My Jukebox History

 

 

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The jukeboxes have been around longer than me,
So I have known them during my entire life history.
I grew to love music from jukeboxes out on the floor,
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, a time I did adore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My Jukebox History

 

 

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When I was 8, I went into a bar with grandad and pappy,
A 78 rpm record jukebox was playing making me happy.
I think Hank Williams was playing back on that fine day,
As I drank down a Delaware Punch Soda feeling so gay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I recall many restaurants had jukeboxes inside them,
With booth coin box selection guides nice and trim.
You could pick and play your music sitting right there,
To enjoy while you ate your enchiladas with much care.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As I grew older, an adventurous young man of eighteen,
I started going with the boys to the honkytonk scene.
We played that 45 rpm record jukebox all night long,
While we played pool and bowled feeling so strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Every single honkytonk back in the 1960s had jukeboxes,
Where we hung out chasing those nice cute foxes.
I learned to love honkytonk music from those days,
Living kind of fast as that jukebox music did play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb were jukebox kings,
Ray Price and Faron Young’s songs also did ring.
George Jones and Willie Nelson also sounded so good,
Playing loud on those jukeboxes just like they should.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After college and the army, I decided to settle down,
And I got married and started a family in Fritch town.
And we eventually ended up in Bartlesville to live,
As to my family, I gave all the love I had to then give.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the years, I collected 45 rpm records so fine,
So I bought my own jukebox of the cabinet kind.
And loaded it up with my favorite honkytonk and rock,
For many hours of listening to my own record stock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the 1980’s or so, the jukeboxes switched to Compact Discs,
They were fading out and found mostly in bars so slick.
I didn’t have too much experience with the CD jukeboxes,
But I guess they kept the music going for all the foxes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the 1990s the digital juke box did then begin to play,
Buffalo Bob and I played this jukebox at Reds, I do say,
In Borger, Texas, as we drank beer on Friday night,
Playing forty bucks worth of digital tunes with no fights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I wonder if jukeboxes are now streaming songs to them,
From the Internet with Wi Fi systems inside those gems.
With those big speakers playing music so very loud,
To entertain that big fun loving honkytonk crowd.

There will always be a honkytonk somewhere with a jukebox playing loud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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By Bill

 

 

 

Here’s todays Bughead toon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for reading My Jukebox History,
Bill