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Thread #106844   Message #2211875
Posted By: GUEST,Lindsay in Wales
09-Dec-07 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: jukebox memories
Subject: RE: jukebox memories
30 years ago I used to drink in The Crown at Weston, a splendid old pub on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. The juke box was very old and the records much loved. When I went back in the early 90s the old juke box and the old records were still there, but sadly they have all gone now. Those I remember are:

Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky"
David Essex "Silver Dream Racer"
Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water"
The Who "Substitute" and Others
Fleetwood Mac "Albatross" and others

I moved to a village near Bicester and in the late 80s started to go to the Rose and Crown at Blackthorn, kept by the wonderful Mick The Hat who now keeps the Peyton Arms at Stoke Lyne, which is the best pub in the WORLD...

Mick had a juke box in the Rose and Crown and he used to alter the record titles or band names to suit himself ; i.e. Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" became "Positively Blackthorn" and
a band such as Brian Poole and the Tremeloes became "Brian Poole and the Blackthorneyites"....

One of the earliest jukeboxes I can remember was in a harbourside cafe at Brixham in Devon, where I was staying with my parents in the summer of 1961. Every day Helen Shapiro's "You Don't Know" was played and whenever I have heard it since, I am transported back to that cafe and the pretty harbour at Brixham...