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Wednesday 4 October 1967, 6.35-7pm
Panel: Chris Denning, Julia Foster, Pat Gordine, Bob Monkhouse
David McWilliams, hot seat
Producer: David Bell
Records played:
You Keep Running Away – Four Tops
Excuse Me – Kiki Dee
Little Girl Lost And Found – Peter & the Wolves (MGM)
Trucker’s Prayer – Dave Dudley
Harlem Lady – David McWilliams
Fortuosity – Tommy Steele
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Saturday 23 April 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Barbara Hawkins (Dixie Cups), Samantha Juste, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Savile
Casting voter: Terry Hillman
Producer: Terry Henebery
The Big Hurt – Del Shannon (Liberty) HIT
I Wanna Go Home – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT (Casting vote)
Love Ya Illya – Angela & the Fans (Pye) HIT
My Girl At The Dance – Frank D’Rone (CBS) HIT
I Could Make You Fall In Love -Rockin’ Berries (Piccadilly) HIT
Rhapsody In The Rain – Lou Christie (MGM) HIT
I Do – Goldie (Fontana) HIT
Stop Her On Sight – Edwin Starr (Polydor) HIT -
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Saturday 24 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 17 December 1966)
Panel: The Seekers (Judith Durham, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley, Athol Guy)
Casting voter: Linda Shiel
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Listen To My Heart – The Bats (Decca)
Single Girl – Sandy Posey (MGM)
The Rising Of The Moon – Tinkers (Pye)
Sitting In The Park – Georgie Fame (Columbia)
From A Distance (P F Sloan) – Odin’s People (Major Minor)
Love In The Open Air (McCartney) – Tudor Minstrels (Decca)
Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies) – Cher (Liberty)
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Saturday 12 March 1960, 6-6.30pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Paul Carpenter, Peter Murray, June Sylvaine
Produced by Russell Turner
Directed by Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
It’s Nice To Go Trav’ling – Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Stairway To Heaven – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
Forget You – Milton Grayson (London)
My Old Man’s A Dustman – Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
(Welcome) New Lovers – Pat Boone (London)
Valentino – Connie Francis (MGM)
Paradise – Sammy Turner (London)Camera script unused: Beatnik Fly (Johnny & the Hurricanes) and I Believe In Love (Floyd Robinson)
On ‘Juke Box Jury’, David Jacobs claimed that John Barry’s ‘Hit And Miss’ was first BBC signature tune to enter charts. Alley Cat, 18 March 1960
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Saturday 26 March 1960, 6-6.30pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Produced by Russell Turner
Directed by Johnnie Stewart
Panel: Alan Freeman, Jean Metcalfe, Pete Murray, Jack Payne
Records played:
Country Boy – Fats Domino (London)
Clementine – Bobby Darin (London)
Let’s Make A Fortune – Raindrops (Oriole) Side set
Skylark – Michael Holliday (Columbia)
Fraulein – Johnny Carson (Fontana)
El Matador – Kingston Trio (Capitol)
For You – Rosemary Clooney (MGM)
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Saturday 16 April 1960, 6-6.30pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Sheila Gallagher, Gary Miller, Eric Robinson, Anne Rogers
Records played:
Standing On The Corner – Four Lads (Philips)
Cradle Of Love – Johnny Preston (Mercury)
Someday – Della Reese (RCA)
A Place In The Sun – Robert Earl (Philips)
Anyway The Wind Blows – Doris Day (Philips)
This Love I Have For You – Lance Fortune (Pye)
Ramona – Five Dallas Boys (Columbia)
The Love I Share With You – Alfred Lynch (Decca)
Don’t Fence Me In – Tommy Edwards (MGM)
Camera script: Greenfields (Beverley Sisters) listed but this record had been banned.
Anne Rogers was starring as Eliza Doolittle at Drury Lane. She was the daughter in law of Henry Hall. She had done over 720 performance in US and 280 in UK. On April 13, did her 1,000th performance. A fast car was to take her to Drury Lane after the show.
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Saturday 14 May 1960
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Roy Castle, Russ Conway, Jeannette Sterke
Records played:
Step By Step – Steve Perry (HMV)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Tommy Bruce (Columbia)
Cherry Pie – Skip & Flip
Robot Man – Connie Francis (MGM) Side set
I Wanna Go Home – Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
Sing Like An Angel – Jerry Lordan (Parlophone)
Paper Roses – Anita Bryant (London)
The Urge – Freddy Cannon (Top Rank)
I Was A Fool – Frankie Vaughan (Philips) -
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Saturday 21 May 1960
Panel: Bunny Lewis, Viscount Lewisham, Jean Metcalfe, Jack Payne
Records played:
I’ll Make You Mine – Johnnie Ray (Philips)
Angela Jones – Johnny Ferguson (MGM)
Lucky Five – Russ Conway (Columbia)
How Do You Know It’s Love – Teresa Brewer (Coral)
Bella Citta Roma – Toni Dalli (Columbia)
Honky Tonk Train Blues – Cascading Strings (Fontana)
You’re Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else – Jerry Wallace (London)
The Nocturne – Al Dean’s Tunestoppers (can’t trace, could be The Madison
– Al Brown’s Tunetoppers)
Baby My Heart – The Crickets (Coral)
Russ Conway and Toni Dalli Side set
No show on 28 May 1960 as Sammy Davis special being broadcast.
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Saturday 11 June 1960, 6.40-7.10pm
(Recorded 280560)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Dora Bryan, Judy Carne, Jimmy Henney, Peter West
Records played:
Good Timin’ – Jimmy Jones (MGM)
Grown Up Dreams – Toni Eden (Columbia)
Apple Blossom Time – Platters (Mercury)
Mountain Of Love – Kenny Lynch (HMV)
Banjo Boy – Valerie Masters (Fontana)
Burning Bridges – Jack Scott (Top Rank)
Goona Goona – Four Lads (Philips)
River Stay ’Way From My Door – Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Camera script extras: Ding-A-Ling (Bobby Rydell) and Little Brown Jug (Bobby Summers), which had been moved to previous recording
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Saturday 29 October 1960
Panel: Carmen McRae, Pete Murray, Nancy Spain, Richard Wyler
Records played:
Blue Angel – Roy Orbison (London) HIT (3-1)
Just Call Me – Lloyd Price (HMV) MISS (0-4)
M1 – The Ted Taylor Four (Oriole) HIT (3-1) (Ted Taylor mystery guest)
Just As Much As Ever – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) HIT (4-0)
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own – Connie Francis (MGM) HIT (4-0)
Summer’s Gone – Paul Anka (Columbia) MISS (1-3)
Richard Wyler was “The Man from Interpol”
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Monday 8 June 1959, 7.30-7.55pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Alma Cogan, Gary Miller, Pete Murray, Susan Stranks
Records played:
Nowhere In This World – Derry Hart & the Heartbeats (Decca)
Kansas City – Little Richard (London)
Camera script: was going to be Forty Days
Lipstick On Your Collar – Connie Francis (MGM) side set
The Windows Of Paris – Tony Osborne & his Orchestra (HMV)
All Night Long – Monty Babson (London)
I-ay-ove-lay Oo-yay – Three Barry Sisters (Decca)
Camera script: was going to be Red Shoes (Kirby Stone Four)
Peter Gunn – Duane Eddy (London)
Camera script unused: Sway (prob Norman Grant Orch), When You See Her (Lee & Jay Elvin)Reviewed by Nancy Spain in Daily Express the following day: “The BBC’s Juke Box Jury seems to be a dismal flop. Alma Cogan, Pete Murray, Gary Miller and a typical teenager called Susan Stranks are still hard at it guessing which records (if any) are gong to be hits and which misses. All four are conscientious and with the occasional exception of Alma Cogan, the most deadly bores. I actually heard Pete Murray speaking of a record which sounded to me like the insistent yowling of a tom-cat say it was a ‘prestige record’. If this programme has a value (which I rather doubt) it will be in the comparison which we can make between the panel’s prophecy and the actual hits.”
“New Juke Box Jury signature tune waxed by Ossie Warlock and the Wizards; this nom de plume conceals Tony Osborne’s identity.” Alley Cat, 12 June 1959
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Monday 24 August 1959, 7.30-7.55pm
Panel: Judy Carne, Dickie Dawson, Pete Murray, Venetia Stevenson
Records played:
A Hoot An’ A Holler – Don Lang (HMV)
I’m Gonna Get Married – Lloyd Price (HMV)
Plenty Good Lovin’ – Connie Francis (MGM)
Cry – Knightsbridge Strings (Top Rank)
Midnight Flyer – Dave Cavanagh (Capitol)
One More Sunrise – Leslie Uggams (Philips)
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Saturday 26 September 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 12 September 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Dickie Dawson, Diana Dors, Eunice Gayson, Tony Vlassopulo
Records played:
Battle Rhythm – Bob Summers (Capitol)
What Would I Do Without You – King Sisters (Capitol)
I’ve Been There – Tommy Edwards (MGM)
Cat On A Cool Tin Roof – Ragpickers (Saga)
Cap And Gown – Marty Robbins (Fontana)
The Mummy – Bob McFadden & Dor (Coral)
Primrose Lane – Dickie Pride (Columbia)
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Johnnie Ray (Philips) -
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Saturday 3 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 19 September 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Petula Clark, Dickie Dawson, Diana Dors, Tony Osborne
Records played:
Treble Chance – Joe ‘Mr Piano’ Henderson (Pye)
Makin’ Love – Floyd Robinson (RCA)
So High So Low – Danny Williams (HMV)
Broken Hearted Melody – Tony Raymond (Fontana)
But Not For Me – Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
Jenny – Ray Sone (Decca)
She Came As A Stranger – Perry Ford (Parlophone)
Oh What A Fool – Impalas (MGM) -
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Saturday 31 October 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Lynn Curtis, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Backseat) – Avons (Columbia)
Alice Blue Gown – Leroy Holmes (MGM)
My Blue Heaven – Platters (Mercury)
What Do You Want – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT
Snowcoach – Russ Conway (Columbia)
Dear Daddy – Petula Clark (Pye)
Hushabye – Dene Four (HMV)
The Merry Men – Don Robertson (Capitol)
No show on Saturday 7 November 1959 because of British Legion Remembrance Service and a Semprini concert
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Saturday 14 November 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
(Recorded 31 October 1959)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Jeanne Baldwin, Bunny Lewis, Gary Miller, Venetia Stevenson
Records played:
Happy Little Caterpillar – Sam Tacit (Decca)
The Ways Of Love – Tommy Edwards (MGM)
Unforgettable – Dinah Washington (Mercury)
Fool’s Hall Of Fame – Pat Boone (London)
Little White Bull – Tommy Steele (Decca)
Talk To Me – Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
So Many Ways – Brook Benton (Mercury) -
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Saturday 28 November 1959, 6.50-7.15pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Judy Carne, Peter Noble, Sylvie St Clair, Digby Wolfe
Records played:
Happy Prancer – Dance, Prancer & Nervous (Capitol)
Still Small Voice – Perry Como (RCA)
Loving Is A Way Of Living – Ilse Werner (Qualiton)
Just About This Time Tomorrow – Tony Reese (London)
The Meaning Of The Blues – Kalin Twins (Brunswick)
Among My Souvenirs – Connie Francis (MGM)
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Saturday 1 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Ian Fenner, Susan Maughan, Jane Morgan, Bruce Prochnik
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
A Fool Never Learns – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
I Love How You Love Me – Maureen Evans (Oriole) HIT
Come On – Tommy Roe (HMV) HIT
Green Fields – Unit 4+2 (Decca) MISS
Shake And Scream – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Who Was That Girl – Al Saxon (Mercury) HIT
Go On And Cry – Conway Twitty (MGM) MISS
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Saturday 22 February 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Cilla Black, Sam Costa, James Garner, Susan Hampshire
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Big Town – Clevelands (Philips) HIT
We Love You Beatles – Carefrees (Oriole) MISS
Theme For Young Lovers – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Not Fade Away – Rolling Stones (Decca) HIT
Blue Winter – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Big Bad Bass – Jet Harris (Decca) MISS
You’re Gonna Be My Girl – Chris Sandford & the Coronets (Decca) MISS
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Saturday 21 March 1964, 5.40-6.05
Panel: Kathy Kirby, Henry Mancini, Jean Metcalfe, Spike Milligan
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Why Did You Bring Him To The Dance – Peter’s Faces (Piccadilly) MISS
Only You – Mark Wynter (Pye) (not given)
I’m In Love With You – Golden Crusaders (Columbia) HIT
Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing – Linda Saxone (Pye) HIT
I’ve Got That Feeling – Orchids (Decca) HIT
Worried Guy – Johnny Tillotson (MGM) MISS
Tired, Broken And Busted – Duffy Power (Parlophone) MISS
That’s How It Goes – Breakaways (Pye) HIT -
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Saturday 11 April 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Sid James, Sarah Miles, Jimmy Young +1
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
I Don’t Wanna Know – Mike Cotton Sound (Columbia) HIT
Wrong For Each Other – Andy Williams (CBS) HIT
Walking The Dog –Dennisons (Decca) HIT
Look Over Your Shoulder – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) MISS
Dominique – Dutch Swing College Band (Philips) MISS
Lovesick – Mike Berry (HMV) MISS
Stella By Starlight – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
A Little Loving – Fourmost (Parlophone) HIT -
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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 16 February 1963
Panel: Pete Murray, Robin Richmond, Annie Ross, Nancy Spain
Records played:
Alice In Wonderland – Neil Sedaka (RCA) HIT
Johnny Day – Rolf Harris (Columbia) HIT
I Wanna Be Around – Tony Bennett (CBS) MISS
Popsy Wopsy – Clinton Ford (Oriole) MISS
Big Wide World – Teddy Randazzo (Pye) MISS
Return Of The Outlaws – Outlaws (HMV) MISS
Meditation – Pat Boone (London) MISS
Brotherhood Of Man – Jaye P Morgan (MGM) MISS
My Kind Of Girl – Frank Sinatra (Reprise) HIT
The Times 160263
Feature, Functions Of The Captive Audience
The intrusive nature of the studio audience is mitigated by television, and there are programmes, indeed, of which it could be said that audience participation is a paramount element. It can be said, for instance, of Juke Box Jury, an old favourite distinguished by some brilliant camera work. As the record is played the camera picks out the unformed face of a teenager mesmerised by the beat, the pointed shoe tapping out the rhythm, the hand of a lover seeking that of his mate. Without the unconscious cooperation of its fans, Juke Box Jury would lose three-quarters of its fascination.23.2.63 – No Juke Box Jury. Instead, A Song For Europe introduced by David Jacobs
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Saturday 16 March 1963
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Angela Douglas, David Gell, Sid James
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Punish Her – Mike Preston (Decca) HIT
Walk Like A Man – Four Seasons (Stateside) HIT
Tomorrow Is Another Day – Maureen Evans (Oriole) MISS
Cigarettes And Coffee Blues – Marty Robbins (Fontana) HIT
Them Terrible Boots – Orlons (Cameo Parkway) HIT
Follow The Boys – Connie Francis (MGM) MISS
Misery – Kenny Lynch (HMV) HIT
Say I Won’t Be There – Springfields (Philips) MISS
Can You Forgive Me – Karl Denver (Decca) MISS
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Saturday 6 July 1963, 7-7.25pm
Panel: Ian Carmichael, Alma Cogan, Steve Race, June Ritchie
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Patty Baby – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS
Not Responsible – Helen Shapiro (Columbia) HIT
True Love – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
One Fine Day – Chiffons (Stateside) MISS
I Wonder – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
Ugly Bug Ball – Alex Welsh (Columbia) MISS
Mary Rose – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
The Times, 060763
I am a devotee of JBJ principally because the camera has such a quick eye for the mannerisms and reactions of the bewitched onlookers. There is an old English word for this condition, more expressive than ‘bewitched’. It is betwattled.On Juke Box Jury, Steve Race brilliantly summed up Brenda Lee last Saturday.
NME 12 July 1963On Lucky Stars, Brian Matthew didn’t have DJ’s assurance; guest disc-jockey Sam Costa most unfunny.
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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 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
Jealousy Will Get You Nowhere – Brian Diamond & the Cutters (Decca) HIT -
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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 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 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.”
Peter Prichard for The Grade Organisation 010362
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 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 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 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
Theme From Dr Kildare – Richard Chamberlain (MGM) HIT
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Charmaine – Bachelors (Decca) MISS
Pitter Pitter Patter – Jimmy Charles (Windsor) MISS -
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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 2 September 1961, 6-6.25pm
Panel: Shirley Abicair, Scilla Gabel, Ray Orchard, Eric Sykes
Producer: Bill Cotton Jr
Records played:
Kon-Tiki – Shadows (Columbia)
Together – Connie Francis (MGM)
Get Lost – Eden Kane (Decca) MISS
Don’t Have Any More Mrs Moore – David Kossoff (Oriole)
Hurt – Timi Yuro (London)
Who Put The Bomp – Viscounts (Pye)
A Little Bit Of Soap – Jarmels (TopRank)
Cryin’ – Roy Orbison (London)
Well, I ask you. ‘Juke Box Jury’ voted Eden Kane’s ‘Get Lost’ a miss.
Alley Cat, 8 September 1961Eden Kane: “The record got exposure and that’s what mattered. It didn’t matter whether it was voted a hit or a miss as any publicity was good publicity in those days. The girl in Lady Antebellum was on one of those TV star search programmes and didn’t get through, so what do judges know?”
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Saturday 2 December 1961
Panel: Jill Browne, Harry Fowler, Pete Murray, June Thorburn
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
You’ve Got To See Mamma – Kari Lynn (Oriole)
String Of Camels – Johnny Dankworth (Columbia)
Tonight – Ted Heath (Decca)
I’d Never Find Another You – Billy Fury (Decca)
Baby’s First Christmas – Connie Francis (MGM)
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen – Neil Sedaka (RCA)
Love Can Be – Lena Martell (HMV)
Happy Times – Tony Orlando (Fontana)
Spin-A-Disc with Ted King: Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Baby’s First Christmas, A Thousand Feet Below (Terry Tyler), Let There Be Drums
RT 301161
This was the first time JBJ had ventured out of the studios.
The BBC was having an At Home week in Portsmouth.
The audience was to include naval ratings, who were bound to be more vociferous than the usual teenage audience.
David Jacobs is ex navy himself, a Chatham rating.
Pete Murray has done 40 JBJs: “We are friends but what we say is sometimes slanderous to each other.”
Jill Browne is a third DJ as she is presenting her own BBC show.
After she was previously on JBJ (Programme 89), she was invited to make a record and it will be out soon.
When June Thorburn wants to slim, she puts on rock’n’roll records and jives away.David Jacobs was exasperated with Harry Fowler on ‘Juke Box Jury’.
Alley Cat, 8 December 1961