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Edwird -> Juke Boxes (6/26/2017 11:02:30 PM)


Who among here grew up with any experience of 45-spun juke box players?

It was a great way to hear anything from 50 yrs. ago to what was released two weeks ago.

I haven't been to a club or all-night cafe in ages, by lack of interest, but is there anything like that still around?

I'm clueless about what's going on in others' ear buds, but I was just wanting to see if some had the experience of 'open field' music with nickels, or three songs for a quarter, etc.

Too bad I gave it up before Amy Winehouse got to that, then waved us goodbye; and shut up with all the hyper-judgementalism on that. She did what she wanted and then she was done. End of story.

I remember reaching up to put a nickel in the slot for this one; (Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby) Standing in the Shadows

Tiny earbuds vs. transformer core saturation bass spread across the entire bowling alley . . . no comparison.



Dvr22999874 -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 12:05:24 AM)

I'm with you on that Edwird..............remember the old Ami Continental that looked like a sputnik, complete with antenna that you read the selections off ? One of the best. I worked for another company that dealt in the German boxes 'Symphonie'.........great sound but resembled a musical Volvo. Difficult to sell or lease because most café or bar owners didn't give a shit what it sounded like as long as it looked flashy and the patrons shoved their money in !!



WhoreMods -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 5:09:58 AM)

The fancy ones seem to have been more of an American thing. You did still used to see proper jukeboxes in pubs when I first started drinking, but they were always squat, armoured looking things, in extreme cases hidden in a corner with a remote coinbox and panel bolted to a wall next to the cigarette machine. They were quite quickly phased out in favour of CD jukeboxes, which didn't prove a great success as picking out specific songs from a bunch of albums is far too complicated for anybody to manage after a night on the brain lubricant.



angelikaJ -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 6:46:53 AM)

My jukebox memory:
I was eating in a place in Lake City, FL and looking at a jukebox that had such an eclectic collection of music.
The owner/chef waked up to me with a dollar in quarters and said "Play something you've never heard before."
How wonderful!



Hillwilliam -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 6:48:58 AM)

I remember the diners that had a small jukebox at each table. A nickel for one song or 3 for a dime.



Edwird -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 4:13:12 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

I'm with you on that Edwird..............remember the old Ami Continental that looked like a sputnik, complete with antenna that you read the selections off ? One of the best. I worked for another company that dealt in the German boxes 'Symphonie'.........great sound but resembled a musical Volvo. Difficult to sell or lease because most café or bar owners didn't give a shit what it sounded like as long as it looked flashy and the patrons shoved their money in !!


Thanks for that great input!

For the audience; the tube amplifiers required an output transformer to purpose of impedance-matching to speakers. If the signal (voltage) was too strong, then the output transformer just said 'good luck with that' and refused to accept anymore inductance, though still spitting out whatever it was capable of. A most natural form of signal compression, as it turns out.

I knew squat and nothing about any of that when I was a wee lad. I just noticed how wonderful it sounded in a big bowling alley out of the juke box. Especially the bass.



Edwird -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 4:32:19 PM)

Not even being a fan of 'Country Music' at all, there is no escaping the fact that hearing Patsy Cline singing Walkin' After Midnight out of the juke box while drinking exceptionally cold beer in some dive 40 miles out of town is as good as it gets.




TheBanshee -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 5:15:17 PM)

I remember singing God Bless America at the Brass Rail in ONEONTA NY, shortly before last call, the entire bar would sing loud (singing is always easier when you are buzzed). Usually this was one of the last songs of the evening, after Margaritaville and Bachman Turner Overdrive were done, or maybe Oh what a night (December, 1963). I went back a few years ago, I think the same songs were in the jukebox.

Ps Edwired, I love Walking after Midnight!



Edwird -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 10:00:54 PM)

Feminazi just doesn't get any better than this;

Loretta Lynn- Don't Come Home A'Drinkin'



PyrotheClown -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 10:18:16 PM)

I remember bout ten years ago seeing online jukeboxes in trendy bars.They had anything you could think of,so naturally I choose a circle jerks song to blare in the trendy NYC bar[sm=fingers.gif].
I'm sure they've been replaced by people's personal screens and pandora...wait,no one uses pandora anymore,I mean by *Place name of next online radio service APP here*.
A
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Y Way,the first phone I had with mp3 support,I downloaded a bunch of Memphis Minnie,cause having something that was originally recorded on a wax cylinder digitally archived on my phone just tickled me in a special way.



Edwird -> RE: Juke Boxes (6/27/2017 11:26:24 PM)

Some people carp about Jimmy Page stealing all those old songs with out giving proper credit, but a whole bunch of people many years later caught onto the originals as result.

Anywise; are you sure your download was originally from a cylinder? That's interesting.

I have an LP of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue re-played from a Victrola on one side, then recorded by the new technology of electronic amplifier on side two.

Side two sounded really harsh. Like tube amplifiers, like solid state amplifiers, like digital sound . . .

It all sounds like an ungodly mess the first few years going.

My audio engineer buddies (remote associates) finally convinced the audio newbies that digital couldn't accommodate overload in any way at all like tape could, so the latter eventually backed off from slamming the meters. What a relief.

I'm not trying to promote that everything sounded better 'back in the day' than it does now. I'm just happy to have lived through that relatively brief period of time when transformer (only with tube amps) core saturation and resulting phenomenal bass could fill a large space with no trouble.



LadyPact -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 1:38:06 AM)

Funny you should ask...

I wasn't of the 'nickel for a song' generation. By the time I came around, it was a dime for a song. Three for a quarter.

When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to a certain diner. It was the type that had the juke box selector at every booth. You could flip through the pages of choices by hitting the arrows back and forth. You had to hit it had enough for the spring to make it flip.




HaveRopeWillBind -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 4:58:05 AM)


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ORIGINAL: LadyPact


When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to a certain diner. It was the type that had the juke box selector at every booth. You could flip through the pages of choices by hitting the arrows back and forth. You had to hit it had enough for the spring to make it flip.




When I was a kid that was EVERY dinner.



HaveRopeWillBind -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 5:23:52 AM)

If you ever happen to be in the Port Clinton, OH area, go out to the local airport and check out the Tin Goose Diner for the full 50s diner experience. (Sadly, not with 50s prices, but reasonable enough.) They still have the tableside juke boxes. The place is meant to be a fly-in diner, but welcomes those who arrive by any means. There's also a small air museum right next door.



Kaliko -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 5:44:41 AM)


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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind


quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyPact


When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to a certain diner. It was the type that had the juke box selector at every booth. You could flip through the pages of choices by hitting the arrows back and forth. You had to hit it had enough for the spring to make it flip.




When I was a kid that was EVERY dinner.



Yep, I grew up with those diners.

I worked at a restaurant during high school and college that had a jukebox in it. I remember how exciting it would be when the 5-6 Christmas songs were put in for the holidays each year. I sunk so many coins into that machine to hear those songs over and over. (I bet my coworkers loved me for it.)

I adore technology and am grateful for so much of what we have because of it, but there's something about having to wait for things like Christmas songs on the jukebox, or for the Wizard of Oz to show on television once a year, that we now have access to anytime we want. Too much choice, all the time... (Feeling curmudgeonly this morning.)




DocStrange -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 9:46:03 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

I remember the diners that had a small jukebox at each table. A nickel for one song or 3 for a dime.

In Cincinnati that was White Castles. I miss those days!



Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 10:24:02 AM)

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ORIGINAL: DocStrange


quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

I remember the diners that had a small jukebox at each table. A nickel for one song or 3 for a dime.

In Cincinnati that was White Castles. I miss those days!


They still have some of those in Northern California. Mel's Diner. Great place!

Edit to add: but now those tiny jukeboxes cost more tha a nickel [:D]



WhoreMods -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/2/2017 10:38:11 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Edwird

Not even being a fan of 'Country Music' at all, there is no escaping the fact that hearing Patsy Cline singing Walkin' After Midnight out of the juke box while drinking exceptionally cold beer in some dive 40 miles out of town is as good as it gets.



A jukebox without a country song...



Edwird -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/4/2017 11:19:47 PM)

See, that's the thing. Every respectable jukebox had variety of some sort. (Yes, I know that the internet has more variety than can be absorbed in any real way.)

But limitation is the fount of ingenuity or even sporadic democracy sometimes. Only so much you could cram into a jukebox (especially with 45 RPM 7" records), but even the bars catering to country folk or bars catering to post-hippies had at least a few good examples aside top 40, and had the odd Merle Haggard or Patsy Cline or a Steppenwolf or Deep Purple stuck in there somewhere. And most of the time, people would raise their beer glass when a song against type of the crowd came on.

PS

FR to others: it was more than a nickel per song well before I came along, I just know my history.




WhoreMods -> RE: Juke Boxes (7/5/2017 4:45:06 AM)

You'd expect there to be some Gram Parsons, Eagles or the Byrds' country album on a jukebox in a hippy pub at least, true enough.



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