS
Foolish Little Girl – Shirelles (Stateside) HIT
Diane – Joe Harnell & his Orchestra (London) HIT
Lucky Lips – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Swing That Hammer – Mike Cotton’s Jazzmen (Columbia) HIT
The Last Leaf – Cascades (Warner) HIT
Bee Bom – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
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Saturday 11 May 1963
Panel: Carole Carr, Angela Douglas, Del Shannon, Johnny Tillotson
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Run Run Senorita – Wanderers (United Artists) HIT
Make Up Your Mind – Buddy Greco (Columbia) HIT
When Will You Say I Love You – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
What’s All That About – Zephyrs (Decca) MISS
Let’s Go Steady Again – Neil Sedaka (RCA) MISS
Take These Chains From My Heart – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
The Bird On The Second Floor – Bernard Cribbins (Parlophone) HIT
So Little Time – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart – Furys (Stateside) MISS
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Saturday 18 May 1963
Panel: Jacqui Chan, Polly Elwes, Don Moss +1
Producer: Neville Wortman
Juke Box Jury episode Records played:
Lovers Lane – Pat Boone (London) HIT
I Like It – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) HIT
Melancholy Me – Jackie Trent (Piccadilly) MISS
Ice Cream Man – Tornados (Decca) HIT
Forget Him – Bobby Rydell (Cameo-Parkway) MISS
He’s The One – Billie Davis (Decca) HIT
Just Before Dawn – Ned Miller (London) MISS
Early Night – Kiki Dee (Fontana) HIT
Don’t Make My Baby Blue – Frankie Laine (CBS) HIT
IF You Wanna Be Happy – Jimmy Soul (Stateside) HIT
Vini Vini – Chris Barber’s Jazz Band (Columbia) MISS
Every panellist on Saturday’s Juke Box Jury voted current Bobby Rydell release a miss – but it was already in the NME hit parade! NME, 24 May 1963 – single Forget Him. Was this a recorded show?
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Saturday 25 May 1963
Panel: Eva Bartok, Sam Costa, Jimmy Henney, Nancy SpainProducer: Neville Wortman
Records played:Faraway Places – Bachelors (Decca) HIT
Don’t Try To Fight It Baby – Eydie Gorme (CBS) MISS
You Can Never Stop Me Loving You – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Hoe Down – Johnny Dankworth (Fontana) MISS
Falling – Roy Orbison (London) HIT
It’s My Party – Lesley Gore (Mercury) MISS
Why Do We Have To Wait So Long – Adam Wade (Columbia) HIT
That’s How Heartaches Are Made – Julie Grant (Pye) MISS
On The Scene – Les Reed (Pye) HIT
Don’t Try To Change Me – Crickets (Liberty) HIT
Soulville – Dinah Washington (Columbia) HIT
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Saturday 1 June 1963
Panel: Tony Meehan, Barbara Murray, Pete Murray, Annie Ross
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Around And Around – Lonnie Jay & the Jaynes (Stateside) MISS
Danke Schoen – Craig Douglas (Decca) MISS
Gravy Waltz – Millicent Martin (Parlophone) MISS
Riviera Cafe – Lance Percival (Parlophone) HIT
Atlantis – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Tomorrow Night – Eden Kane (Fontana) MISS
See If She Cares – Faron’s Flamingos (Oriole) HIT
Sally – Tubby Hayes Quartet (Fontana) MISS
Blue On Blue – Bobby Vinton (Columbia) MISS
Da Doo Ron Ron – Crystals (London) HIT
(I Love You) Don’t You Forget It – Perry Como (RCA) MISS
Love Is A Ball – Billy Eckstine & Damita Jo (Mercury) MISS
It’s Been Nice – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
Keith Fordyce said on Lucky Stars last Saturday that Craig Douglas, Mark Wynter and Jimmy Justice were better singers than Rick Nelson.
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Saturday 8 June 1963, 6.35-7pm
Panel: Liz Fraser, Millicent Martin, Lance Percival, Jimmy Young
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Hey Mama – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) HIT
Ain’t That A Shame – Four Seasons (Stateside) HIT
Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) HIT
To Give My Love To You – Cloda Rogers (Decca) MISS
Black Cloud – Chubby Checker (Cameo-Parkway) MISS
Indian Love Call – Karl Denver (Decca) MISS
Rondo – Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen (Pye) HIT
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Saturday 15 June 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Juliette Greco, Jean Metcalfe, Peter Sellers, Maurice Woodruff
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Little Latin Lupe Lu – Righteous Brothers (London) HIT
Smile – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) HIT
Ain’t Gonna Kiss Ya – Simone Jackson (Pye) HIT
Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto (HMV) HIT
Kiss And Run – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
Moonlight Tango – Acker Bilk (Columbia) HIT
Nature’s Time For Love – Joe Brown (Pye) HIT
The Good Life – Tony Bennett (CBS) HIT
This Empty Place – Dionne Warwick (Stateside) HIT
The Wild Wind – Danny Williams (HMV) MISS
Cry Baby – Mal Ryder (Decca) MISS
A Beggar In Love – Clinton Ford (Columbia) MISS
9 straight hits!
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Saturday 22 June 1963, 6.35-7pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Sandy Baron, Alan Dell, Dorothy Peterson
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Walkin’ Tall – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Little Miss Fool – Marcie Blane (Decca) MISS
Confessin’ – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
There’s A Place – Kestrels (Piccadilly) HIT
Valentino – Petula Clark (Pye) MISS
I Know A Man – Rolf Harris (Columbia) HIT
Every Step Of The Way – Johnny Mathis (CBS) HIT
I’ll Cut Your Tail Off – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
I Really Don’t Want To Know – Little Esther Phillips (Ember) HIT
Rip Van Winkle – Steve Race (Parlophone) MISS
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Saturday 29 June 1963, 6.35-7pm
(Recorded 22 June, 8.30-9.15pm)
Panel: Catherine Boyle, John Lennon, Caroline Maudling, Bruce Prochnik
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Southend – Cleo Laine (Fontana) MISS
B side was Watch Your Step
So Much In Love – The Tymes (Cameo Parkway) MISS
JL: “I thought it was Rolf Harris at first, and then I thought, It’s the Drifters.”
Devil In Disguise – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
JL’s harshest criticism
John Lennon doesn’t like Elvis Presley – so what?
NME, 26 July 1963
The Click Song – Miriam Makeba & Harry Belafonte (London) MISS
JL: “If it was in English, it’d mean even less. It’s intriguing because it’s foreign.”
On Top Of Spaghetti – Tom Glazer (London) MISS
JL: “I can’t stand these ‘all together now’ records. I prefer Little Eva’s Old Smokey Locomotion.”
Flamenco – Russ Conway (Columbia) MISS
JL: “I like pianos but not pub pianos playing flamenco music. Didn’t sound anything like flamenco.”
First Quarrel – Paul & Paula (Philips) MISS
JL: “I liked their first record because I liked the octave singing, her singing one above him. This second wasn’t worth bothering about. This had Jim in it. American records are always about Jim and Bobby and Alfred.”
Don’t Ever Let Me Down – Julie Grant (Pye) MISS
JL: “I thought ‘Ah, one of those with an intro, but the intro was enough.”
Photo of smiling Bruce Prochnik in Radio Times, looking about 14. He had played the title role in Oliver! on Broadway
Caroline Maudling was stepping in for Zsa Zsa Gabor
Caroline was Reginald Maudling’s daughter and was in Frankie Vaughan film, It’s All Over Town.
Katie Boyle was hosting the Eurovision Song ContestJohn Lennon did a Johnny Mathis, giving negative reviews of every disc. He voted all but one a Miss. Didn’t harm his career though.
Producer Neville Wortman: “I had John Lennon on before the rest of the Beatles. A music publisher told me that John Lennon would be a marvellous guest so I rang him and he came in and had lunch with us at the Television Centre with his leather jacket and it was a marvellous lunch in which he spoke about everything. It was a cinch to have him. A lot of people came up from Liverpool and elsewhere for that show. The Shepherd’s Bush Empire was besieged. That is when I thought this is going to be something much bigger than I thought it was. John Lennon was a great panellist as he didn’t care what he said. He stood from the rest of the panel that day.”
The Beatles were playing in Abergavenny that night but they didn’t have to take the stage until 10.30pm at the Town Hall Ballroom. John Lennon was flown by helicopter from London at a cost of £100 and touched down at the the Penypound football ground at 9.50pm. They played to 600 fans and then stayed overnight at the Angel Hotel.
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Saturday 6 July 1963, 7-7.25pm
Panel: Ian Carmichael, Alma Cogan, Steve Race, June Ritchie
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Patty Baby – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS
Not Responsible – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
True Love – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
One Fine Day – Chiffons (Stateside) MISS
I Wonder – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
Ugly Bug Ball – Alex Welsh (Columbia) MISS
Mary Rose – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
The Times, 060763
I am a devotee of JBJ principally because the camera has such a quick eye for the mannerisms and reactions of the bewitched onlookers. There is an old English word for this condition, more expressive than ‘bewitched’. It is betwattled.On Juke Box Jury, Steve Race brilliantly summed up Brenda Lee last Saturday.
NME 12 July 1963On Lucky Stars, Brian Matthew didn’t have DJ’s assurance; guest disc-jockey Sam Costa most unfunny.
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Saturday 13 July 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Esma Cannon, Albert Finney, Pip Hinton, Bunny Lewis
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Come On Home – Springfields (Philips) HIT
Don’t Do That – Shane Fenton & the Fentones (Parlophone) HIT
He’s So Near – Maureen Scott (HMV) HIT
Too Late To Worry – Richard Anthony (Columbia) HIT
Not Too Young To Get Married – Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans (London) HIT
If I Ruled The World – Terry Lightfoot & his Jazzmen (Columbia) HIT
Busy Doing Nothing – Don Spencer (HMV) MISS
Easier Said Than Done – Essex (Columbia) MISS
Ring Of Fire – Johnny Cash (CBS) MISS
A Fool In Love – Jan Burnette (Oriole) MISS
Wipe Out – Surfaris (London) HIT
Summer Skies And Golden Sands – Overlanders (Pye) HIT
Maureen Scott was a London folk singer spotted by a Disney executive Jimmy Johnson and signed for Buena Vista, released here on HMV.
Albert Finney amateurish alongside Bunny Lewis on Juke Box Jury.
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Saturday 20 July 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Keith Fordyce, France Nuyen, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Yes I Do – Pete Maclaine & the Clan (Decca) MISS
You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry – Caravelles (Decca) MISS
Rock Me In The Cradle Of Love – Dee Dee Sharp (Cameo-Parkway) HIT
Taxi – Harry Robinson Crew (Decca) MISS
In Summer – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
All I Want To Do Is Run – Elektras (United Artists) MISS
I Can’t Stop Loving You – Count Basie (Reprise) MISS
After You’ve Gone – Alice Babs (Fontana) MISS
Don’t Blow Us Up – Clay Morton (Decca) MISS
Green Green – New Christy Minstrels (CBS) MISS
Pete Maclaine: “I wrote Yes I Do in a Merseybeat style and it was voted a Miss largely because Kenneth Williams didn’t like it. Keith Fordyce thought it was okay. We knew it was going to be on and we were working in Prestatyn that night. We ran round the corner and knocked on the first house, explained who we were and that our record was going to be played. They asked us what it was called and they told us that it had already been on and had been voted a Miss, so we went to the pub.”
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Saturday 27 July 1963, 6.35-7pm
Panel: Carole Deene, David Gell, Nancy Spain, Paul Wallace
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Angie – Gregory Phillips (Pye) HIT
Valentina – Spotnicks (Oriole) MISS
My True Confession – Brook Benton (Mercury) HIT
Like The Big Guys Do – Harry H Corbett (Pye) HIT
The Verdict Is Guilty – Susan Maughan (Philips) HIT
Bad To Me – Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas (Parlophone) HIT
The Song Of Rome – Van Doren (Decca) MISS
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Saturday 3 August 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Angela Douglas, Jimmy Henney, Janette Scott, Jimmy Young
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Sally – Rockin’ Henri & the Hayseeds (Decca) MISS
It’s Time We Parted – Bobby Rydell (Cameo-Parkway) MISS
Just Tell Him Jane Said Hello – Gerri Granger (London) MISS
Don Diddley – Bobby Rio (Stateside) HIT
I’m Tellin You Now – Freddie & the Dreamers (Columbia) HIT
Come Blow Your Horn – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) MISS
Still – Karl Denver (Decca) HIT
Ooh I Can’t – Jan & Kelly (Philips) HIT
Mama Don’t Allow – Rooftop Singers (Fontana) HIT
I Know – Beryl Marsden (Decca) MISS
Looking For Love – Earl Sinks (Capitol) MISS