Jukebox Heroism
Gary Numan - "Cars" b/w "Metal"
There have been several posts to date referencing the Jukebox at Scorgies; today’s post is all about the singles. From the collection of Danny Deutsch, I have scanned the actual 45 rpm singles (with sleeves, if present). This is in no way meant to represent a comprehensive, all-inclusive selection of every 45 on the jukebox. However, the mix is interesting: three classic Rolling Stones singles and two each by Eddie and the Hotrods, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Ian Dury. A few lost-in-the-shuffle artists like Genya Ravan, Willie Nile and Ian Gomm make up the rest of the mix. I’ve posted both sides of the Eddie and the HotRods picture sleeve for “Life on the Line” single because I’m certain the “B” side “Do Anything You Wanna Do” got more play. Plus, it was the last song Rock and Roll Joel aired on WRUR.
What’s missing? I seem to remember ABBA being on the Jukebox; after Danny left (ABBA being a favorite of Don’s). Anyone else care to chime in on the missing songs?
Danny deserves thanks and praise for preserving these slabs of vinyl. Take a gander at the Jukebox gallery after the jump; you might want to download a photo or two to add to your iTunes when you create your own special “Scorgies” Mix.
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- Title Card for Gary Numan – “Cars” b/w “Metal”
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- Young Rascals – “Good Lovin” b/w “A Girl Like You”
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- David Bowie – “Ashes to Ashes” b/w “It’s No Game”
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- Ian Dury – “Sweet Gene Vincent” b/w “You’re More Than Fair”
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- Lene Lovich – “Lucky Number” b/w “Home”
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- Cheap Trick – “Dream Police” b/w “Heaven Tonight”
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- Eddie and the Hot Rods – “Do Anything You Wanna Do” b/w “Ignore Them”
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- Ian Gomm – “Hold On” b/w “Another Year”
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- Roxy Music – “Angel Eyes” b/w “My Little Girl”
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- Willie Nile – “It’s All Over” b/w “Old Men Sleeping On The Bowery”
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- The Yardbirds – “Heart Full Of Soul” b/w “Steeled Blues”
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- Nick Lowe – “Heart of the City” b/w “So It Goes”
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- Rolling Stones – “Beast of Burden” b/w “When the Whip Comes Down”
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- Elvis Costello – “I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea” b/w “You Belong To Me”
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- Genya Ravan – “Jerry’s Pigeons” b/w “Cornered”
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- Rockpile – “Teacher Teacher” b/w “Fool Too Long”
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- Eddie and the Hot Rods – “At Night” b/w “You Better Run” and “Looking Around”
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- Graham Parker and the Rumour – “Local Girls” b/w “I Want You Back”
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- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl” b/w “Luna”
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- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Listen To Her Heart” b/w “You’re Gonna Get It”
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- Ramones – “Don’t Come Close” b/w “I Don’t Want You”
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- The Records – “Starry Eyes” b/w “Paint Her Face”
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- Tom Robinson Band – “2-4-6-8 Motorway” b/w “I Shall Be Released”
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- Peter Tosh – “(You’ve Got To Walk And) Don’t Look Back” b/w “Soon Come”
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- Squeeze – “Cool For Cats” b/w “Model”
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- Blondie – “Call Me” b/w “Call Me (Instrumental)”
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- Joe Jackson – “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” b/w “(Do The) Instant Mash”
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- Television – “Ain’t That Nothin” b/w “Glory”
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- The Animals – “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” b/w “It’s My Life”
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- T. Rex – “Bang A Gong (Get It On)” b/w “Raw Ramp”
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- The Who – “5:15” b/w “I’m The One”
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- Ian Dury – “Wake Up and Make Love With Me” b/w “Billericay Dickie”
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- The Records – “Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)” and “See My Friends” b/w “”1984” and “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?”
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- The Rolling Stones – “Shattered” b/w “Everything’s Turning To Gold”
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- Lou Reed – “City Lights” b/w “I Want To Boogie With You”
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- Eddie and the Hot Rods – “Life On The Line” b/w “Do Anything You Wanna Do”
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- Eddie and the Hot Rods – “Life On The Line” b/w “Do Anything You Wanna Do”
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- The B-52’s – “Planet Claire” b/w “There’s a Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)”
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- Blondie – “Hanging On The Telephone” b/w “Fade Away And Radiate”
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- Gary Numan – “Cars” b/w “Metal”
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- Bram Tchaikovsky – “Girl Of My Dreams” b/w “Sarah Smiles”
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- New Math – “Die Trying” b/w “Angela”
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- Ian Dury – “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” b/w “Razzle In My Pocket”
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- Emmy Lou Harris – “Save The Last Dance For Me” b/w “”Even Cowgirls Get The Blues”
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- David Bowie – “1984” b/w “Queen Bitch”
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- Blondie – “Hanging On The Telephone” b/w “Fade Away And Radiate”
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- Diana Ross – “Getting Ready For Love” b/w “Confide In Me”
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- The Kinks – “A Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy” b/w “Live Life”
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- Roxy Music – “Trash 2” b/w “Dance Away”
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- The Rolling Stones – “Tumbling Dice” b/w “Sweet Black Angel”
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- The Rolling Stones – “Honky Tonk Women” b/w “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
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- Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – “Driver’s Seat” b/w “Slide Away”
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- The Supremes – “My World Is Empty Without You” b/w “You Can’t Hurry Love”
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Damn, how could I have forgotten about “At Night”? I used to spin that repeatedly while playing the Buck Rogers pinball machine next to the juke. When I hear it now it is redolent of Genny draft and the faint odor of mold and uric acid emanating from the men’s room.
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Among the missing:
Squeeze, “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” b/w “What the Butler Saw”
Duran Duran, “Planet Earth” b/w “Late Bar”
That Neighborhoods song I mentioned somewhere else, “Prettiest Girl,” b/w I don’t know what.
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B side “No Place Like Home”
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Modern English, “I Melt With You”
The Jam, “In The City” and “The Modern World”
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
XTC, “Senses Working Over Time”
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Kate Smith, “God Bless America”
…………………………….Oh wait, that last one was at Marge’s Lakeside Inn.
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Girl from Baltimore – Cold Cold Shoes- Fleshtones
How Do You Know- Help You Ann (or Don’t Give it Up Now) – The Lyres
I’m Shakin’ – So Long baby Goodbye – The Blasters which I insist, was played more than any song in the history of that jukebox.
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Yeah, “Don’t Give it Up Now” was the flip of “How Do You Know.” “Help You Ann” is a really great song, though.
“Senses Working Overtime” – yes, that’s a Proustian rush right there . . .
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While I recall David Bowie’s Giorgio Moroder produced single “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” b/w “Paul’s Theme (Jogging Chase),” I don’t remember much else specifically about the Jukebox as I was engulfed by music at the Archive and WRUR.
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I remember Kathy the bartender going crazy every time a certain Devo song was played. at the moment, I can’t remember which song, but she used to hate it. Maybe it was “Whip It,” but you could tell the angst of someone who had heard a song too many times, and her bouncing the song was no surprise.
If you really want context, shoot over to Bilboard and see what the top songs were inthe late 70’s. All white disco.
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George Jones’s, “Open Pit Mine”. What a great song. Oh, wait, thats what I’m listening to now. Nevermind.
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I think that Rockin’ Sidney was on there with Don’t Mess With My Toot Toot.
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Over the years I remember hearing:
Jim Carroll – People Who Died
Johnny Rivers – Poor Side of Town
Cramps- She Said
John Fogerty – The Old Man Down the Road
Everly Brothers – Cathy’s Clown
Stray Cats – Rock this Town
Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart
Kinks – Celluloid Heroes
B-52s – Strobe Light
I don’t remember which version of Caledonia
Beach Boys – God Only Knows, which I played over and over in the summer of 1982 -
Replacements, The – I’m In Trouble B/W If Only You Were Lonely
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