On This Day 1978 📺 'Top of the Pops' Jilted John ~ Jilted John (#6) Oh how I chuckled….heard it on TOTP, memorised it - then yelled it across the windswept playing fields of yore for those few weeks. This sad tale of Jilted John getting blown out by his bird Julie for Gordon the Moron was learned verbatim by not just me but every kid in the country. A one-hit wonder, not entirely surprisingly. The lyrics are so memorable I can still recite the whole song all the way through and hear the brillia