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Saturday 11 March 1967, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded)
Panel: Retia Favia, Judy Geeson, Pete Murray, David Symonds
Casting voter: Linda Jackson)
Producer: Travers Thorneloe
Records played:
Lady Love – Vontastics (Stateside)
Got To Find A Reason – Three People (Decca)
Chicken Feed – Millie Small (Fontana)
It’s All Over – Cliff Richard (Columbia)
Puppet on a String – Sandie Shaw (Pye)
Arnold Layne – Pink Floyd (Columbia)
Stranger – Dave Berry (Decca)
All – James Darren (Warner) -
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Saturday 29 April 1967, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 22 April 1967)
Panel: Vikki Carr, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Anneke Wills
Casting voter: Anna Double
Producer: Colin Charman
Records played:
Samantha’s Mine – Spectrum (RCA)
Love is a Feeling – Milva (Major Minor)
I Got Rhythm – Happenings (Stateside)
Euston Station – Barbara Ruskin (Parlophone)
Bowling Green – Everly Brothers (Warner)
24 Sycamore – Wayne Fontana (Fontana)
Just One More Chance – Outer Limits (Decca) HIT -
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Saturday 10 December 1966, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 3 December 1966)
Panel: The Bachelors (Con Cluskey, Dec Cluskey, John Stokes), Julie Felix
Casting voter: Carolyn Sowell
Producer: Albert Stevenson
Records played:
Going Nowhere – Los Bravos (Decca)
Deadlier Than The Male – Walker Bros (Philips)
Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies –Association (Warner)
That Special Way – Nancy Wilson (Capitol)
Anyway That You Want Me – Troggs (Page One)
When Will The Good Apples Fall – Ronnie Hilton (HMV)
Nashville Cats – Lovin’ Spoonful (Kama Sutra) -
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Saturday 2 January 1965, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 26 December 1964)
Panel: Val Doonican, Charlie Drake, Fenella Fielding, Twinkle
Producer: Stewart Morris
Records played:
What In The World’s Come Over You – Rockin’ Berries (Piccadilly) HIT
Come Tomorrow – Manfred Mann (HMV) HIT
The Heart That You Break – Gitte (Columbia) MISS
Goodbye Charlie – Pat Boone (Dot) MISS
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ – Righteous Brothers (London) MISS (60 seconds)
If You Love Him – Joanie Sommers (Warner) HIT
Dear Heart – Ronnie Carroll (Philips) HIT
Round And Round – Dickie Rock (Pye) HIT Written by Peter Lee Stirling
The Promised Land – Chuck Berry (Pye International) HIT (58 seconds)
Neville Wortman: “The panel only heard what was played on the programme. We only played a minute of a record but if a record was rather unusual, we might choose something other than the beginning. The Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ would be an example of that. You want to give the panel a real flavour of what the music is all about. It’s like being a good publisher – they can tell from the first few lines of an unsolicited manuscript if it is something they want.”
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Saturday 30 April 1960, 6-6.30pm
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Buddy Kaye, Humphrey Lyttelton, Gary Miller, Johnny Preston
Records played:
Chicken Thief – Kalin Twins (Brunswick)
Sweet Dreams – Dave Sampson (Columbia)
16 Reasons – Connie Stevens (Warner)
Chattanooga Choo Choo – Ernie Fields (London)
The Fight – Marty Wilde (Philips) Side set
Tom Pillibi – Jacqueline Boyer (Columbia)
Who Was That Lady – Dean Martin (Capitol)
Camera script: Little Christine (Dick Jordan), Got A Girl (Four Preps)
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Saturday 7 May 1960, 6-6.30pm
(Recorded 30.04.60)
Chairman: David Jacobs
Panel: Doug Levy, Nancy Pederson, Karen Post, Ed Robertson
Records played:
Et Voila – Frankie Laine (Philips)
Now Now Now – Jerry Keller (London)
All I Need – Edna Savage (Parlophone) Side set
Tamiami – Bill Haley & his Comets (Warner)
That’s You – Nat King Cole (Capitol)
My Gal Sal – The Freemen (Parlophone) Side set
I Love The Way You Love – Marv Johnson (London)
The Madison Time – Ted Heath & his Music (Decca)
Got A Girl – Four Preps (Capitol)
The panel comprised of teenagers from the American School of Independence, Bushey Park, US base in Middlesex. Headmaster gave Russell Turner and Johnnie Stewart 20 possibles and they chose four. All aged 17 to 19.
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Saturday 30 July 1960
Panel: Anthea Askey, Arthur Askey, Susan Franks, Peter Haigh
Records played:
The Sheik Of Chicago (Mustafa) – Four Lads (Philips)
Quiet – Baby Dolls (Warner)
Naughty – Charlie Drake (Parlophone)
Long Ago Last Summer – Diana Trask (Philips)
Walking To New Orleans – Fats Domino (London)
Down By The River – Rosemary Lane (Philips) side set
Image of a Girl – Mark Wynter (Decca)
Image of a Girl – Nelson Keene (HMV)
Sweet Tooth – Les Howard (Columbia)
Feel So Fine – Johnny Preston (Mercury) -
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Saturday 6 August 1960
(Ampex 300760)
Panel: Judy Huxtable, Bunny Lewis, Stirling Moss, Kenneth Wolstenholme
Records played:
You’re Thrilling – Johnny Angel (Parlophone) side set
I’ll Fly Away – Lonnie Sattin (Warner)
I’ve Never Seen A Straight Banana – Jimmy Edwards (Fontana)
This Place Called Home – Dorothy Squires (Decca)
Light Up The Sky – Tommy Steele
Theme From The Apartment – Ferrante & Teicher (London)
Unless You Mean It – Jess Conrad (Decca) side set
Silver Moon Upon The Golden Sands – Guy Mitchell (Philips) -
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Saturday 27 August 1960
Panel: Lionel Bart, Sheila Buxton, David Hughes, Mildred Mayne
Records played:
Shimmy Shimmy – Bobby Freeman (Parlophone) MISS 0.55
Hello Young Lovers –Paul Anka (Columbia) MISS 1.00
The New Darktown Strutters Ball – Lou Monte (HMV) HIT 0.59
You Mean Everything To Me – Neil Sedaka (RCA) MISS 0.58
Too Young To Go Steady – Connie Stevens (Warner) MISS 1.02
Let’s Think About Living – Bob Luman (Warner) HIT 0.43
The Twist – Chubby Checker (Columbia) MISS 0.58
Nice ’n Easy – Frank Sinatra (Capitol) HIT 1.23
All My Love – Jackie Wilson (Coral) MISS 0.54
Too Young To Date – The Delicates (London) MISS 0.56
Taken from camera script. Not all may have been broadcast.
No programme on 3 September 1960 – Olympics
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Saturday 10 September 1960
Panel: Annette Funicello, Paul Carpenter, Geoff Love, Rosemary Squires
Records played:
If You Need Me – Dave Sampson (Columbia) MISS 1.18
Little Bitty Pretty One – Frankie Lymon (Columbia) HIT 1.02
No – Dodie Stevens (London) HIT 1.03
Waitin’ For Fall – Tab Hunter (Warner) HIT 1.05
Passing Breeze – Russ Conway (Columbia) HIT 1.15
How About That – Adam Faith (Parlophone) HIT (assumed) 1.37
Yogi – Ivy Three (London) HIT 1.10
Camera script probably unused – Why Why Why (Wise Boys), Speaking Of Her (Adam Wade) and Kiddio (Brook Benton)
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Saturday 24 September 1960
Panel: Catherine Boyle, Don Moss, Peggy Mount, Eric Sykes
Records played:
Just For A Thrill – Kay Starr (Capitol)
Is There Any Chance – Marty Robbins (Fontana)
Nicolette – Winifred Atwell (Decca)
My Love For You – Johnny Mathis (Fontana)
Never On Sunday – Chaquito (Fontana)
Never On Sunday – Lyn Cornell (Decca)
If I Were a Bell – Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams with Count Basie & his Orchestra (Columbia)
Delia Gone – Pat Boone (London)
Stay With Me – Ed Townsend (Warner)
Taken from camera script. All may not have been played.
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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
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Saturday 2 May 1964, 5.55-6.30pm
Panel: Maureen Cleave, Freddie Garrity, Dick Haymes, Barbara Windsor
P J Proby, mystery guest
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Brazilian Shake – Tom Springfield Combo (Philips) MISS 3-1
You Might As Well Forget Him – Tommy Quickly (Piccadilly) HIT 3-2
Hold Me – P J Proby (Decca) HIT
Skin – Allan Sherman (Warner) MISS 3-2
We Will Make Love (Remake) – Russ Hamilton (Ember) MISS 3-1
One And One Is Two – Mike Shannon and the Strangers (Philips) MISS 3-1
No Particular Place To Go – Chuck Berry HIT 4-0
Someone, Someone – Brian Poole and the Tremeloes HIT 4-0
You Are Here – Carvelles (Fontana) MISS 3-1
P J Proby: “When Hold Me came out, I was sure it was going to be a Miss on JBJ because Dick Haymes was on the panel. I’d done a rock version of his beautiful ballad and when I shook hands with him, I said, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.’ I told him afterwards, ‘I can sing ballads, you just haven’t heard me yet.’ He said, ‘I was in the era of crooners and we had to sing like that. You’re with the Beatles now and you’ve done a great job.’ I thought, ‘If the Beatles accept me, if Dick Haymes accepts me, I’ll stick around.”
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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 19 December 1964, 5.15-5.40pm
(Recorded 12 December)
Panel: Marianne Faithfull, Sheila Hancock, Tony Hatch, Kenneth Williams
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
California Bound – Ronny & the Daytones (Stateside)
Lollipops And Roses – Danny Williams (HMV) 1.43
It Isn’t There – Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV)
Jive Jimmy – The Socialites (Warner)
Lookin’ For Love – Hummelflugs (Pye)
If I Fell – Keely Smith (Reprise)
Que Sera Sera – Earl Royce & the Olympics (Columbia) -
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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 4 May 1963
Panel: Dora Bryan, Judith Chalmers, Pete Murray, Andy Williams
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
Remember Diana – Paul Anka (RCA) MISS
Ups And Downs Of Love – Freddie Cannon (Stateside) MISS
What A Guy – Raindrops (London) MISS
Foolish Little Girl – Shirelles (Stateside) HIT
Diane – Joe Harnell & his Orchestra (London) HIT
Lucky Lips – Cliff Richard (Columbia) HIT
Swing That Hammer – Mike Cotton’s Jazzmen (Columbia) HIT
The Last Leaf – Cascades (Warner) HIT
Bee Bom – Sammy Davis Jr (Reprise) MISS
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Saturday 1 June 1963
Panel: Tony Meehan, Barbara Murray, Pete Murray, Annie Ross
Producer: Neville Wortman
Records played:
Around And Around – Lonnie Jay & the Jaynes (Stateside) MISS
Danke Schoen – Craig Douglas (Decca) MISS
Gravy Waltz – Millicent Martin (Parlophone) MISS
Riviera Cafe – Lance Percival (Parlophone) HIT
Atlantis – Shadows (Columbia) HIT
Tomorrow Night – Eden Kane (Fontana) MISS
See If She Cares – Faron’s Flamingos (Oriole) HIT
Sally – Tubby Hayes Quartet (Fontana) MISS
Blue On Blue – Bobby Vinton (Columbia) MISS
Da Doo Ron Ron – Crystals (London) HIT
(I Love You) Don’t You Forget It – Perry Como (RCA) MISS
Love Is A Ball – Billy Eckstine & Damita Jo (Mercury) MISS
It’s Been Nice – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
Keith Fordyce said on Lucky Stars last Saturday that Craig Douglas, Mark Wynter and Jimmy Justice were better singers than Rick Nelson.
Alley Cat, 7 June 1963 -
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Saturday 6 January 1962
Panel: Sam Costa, Alan Freeman, Sandu Scott, Nancy Spain
Producer: Harry Carlisle
Records played:
He’s Old Enough To Know Better – Crickets (London)
Small Sad Sam – Phil McLean (Top Rank)
D-Darling – Anthony Newley (Decca)
Happy Jose – Dave Appell (Columbia)
Jeannie – Danny Williams (HMV)
Forget Me Not – Eden Kane (Decca)
Crying In The Rain – Everly Brothers (Warner)
Especially For The Young – Perry Como (RCA)
Spin-A-Disc with Brook Denning: Happy Jose (Dave Appell), You’re Following Me (Breedlove), Revenge (Benton)
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Saturday 12 May 1962
Panel: Jean Metcalfe, Harry Rabinowitz, Leila Williams, Harry Fowler
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Hide Nor Hair – Ray Charles (HMV) HIT
Besame Mucho – Jet Harris (Decca) HIT
How Can I Meet Her – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
The Right Thing To Say – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) MISS
Deep In The Heart Of Texas – Duane Eddy (RCA) HIT
Concerto For Dreamers – Russ Conway (Columbia) HIT
Crazy Twist – Jack Hammer (Oriole) MISS
The Green Leaves Of Summer – Kenny Ball (Pye) HIT
Big Big Baby – Doug Sheldon (Decca) MISS
C’est Si Bon – Dean Martin (Capitol) MISS
Spin-A-Disc: Born To Cry, C’Est Si Bon (Dean Martin), How Can I Meet Her
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Saturday 16 June 1962
Panel: Carole Carr, Anne Heywood, Nelson Riddle, Pete Murray
Producer: Johnnie Stewart
Records played:
Our Favourite Melodies – Craig Douglas (Columbia) HIT
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune – Dorothy Provine (Warner) HIT
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Lonnie Donegan (Pye) HIT
Here Comes That Feeling – Brenda Lee (Brunswick) HIT
Cryin’ For The Moon – Leo Maguire (Parlophone) MISS
Palisades Park – Freddy Cannon (Stateside) MISS
Ai Di La – Emilio Pericoli (Warner) HIT
Ya Ya Twist – Petula Clark (Pye) HIT
Spin-A-Disc: Crazy Words (Provine), Having A Party (Cooke), Feeling (Brenda Lee)
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Saturday 13 October 1962
Panel: Angela Huth, Don Moss, Sid James, Ketty Lester
Angela Huth was a critic
Producer: Neville Wortman
Lovesick Blues – Frank Ifield (Columbia) HIT
Sweet Enough – Louise Cordet (Decca) MISS
Nothing Can Change This Love – Sam Cooke (RCA) HIT
Must Be Madison – Joe Loss (HMV) MISS
Gina – Johnny Mathis (CBS) HIT
Because Of Love – Billy Fury (Decca) MISS
Goodbye Joe – Alma Cogan (Columbia) MISS
No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile – Everly Brothers (Warner) HIT
Little Black Book – Jimmy Dean (CBS) HIT
Lonely Johnny – John Leyton (HMV) MISS
Cracked Eric Sykes on Juke Box Jury, “I saw Helen Shapiro on the Adam Faith TV show – with the sound turned off.”
Alley Cat, 12 October 1962PFTP 181062
Eager though I am to watch JBJ, it would make a change to have an all-teenage panel once in a while, not necessarily consisting of stars.
Many female panel members seem to be in a perpetual daze, unable to make any pertinent comment. Why not come down to earth?
It must be remembered that it is teenage opinion which makes or breaks these songs.
Peter Bundock, Boothville, NorthamptonNew Billy Fury, Louise Cordet and John Leyton releases voted misses on Juke Box Jury.
Alley Cat, 19 October 1962 -
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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.
The jukebox came from Symploy and the evening was reported to be very successful. -
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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
He says, “Never be afraid to admit a mistake. It shows you’re human.”