Tillotson's "Poetry In Motion" was the first record in the one surviving early 60s Juke Box Jury (12th November 1960), in which David McCallum said that Pinky and Perky had "a certain charm that pigs don't usually have" and declared that Adam Faith's "Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop)" represented the evil commercialisation of Christmas. It was voted a hit, an accurate prediction considering that it made number one in the UK. I barely know anything else (and likewise the only Hank Locklin song I know is his one British hit, "Please Help Me I'm Falling") but that Juke Box Jury is an incredible not-sure-how-to-let-go-yet period piece, and whatever they may have got wrong, they got Johnny Tillotson right ...
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 18 January 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)