David Jacobs

Good heavens – I didn't realise that he was still alive. I suppose he was a part of our youth but he was so awful it's difficult to feel sorry that he's dead.

You're all heart, absent...

Gordon Bennett absent! You don't sound too cheerful these days. What's up?

I am happy enough j08 but thanks for asking. I just think David Jacobs was rubbish in the days of Juke Box Jury (that was him wasn't it?) but maybe he improved with time.

He was just old fashioned. They all were in those days.

I didn't think he was rubbish on Jukebox Jury. You must have been a very sophisticated teenager absent.

merlot do you mean they were old fashioned then or old fashioned now? Can you be new fashioned after the event/s? Or old fashioned in the past?

#somethingtothinkon

He used to do a lovely music programme on a Sunday too didn't he? And I loved JBJ - black and white, clipped vowels and such clean cut rock stars!!

I loved Juke Box Jury. In my old diary for 1963 I've got lists of the records played and my decision as to whether they were a "hit" or a "miss".

At that time a lot of the presenters and news readers had very plummy voices and David Jacobs didn't seem particularly out of place to me.

I thought he was old even then – say, about 50 – so it looks as if he/they were old-fashioned even then.

Never heard of him or Juke Box Jury. What does that make me?

Young Bags - very young!

He started broadcasting before I was born and that's a very long time ago.

gaga, or maybe just a dreamer drifting along and not noticing!

Do any of you remember on Juke Box Jury the young woman who would say 'I give it foive'? (said like that)>

Wasn't she on the other programme, called 6.05 Special (?) With Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan? JBJ just did hits and misses, I think! Her name might have been Janice

I thought he was much older than 87. He seemed to be around forever and then disappeared. He was in a car crash abroad a long time ago - was it his wife or his friend's wife who was killed - can't remember.

Her name (I think) was Janice PRINTMISS.

No - Janice Nichols (Oi'll give it foive!) was on Thank Your Lucky Stars, from ABC.

Cathy McGowan was a presenter on Ready, Steady Go

Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray presented Six-Five Special. Don Lang (an old boss of mine) had the resident band, his 'Frantic Five'.

David Jacobs was a voice of sanity - although rather obsessed with Mack & Mabel... He will be missed - there are so few left at the BBC who can tell B-Flat from a boiler explosion...

I remember her PRINTMISS. Janice somebody.

OOPs got it wrong ( I was only a baby at the time).

Janice Nicholls

I thought it was right j08 she was on it 1962-1965 according,I thought she was so cool at the time.