Programmes
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Saturday 10 August 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Carole Carr, Ted King, Barbara Windsor, Graham Hill
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
I Won’t Miss You – Dev Douglas (Parlophone) MISS
I Want To Stay Here – Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (CBS) HIT
Accidents Will Happen – Patsy Ann Noble (Columbia) HIT
It’s All In The Game – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
When The Saints Go Marching In – Pinky & Perky (Columbia) MISS
Let Me Tell You – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Whispering – Bachelors (Decca) HIT
Running To You – Mark Wynter (Pye) HIT
Whisper Wonderful Words – Christine Quaife (Oriole) MISS
I Do – Chris Ravel & The Ravers (Decca) MISS
Steptoe And Son – Joe Loss & his Orchestra (HMV) HIT
Mark was behind the screen
Chubby Checker might be the other panel member.
Cliff Richard was in the 100th edition of Thank Your Lucky Stars.
Disc-jockey David Jacobs a little disappointed with Beatles’ new single.
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Saturday 17 August 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Pat Boone, Polly Elwes, Carol Ann Ford, Vic Lewis
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Martian Hop – Ran-Dells (London) HIT
Two Silhouettes – Del Shannon (London) MISS
Don’t Do Me Any Favours – Rose Brennan (Philips) MISS
Your Baby’s Gone Surfin’ – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
Searchin’ – Hollies (Parlophone) MISS (all four)
It’s Over – Mike Stephen (Decca) HIT
Look At Him – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
A Little Like Lovin’ – Cascades (RCA) HIT
I’m Wondering – Statesmen (Decca) MISS
My Baby Loves To Dance – Chris Montez (London) HIT
Dum Dum Dee Dum – Johnny Cymbal (London) HIT
Drownin’ My Sorrows was Connie Francis A-side in US.
Norman Jopling wrote a piece about the Hollies, A Hit Despite JBJ, for Record Mirror
Pat Boone urged fans to buy the original by the Coasters. (He should talk!)On Lucky Stars, Chubby Checker twisted up a storm.
NME, 23 August 1963Around this time, there was a summer series on Grampian, Dad, You’re A Square
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Saturday 24 August 1963, 6.35-7pm
Panel: Tom Courtenay, Little Peggy March, Peter Noble, Joan Turner
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
The Dreamer – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
Judy’s Turn To Cry – Lesley Gore (Mercury) HIT
She Loves You – The Beatles (Parlophone) HIT
A Doodlin’ Song – Peggy Lee (Capitol) MISS
You Must Be Jokin’ – Wee Willie Harris (HMV) HIT
Wait ’Til My Bobby Gets Home – Darlene Love (London) MISS
Frankie And Johnny – Sam Cooke (RCA) HIT
Summertime, Summertime – The Fortunes (Decca) MISS
The +1 is almost certainly Joan Turner. Hilarious but turned the programme into The Joan Turner Show Rest of panel not amused. She was doing a DJ show for the Light Programme.
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Saturday 31 August 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Terence Edmond, Jean Metcalfe, Don Moss, Polly Perkins
Photo of Polly Perkins in RT!
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
You’re Gonna Need My Loving – Jimmy Justice (Pye) HIT
Wishing – Buddy Holly (Coral) HIT
It Hurts To Be Sixteen – Andrea Carroll (London) MISS
No One – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
A Day Without You – Danny Williams (HMV) MISS
Applejack – Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (Decca) HIT
Hey There Lonely Boy – Ruby & the Romantics (London) HIT
I’m So Glad I Found Her – Craig Douglas (Decca) HIT
Humdrum Blues – Elaine Delmar (Columbia) MISS
The Kind Of Boy You Can’t Forget – Raindrops (London) HIT
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Saturday 7 September 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Alan Freeman, Tommy Roe, Shirley Anne Field
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Please Don’t Stop – Mike Sarne (Parlophone) HIT
Then He Kissed Me – Crystals (London) HIT
Secondhand – Wilfrid Brambell (Parlophone) MISS
Do You Love Me – Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Decca) HIT
Nine Out Of Ten Girls – Kaye Sisters (Philips) MISS
Yakka Hula Hickey Dula – Dutch Swing College Band (Philips) MISS
Sally Ann – Joe Brown (Piccadilly) HIT
Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee – Osmond Brothers (MGM) MISS
Everybody Monkey – Freddie Cannon (Stateside) HIT
Love Me With All Your Heart – Kestrels (Pye) MISS
Memphis Tennesssee – Dave Berry & the Cruisers (Decca) MISS
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Saturday 14 September 1963, 6-6.30pm
Panel: Sam Costa, Louise Dunn, Anne Nightingale, Bruce Prochnik
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
The First Time – Adam Faith & the Roulettes (Parlophone) HIT
Say You Do – Danny Storm (Pye) MISS
That Sunday, That Summer – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) HIT
Like I Love You – Eden Kane (Fontana) MISS
Blue Velvet – Bobby Vinton (Columbia) MISS
Shindig – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Straighten Up Your Heart – Barbara Lewis (London) MISS
Three Rows Over – Bobby Curtola (Decca) MISS
Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison (London) HIT
Everybody – Tommy Roe (HMV) MISS
One Mile Over, Two Miles Back – Bill Anderson (Brunswick) HIT
You’d Think He Didn’t Know Me – Sandra Browne (Columbia) HIT
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Saturday 21 September 1963, 6-6.35pm
Panel: Dora Bryan, Alan Dell, Adam Faith, Caroline Mortimer
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Come And Join The Party – Keith Powell & the Valets (Columbia) HIT
Somebody Else’s Girl – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
Point Panic – Surfaris (Brunswick) MISS
Lemon Tree – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) MISS
I (Who Have Nothing) – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) MISS
Everybody Shake – Grant Tracy (Decca) MISS
Sure My Love – Dave Ventura (Philips) MISS
I’ll Find You Again – Pat Boone (London) MISS
The Anvil Chorus – Freddie Randall Band (Parlophone) HIT
Sooner Or Later – Johnny Mathis (CBS) MISS
Gonna Make Him Mine – Orchids (Decca) MISS
Caroline Mortimer, daughter of John, currently filming Saturday Night Out
MM for 210963. Poll for top TV show. Thank Your Lucky Stars (68%), Juke Box Jury (10), TW3 (6), Steptoe (2), Sunday Night At LP (2), Black And White (1)
Valerie Harbottle from Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Disc 140963
“What on earth do these programme planners think they are playing at? For weeks and weeks I’ve looked forward to seeing Adam Faith on Juke Box Jury and Thank Your Lucky Stars and now he is to appear on each programme on the same day. Whose ridiculous idea was that?
“What makes it more infuriating is to find that his appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars was deliberately brought forward a week. It seems that we Faith fans are being got at.”Disc 051063
F A Palmer, Cheshire.
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Saturday 28 September 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Jess Conrad, Peter Murray, Barbara Windsor
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Heartaches On The Way – Terry Stafford (Stateside) MISS
Be My Baby – Grazina (Frame) (HMV) MISS
Dragonfly – Tornados (Decca) HIT
Yesterday’s Gone – Chad & Jeremy (Ember) HIT
Miss You – Jimmy Young (Columbia) HIT
Love Of The Loved – Cilla Black (Parlophone) HIT
I’ll Take You Home – Drifters (London) HIT
Magic Carpet – Dakotas (Parlophone) MISS
My Resistance Is Low – Buddy Britten & the Regents (Oriole) MISS
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Saturday 5 October 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Bunny Lewis, Julia Lockwood, Helen Shapiro, Wolf Mankowitz
Before the programme, the panel were told to put more comment, bite and criticism into their remarks.
The Girl Sang The Blues – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
When Lewis spoke of the familiar thump thump thump of a record by the Everly Brothers, Mankowitz said, ‘I don’t know why Bunny Lewis should imply that this thump is inferior to his own thump that gets him a fantastic living as a lyric writer and composer.
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Ain’t Gonna Kiss You – Jean Martin (Decca) HIT
Sally Go ’Round The Roses – Jaynetts (Stateside) MISS
Hey Little Girl – Ray Sharpe (United Artists) MISS
From Russia With Love – Matt Monro (Parlophone) MISS
Baby It’s Me – Petula Clark (Pye) MISS
Lewis: “Her singing is not virile enough.”
Mankowitz: “She is a girl and not expected to be virile.”
Jacobs: “Can’t you have virile girls?”
Lewis: “Not in Wolf’s household”
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & the Pacemakers (Columbia) HIT
Mankowitz: “A turgid voice which failed to move me to anything but extreme nausea.”
Lewis: “I’m tired of hearing the song sung by some tired old baritone such as you can hear in Wolf’s shows.”
Washington Square – Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen (Pye) HIT
Be My Baby – Ronettes (London) HIT
Daily Mirror 071063
The BBC’s new get-with-it policy set its phones ringing with complaints from angry viewers on Saturday night. For the show developed into a slanging match between two panellists, composer Bunny Lewis and show-writer Wolk Mankowitz. Lewis and Mankowitz were acid in their opinions about the discs – and each other. -
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Saturday 12 October 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Jim Backus, Tonia Bern, Kenny Lynch, Rita Moreno
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
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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
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Saturday 26 October 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Brian Epstein, Jimmy Henney, Heather Sears, Barbara Young
Producer: Richard Evans
Records played:
Sweet As Honey – Polly Perkins (Oriole) MISS
From Russia With Love – Craig Douglas (Decca) MISS
Little Eefin’ Annie – Joe Perkins (London) HIT
Busted – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
Secret Love – Kathy Kirby (Decca) HIT
It’s Almost Tomorrow – Mark Wynter (Pye) MISS
Jealous Heart – Ottilie Patterson (Columbia) MISS
What Kind Of Girl Are You – Dave Curtiss & the Tremors (Philips) MISS
My Friend Bobby – Pamela Blue (Decca) MISS
500 Miles Away From Home – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) MISS
Programme recorded previous week
Epstein paid 30gDavid Jacobs on Juke Box Jury didn’t know that Mark Wynter’s It’s Almost Tomorrow was a revival.
This was broadcast same time as Beatles on Thank Your Lucky Stars.
David Jacobs says, “A real juke box would be no good for this job: they take too long to select and play.”
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Saturday 2 November 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Cilla Black, Dick Haymes, Pete Murray, Yana
Pete Murray now billed as Peter Murray
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Saturday Night – New Christy Minstrels (CBS) MISS
I’ll Keep You Satisfied – Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas (Parlophone) HIT
The Father Of Girls – Anthony Newley (Decca) MISS
You Were Made For Me – Freddie & the Dreamers (Columbia) MISS
Freddie Garrity: “Cilla Black on JBJ said it sounded like Freda and the Dreamers so that speaks for itself. It sold 750,000 copies in the UK alone though.”
Don’t Talk To Him – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Swinging On A Star – Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva (Colpix) HIT
The Long March – Ken Thorne & Ray Davies (HMV) MISS
Country Boy – Heinz (Decca) HIT
I Am – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
Heinz was behind the screen. Cilla said she didn’t like his voice, but said to him, “I like you though.”
Cilla Black paid 30g
Producer Neville Wortman: “I think Juke Box Jury launched Cilla Black’s career. It took her out from just being a singer to someone who can really relate to the public. She would say anything and she was like John Lennon in that respect. Brian Epstein also liked appearing but he wasn’t a natural performer although he was a good judge of music. He didn’t relate to cameras very well.”
Producer Neville Wortman: “Pete Murray wanted to be an actor, he got a silver medal at RADA and he is a very serious man. We did think of trying other presenters for Juke Box Jury like Pete, Alan Freeman and Jimmy Savile, but none of them would have been right. Jimmy Savile was a strange man and you never quite got to know him. Pete and David were great mates but they would have friendly arguments with each other in Juke Box Jury. David did think that Pete might take over the show but I don’t think that Pete ever wanted that. David went through to the end but he should have gone before.”
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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
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Saturday 16 November 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Linda Christian, Alan Dell, Edmund Purdom
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Glad All Over – Dave Clark Five (Columbia) HIT
Kansas City – Trini Lopez (Reprise) MISS
I’m In Love – Fourmost (Parlophone) HIT
Don’t Wait Too Long – Tony Bennett (CBS) MISS
Guitar’d And Feather’d – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
I Can Dance – Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Decca) HIT
Talk Back Trembling Lips – Johnny Tillotson (MGM) HIT
All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle – Dora Bryan (Fontana) HIT
Money – Bern Elliott & The Fenmen (Decca) HIT
If Edmund Purdom hasn’t heard of Tony Bennett, why appear on Juke Box Jury?
Alley Cat, 22 November 1963
Dee Dee Sharp not able to appear and replaced by Jane Asher at last minute
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Saturday 23 November 1963, 6.05-6.30pm
Panel: Cilla Black, Sid James, Don Moss, Anna Quayle
Producer: Neville Wortman (8-3)
I Want To Hold Your Hand – Beatles (Parlophone) HIT
Anyone Else – Gene McDaniels (Liberty) HIT
Beautiful Dreamer – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
I Like What You Do – Pat Boone (London) MISS
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World – Shirelles (Pye International) MISS
Bad Girl – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
If You Gotta Pick A Baby – Glenda Collins (HMV) HIT
The Banjo Song – Mike Hurst (Philips) HIT
Bless ’Em All – Jane Morgan (Colpix) MISS
That Boy Of Mine – Breakaways (Pye) HIT
Since We Fell In Love – Bobby Rydell (Cameo Parkway) HIT
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Saturday 30 November 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
Panel: June Ritchie, Nancy Spain, Jimmy Young, Ty Hardin
Producer: Neville Wortman (5-4)
Records played:
How Deep Is The Ocean – Shel Naylor (Decca) MISS
Jinglin’ Bells – Max Bygraves (Decca) HIT
Say It Again – Chimes (Decca) MISS
How Do You Keep From Crying – Danny Williams (HMV) HIT
Geronimo – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Mickey’s Monkey – Doug Sheldon (Decca) MISS
Do You Hear What I Hear – Bing Crosby (Capitol) MISS
Loddy Lo – Chubby Checker (Cameo Parkway) HIT
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Saturday 7 December 1963, 6.05-6.35pm
(32.00)
Panel: The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr)
Second jury – Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose (National secs) and Freda Kelly (Merseyside and Lancs area of fan club)
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
I Could Write A Book – The Chants (Pye) 0.54 HIT
“The bestest gear” (John Lennon)
Kiss Me Quick – Elvis Presley (RCA) 1.10 HIT
Ringo: “Last two years he’s been going down the nick.”
PAUL: “The only thing I don’t like about Elvis now is the songs. You know, I love his voice. I used to love all the records like ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ and ‘Heartbreak Hotel,’ lovely. But I don’t like the songs now. And Kiss Me Quick, it sounds like Blackpool on a sunny day.”
RINGO: “I didn’t like it at all, no.”
GEORGE: “I must admit I didn’t like it very much. Not at all. It’s an old track. And I think, seeing as they’re releasing old stuff, if they release something like ‘My Baby Left Me’ it’d be number one. Because Elvis is definitely still popular, it’s just the song’s a load of rubbish. I mean, Elvis is great. He’s fine. But it’s not for me.”
JOHN: “Well, I think it’ll be a hit because it’s Elvis, like people said. But I don’t think it’ll be very great. (comically) I like those hats, though, with ‘Kiss Me Quick’ on it!”
Secnd panel was from the fan club secretaries – Anne Collingham, Bettina Rose and Freda KellyHippy Hippy Shake – Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV) 0.53 HIT
John also says he likes Bill Harry’s version, which brings a knowing laugh from the crowd. All prefer Chan Romero’s original.
Bill Harry: “I loved Hippy Hippy Shake by Chan Romero and I used to write in Mersey Beat that some group should pick up on this number. When the Beatles were the panel for Juke Box Jury at the Liverpool Empire, they played the Swinging Blue Jeans’ record of Hippy Hippy Shake, which the Beatles hadn’t heard before. John Lennon said, ‘I like Bill Harry’s version’ which was a little in-joke. We were sitting there in the audience with a leg of lamb which Virginia had bought for Sunday lunch.”
Did You Have A Happy Birthday – Paul Anka (RCA) 0.52 MISS
George: Hearing this would spoil my own birthday.
The Nitty Gritty – Shirley Ellis (London) 1.00 MISS
John mistakes this for Mary Wells at first, but says he would buy it.
I Can’t Stop Talkin’ About You – Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (CBS) 1.00 HIT
Paul and George find it catchy but John says that Goffin and King can do better.
Do You Really Love Me Too – Billy Fury (Decca) 1.18 HIT
Paul compares the tune to Benny Hill’s Harvest Of Love.
There! I’ve Said It Again – Bobby Vinton (Columbia) 0.53 MISS
Too bland for the Beatles, but it was to knock the Beatles off No l in the US
Love Hit Me – The Orchids (Decca) 1.16 MISS
Schoolgirls from Coventry. John finds it too much of a Spector clone but George and Paul are enthusiastic. They switch their votes and JL says he will buy 10 copies when the Orchids, in the audience, are introduced.
I Think Of You – Merseybeats (Fontana) 1.02 HIT
Only time to vote and it’s a HitAlso in the camera script running order, but not used,
Broken Home – Shirley Jackson (Decca) 1.13
Where Have You Been All My Life – Gene Vincent (Columbia) 1.23
Long Time Ago – The Bachelors (Decca) 0.59In front of the Beatles Fan Club at Liverpool Empire
The programmes were going to be at the Odeon but they pulled out. Fortunately, the Empire was in rehearsal for the pantomime and available.
Running order: The Telegoons, Juke Box Jury, Dixon Of Dock Green, Wells Fargo and then 8.10 to 8.40 It’s The Beatles (from Liverpool Odeon) Concert directed by Barney Colehan
Together this meant 60 minutes of the Beatles on prime time TV.
It was Bill Cotton Jr’s idea.
It’s The Beatles was recorded during the afternoon. Both were meant to be at the Empire, but the concert was switched to the Odeon for technical reasons. RT said that cameras would roam around the theatre. “The group’s contact with the audience is remarkable to see. The programme will be virtually a study in Beatle mania.”
It was so noisy that the cameramen couldn’t hear the director’s instructionsPFTP 261263
Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist surely voices the sentiments of many of us when he says, ignoring his bad cold, “Beadles are but men”.
J F Coldwell, WorthingAccording to Television’s Greatest Hits, this was JBJ’s biggest success. 7.5m viewers and No 7. It’s The Beatles was 7.0m and No 10.
Evening Standard critic Maureen Cleave raved over new Paul Anka single, but all four Beatles votes it a miss.
NME, 13 December 1963Producer Neville Wortman: “There was a big problem with that. There were huge technical problems and I knew all along that we should have done in the Television Centre properly. It was a crazy idea although it was a fine idea to have them on the panel. The technicians weren’t up to it, the lighting people weren’t up to it, and that applies to both programmes. I used to choose all the records for the show but that day David Jacobs and I had a good look at the whole scene to make up the balance for that particular programme. The Beatles were marvellous as they played off each other so beautifully on the panel and they enjoyed the whole thing immensely. The audience was fantastic but the noise levels were very hard to contend with.”
Producer Neville Wortman: “I was losing my hair and I decided to buy a wig. The wig creator thought this wig was really marvellous and I came home with it and my family said, You can’t wear that. My brother said, Turn it round the other way, and then it gave me a fringe. That worked, much to the horror of the guy who had created it. So there I was with a Beatles wig and a high collar for that show from the Odeon in Liverpool. Paul looked at it and said, You really are one of us now. Little did they know what a phoney I was. It was quite convincing.”
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Saturday 14 December 1963
Panel: Neal Arden, Catherine Boyle, Freddie Garrity, Gay Emma
Producer: Neville Wortman (3-6)
Records played:
Dance With Me – Kestrels (Piccadilly) HIT
The Shelter Of Your Arms – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
Your Turn To Cry – Bruisers (Parlophone) MISS
Let Us Make Our Own Mistakes – Brian Hyland (HMV) MISS
Beatle Crazy – Bill Clifton (Decca) HIT
March Of The Victors – Ted Heath & his Orchestra (Decca) MISS
Via Veneto – Dean Martin (Reprise) MISS
Hello Love – Julie Grant (Pye) HIT
I Wish You A Merry Christmas – Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva (Colpix) MISS
Beatle Crazy (Record Retailer, 191263) – “A Yank’s view of the Beatle mania (sic). Amusing, well-performed and off-beat enough to stake a high placing, chart-wise.”
Juke Box Jury originator Peter Potter wants to replace David Jacobs for one show.
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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.” -
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Saturday 6 January 1962
Panel: Sam Costa, Alan Freeman, Sandu Scott, Nancy Spain
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
He’s Old Enough To Know Better – Crickets (London)
Small Sad Sam – Phil McLean (Top Rank)
D-Darling – Anthony Newley (Decca)
Happy Jose – Dave Appell (Columbia)
Jeannie – Danny Williams (HMV)
Forget Me Not – Eden Kane (Decca)
Crying In The Rain – Everly Brothers (Warner)
Especially For The Young – Perry Como (RCA)
Spin-A-Disc with Brook Denning: Happy Jose (Dave Appell), You’re Following Me (Breedlove), Revenge (Benton)
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Saturday 13 January 1962
Panel: Shirley Bassey, Susan Castle, Kenneth Hume, Moss Parker
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Norman – Carol Deene (HMV) MISS
Susan Castle was a model.
Moss Parker had written There’ll Always Be An England
Daily Mirror 200262
How pleased I was to see that Carol Deene’s Norman reached the Top 20 despite the dreadful panning it got on JBJ recently. Songwriter Moss Parker, the jury member who put a clothes peg on his nose to express his opinion of the record, and the other members who all made detrimental remarks about Norman made one of the biggest gaffes in the history of the programme.
Incidentally, how many Misses registered by JBJ have turned out to be Hits?
Mrs WB, SheffieldDavid Jacobs in NME Annual 1963: “Regrettably, Carole was backstage in the hot seat and so you can imagine how embarrassed we all were. To be candid, I think those three members – Shirley Bassey, her husband Kenneth Hume and Moss Parker – went beyond the proper bounds of criticism and were just plain rude. What made matters worse was that a former jury had voted Carol’s previous record a Miss, again when she was in the hot seat.”
After roasting by panel, DJ said “Well, I liked it anyway!” and Carol Deene gave him a kiss.
“I felt terrible. I just watched the audience’s reaction from behind the screen. They were laughing at the slating.”
“I’d love to appear on JBJ but I’d never be unfair to another artist on a record.”
Carole Deene82 complaints to the BBC, then 200 letters to DJ.
Record sold 10,000 the week after JBJ.
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Saturday 20 January 1962
Panel: Alan Freeman, Jimmy Henney, Miriam Karlin, June Thorburn
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Hurry On Back To Love – Johnny Kidd (HMV)
I’m Counting On You – Petula Clark (Pye)
La Bamba – Ritchie Valens (London reissue)
A Pocketful Of Miracles – Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Rock-A-Hula Baby – Elvis Presley (RCA)
Bobbikins – Mrs Mills (Parlophone)
A Little Bitty Tear – Burl Ives (Brunswick)
Wimoweh – Karl Denver Trio (Decca)
Kidd was behind panel
In Juke Box Jury’s teenage panel tomorrow, Norrie Paramor’s daughters, Caroline and June.
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Saturday 27 January 1962
Panel: Shirley Eaton, Frank Muir, Pete Murray, Viera
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Don’t Stop – Twist – Frankie Vaughan (Philips)
Walk With Me My Angel – Don Charles (Decca)
Babette – Tommy Bruce (Columbia)
Break It To Me Gently – Brenda Lee (Brunswick)
Newcastle Twist – Lord Rockingham’s XI (Decca)
Softly As I Leave You – Matt Monro (Parlophone) MISS
Lessons In Love – Allisons (Fontana)
Free Me – Johnny Preston (Mercury)
PM: Matt is a wonderful singer and puts a great deal of feeling into a song. Anyone else singing Softly and it would been have a Miss.
Spin-A-Disc with Carole Carr: So Deep (Lee), Free Me (Preston), Don’t Stop-Twist
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Saturday 3 February 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Denis Norden, Barbara Shelley, Steve Race
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Twistin’ The Night Away – Sam Cooke (RCA) HIT
Tell Me What He Said – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
I’ll See You In My Dreams – Pat Boone (London) MISS
Goodnight Irene – Springfields (Philips) MISS
Let’s Start All Over Again – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
March Of The Siamese Children – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
Love Me Warm And Tender – Paul Anka (RCA) MISS
Don’t Cry On My Shoulder – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Spin-A-Disc with Alan Dell: Chip Chip, Baby It’s You, Blue Skies (Johnny Rivers)
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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.
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Saturday 17 February 1962
Panel: Petula Clark, George Elrick, Jean Metcalfe, Jimmy Young
Producer: Harry Carlisle
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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, HindheadPFTP 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.
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Saturday 24 February 1962
Panel: Paul Anka, Carole Carr, Tony Orlando, Sheila Tracy
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
I’m The Greatest – Frankie Townsend (Fontana) HIT
Please Don’t Ask About Barbara – Bobby Vee (Liberty) HIT
Hello First Love – Susan Singer (Oriole) MISS
What Kind Of Fool Am I – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
Duke Of Earl – Gene Chandler (Columbia) MISS
Wonderful Land – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Letter Full Of Tears – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
I Ain’t Got Nobody – Buddy Greco (Fontana) HIT
Dream Baby – Roy Orbison (London) HIT
Paul Anka and Tony Orlando on Juke Box Jury voted Gene Chandler’s Duke Of Earl a miss, but your Alley Cat disagrees.
Alley Cat, 2 March 1962The Shadows went to No. l with ‘Wonderful Land’, written by Jerry Lordan: “I got the first phrase and it took me six months to get to the middle. I knew it had to have a second part and I couldn’t think of anything. The Shadows did it marvellously and Norrie Paramor added strings very sympathetically. I thought it was fantastic but it didn’t get a unanimous vote on Juke Box Jury.”
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Saturday 3 March 1962
Panel: Buddy Greco, June Thorburn, Bobby Vee, Shani Wallis
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
A Diabolical Twist – Max Bygraves (Decca) HIT
Lone Rider – John Leyton (HMV) MISS
When The Lights Go Out – Bobby Breen (Fontana) MISS
A Lady Loves – Eartha Kitt (MGM) MISS
One More Time – Danny Peppermint (London) MISS
The Turk – Judd Proctor (Parlophone) MISS
She’s Got You – Alma Cogan (Columbia) HIT
You Never Talked About Me – Del Shannon (London) HIT
Hey! Baby – Bruce Channel (Mercury) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: You Never Talked About Me – Del Shannon (London), She’s Got You (Cline), Lucky Star (Vincent)
Bobby Vee: “I only did Juke Box Jury two or three times. It was an upbeat show and people were generally positive about the records. We never heard the records first and I enjoyed it. I was 20 and I felt I knew everything so it was no trouble.”
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Saturday matinee for Scapa are at 5.30 but “the management have said that they would release Pete from a matinee if he could do JBJ wearing the naval uniform he appears in Scapa.”
File note: “I think the idea of Pete in his uniform (though a good idea) is going just a little too far. As you know the present arrangement is that David gives the credit plug himself during the introduction of the panellists and this is obviously a much stronger plug than the normal voice ‘off’ at the end of a programme but further than that I don’t think we could go.” -
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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.
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Saturday 17 March 1962
Panel: Carole Gray, Millicent Martin, Edward J Mason, Ray Orchard
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Come Down The Mountain Katy Daley – Rose Brennan (Philips) MISS
It’s A Young World – Rick Nelson (London) HIT
Evil Eye – Al Saxon (Piccadilly) HIT (Saxon guest)
Afrikaan Beat – Cyril Stapleton (Decca) HIT
Speak To Me Pretty – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) MISS
She’s Everything (I Wanted You To Be) – Ral Donner (Parlophone) MISS
It’s All Over Now – Shane Fenton & the Fentones (Parlophone) HIT
B’wna Nina – Tokens (RCA) MISS
Her Royal Majesty – Jimmy Darren (Pye) HIT
Millicent Martin by arrangement with Associated British Picture Corporation
Ted Mason was the lead writer for The Archers.
Had teenage daughters which kept him from “being a square”First appearance for Carole Gray. Judging by a press comment, she was knowledgeable about sheet music.
Al Saxon in the hot seat: “This is the fourth time one of my discs has been played on JBJ. Two of the others got the thumbs down but the other was voted a hit. As things turned out, the Hit did very well indeed, so I place a lot of importance on the jury’s verdict. I think most artists do.”
Ray Orchard: The big attraction for the record companies is that during the programme the viewer is really concentrating on each number and deciding, maybe subconsciously, whether or not to buy the disc.
Programme has 14m viewers and if 1 in 1,000 decides to buy a Miss, that is still 14,000 sales.
Only Harry Carlisle and DJ heard the records first. The panel heard them for the first time on air.
Vincent Donnelly feature, Evening Times 210362The film producer Donovan Winter saw JBJ on 17 March and he was impressed by a girl left of the screen on the second panel. “When I saw this girl, I realised that she had everything I wanted for the lead part in my new picture.” She had a mixture of innocence and .tremendous attraction. It was to be an X cert film about a young provincial girl falling into the hands of a London gang. The show had been recorded but no record had been kept of the names.
Evening News, 300462David Jacobs also doing Startime, David Jacobs Plays The Pops and The Chocolate Time Show, all on Radio Luxembourg.
DJ says he hears all the new records each week. “Not all of the records, mark you, but a part of each one. After about 10 seconds, I know whether I want to play it or not. If I’m not impressed after a quick hearing, then the average listener won’t be.”
Bunny Lewis, DJ’s agent often on panel. “Pure coincidence” says DJ who doesn’t select the panel.
DJ: “It is not intended to be an authoritative programme of predictions.”
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Saturday 24 March 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Pete Murray, Barbara Shelley, Jimmy Young
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
One Mint Julep – Sarah Vaughan (Columbia) MISS
What’s Your Name – Don & Juan (London) MISS
Two Of A Kind – Sue Thompson (Polydor) MISS
Slow Twistin’ – Chubby Checker (Columbia) HIT
The Party’s Over – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT
Take Five – Carmen McRae with Dave Brubeck Quartet (Fontana) MISS
The Great Matchmaker – Grant Tracy (Ember) HIT
Love Letters – Ketty Lester (London) MISS
Love Is A Wonderful Thing – Paddy Roberts (Decca) HIT
Pete Murray appearing in Steps at Adelphi, London
Spin-A-Disc: When The Cats Come Twistin’ In (Mike Pedicin Quintet, HMV), Young World (Nelson), Clown Shoes (Burnette)
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Saturday 31 March 1962
Panel: Jane Asher, Alan Dell, Jimmy Henney, Jean Metcalfe
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Everybody’s Twistin’ – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) MISS
A Girl Has To Know – G-Clefs (London) MISS
Shout, Shout – Ernie Maresca (London) MISS
The Wonderful World Of The Young – Danny Williams (HMV) HIT
Cutty Sark – John Barry Seven (Columbia) HIT
Clown Shoes – Johnny Burnette (Liberty) MISS
Nicola – Steve Race (Parlophone) MISS
Sweet Thursday – Johnny Mathis (Fontana) MISS
When The Cats Come Twistin’ In – Mike Pedicin Quintet (HMV) HIT
What Now My Love – Jane Morgan (London) MISS
Johnny Burnette was about to tour the UK and was behind the panel. He had very smart hair (a la Ricky Nelson and Everly Brothers) and was very smartly dressed. Boxer’s physique.
Spin-A-Disc: Slow Twistin’, What’s Your Name, Nut Rocker (BB)
Tomorrow’s Juke Box Jury is Harry Carlisle’s last production: third Johnnie Stewart stint from April 7.
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Saturday 7 April 1962
Panel: Sam Costa, Jack Jackson, June Marlow, Brenda Lee
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
A Night At Daddy Gee’s – Curtis Lee (London) MISS
Matelot – Donna Douglas (Piccadilly) MISS
I’m Gonna Clip Your Wings – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) HIT
I Will – Vic Dana (Liberty) MISS
Nut Rocker – B Bumble & the Stingers (Top Rank) HIT
Johnny Angel – Patti Lynn (Fontana) HIT
She Can’t Find Her Keys – Paul Petersen (Pye) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: A Night At Daddy Gee’s (Lee), Johnny Angel (Fabares), King Of Clowns (Sedaka)
At the time, David Jacobs on Radio Luxembourg on Wednesday at 9.30 with David Jacobs Plays The Pops, on Thursday at 9 with Startime, and on Saturday at 10 with The David Jacobs Show.
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Saturday 14 April 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Robert Farnon, Sid James, Miriam Karlin
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Baby Doll Twist – Susan Maughan (Philips) MISS
Caterina – Perry Como (RCA) MISS
Lover Please – Vernons Girls (Decca) HIT
Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Striped Purple Shirt – Alan Klein (Oriole) MISS
Big Man In A Big House – Leroy Van Dyke (Mercury) MISS
Ave Maria – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) MISS
Theme From Ben Casey – Ted Heath (Decca) MISS
Mashed Potato Time – Dee Dee Sharp (Columbia) MISS
Spin-A-Disc with Jimmy Henney: Big Man In A Big House, Caterina (Como), Sgts 3 March (Caiola)
Big mistake having Miriam Karlin on the same Juke Box Jury panel as Sidney James.
Alley Cat, 13 April 1962Jean Owen (later Samantha Jones) of the Vernons: “JBJ was my very first television show and it was Lover Please that they were listening to and we just had to sit there smiling. Carole Carr who was a singer was on the panel and Gilbert Harding too. They put us behind a panel so the actual panel didn’t know that we were there. We thought it might be a Miss but it was a Hit. I had had visions of Gilbert Harding saying dreadful things about it but he was fine. It was genuine, we came in late and they definitely didn’t know we were there.”
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Saturday 21 April 1962
Panel: Alma Cogan, Neil Sedaka, Nina and Frederik
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
What’d I Say – Bobby Darin (London) HIT
Twist Twist Senora – Gary US Bonds (Top Rank) HIT
Silver Threads And Golden Needles – Springfields (Philips) HIT
Tavern In The Town – Terry Lightfoot (Columbia) HIT
Let’s Talk About Love – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Time Beat – Ray Cathode (Parlophone) MISS
Tears Broke Out On Me – Eddy Arnold (RCA) HIT
Cowboy Jock From Skye – Andy Stewart (Top Rank) MISS
Shake The Hand Of A Fool – Johnny Hallyday (Philips) HIT
In a Persian Market – Cy Laurie HIT
Ray Cathode aka George Martin. Press report headlined Electronic Sounds as it made use of the Radiophonic Workshop
Spin-A-Disc with Alvin Twist (Chipmunks), Tears Broke Out On Me (Eddy Arnold) and Shake The Hand Of A Fool (Johnny Hallyday, Philips)
Listening to Helen Shapiro on Juke Box Jury, Alma Cogan thought it was a boy.
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Saturday 28 April 1962
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Johnny Burnette, Alan Freeman, Jean Metcalfe
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
As You Like It – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Funny Way Of Laughin’ – Burl Ives (Brunswick) MISS
Lonely City – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
When’s He Gonna Kiss Me – Candy Sparling (Piccadilly) MISS
Quando Quando Quando – Pat Boone (London) HIT
Down The Lane – Max Bygraves (Decca) HIT
A Picture Of You – Joe Brown & the Bruvvers (Piccadilly) MISS
Ginny Come Lately – Brian Hyland (HMV) HIT
Last Night Was Made For Love – Billy Fury (Decca) MISS
This programme was either recorded or they needed a fast car as Johnny Burnette was at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth that night.
Spin-A-Disc: Twist Twist Senora, Quando Quando Quando and Hermit (Ben E King)
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Saturday 5 May 1962
Panel: Dora Bryan, John Leyton, Pete Murray, Rosemary Squires
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Run Romance Run – Bruce Channel (Mercury) MISS
St Louis Blues – Glen Mason MISS
I’m Lookin’ Out The Window – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
The Lady Wants To Twist – Steve Lawrence (CBS) MISS
I Don’t Know Why – Eden Kane (Decca) HIT
Unsquare Dance – Dave Brubeck Quartet (CBS) MISS
Good Luck Charm – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Swingin’ In The Rain – Norman Vaughan (Pye) HIT
Whistlin’ For The Moon – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Spin-A-Disc (SAD): Hide Nor Hair, Good Luck Charm –Run Romance Run (Channel)
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Saturday 12 May 1962
Panel: Jean Metcalfe, Harry Rabinowitz, Leila Williams, Harry Fowler
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Hide Nor Hair – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
Besame Mucho – Jet Harris (Decca) HIT
How Can I Meet Her – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
The Right Thing To Say – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) MISS
Deep In The Heart Of Texas – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
Concerto For Dreamers – Russ Conway (Columbia) HIT
Crazy Twist – Jack Hammer (Oriole) MISS
The Green Leaves Of Summer – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
Big Big Baby – Doug Sheldon (Decca) MISS
C’est Si Bon – Dean Martin (Capitol) MISS
Spin-A-Disc: Born To Cry, C’Est Si Bon (Dean Martin), How Can I Meet Her
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Saturday 19 May 1962
Panel: Jane Asher, Sean Connery, Janet Munro, Steve Race
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Born To Cry – Dion (HMV) HIT
I Love Her Still – Mark Wynter (Decca) MISS
Rag Trade Rag – Gordon Franks (Parlophone) HIT
It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’ – Johnny Tillotson (London) MISS
The Stripper – David Rose (MGM) MISS
Far Away – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
You Do Something to Me – Errol Garner (Philips) HIT
Ain’t That Funny – Jimmy Justice (Pye) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: Deep In The Heart, It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’, Soldier Boy
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Saturday 26 May 1962
Panel: Rupert Davies, Vera Day, Eartha Kitt, Jimmy Young
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
I Shoulda Listened To Mama – Jimmy Crawford (Columbia) MISS
When Love Comes Around – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
Johnny Get Angry – Carol Deene (HMV) MISS
I’ll Be Seeing You – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) MISS
Just A Little Love – Karl Denver Trio (Decca) MISS
Stranger On The Shore – Drifters (London) MISS
Stranger On The Shore – Andy Williams (CBS) MISS
Sharing You – Bobby Vee (Liberty) MISS
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Saturday 2 June 1962
Panel: Alan Dell, Helen Shapiro, Terry-Thomas, June Thorburn
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Number One Man – Bruce Channel (Mercury) MISS
Highland Wedding – Johnny Keating and his Orchestra (Piccadilly) HIT
The Crowd – Roy Orbison (London) MISS
I’m Just A Baby – Louise Cordet (Decca) MISS
I Wish That We Were Married – Ronnie and the Hilites (Pye) MISS
Everybody’s Gotta Ya-Ya – Viscounts (Pye) HIT
Theme From The Inspector – Ferrante & Teicher (HMV) MISS
Yes My Darling Daughter – Eydie Gorme (CBS) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: Drummin’ Up A Storm, Dr Kildare (Chamberlain, Conscience
RT note “Applications for tickets for this show cannot be entertained until further notice.”
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Saturday 9 June 1962
Panel: Dora Bryan, David Rose, Anne Shelton, Alan Freeman
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Let’s All Swing Like The Birdies Swing – Buddy Greco (Columbia) HIT
I Can’t Stop Loving You – Ray Charles (HMV) MISS
Conscience – James Darren (Pye) MISS
Hit Record – Tommy Steele (Decca) HIT
A Steel Guitar And A Glass Of Wine – Paul Anka (RCA) MISS
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Saturday 16 June 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Anne Heywood, Nelson Riddle, Pete Murray
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Our Favourite Melodies – Craig Douglas (Columbia) HIT
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune – Dorothy Provine (Warner) HIT
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT
Here Comes That Feeling – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
Cryin’ For The Moon – Leo Maguire (Parlophone) MISS
Palisades Park – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS
Ai Di La – Emilio Pericoli (Warner) HIT
Ya Ya Twist – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: Crazy Words (Provine), Having A Party (Cooke), Feeling (Brenda Lee)
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Saturday 23 June 1962
Panel: Arthur Askey, Bill Crozier, Jean Metcalfe, Juliet Mills
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Show Me The Way To Go Home – Frank D’Rone (Mercury) HIT
Tears – Danny Williams (HMV) HIT
Having A Party – Sam Cooke (RCA) MISS
I Bent My Assagai – Charlie Drake (Parlophone) HIT
April In Paris – Mr Pollard (Piccadilly) MISS
Don’t Dilly Dally On The Way – Georgia Brown (Decca) MISS
Cindy’s Birthday – Johnny Crawford (Pye) MISS
Spin-A-Disc: Palisades, Steel Men (Dean), Show Me (D’Rone)
RT billing:
Neither cat nor square, Arthur Askey’s standpoint with regards to the pops is probably best described as commonsensical and, of course, humorous. Also on the panel are Jean Metcalfe and Bill Crozier, two experts on discs who are usually at opposing ends of the Family Favourites link.
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Saturday 30 June 1962
Panel: Jenny Angeloglou, Jimmy Henney, Stubby Kaye, Miriam Karlin
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Swinging Gently – Earl Grant (Brunswick) HIT
Rome – Anne Shelton (Philips) HIT
I Remember You – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Right Said Fred – Bernard Cribbins (Parlophone) HIT
Marianna – Johnny Mathis (CBS) MISS
Cannonball – Johnny Dankworth (Columbia) HIT
Frank Ifield: “I know the panel voted I Remember You a resounding hit. I didn’t see it myself but I was working in Bristol and the audience told me about it. I sang I Remember You about four or five times that night so I suddenly felt like an overnight sensation.”
Should professional artists have only part of their records played on Juke Box Jury – to be criticised by an unqualified panel?
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Saturday 7 July 1962
Panel: Jane Asher, Roy Castle, Rosemary Clooney, Ted King
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Wicked Woman – Don Lang (Decca) MISS
Little Miss Lonely – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Laughin’ The Blues – Sheb Wooley (MGM) HIT
But Not For Me – Ketty Lester (London) HIT
Doesn’t Anybody Make Short Movies Anymore – Col James (Oriole) HIT
In A Persian Market – George Chisholm (Philips) HIT
Sweet And Lovely – Allisons (Fontana) MISS
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
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Saturday 14 July 1962
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Jack Jackson, Godfrey Winn, Maureen Cleave
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
I’m Moving On – Beryl Bryden (Columbia) MISS
Little Bitty Pretty One – Clyde McPhatter (Mercury) HIT
Once Upon A Dream – Billy Fury (Decca) HIT
That Noise – Anthony Newley (Decca) HIT
Where Are You – Dinah Washington (Columbia) MISS
Things – Bobby Darin (London) HIT
Football Results – Michael Bentine (Parlophone) MISS
Gotta See Baby Tonight – Acker Bilk (Columbia) HIT
Not Never Not Now – Suzy Cope (HMV) MISS
Chills – Tony Orlando (Columbia) MISS
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Saturday 21 July 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Alan Freeman, Sheila Hancock, Gary Miller
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Vacation – Connie Francis (MGM) HIT
Under The Bamboo Tree – Clinton Ford (Oriole) MISS
’S Wonderful – Ray Conniff (CBS) MISS
I’ll Always Be In Love With You – Ella Fitzgerald (HMV) MISS
How Many Nights – Alan Fielding (Decca) MISS
Outbreak Of Murder – Gordon Franks (Parlophone) HIT
Johnny Summertime – Susan Singer (Oriole) MISS
Fortune Teller – Bobby Curtola (London) HIT
Welcome Home Baby – Brook Brothers (Pye) HIT
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I watch with amusement when the jurors are obviously wrestling with their own consciences but are anxious to put in a good word for an indifferent piece.
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Saturday 28 July 1962
Panel: Alan Dell, Shirley Eaton, Susan Franks, Jimmy Justice
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Dancin’ Party – Chubby Checker (Columbia) HIT
Come To Me – Ken Dodd (Columbia) HIT
Peter And The Wolf – Clyde Valley Stompers (Parlophone) MISS
Roses Are Red – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
Guitar Tango – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
The Lads O’Bonnie Scotland – Andy Stewart (HMV) MISS
Down The River Nile – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
To This Man – Lena Martell (HMV) MISS
Blitz Medley – Russ Conway (Columbia) MISS
Hardly anything pleased Jimmy Justice on Juke Box Jury.
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Saturday 4 August 1962
Panel: Rose Brennan, Brian Rix, Jimmy Young, Susan Hampshire
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Yesterday (check title) – Polka Dots (Philips) MISS
Seven Day Weekend – U S Bonds (Stateside) HIT
Steptoe And Son – Geoff Love (Columbia) HIT
Goody Goody – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) MISS
The Cure – Smitty Williams (MGM) MISS
I Sat Back And Let It Happen – Leroy Van Dyke (Mercury) HIT
Swahili Papa – Springfields (Philips) HIT
Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland (HMV) HIT
Little Sue – Dowlands (Oriole) MISS
Producer Neville Wortman had joined the BBC after a spell as a cartoonist for ITV and time on Cool For Cats: “I was hoping to ease my way into the BBC. Twist had become one of the rages and I was going to direct a programme on that with Barry Lupino whose sister was Ida Lupino, the American film star. He got smashed up in a car accident and Johnnie Stewart was brought in. He had been doing Juke Box Jury and so he came out of that. The twist didn’t last very long and nor did the show. It was nicely shot though, a good show.”
Producer Neville Wortman: “I was asked to pick it up as it had got very staid. It had become more of a family show than something for teenagers. Bill Cotton Jr and I were the two youngest producers at the BBC – I was just under 30.”
Producer Neville Wortman: “I was determined to get more interesting panellists on Juke Box Jury, some people who had a real interest in popular music. I tried to build up really good panels and I filmed it in a different way too as I placed the cameras in unusual positions. I featured a lot more of the audience and got their expressions. We used to look for characters and I would get people out looking for characters whom we could invite to the show. We would walk to someone in the street and say, “Please come”. We were fighting head on with Thank Your Lucky Stars. They had a great style of programming for teenagers and I knew Philip Jones very well. They had a very stylish programme and Juke Box Jury wasn’t that. We were fighting for our lives with that programme. The BBC wanted to grab an audience at six and they thought that if you had them then, you should have them through the evening.”
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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
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Saturday 18 August 1962
Panel: Ray Conniff, Jean Metcalfe, Sylvia Syms, Eric Sykes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Hully Gully – Don Costa (CBS) MISS
Teenage Idol – Rick Nelson (London) MISS
Will I What – Mike Sarne (Parlophone) HIT
What Now My Love – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
The Locomotion – Little Eva (London) HIT
Don’t That Beat All – Adam Faith (Parlophone) MISS
So Wrong – Patsy Cline (Brunswick) MISS
Sheila – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
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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.
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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.” -
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Saturday 1 September 1962
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Jimmy Henney, Robert Morley, Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch appearing in Sail Away at the Savoy
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Hey There – Buddy Greco (Columbia) HIT
It’ll Be Me – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Can You Waddle – Spartans (Stateside) MISS
It Might As Well Rain Until September – Carole King (London) MISS
Little Diane – Dion (Stateside) MISS
We Won’t Say Goodbye – Kaye Sisters (Philips) MISS
Devil Woman – Marty Robbins (CBS) HIT
Jumble Sale – Petula Clark (Pye) MISS
What’s Gonna Happen When Summer’s Done – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS
Dance With Mr Domino – Fats Domino (London) MISS
Voted misses on tomorrow’s Juke Box Jury – Petula Clark’s Jumble Sale, Dion’s Little Diane, Fat Domino’s Dance With Mr Domino and the Kaye Sisters’ Goodbye.
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Saturday 8 September 1962, 6.30-7pm
by now (Recorded)
Panel: Dick Emery, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Alan Freeman, Joan Darling
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
I’m The Girl From Wolverton Mountain – Jo Ann Campbell (Columbia) MISS
Lollipops And Roses – Doug Sheldon (Decca) MISS
No Love But Your Love – Marion Ryan (Columbia) MISS
A Taste Of Honey – Victor Feldman (Fontana) MISS
It Started All Over Again – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
You Don’t Know Me – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
Hercules – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) MISS
Blue Weekend – Karl Denver (Decca) MISS
Forgive Me – Babs Tino (London) HIT
Steve Race to Johnnie Stewart, 130962,
“Rumour has it that you are taking over JBJ, a programme which I did apparently with some success under Stewart Morris, but have not got near with Billy Cotton, nor do I seem likely to. If you are really taking over the show again, would you make sure I am on the list please.” -
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Saturday 15 September 1962
Panel: Rupert Davies, Dion, Fenella Fielding, Jane Asher
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Point Of No Return – Gene McDaniels (Liberty) HIT
There Is No Greater Love – Wanderers (MGM) MISS
Chattanooga Choo Choo – Xavier Cugat (Mercury) HIT
House To Let – Eden Kane (Decca) HIT
A Forever Kind Of Love – Bobby Vee (Liberty) HIT
Let’s Dance – Chris Montez (London) HIT
Ramblin’ Rose – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) HIT
Don’t You Believe It – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
Venus In Blue Jeans – Mark Wynter (Pye) HIT
Producer Neville Wortman: “I used to see the guests first to make sure that they had an interest in music per se. If they didn’t, there was no point in having them on the panel at all. I remember Rupert Davies brought a different slant on it. We were always trying to cater for the largest possible audience and not just a teenage audience. The audience for Thank Your Lucky Stars was mostly teenagers. The BBC has mostly broadcast programmes for the family.”
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Saturday 22 September 1962
Panel: Ian Carmichael, Hy Hazell, Mike Sarne, Dawn Addams
HH in Lock Up Your Daughters at Her Majesty’s
Producer: Neville Wortman
If A Man Answers – Bobby Darin (Capitol) HIT
Bobby’s Girl – Susan Maughan (Philips) HIT
Close To Cathy – Mike Clifford (United Artists) MISS
Rinky Dink – Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez (Pye) MISS
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On – Johnny Tillotson (London) HIT
Sherry – Four Seasons (Stateside) MISS
Til Tomorrow – Kathie Kay (Columbia) MISS
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Saturday 29 September 1962
Panel: Liz Fraser, Stan Stennett, Tony Withers, Dawn Addams
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
The Longest Day – Mitch Miller (CBS) MISS
Ever Since You Said Goodbye – Marty Wilde (Philips) HIT
Moonglow – Sarah Vaughan (Columbia) MISS
Junk Shop – Harry H Corbett (Pye) HIT
Your Nose Is Gonna Grow – Johnny Crawford (London) MISS
Your Nose Is Gonna Grow – Christine Quaife (Oriole) HIT
Lover – Johnny De Little (Columbia) HIT
A Wonderful Dream – Majors (London) MISS
Pretty Jenny – Jess Conrad (Decca) HIT
Letter from Beatrice Chalmers, Falkirk in Record Retailer: “Through your columns, may I, a record assistant, appeal to David Jacobs to put Juke Box Jury on a little later on Saturday evenings. You see, throughout the week, we are asked for records by the buying public but every often the only clue is ‘Three of them voted it a miss’ or some actress thought it was ‘smashing’ or it has ‘girl’ or ‘moon’ or ‘twist’ in the title. We want to to hear the programmes too but we do work for our wages and the boss pays us to serve customers until 6pm eery Saturday.” (041062)
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Saturday 6 October 1962, 6-6.30pm
Panel: Petula Clark, Hattie Jacques, Pete Murray, Eric Sykes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Nicola – King Brothers (Parlophone) MISS
He Got What He Wanted – Little Richard (Mercury) HIT
Tender Is The Night – Gogi Grant (Ember) MISS
Madam Moscovitch – Clinton Ford (Oriole) MISS
Keep Away From Other Girls – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Swing Low – Floyd Cramer (RCA) HIT
Oh Lonesome Me – Craig Douglas (Decca) HIT
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Saturday 13 October 1962
Panel: Angela Huth, Don Moss, Sid James, Ketty Lester
Angela Huth was a critic
Producer: Neville Wortman
Lovesick Blues – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Sweet Enough – Louise Cordet (Decca) MISS
Nothing Can Change This Love – Sam Cooke (RCA) HIT
Must Be Madison – Joe Loss (HMV) MISS
Gina – Johnny Mathis (CBS) HIT
Because Of Love – Billy Fury (Decca) MISS
Goodbye Joe – Alma Cogan (Columbia) MISS
No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
Little Black Book – Jimmy Dean (CBS) HIT
Lonely Johnny – John Leyton (HMV) MISS
Cracked Eric Sykes on Juke Box Jury, “I saw Helen Shapiro on the Adam Faith TV show – with the sound turned off.”
Alley Cat, 12 October 1962PFTP 181062
Eager though I am to watch JBJ, it would make a change to have an all-teenage panel once in a while, not necessarily consisting of stars.
Many female panel members seem to be in a perpetual daze, unable to make any pertinent comment. Why not come down to earth?
It must be remembered that it is teenage opinion which makes or breaks these songs.
Peter Bundock, Boothville, NorthamptonNew Billy Fury, Louise Cordet and John Leyton releases voted misses on Juke Box Jury.
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Saturday 20 October 1962
Panel: Claire Bloom, Beryl Reid, Jimmy Young, Jess Conrad
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
The Things We Did Last Summer – Shelley Fabares (Pye) MISS
Love Me Tender – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
Playin’ Games – Connie Francis (MGM) HIT
I Left My Heart In San Francisco – Tony Bennett (CBS) HIT
Hully Gully Baby – Dovells (Cameo-Parkway) MISS
It’s My Way – Don Charles (Decca) MISS
When The Boys Get Together – Joannie Sommers (Warner) MISS
Warmed Over Kisses – Brian Hyland (HMV) HIT
Stories – Peppi (Decca) HIT
Connie Francis recorded Playin’ Games in 1956. B-side of I Was Such A Fool.
DJ presenting Wednesday Magazine on TV from 1.30 to 2pm
On Friday 26 October 1962, there was a Juke Box Jury evening at the Cheshunt Boys Club organised by Marsden’s Record Store. The guests were Johnnie Carson, Louise Cordet, Don Charles and Patti Lynn.
The panel was Norman Long (Ember), Mike Hitches (Pye), Joe Betteridge (Lugton’s) and Ron Lockyer (Southern Music).
The MC was Ray Orchard.
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Saturday 27 October 1962
Panel: Polly Elwes, Sid James, Steve Race, Beryl Bryden
Producer: Neville Wortman
The Madison’s back in town – Billy Dawn and the Madison Mashers (CBS) HIT
(The only UK single released by this act.)
My Love And Devotion – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
The Main Attraction – Pat Boone (London) MISS
Buttons And Bows – Tommy Bruce (Columbia) HIT
Heartaches – Patsy Cline (Brunswick) MISS
Desafinado – Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd (HMV) MISS
If Only Tomorrow – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) MISS
It Only Took A Minute – Joe Brown (Piccadilly) MISS
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Saturday 3 November 1962
Panel: Sam Costa, Pete Murray, June Thorburn +1
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Thief In The Night – Johnny Towers (Philips) MISS
I’m Gonna Change Everything – Jim Reeves (RCA) MISS
Slightly Out Of Tune – Mavis Rivers (Reprise) MISS
(Dance With The) Guitar Man – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
A Touch Of The OBJ’s – Bruce Forsyth (Pye) HIT
Tell Me Telstar – Patti Lynn (Fontana) MISS
Hail To The Conquering Hero – James Darren (Pye) MISS
Big Man – Kathy Kirby (Decca) MISS
That Stranger – Viscounts (Pye) HIT
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Saturday 10 November 1962
Panel: Jane Asher, George Hamilton, Stubby Kaye, Catherine Boyle
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
The Road – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Small World – Johnny Mathis (CBS) HIT
Sounds Like Locomotion – Sounds Inc (Decca) MISS
White Wedding – Sheila Southern (HMV) MISS
Eso Beso – Paul Anka (RCA) HIT
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly – Anita Ray (MGM) HIT
Next Door To An Angel – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
Pop Pop Pop-Pie – Sherrys (London) HIT
Believe I’m No Fool – Cloda Rogers (Decca) HIT
Cloda Rogers, 15 years old
Producer Neville Wortman: “Jane Asher was used a lot as she was so intelligent and bright and sparkling. She was so well in with the scene too. Lovely person.”
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Saturday 17 November 1962, 6-6.30pm
Panel: Edie Adams, Alan Dell, Ian Carmichael, Alexandra Bastedo
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Together Wherever We Go – Beverley Sisters (Columbia) MISS
Up On The Roof – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
You’ll Never Get Away From Me – Tony Bennett (CBS) MISS
Scales – B.Bumble & the Stingers (Stateside) HIT
Always You And Me – Russ Conway (Columbia) MISS
I’ve Been Everywhere – Mudlarks (Decca) HIT
Here’s Hopin’ – Carter-Lewis & the Southerners (Piccadilly) HIT
Baby Face – Bobby Darin (London) HIT
Memo from Head of Light Entertainment, Television
21 November 1962
“I would just like to remind you that Arthur Askey will be available for either Juke Box Jury or What’s My Line, in the Jan/March Quarter, and any use you can make of him during this period would be appreciated.”
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Saturday 24 November 1962
Panel: Arther Askey, Dora Bryan, Kenneth Mars, Jean Metcalfe, Bobby Vee
Producer: Neville Wortman (Actually, Presented by…)
Records played:
Return To Sender – Elvis Presley (RCA) HIT
Island Of Dreams – Springfields (Philips) MISS
The Next Time – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Fly Me To The Moon – Joe Harnell & his Orchestra (London) MISS
All Through The Night – Lynne Adams (Ember) MISS
Baby Take A Bow – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Where Have All The Flowers Gone – George Mitchell Singers (HMV) MISS
Don’t Light The Fire ’Til After Santa’s Gone – Terry Scott (Parlophone) MISS
Happiness Tree – Norman Vaughan (Pye) MISS
If You Were A Rock’n’Roll Record – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) HIT
Scott’s record was a B-side: A-side was My Brother.
Askey paid 30g, date given is 23.11.62
DailyMirror, 271162
The BBC dropped plans to replace JBJ with a big teenage show. The intention was to have a 45 minute show on the 6.5 Special formula with a 15 minute “disc verdict”. After looking a try out with guest star Bobby Vee, and The John Barry Orchestra, Tom Sloan decided to keep JBJ as it was.JBJ used to be from the Television Theatre but it is now produced from a studio at the Television Centre with only 100 seats. The waiting list for tickets closed in January and people have been waiting about a year for tickets.
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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 1963Producer 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.”
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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.
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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.
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Saturday 22 December 1962
Panel: Alma Cogan, Sheila Hancock, David Tomlinson, Jack Jackson
Sheila Hancock appearing in Rattle Of A Simple Man at Garrick
David Tomlinson still appearing in Boeing-Boeing
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
He Thinks I Still Care – Jaye P Morgan (MGM) HIT
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window – Baby Jane & the Rockabyes (United Artists) HIT
If This Should Be A Dream – Christine Campbell (Parlophone) MISS
Theme From The Dick Powell Show – Tony Hatch (Pye) HIT
White Christmas – Nina & Frederick (Columbia) HIT
Gospel Theme – Ted Heath ((Decca) HIT
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Saturday 29 December 1962
Panel: Shirley Anne Field, Robert Morley, Jimmy Young, Polly Elwes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
A Very Good Year For Girls – Vic Dana (Liberty) MISS
The Gift Of Love – Ronnie Hilton (HMV) HIT
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Four Seasons (Stateside) HIT
Suki-Yaki – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
Love Me Forever – Paula Watson (No number yet) MISS
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans (London) MISS
Globetrotter – Tornados (Decca) HIT
Butter Wouldn’t Melt In Your Mouth – Tommy Steele (Decca) HIT
Ruby Ann – Marty Robbins (CBS) HIT
I Saw Linda Yesterday – Doug Sheldon (Decca) MISS
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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.
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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?”
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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. -
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Saturday 4 February 1961
Panel: Monty Babson, Keith Fordyce, Marion Ryan, Anne Heywood
Keith Fordyce was a Cambridge MA
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Saturday 18 February 1961
Panel: Anthea Askey, Arthur Askey, Carole Carr, Michael Bentine
Records played:
Samantha – Kenny Ball and his Jazzman (Pye) HIT (3-1)
Ja-Da – Johnny and The Hurricanes (London American) HIT
Kenny Ball: “The JBJ panel voted it a hit and only Arthur Askey gave it the thumbs down. He said, ‘I’m not a jazz fan.’”
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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.
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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”) -
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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.
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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) -
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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 1961Daily 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.”
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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
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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!
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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 1961Radio 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.”
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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’.
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Saturday 20 May 1961
Panel: Michael Bentine, Jean Metcalfe, Freddie Mills +1
Return of Bill Cotton Jr
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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
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Saturday 10 June 1961
Panel: Sonya Cordeau, Robert Morley, Cliff Richard, Anthea Askey (All making The Young Ones)
Records played:
Temptation – Everly Brothers (Warner)
Bee-Bom – Anthony Newley (Decca)
The Miracle Of You –Danny Williams (HMV)
The Man Who Invented Beer – Steve Benbow (Parlophone)
Breakin’ In A Brand New Broken Heart – Connie Francis (MGM)
Pancho – Max Harris (Fontana)
Life’s A Holiday – Frank Ifield (Columbia)
Stand By Me – Ben E King (London)Radio Times profile praises David Jacobs for his “adroit chairmanship”
Jacobs’ background includes being a stable lad, ice skater, junior announcer
He is chairman of the Spastics Charity and TV Personality of the Year
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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 1961Points From The Post, Radio Times.180561
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Saturday 24 June 1961
Panel: Shirley Bassey, Jimmy Henney, Jack Jackson, George Hamilton IV
Records played:
Near You – Robb Storme (Decca)
Get With It – Sandy Nelson (London)
Nature Boy – Bobby Darin (London)
Romeo – Petula Clark (Pye)
Baby Sittin’ – Bobby Angelo & the Tuxedos (HMV)
Three Swinging Chicks – Don Fox (Oriole)
You Got What I Like – Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers (Parlophone)
Many female hearts fluttered at George Hamilton (‘Juke Box Jury’, Saturday)
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Saturday 1 July 1961
Panel: Stubby Kaye, Brian Matthew, Sally Smith, Pat Kirkwood
Producer: Bill Cotton Jr (then called Presentation)
Records played:
That’s My Home – Acker Bilk (Columbia)
You Don’t Know – Helen Shapiro (Columbia)
Dance On Little Girl – Paul Anka (Columbia)
One Little Robin – Elaine & Derek (Parlophone)
Please Stay – Drifters (London)
Birmingham Rag – Valerie Masters (Fontana)
Cupid – Sam Cooke (RCA)
Helen Shapiro; “Stubby Kaye had a go at me when I was the victim behind the screen. As soon as he heard my deep voice, he said, ‘Oh, Henry Shapiro’. It helps to have a broad back in show business.”
On ‘Juke Box Jury’, Brian Matthew’s intended humorous impression of Dick Katz in bad taste.
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Saturday 8 July 1961
Panel: Jack Jackson, Sam Costa, Helen Winston, Diane Aubrey
Helen Winston’s photo in RT
Records played:
With You In Mind – Alma Cogan (Columbia)
Old Smokie – Johnny & the Hurricanes (London)
I’m Comin’ On Back To You – Jackie Wilson (Coral)
You Always Hurt The One You Love – Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry (Pye)
Book Of Love – Doug Sheldon (Decca)
Hide And Seek – Marty Wilde (Philips)
It’s All Happening –Mike Preston (Decca)
‘Juke Box Jury’ raved about Alma Cogan’s latest disc and liked Marty Wilde’s new one too. Only EMI disc-jockey Sam Costa didn’t like EMI singer Tommy Bruce’s latest disc.
Alley Cat, 14 July 1961Record Retailer says that panel was divided about Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry but they defy opinions to vote it a hit.
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Saturday 15 July 1961
Panel: Paul Hollingdale, Lana Morris, Jimmy Young +1
Records played:
Tossin’ And Turnin’ – Bobby Lewis (Parlophone)
Adios My Love – Vera Lynn (MGM)
The Writing On The Wall – Tommy Steele (Decca)
Charlie Wasn’t There – Barbara Evans (Mercury)
After You’ve Gone – Emile Ford (Piccadilly)
Lucy’s Theme from Parrish – George Greeley (Warners)
Don’t You Know It – Adam Faith (Parlophone)
Our Little Doggie Ran Away – Rosemary Squires (HMV)
Take A Fool’s Advice – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol)
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Why do so many people in the audience have such vacant expressions on their faces? It seems as if the records were just another of those background noises, as indeed some of them are. I know that many of the records voted ‘hits’ would never be bought by the majority of us teenagers. A few of the ‘misses’ become favourite pops and soon we are singing them at home and at school.
If Pick Of The Pops were broadcast at an earlier time, how many more teenagers would be allowed to listen to it. May I congratulate David Jacobs on his excellent compering of these two programmes.
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Saturday 22 July 1961
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Eydie Gormé, Bunny Lewis, Steve Lawrence
Quarter To Three – US Bonds (Top Rank)
Reach For The Stars – Shirley Bassey (Columbia)
Bonnie Banks – Davy Jones (Pye) HIT
I See You – Jess Conrad (Decca)
Something In The Air – Shani Wallis (Philips)
Girls – Johnny Burnette (London)
Teenage Concerto – Zack Lawrence (Parlophone)
Frenesi – Frances Faye (HMV)
How Many Tears – Bobby Vee (London)
A Matter Of Who – Roy Castle (Philips)
10 tracks!
On ‘Juke Box Jury’, Eydie Gormé claimed her Frenesi was better than Frances Faye’s version.
Alley Cat, 28 July 1961