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Saturday 27 February 1965, 5.15.-5.40pm
Panel: Jane Asher, Bill Crozier, Georgie Fame, Jean Metcalfe
Producer: Stewart Morris
Records played:
Reelin’ And Rockin’ – Dave Clark Five (Columbia)
That’s Not What Angels Are For – Barbara Kay (Pye)
Without You – Matt Monro (Parlophone)
Goodbye My Love – The Searchers (Pye)
Funny World – Astrud Gilberto (Verve)
Have You Looked Into Your Heart – Peter Gordeno (Decca) (Mystery Guest)
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Saturday 6 June 1964, 5.40-6.05pm
Panel: Charlie Drake, Diana Dors, Bunny Lewis, Jessie Matthews
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Bama Lama Bama Loo – Little Richard (London) HIT
I Like The Look Of You – Fortunes (Decca) HIT
I Love You Too – Matt Monro (Parlophone) MISS
Liza Jane – Davie Jones & the King Bees (Vocalion) MISS
When You Walk In The Room – Jackie de Shannon (Liberty) HIT
Why Not Tonight – Mojos (Decca) MISS
If You Don’t Know – Don Charles (HMV) HIT
Liza Jane was David Bowie’s first single. R&B track with David on vocals and tenor sax. Only Charlie Drake voted the record a hit! Mrs Dale didn’t like it. David Bowie was in Hot Seat
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Saturday 5 September 1964, 5.55-6.20pm
Panel: Anthony Booth, Diane Cilento, Laurie Henshaw, Barbara Roscoe
Producer: Barry Langford
Records played:
Bread And Butter – Barry St John (Decca)
Walk Away – Matt Monro (Parlophone)
Head Over Heels – Mike Rabin & the Demons (Columbia)
Love, Let Me Not Hunger – Jan Burnette (Oriole)
Chills & Fever – Tom Jones (Decca)
Only One Such As You – Adam Faith (Parlophone)
My Kind Of Town – Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
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Saturday 12 December 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
Panel: Lonnie Donegan, Shirley Eaton, Jimmy Edwards, Polly Elwes
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Now – Wolves (Pye) MISS
Getting Mighty Crowded – Betty Everett (Fontana) HIT
Walk Right Back – Mark & John (Decca) HIT
For Mama – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
Love Me Darling – Howlin’ Wolf (Pye International) HIT
Et Meme – Francoise Hardy (Pye) MISS
While discussing Love Me Darling, Lonnie spat on the floor and said the Rolling Stones’ version of Howlin’ Wolf’s Little Red Rooster was a bowdlerisation of the song and a terrible version. Bill was very upset about that and when he met him, he said that was the pot calling the kettle black. They ended up as good friends.
Howlin’ Wolf the Mystery guest
Donegan said, “I don’t care of that kind of blues” that is electric blues. Part of the anti-electric feeling of trad people at the time. -
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Saturday 9 February 1963
Panel: Anthea Askey, Arthur Askey, Steve Race, Anne Rogers
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Summer Holiday – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
That Was The Week That Was – Millicent Martin (Parlophone) MISS
One Day – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
Pin A Medal On Joey – James Darren (Pye) MISS
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
Cupboard Love – John Leyton (HMV) HIT
What Kind Of Fool Am I – Shirley Bassey (Columbia) HIT
Come On And Love Me – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS -
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Saturday 20 April 1963
Panel: Alan Dell, Louise Dunn, Harry Fowler, Julia Lockwood
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
The Girl I Love – Matt Monro (Parlophone) HIT
What Are Boys Made Of – The Percells (HMV) HIT
There’s No Such Thing As Love – Anthony Newley (Decca) HIT
Like Lazy – Barry Alldis (Decca) MISS
Two Kinds Of Teardrops – Del Shannon (London) MISS
Woe Is Me – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
Call Me Irresponsible – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) HIT
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love – Tommy Bruce (Columbia) HIT
She’s New To You – Susan Maughan (Philips) MISS
Gone With The Wind – Duprees (London) MISS
There Are 8,000,000 Cossack Melodies And This Is One Of Them – Group X (Fontana) HIT
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Saturday 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 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 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
Once In A Lifetime – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) HIT -
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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
James Hold The Ladder Steady – Sue Thompson (Fontana) HIT -
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Saturday 9 September 1961
Panel: David Kossoff, Juliet Mills, Jimmy Savile +1
Producer: Bill Cotton Jr
Records played:
Cinderella – Paul Anka (Columbia)
Gonna Build A Mountain – Matt Monro (Parlophone)
The Wedding – Anita Bryant (Philips)
I Want Someone – Dick & DeeDee (London)
The Mountain’s High – Dick & DeeDee (London)
Gunga Din – Johnny Dankworth (Pye)
Why Can’t You – Clarence Frogman Henry (Pye)
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got – Ral Donner (Parlophone)