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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject: Juke Box Jury |
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I watched BBC 4 last night to see the 68 TOTP programme followed by an old edition of Juke Box Jury.
From Lonnie Donegan's recording of "Lively", I would say 1960.
I don't think time has been kind to JBJ..
The panel was Nina, Frederick, Jill Ireland and David McCallum.
I really felt quite awkward and uneasy watching both panel and audience sitting there with all sorts of comical, embarrassed and sometimes painful expressions whilst listening to the best part of records "played" by David Jacobs on the jukebox, most of which were bloody awful anyway!
"Pinky & Perky??" ( Frederick liked it ).
I think this format is now strictly confined to yesteryear...
They all spoke in a very posh English accent as usual.
I said to the Wife, imagine going back in time and sneaking a recording of "Fire Starter" on the jukebox! I wonder how they would've reacted?
Goodness gracious, how awful! innit. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: Juke Box Jury |
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I'm expecting Mark Ronson or some other remix wizard to do their stuff on Pinky and Perky's 'Eeny Meeny Miney Mo' seeing as half of the teenagers on buses seem to listen to modern R & B with speeded up voices on!
And was Lonnie Donegan's Lively a subconscious inspiration for Griff Rhys Jones's 'Gandhi' song from the Smith & Jones show? _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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It was like watching ancient history, but worth it just to see DJ in his prime, the gorgeous Jill Ireland and the graceful Nina, complete with Venus Flytrap frock.
I only managed to catch a small part of it, and the preceding early TOTP, having been outvoted in favour of The Others (and, since I'd been allowed the indulgence of University Challenge and Masterchef I couldn't complain too loudly), so I'm hoping there'll be a repeat sometime.
Sounded as if Lonnie's Lively was the best release that week. Pinky & Perky was unspeakable, Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson was past his sell-by date, and Adam Wade sounded like a Johnny Mathis tribute artist.
I remember the Beatles being on the panel one week - that shook things up a bit - but the format, audience and guests changed little until it finished in 1967. They tried again in 1979 with Noel Edmonds, and later (!) with Jools Holland, complete with model train which ran, at his whim, between him and the panel. _________________ Ron |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't it just awful!
David McCallum's rant on commercialisation of Christmas made me want to ..... well I won't say it.
Jill Ireland was just sooo affected as I thought they all were. I can remember watching JBJ a bit but not thinking the juries were as bad a this one. I saw the Beatles on it but can't remember what they were like!
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Glad I'm not the only one who watches University Challenge! I watched the 1968 edition of TOTPs and it was good with Dave Cash alongside Jummy Savile.
Don't forget the Girl Groups tonight! _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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I watched Jukebox Jury last night.
David Jacobs was a bit of a hunk when he was younger! |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Scott_Nelson wrote: | I watched Jukebox Jury last night.
David Jacobs was a bit of a hunk when he was younger! |
He has always been extremely smart and handsome - dapper, you might say.
Jill Ireland was on quite a few of them. I remember I had quite a crush on her - at the ripe old age of 8/9
I liked Dave Cash's pronunciation of "the status quo" _________________ Ron |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | .... and the graceful Nina, complete with Venus Flytrap frock. |
I was thinking of one of those fancy chimney pots! wasn't that dress just terrible? how on earth could they have thought it looked good at the time?
I didn't realise Jill Ireland was married to David McCallum...
I was also pretty amazed at how rough the set was too. You could see David's "podium" was simply painted rough edged plywood and the many shots of the jukebox interested me too.
There were some very rough little "buttons" along the leading edge which I couldn't figure out. They looked very shabby.
But I think they were illuminated buttons with "R O C K ~ O L A printed on them but had been badly covered over with BBC masking tape!
I shall be tuned in tonight too - thanks Helen! _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, Lonnie Donegan's Lively charted on 26 November 1960, so the edition shown probably had its first airing a few weeks before that. I probably saw it then!
Mr D reached no 13--not at all bad but falling considerably short of his no 1 earlier that year with the very similar My Old Man's a Dustman.
Interesting article on the show on Wikipedia (spelling?), recalling how the composition of the teams sometimes led to some bizarre partnerships, such as on the occasion when Roy Orbison sat next to Thora Hird.
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RockitRon
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Thora would have been 49, the Big O 24 (in 1960). I expect they got on like a house on fire _________________ Ron |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Here in Liverpool, 'Juke Box Jury' is still featured on BBC Radio Merseyside on Spencer Leigh's programme, about every six weeks or so.
Jill Ireland divorced David McCallum and married Charles Bronson. Sadly both Jill and Charles are deceased. David is still alive and appears on in a TV series on C5. To me he will always be Ilya Kuryakin from U.N.C.L.E. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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He is always Ilya to me as well Briant! It was a few years after that JBJ though.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: |
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"Open channel D" I used to rush home to see Man from Uncle.
I remembered Jools Holland doing a version of the show but forgot about Noel Edmunds!
I watched a YooTube thingy the other night where Johnny Rotton was on Noel's show and dear old Fluff Freeman got a little upset with the pouting Punkster telling him to shut up! Rotton threw his toys out of the pram and stomped off!
Watched the Girl Groups show but although it was entertaining, I was
disappointed they didn't show more of the earlier groups such as the Ronettes and Crystals etc... The Supremes section was great.
Even now I'm transfixed by those fantastic looking girls from that time. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
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iwarburton
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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David McCallum's late father, also David, was a violinist, who was once described as Sir Thomas Beecham's favourite orchestra leader and towards the end of his life used to do regular solo slots on R2 on Eric Robinson's Melodies for You.
Ian. |
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