John Barry (composer) Minster. Serving in the British Army, Barry spent his national service playing the trumpet. During his army service, he took a correspondence course (with jazz composer Bill Russo); he also worked as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, and formed his own band in 1957, the John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on EMI's Columbia label. These included "Hit and Miss", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's "Juke Box Jury" programme, a cover of the Johnny Smith song "Walk Don't Run", and a cover of the theme for the United
Neighbours theme song list of the "Top 5 Australian TV Theme Songs", writing that "Ramsay Street's anthem is just so shamelessly daggy – the original version was sung by Barry Crocker! – that it's a more perfect embodiment of suburban Australia." In 1999, Merle Brown from the "Daily Record" expressed her dislike of the new version sung by Norton and Stapleton, saying "all I want to say about "Neighbours" is where did they get that new theme tune? Unbelievably it's worse than the original one!" Fans of the show disliked the version of the theme tune introduced in 2013. Ben Pobjie from "The