juke box memories

[emjaybee]

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..."

[Bealman]

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.

[LASteve]

... 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.

[LASteve]

And thanks to the magic of YouTube we have:

[Hiawatha]

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.

[emjaybee]

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.

[Newportnobby]

@LASteve 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.

[guest311]

Mick @Newportnobby,
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.

[Newportnobby]

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.

[joe cassidy]

Woolworths in Reading was the place to go for Airfix kits and postage stamps - I was a geeky kid.

[guest311]

and of course Playcraft trains, which I think were made by Jouef.

[guest311]

was it Smiths that used to have the booths where you could listen to 45s before buying them, or not 

[port perran]

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.

[Trainfish]

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.

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 

[Newportnobby]

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)