If ever I hear this record I'm reminded of Le Macabre coffee bar in Wardour Street, Soho. This would be around 1959 when as a teenager I and my friends were in the West End most Saturday nights. I've only this of their records, but a glance at their discography would reveal how many hits they had. Of course it's pure nostalgia, an experience enjoyed by fellow vinyl jukebox enthusiasts like myself, who lovingly restore and maintain these examples of quite complicated technology. This is a 160 selection Rock-Ola 468 from 1976, the smaller one a 100 selection Rock-Ola 443 from 1969. It would be foolhardy to pay several thousand pounds for a fifties "Silver Age" visible mechanism machine and keep it in a glorified garden shed. But I'm happy with these, that have not had hard use being in private hands for most of their lives. They both live in our summerhouse right at the bottom of our garden, a compromise with my wife as I've saxophones and a leccy piano in the front room. These machines only get played occasionally, mostly when I'm gardening. This jukebox contains around fifty Motown and thirty classic US pop records of the fifties and early sixties. (no Diana Ross or Cliff Richard!) The other has 70/80s pop, Doo Wop and popular and jazz standards. Authentic "Rock-Ola neon clocks" are a bit like hen's teeth. Reproductions are available in the USA, but would be well into three figures to import one to the UK and they are quite small. This 16" one I made myself, converted ...
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