THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS #1 (1963) - [3of4]

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS #1 (1963) - part 3of4
21st December 1963
Host Brian Matthew

Janice Nicholls,
Bill Butler,
guest DJ Bob Wooler of The Cavern

Gerry & The Pacemakers - "I Like It"

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"Thank Your Lucky Stars" was a British television pop music show made by ABC Television, and broadcast on ITV from 1961 to 1966. Many of the top bands performed on it, and for millions of British teenagers it was essential viewing. As well as featuring British artists, American guests were frequent visitors.

Audience participation was a strong feature of "Thank Your Lucky Stars", and the Spin-a-Disc section, where a guest DJ and three teenagers reviewed three singles, is a very well remembered feature of the show. Generally American singles were reviewed.

The Merseyside specials are very fondly remembered and gained huge audiences.
The show bowed out in the summer of 1966, after two thousand artists had appeared on it.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Thank
• Your
• Lucky
• Stars
• 1963
• Gerry
• The
• Pacemakers
• Beatles

[FaerieCrone]

Gerry Marsden gave me and me mates a lift home because someone nicked out taxi. Really nice bloke.

[lkijju]

Brillant nyrainbow. Where on earth did you get hold of these TYLS shows? I thought they would no longer exist.

[cbak12sg]

Janice Nicholls had a brief flirtation with fame, including a record called Oi'll Give It Foive. What's interesting here is that "Bill Butler" grew up to be Billy Butler, and became a radio and TV presenter, mostly in Liverpool, but with the occasional national show like Fun Factory (1980). He also became something of a trivia buff, rather like Danny Baker. I remember him on one show challenging viewers to set him questions. One asked about the Thompson Twins' name. He responded "Herge's...

[Phaedrax2]

@lkijju my query too, are there anymore? I was on the Spin a Disc panel twice.

[CenaTv2]

@PEEDEE100 ITV also trashed alot of their stuff when they evolved into Thames Television in 1968. But, ITV programmes have more of a chance of surviving.

[CenaTv2]

@RetroCool73 agreed. The only decent record played in that selection was the Aces wait till tomorrow.

Should of been a hit.

[lyndloo]

just like Janice Nicholls oilll giv it fiov..lol.great clip ..

[RetroCool73]

@PEEDEE100 In actual fact, all the TYLS's were junked too apart from this show and 2 others (both 1966).

Interesting snapshot of how "faddy" the UK music scene was here - out of the 3 "discs" put to the panel, the 2 that got the thumbs-up were pointless facsimiles of songs every band in the country was playing in the clubs, and yet to my ears the track by The Aces sound by far and away the better track.

[CrankCase08]

Roll Over Beethoven by Pat Wayne & The Beachcombers - what an utterly pointless record.

[simonbath]

excrutiating

[sapphiretaurus]

I read that only three episodes of TYLS still exist. Where more found?