jukebox memories

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 02:54 PM

Spaw...Mudcat Juke Extraordinar!

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 11:41 PM

In the dim ages before Google I'd drink coffee, the cheapest thing on the menu, for hours with other impoverished musos at Ray's Grill. We littered the table with loose-leaf paper to transcribe the lyrics to the latest hit songs from the jukebox. Once in a great while we'd actually invest in a song, but mostly we just waited around to play the ones we wanted to learn.
- Phil

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Bert
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 06:23 PM

...One, two, three O'Clock, four O'Clock Rock...

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 07:54 PM

Spaw! What a fabulous collection! Thanks to all who posted. Never did I dream so many memories would be resurrected! Bravo!

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 01:24 PM

In our semi-rural high school in Clovis, CA, between 1954 and 1958, we had a large jukebox in our cafeteria. In contained, among others:


"In the Still of the Night" - The Five Satins
"Raunchy" - Bill Doggett
"Jailhouse Rock" or "Blue Suede Shoes" - Elvis
"Charlie Brown" or "Poison Ivy" - The Coasters
"Little Darlin'" - The Diamonds
"The Twelfth of Never" - Johnny Mathis (I Gave My Love a Cherry)hmmm
"Whispering Bells" or "Come Go With Me" - The Del Vikings
"Twilight Time" or "The Great Pretender" - The Platters
"A White Sport Coat" - Marty Robbins
"Bye, Bye, Love" - The Everly Brothers
"Rock Around The Clock" - Bill Haley and the Comets
"White Silver Sands" - Don Rondo

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 12 Dec 07 - 01:58 PM

Susie Darlin' by Robin Luke was always great on a jukebox.

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: GUEST,Jim Ward
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 09:38 AM

Obviously a lot of youngsters on this thread. The first jukebox I remember in our local caff played one side each of 10 - 78's with a dirty great pick-up. I think it was two old pennies a record, the same price as a cup of tea.
Records I remember playing were -
Frankie Laine- Kid's Last Fight, Hey Joe, Gandy Dancer's Ball. George Shearing- Lullaby Of Birdland.
Earl Bostic- Flamingo.
Wyonie Harris- Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me.
Johnny Ray- Destiny, Somebody Stole My Gal.
Nat Cole- Walking My Baby Back Home.
Jack Parnell- The Creep
Great days!

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 10:48 AM

it getting a bit like the Time Life record collection ad. We all know most of the songs. But what are YOUR memories of the times?

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 11:29 AM

Well weelittledrummer....going back to your early post on this thread, which I have only just discovered...I well remember the El Zamba in Exeter and the juke box in 'The Mitre' pub where we played darts.
Prior to that though it was 'The Silver Dollar' in Totnes if anyone can remember it. I was the pinball wizard in those days and am now a pinball wizard on my comp with a high score of over 37,000,000 and a lowest high score of over 17,000,000.
The music I most remember was Elvis before The Beatles, The Stones, The Byrds, etc etc. Juke boxes were all over the place in those days.

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 12:50 PM

Weelittledrummer: It's funny you should ask. This was during the Eisenhower era, of course. No war, but lots of talk about nukes and the "military-industrial complex (That phrase from the former general himself)." I drove a '54 Chevy, a two-tone, two-door hardtop with dual pipes and 24 inch glass-pak mufflers. I remember my football letterman's sweaters. Our cheerleaders had pleated skirts down to their ankles. The local hangout (also with jukebox, one large one and a small one on each table) served up great hamburgers, with A&W root beer on tap. Among the guys, you saw a lot of crew cuts, held up with "butch wax," "DA's (duck's ass) with long hair on the sides and crew cut on top. We had a lot of auto shop devotees with '32 ford coupes, modified Model A's, souped up '55 Chevy V-8's, chopped, channelled and lowered Mercurys and the like. Hand-rubbed candy apple red, midnight metallic blue or black were favored colors. TV was strictly black and white until "Bonanza" hit the air. We would go over to a rich friend's house to watch it. Drugs were mostly non-existent. We got the annual lecture from the local Sheriff's deputy on "Reefer Madness," complete with graphics. Some of us were known to have partied with wine, beer or liquor. A lot of us lived on surrounding farms and ranches, so livestock, horse trailers and the like were familiar sights on campus, near the Agriculture Department's shop. Do you remember Adlai, the Kefauver hearings, the end of Joe McCarthy's "reign of terror" and Nixon's "Checkers" speech?
If you saw "American Grafitti," which was based on another valley town 70-odd miles north of us, Modesto, you have a pretty good idea of Fresno in the same era, though the film really treats on the era of '59 - '62.   "Draggin' the Main," driving up and down Fulton Street, hanging out at Stan's Drive-in or the Royale (which actually had carhops on roller skates for a time) and friday "ditch day" were familiar themes. There is so much more, but I'm you all need a break from this stream-of-consciousness ramble.

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 02:12 PM

Guest TJ, in England during that period you would have seen as well...

Singing the Blues - Tommy Steele
Butterfingers - Tommy Steele
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donnegan
Dead or Alive - Lonnie Donnegan
Tom Dooley - Lonnie Donnegan
Travelling Light - Cliff Richard

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 02:33 PM

I remember "Rock Island Line" and "Does Your Bubble Gum Lose Its Flavor." Ironically, my mother grew up in a small Kansas town through which Rock Island was the only railroad line. "Singing the Blues" was done by Guy Mitchell over here, and "Tom Dooley," of course, by the Kingston Trio. In those days, most of us didn't have a clue what "Skiffle" meant, but a lot of us enjoyed the energy of it. Some of us knew of Cliff Richard and, a year or two later, I became a fan of Kenny Ball's "Midnight in Moscow." I was a dixieland and traditional jazz fan as well as a folkie.

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 05:10 PM

TJ, that "stream-of-consciousness ramble" wouldn't have disgraced the pen of Jack Kerouac imo.

more of the same. please ...

Subject: RE: jukebox memories
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 05:13 PM

My earliest memories of a jukebox were at Margate in what must have been 1957, I remember All Shook Up, Diana, Last Train To San Fernando and Rock Around the Clock.