This morning I experienced a wave of nostalgia which made me think about the music I used to listen to on the juke box in the Marmion pub in Tamworth, Staffordshire in the mid-seventies :
Soul Finger, by the Bar Kays
Kill, by Alberto y Lost trios Paranois
Snuffin in a Babylon, by Alberto & co
Benny & the Jets, by Elton
Haitian Divorce, by Steely Dan
Does anyone else have any juke box memories ?
Guitar tango by the Shadows.
Played in the Quay pavilion in Harwich when I was about six.
Martyn
You were going out at night at 6 years old ?
:)
My elder sister selected this on the jukebox of Longcakes Icecream Palour in Silloth, Cumbia, for me in 1959 or 60. My first "experience" of "pop music". Loved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PfrpcqLyzY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PfrpcqLyzY)
Most of my memories of the juke box involved a group of people putting the birdie song on 10 times then leaving
Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty in the Dolphin West Gorton at lunch times - 'the office ' was 2 minutes walk away!!!
I can remember a friend and I putting on "Fire on High" a lot, the B side of "Livin' Thing" by ELO, because it lasted about six minutes and you got good value for money. Good job the pub used to be quiet.....or maybe that was why!
Dave
Quote from: EtchedPixels on December 11, 2021, 04:12:50 PM
Most of my memories of the juke box involved a group of people putting the birdie song on 10 times then leaving
That would have been the Welsh temperance movement trying to get people out of the pub :)
When the old upright ones were about folks used to nudge them to stop anything they didn't like. The wall mounted 'flip' ones were therefore better in that respect. Basically anything rock based like 'House of the rising sun' by Frijid Pink etc was the order of the day.
not the Animals version ?
@joe cassidy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=1484) ;
The Quay pavilion was a cafe /restaurant on the quayside at Harwich. It had originally been built as the GER dining room for the railway's hotel next door; this catered for travellers to and from the continent before the GER moved the service up river to Parkeston Quay. It had long been sold into private ownership, and is now demolished.
The family didn't go in there very much as we only lived a few minutes away, but sometimes just went for a 'treat' cup of tea, or my case, Coca Cola. And when it was the Water Carnival on the river, the other side of the road from the pavilion.
Martyn
A slightly different take; on my first deep sea ship, a second hand juke box had just been bought for the Officers' bar. It was decided that due to its weight, it wouldn't need much securing.
The first rough sea a week or two later proved the theory wrong, and it was a bit of a struggle securing it from rolling around the deck; then it was secured strongly to the bulkhead (wall).
Martyn
Among the crowd I used to drink with in the 70s we had a "competition" to see who could put on the worst record (with the provision to play over 100 B-sides, this was good fun).
The only candidate I can remember is Acker Bilk's Aria, but there were lots of others.
P.S. I've just played this one from YouTube, and actually like it now - funny how tastes change.
Convoy by C W McCall in a number of pubs in the Bletchley area.
You could make an entire pub stop and stare by putting that on. Still remember every word to this day.
"Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June, In a Kenworth pullin' logs,
Cab over Pete' with a reefer on, And a Jimmy haulin' hogs..."
There was a cafe with a juke box in a back room across the street from my junior school. Me and a few mates would sneak out at lunch time and put a couple of bob in.
Can't remember what we listened to, though - I was about 8 or 9. Probably the Shadows.
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 11, 2021, 05:48:04 PM
... like 'House of the rising sun' by Frijid Pink etc was the order of the day ...
Mick, until today I would have sworn I was the only person who had heard that version; it was on the juke box in the White Swan in Winchester and we played it all the time.
Footnote: The White Swan was known by all as the Mucky Duck. At some point one of my contemporaries purchased said establishment and formally renamed it to the Mucky Duck. Nothing inside resembles the 1975 "House of the Rising Sun" original now, but the music is baked into the rafters in my memory. No dart board nor bar billiards table either, but at least the carpet which you stuck to when you walked in the door has gone.
And thanks to the magic of YouTube we have:
Quote from: emjaybee on December 11, 2021, 11:45:56 PM
Convoy by C W McCall in a number of pubs in the Bletchley area.
You could make an entire pub stop and stare by putting that on. Still remember every word to this day.
"Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June, In a Kenworth pullin' logs,
Cab over Pete' with a reefer on, And a Jimmy haulin' hogs..."
Oh, I didn't know there were two versions of the song. The one you quoted is the original one before the movie came out while I only ever heard the film version:
"Arizona, noon, on the seventh of June when they highballed over the pass
Bulldog Mack with a can on back, and a Jaguar haulin' a.."In the film Kris Kristofferson drives a Mack tanker, and Ali MacGraw the Jaguar E-type convertible.
Quote from: Hiawatha on December 12, 2021, 08:41:50 AM
Quote from: emjaybee on December 11, 2021, 11:45:56 PM
Convoy by C W McCall in a number of pubs in the Bletchley area.
You could make an entire pub stop and stare by putting that on. Still remember every word to this day.
"Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June, In a Kenworth pullin' logs,
Cab over Pete' with a reefer on, And a Jimmy haulin' hogs..."
Oh, I didn't know there were two versions of the song. The one you quoted is the original one before the movie came out while I only ever heard the film version:
"Arizona, noon, on the seventh of June when they highballed over the pass
Bulldog Mack with a can on back, and a Jaguar haulin' a.."
In the film Kris Kristofferson drives a Mack tanker, and Ali MacGraw the Jaguar E-type convertible.
Oh yes. Sadly, I was familiar with the original before the film appeared.
:-[
@LASteve (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6889) I still own and can play (but not all at once) about 120 45s, one of which is the Frijid Pink version. Many of the discs came from a second hand emporium in Northampton by the name of 'Memory Lane' and I suspect one of their main sources were jukeboxes being taken out of pubs.
Mick @Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264),
IIRC, the centres were removed from the discs in juke boxes, and when you bought them afterwards you needed to buy replacement centres, IIRC again, you could get them at Woolworths.
ahhhh .... pick-and-mix, uneven wooden floors, I won't comment about the saturday female staff :-[
I've got a box of 45's some with the black replacement centres, but must admit to not having played them for years decades.
remember the 'cover' LPs, were they 'best of' or some such, must search the cupboards to see what I still have.
Ah yes - the clip in/push out centres. Many of my 45s have those.
I tended to avoid cover versions like the plague unless they were a completely different type like the Frijid Pink one or Melanie Safka's version of 'Ruby Tuesday' for example.
Having sold printed aluminium foil packaging for countless years one of my customers was Ashbury Confectionery in Corby who made the pic 'n' mix for Woolworths. A visit to their company shop was always a must :)
Happy Days.
Woolworths in Reading was the place to go for Airfix kits and postage stamps - I was a geeky kid.
and of course Playcraft trains, which I think were made by Jouef.
was it Smiths that used to have the booths where you could listen to 45s before buying them, or not :-[
I remember buying 4 LPs in a Woolworths sale for the princely sum of £1. That would probably have been in '72 or thereabouts.
I sold two of those, albums by Andwella and Tonton Macoute, for over £100 each about 10 years ago.
Not a bad profit methinks.
Actually, both albums were not bad. You can still listen to them on YouTube and Spotify.
Quote from: LASteve on December 12, 2021, 03:57:16 AM
Footnote: The White Swan was known by all as the Mucky Duck.
We have the Black Swan in Devizes which is also known as the Mucky Duck. The Black Horse is often callen the Dirty Donkey, The 3 Crowns known as the 3 Hats, my local the British Lion known as the Fighter (I'm sure you can work out why), the Cavalier which used to be the Gay Cavalier. Nothing to do with the clientele it really was called the Gay Cavalier, see number 28 in this list (http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Wadworth_%26_Co._Ltd_pubs).
Anyway, back on topic, in the Lamb we used to play the Jean Genie and Walk on the Wild side to death. We wore out 3 copies of each that I know of :goggleeyes:
Quote from: class37025 on December 12, 2021, 11:50:09 AM
was it Smiths that used to have the booths where you could listen to 45s before buying them, or not :-[
When I were but a stripling of 17 I worked Saturdays at the local Co-op and they had booths for listening to music in - limit 3 toons (and long before the days of headphones) :D
Quote from: joe cassidy on December 11, 2021, 02:17:47 PM
This morning I experienced a wave of nostalgia which made me think about the music I used to listen to on the juke box in the Marmion pub in Tamworth, Staffordshire in the mid-seventies :
Soul Finger, by the Bar Kays
..............
Joe, maybe the landlord didn't have the records changed too often. The Bar Kays did Soul Finger in 1967.
Alec.
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 12, 2021, 04:32:25 PM
Quote from: class37025 on December 12, 2021, 11:50:09 AM
was it Smiths that used to have the booths where you could listen to 45s before buying them, or not :-[
When I were but a stripling of 17 I worked Saturdays at the local Co-op and they had booths for listening to music in - limit 3 toons (and long before the days of headphones) :D
There were booths in a couple of places I used to frequent. I don't think they were record shops though :hmmm:
I'm not sure we want to know about that, John..... :hmmm: :-[ >:D
In a broken dream - Python Lee Jackson - The Horse Vaults in Pontefract
Psycho Killer - Takling Heads - The Railway Hotel in Castleford
Born to run - Bruce Springsteen - The Royal engineers in Castleford
Quote from: Invicta Alec on December 12, 2021, 04:47:04 PM
Quote from: joe cassidy on December 11, 2021, 02:17:47 PM
This morning I experienced a wave of nostalgia which made me think about the music I used to listen to on the juke box in the Marmion pub in Tamworth, Staffordshire in the mid-seventies :
Soul Finger, by the Bar Kays
..............
Joe, maybe the landlord didn't have the records changed too often. The Bar Kays did Soul Finger in 1967.
Alec.
In Tamworth we were a few years behind the times :)
I'll never forget a young lad putting Sinead O'Connor's 'Nothing compares 2 U' on time after time while he cried into his beer. Poor devil, but it bugged the hell out of the rest of us after the third play.
:'(
My local had the Hollies "The air that I breath" that was in the charts at the time. Unfortunately it stuck about half way in. It was popular with the punters but you needed to give the jukebox a "gentle" nudge at the right time..
Frijid Pink were popular in the discos I ran in the 70s
The Grill, Perth:
Disc 13
Track 11
The Stone Roses, I Am The Resurrection.
Best
Scott.
Dave Clark 5 'Glad all over' :-[