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What music are you listening to?
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'Borrowed', titles are not copyright, considered picking a bunch of song titles that go together and using them for a song called 'Playlist'
I'm well aware of that.
An excellent example, is this, from 1962
Not particularly good.
Then this, from 1934.
Well written and an amusing line in a verse.
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Bee Gees I can't see nobody
No offense but I feel awkward on the music thing so pardon. Enjoy.
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The single for John Martyn's "Lonely Love" I bought on eBay for £4.99 for one of my jukeboxes has arrived.
Well pleased with it, as it was "mint." I've got it on this album I bought in 1986, on the strength of hearing it on the radio.
The problem with jukeboxes that play records, is that if you want to put a new one in, you have to take another out.
Now, you could scan down the title cards avoiding, "your favourites," or do it the way the operators did.
On this video I made of the complete operation of this jukebox, you'll see the way the number of plays for each record was recorded. It was all mechanical. As the record hits the turntable, a lever turns the little digital counter at the back of the mechanism. This records the total number of plays. In front of the turntable is big wheel with as many notched levers as there are records. The wheel is synchronised and turns at the same rate as the record carousel, so the notched lever for every record gets advanced one notch for every play. The operator wouldn't bother counting notches, they'd choose the record that had got the least plays, its lever not coming very far out of the drum. Once he'd changed the record he would press the button in the middle of the wheel and all the levers would spring back inside the wheel, so setting to zero.
It's quite possible for what you believe is a "favourite" doesn't get as many plays as you think.
Jukeboxes were more about making money, not playing records. Most were rented by coffee bars and pubs in those days, as to buy one they cost as much as a small car.
So Roxy Music's "Dance Away" is now out and has joined other now less popular (with me) records in their rack.
A decade ago there was a documentary on John Martyn, in which he was interviewed at his home in Ireland. At the time he had a leg in plaster as he'd recently had a car accident driving home to his house one night. He hit a cow in the road!
Well pleased with it, as it was "mint." I've got it on this album I bought in 1986, on the strength of hearing it on the radio.
The problem with jukeboxes that play records, is that if you want to put a new one in, you have to take another out.
Now, you could scan down the title cards avoiding, "your favourites," or do it the way the operators did.
On this video I made of the complete operation of this jukebox, you'll see the way the number of plays for each record was recorded. It was all mechanical. As the record hits the turntable, a lever turns the little digital counter at the back of the mechanism. This records the total number of plays. In front of the turntable is big wheel with as many notched levers as there are records. The wheel is synchronised and turns at the same rate as the record carousel, so the notched lever for every record gets advanced one notch for every play. The operator wouldn't bother counting notches, they'd choose the record that had got the least plays, its lever not coming very far out of the drum. Once he'd changed the record he would press the button in the middle of the wheel and all the levers would spring back inside the wheel, so setting to zero.
It's quite possible for what you believe is a "favourite" doesn't get as many plays as you think.
Jukeboxes were more about making money, not playing records. Most were rented by coffee bars and pubs in those days, as to buy one they cost as much as a small car.
So Roxy Music's "Dance Away" is now out and has joined other now less popular (with me) records in their rack.
A decade ago there was a documentary on John Martyn, in which he was interviewed at his home in Ireland. At the time he had a leg in plaster as he'd recently had a car accident driving home to his house one night. He hit a cow in the road!
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I watched the excellent film "Where the Crawdads Sing" last night on Sky Cinema.
I'm not a fan of much contemporary pop music, but over the interminably long end credits, this song was played in its entirety. I don't know for certain if it was specifically written for the film. But it was most apt and I liked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For the first time I heard something written and sung by Taylor Swift.
I'm not a fan of much contemporary pop music, but over the interminably long end credits, this song was played in its entirety. I don't know for certain if it was specifically written for the film. But it was most apt and I liked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For the first time I heard something written and sung by Taylor Swift.
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