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

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 ?

Quote from: class37025 on December 11, 2021, 05:50:18 PM
not the Animals version ?

Before my time

@joe cassidy ;

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

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 11, 2021, 05:53:11 PM

Quote from: class37025 on December 11, 2021, 05:50:18 PM
not the Animals version ?

Before my time

young whippersnapper 

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.