
Spike appeared on Juke Box Jury in March 1963. His fellow judges were Chris Montez, Janette Scott and Carole Carr
A memory of Gladys Davies about Spike on the show
One of my favourite memories is of a 'Juke Box Jury'. The Director clicked his thumb at me, and I cut to 2 - on a nice close-up of Spike Milligan. "You're on the wrong camera", howled the Director. "What do you think you're doing?" I was staring in horror at the transmission screen on which camera 2 was now holding a shot of an empty desk.
I looked frantically up and down the line of monitors, and was just about to cut away to a 'reaction' shot when Spike Milligan's head began to appear slowly from behind the desk until he looked like 'Mr Chad', with just the end of his nose showing, and he said, in his inimitable country bumkin voice, "Oi loiked thart record. It went reaowned and reaowned!" [This incident was at Lime Grove and not Alexandra Palace].
One of the songs aired was the classic "JOHNNY REMEMBER ME" and Spike was the only panelist to vote for it as a hit!
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