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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 12:49 pm |
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I miss the good old jukebox.
Nowadays you go inside a pub, a restaurant or a supermarket etc. and there's always somekind of background music.
It wasn't like this in the sixties, there was rarely any music played unless you threw money in the music machine.
It was always a highlight when you pressed the button to hear your favorite songs. I remember there was an Italian restaurant that had "Get Together" by the Youngbloods.
Another one had a Rascals single. Not to mention the Beatles or the Stones.  |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 4:22 pm
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Some of the old jukeboxes had a button in the back where the owner could go over and press and it would play a few records at random if no one had put money in it in a while. This was a "prime the pump" feature. My great uncle owned a coin machine company when I was a kid and he would give us the "hillbilly" records when they took them off the jukeboxes. That's what got me hooked on this stuff!
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Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 5:13 pm
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I miss the jukeboxes cause we used to go up to them and read the titles of the songs, and then put "between the sheets" after the title. I suppose you still can do that, but it wouldn't be the same.
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 9:52 pm
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| we have four of them here at the house! love them |
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Leslie Ehrlich
From:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 12:24 am
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The jukebox will never go away. I've been in places with CD jukeboxes, and they sound just as good if not better than the old ones that played records.
With MP3s and other digital sound files, the next generation of jukeboxes should be able to hold more music and provide listeners with a wider variety of tunes.
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 12:30 am
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| I liked the table top diner juke boxes. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 2:14 am
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" rock the coin right into the slot
you gotta hear somethin' that's really hot "
crazylegs berry - schooldays
i was brought up in nyc - after school we'd all hang out at the pizza shop fer it's jukebox, girls, slices & cokes
later on on the road, i too loved them truck stop individual booth jukeboxes
got a great musical education that way
gone but not forgotten.... 
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 9:43 am
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| I had a really amazing girlfriend in high school who had an old Seeburg loaded with classic tunes in her garage. We'd go in there and fool around listening to it, and to this day whenever I hear any of those particular tunes I get, um, nostalgic... |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 11:18 am
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| Ken Lang wrote: |
| I miss the jukeboxes cause we used to go up to them and read the titles of the songs, and then put "between the sheets" after the title. I suppose you still can do that, but it wouldn't be the same. |
What does this mean? Thanks. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 3:35 pm
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If you go into Red's Drive-In at Dollywood, there's an old Wurlitzer jukebox inside that plays 50s hits.
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 9:32 pm
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Remember when about half the 78's on the juke boxes were Hank Sr.[Yes he's Sr. to me,always has been and always will be] He recorded his sacred tunes under Hank the Drifter so they would'nt get on the jukeboxes by mistake. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2011 10:15 am
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My first musical memory, other than church mucic, was listening to juke boxes in the early 50's that were found in all the "honkey tonks" in town.I was about 5 or 6 then and, it's another story, but I spent a lot of time in the "honkey tonks". I got addicted to the atmosphere and mostly the music. Songs I can remember from those days are "Hey Good Lookin'", "Mom and Dads Waltz", "Bimbo" plus dozens of songs by E.T, Hank Williams and Webb Pierce.
I can do without the beer joints, but I still love those old country songs.
By the way, If we had a poll to find the most popular honkey tonk juke box tune ever, I bet it would be "Don't Be Angry" by Stonewall Jackson
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 20 Jan 2011 9:34 am
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It always seemed to me that a song played on a (public) jukebox took on another life of it's own; because not only we're you enjoying the song, but so were other people [ie. the whole world].IMHO.
It was always satisfying to see other folks diggin' the same stuff you were.
Long live the jukebox. 
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2011 1:19 pm
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I was a teen in the 50's,all the soda shops had jukeboxes nickle a play,six for a quarter,Bobbie socks,pony tails,Chuck Berry,Fats,The Platters,The windows fogged up in my 47 Chevey at the drive in,THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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