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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 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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Two Philips salesmen and Don Moss did a Juke Box Jury at Catford School. They voted The Verdict Is Guilty by Susan Maughan a hit (of course). -
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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.”