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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 -
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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 -
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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 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 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
No More Blues – Elaine Delmar (Columbia) 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 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.