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Saturday 18 February 1967, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 11 February 1967)
Panel: Simon Dee, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray, Jimmy Savile
Casting voter: Julie McGill
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
Records played:
Peculiar Situation – Young Idea (Columbia)
So Nice (Summer Samba) –Andy Williams (CBS)
Keep It Out Of Sight – Paul and Barry Ryan (Decca)
I’ll Try Anything – Dusty Springfield (Philips)
Daddy’s Little Girl – Al Martino (Capitol)
So Good – Roy Orbison (London)
Georgy Girl – Seekers (Columbia) -
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Saturday 20 May 1967, 5.25-5.50pm
Panel: Leslie Crowther, Julie Felix, Kenny Everett, Kiki Dee
Sally O’Keefe, casting vote
Producer: Colin Charman
Records played:
Too Many Fish in the Sea – Mitch Ryder
Give Me Time – Dusty Springfield
Night of the Long Grass – The Troggs
Don’t Sleep in the Subway – Petula Clark
There Goes My Everything – Engelbert Humperdinck
Once In A Million – Chapter Five
When I Was Young – Animals
According to Television’s Greatest Hits, 5.1m viewers and position 15.
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Saturday 6 February 1965, 5.15.-5.40pm
Panel: Thora Hird, Linda Lewis, Don Moss, Gene Pitney
Producer: Stewart Morris
Records played:
Your Hurtin’ Kinda Love – Dusty Springfield (Philips)
Mary Anne – Shadows (Columbia)
Silhouettes – Herman’s Hermits (Columbia)
Come and Stay With Me – Marianne Faithfull (Decca) (Mystery Guest)
Goodnight – Roy Orbison (London)
In My Way – Dave Kaye (Decca) MISS
The Look Of Love – Lesley Gore (Mercury)
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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 -
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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 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