[78-L] Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox - Pls don't close, just hang the "Gone Fishin' might be back when the fish stop biting"

[zoldaklavelle at ameritech.net]

Jeff,

Thank you for sharing your talent: your restorations, your 
ideas/knowledge, your examples of what can be done to restore, preserve, 
share wonderful performances.

Please, don't shut down the Jukebox permanently.  Hang out the "Gone 
Fishin'" sign. Take time off. Visit your decision again, perhaps in the 
Fall of 2012.  Perhaps by then, a renewed personal satisfaction from 
preserving and sharing wonderful sounds will outweigh the impact of web 
statistics.

I have not updated Turtle's "78rpm" Jukebox, 
http://www.turtleservices.com, since, oh my, December 2009.  Hopefully 
Turtle will re-open the recording studio soon so I can share more 
acoustically recorded performances.

Jim Lavelle

On 12/31/2011 3:00 PM, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:00:10 -0800
> From: Jeff Lichtman<jeff at swazoo.com>
> Subject: [78-L] No more jukebox
> To:78-l at 78online.com
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> I have shut down Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox.
>
> I operated the jukebox for over fifteen years. In
> that time I offered over a hundred different
> versions of the web site with over twelve hundred
> recorded sides, all presented a dozen at a time.
>
> Two things contributed to my decision to shut
> down the jukebox. First, web statistics showed
> that usage had fallen off greatly in its last few
> years. Second, maintaining the jukebox just
> wasn't as enjoyable for me as it once was ? over
> the site's last year it felt more like an
> obligation than a hobby. When I realized that
> neither I nor the public was getting much out of
> the site I decided it didn't make sense for me to keep providing it.
>
> Thank you to everyone who offered me
> encouragement over the years, and to those who
> helped me with discographical and technical information.
>
>                          -        Jeff Lichtman
>                                   jeff at swazoo.com