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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Silent records, part 1

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bill Rabe, Hush Record Company, Jukeboxes, Silent Records

Back in the late 1950s when there were jukeboxes everywhere, a Detroit guy named Bill Rabe came up with a

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Remembering jukeboxes, part 2

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alan Cross, Jukeboxes, Rock-Ola

Last time we talked about the first jukebox installed in a saloon in San Francisco back in 1889. Eventually, amplifiers

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Remembering jukeboxes, part 1

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Jukeboxes, Record Machines

There was a time when almost every restaurant, bar, bowling alley, and truck stop, had a jukebox. For a coin

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Music Industry 

Here’s an old-school metric: The top jukebox songs of 2018

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Jukeboxes, TouchTones

Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played

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Gadgets Music History 

This Guy is One of the Last Old School Jukebox Repairmen

August 8, 2016August 7, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Jukeboxes

I might not be writing this had it not been for a jukebox. Lemme explain. My first experience to a

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Podcast 

Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 132: The Geek Strikes Back

December 16, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bond Bubble, Chewbacca, Jalopnik, Jason McLelland, Jukeboxes, K-Pop, Landspeeder, LAX, MIT, NC-1701, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Reliant Scimitar, Spirit of the West, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stephan Dubord, Stone Temple Pilots, USS Enterprise, Wu-Tang Clan

As this show went into production, I was suffering from severe anxiety. Somewhere in the handoff between United and Air

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Music News 

2015’s Biggest Hits in Jukeboxes. Yes, Jukeboxes

December 11, 2015December 11, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Jukeboxes, TouchTunes

The history of the jukebox–a machine in a public place that plays music in exchange for a coin or two–goes

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