[78-L] Happy Birthday to You

[David Lennick]

Don't forget that the needle had to stay in the groove, against formidable 
odds..mechanical problems, floor vibrations, jitterbugs, drunks falling against 
the juke box. And I've posted a story previously that tells how ARC 
deliberately pressed its budget label juke box discs on the worst crap 
available so that the discs would wear out in just a few plays and have to be 
reserviced just about every week.

dl

Sean Miller wrote:
> I've heard of it!  Those things had suggested tonearm pressure of something
> like 12 OUNCES at the time (I'
> m going by fading memory here from my 1939 Wurlitzer manual).  I have two
> '39 Wurlitzers here, one full sized and one countertop model and I've
> modified the tonearms and cartridges in both to track at around 8-10 grams.
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
> 
> Nobody here ever hear a record referred to as "juked"? Jeff Healey used that
> 
> expression all the time.
> 
> dl
> 
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Years ago I read an article in Downbeat on junking for 78s.  The writer 
>> recalled finding a copy of the Bob Crosby Decca of  It's Wonderful b/w
> Just 
>> Strolling.   The first side ( a very nice but run-of-the mill pop side)
> was 
>> worn flat,  but the flip,  a feature for Joe Sullivan,  was  "as new."
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sean Miller" <smille1 at nycap.rr.com>
>> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 12:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
>>
>>
>>> Yup.  AMI had the first selectable jukebox that could do both sides, but 
>>> not
>>> until 1945-ish (?).  I have all the 78s my Great Grandfather confiscated
>>> from mob run juke operations in the 1930s and as you say, some sides are
>>> worn white and the other side is E+.  What gets me even now is that
>>> sometimes the crappy side is the one they chose to program!
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:01 PM
>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
>>>
>>> I didn't know that...it explains why some old juke box records are grey
> to
>>> white on one side,  and clean on the other.
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Sean Miller" <smille1 at nycap.rr.com>
>>> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:59 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
>>>
>>>
>>>> It may have been intended for jukebox play.  Remember, then, no
> jukeboxes
>>>> could play both sides of a 78, it was one or the other....
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:54 PM
>>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
>>>>
>>>> Cary,  I've wondered if the thing was really intended for juke box play,
>>>> perhaps in more rural areas...so they backed it with a more pop-ish
>>>> Western
>>>> swing side.
>>>>
>>>> I bought it BECAUSE of the Happy Birthday...and the other side was just
> a
>>>> nice bonus for me.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sending your article as well... a strange story which still 
>>>> has
>>>> no ending.
>>>>
>>>> Taylor
>>>>