Some younger people don't get the reference to "Don't Play B-17" in that Olivia Newton-John song.

[SamAdams76]

I was driving with a younger relative this morning and had on the Sirius/XM 70's station in which Casey Kasem was counting down the Top 40 from the week of 7/12/75.

One of the songs in the countdown was "Please Mr. Please" by Olivia Newton-John in which she urges a fellow bar-fly not to play a certain song on the bar-room jukebox as it reminded her of an old love.

So as she repeatedly sings the verse "Please, Mr., please, don't play B-17", my young relative eventually pipes up to ask me what she means by "B-17". Is it the name of a song that was popular back then?

I then explained that there used to be a contraption called a jukebox that had several stacks of records in them that were usually placed in bars and casual restaurants at the time in which people could drop in a quarter and play three songs of their choice. Each song was numbered accordingly to order of the stack that it was placed in. So "B-17" would be the 17th record in the second stack. So if that record was selected, it would be mechanically pulled out of the stack and dropped into the queue (of records to be played).

It was actually a marvelous display of technology for the times. There was something magical about dropping a quarter, selecting your song and then listening to them play for the entire crowd.

Of course, all of that seems absolutely primitive to the younger generations, who have immediate access to millions of songs on their phone devices.

[ifinnegan]

“believe in reincarnation, but the nephew’s tastes remind me so much of my dad. (His grandfather)”

Don’t need reincarnation, genetics will do.

[Trumpet 1]

Into college football yet. UGA-Fla.?

[Agamemnon]

Lived in RI in 1973. Still have a few of the Top-40 lists printed by Radio stations WGNG, or WPRO on bright pink, green, or yellow paper, that you could pick up at a grocery store or record shop.

FReegards!

[dwg2]

My son now has my record collection from the 60’s and 70’s. He is using my Pioneer turntable that I bought back in 1978 (still using the needle cartridge from 1980) . He and his wife are really into the record thing, buying from thrift stores and online. Just glad someone appreciates the “old” stuff.

[moovova]

[USS Alaska]

My 15 year old nephew received a record player for his birthday. He is creating a vinyl collection.

My 18 year old, beautiful grand daughter recently got a "record player" and told me about it.

I had several hundred 78 albums from the 50s, 60s and some from the 70s.

The Five Satins, the Penguins, Johnny Cash, Lil Anthony, Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and so many more.

She and her friends like the music so much and she told me that it is understandable and the slow love songs make them happy and sad {at the same time}.

She also got another coupla hundred 45s and 78s from her other grandfather.

[Albion Wilde]

There’s a great video of today’s middle schoolers listening to Led Zeppelin, and their thoughtful reviews of the music.

[chiller]

Don MacLean performed American Pie for a small group of Chicago radio and college radio peeps. It must have been ‘68 or ‘69..downtown at WCFL, iirc. The record labels execs said this performance was the song’s debut in the US. Wowzer.

It’d be great to say I was blown away, but I didn’t know Don MacLean, nor could I make one bit of sense out of his classic hearing it for the first time. All of his clever lyrics were too obscure for me....and everyone else, as I remember. “Mystery” describes it pretty well.

[TalBlack]

Actually a lot of younger people seem fascinated by analog technology “””

There’s an ad running lately for a turntable that is aimed at young people. It states that “If you don’t have much vinyl in your collection yet you can stream via Bluetooth” to the turntable.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I lived there!

What “jukebox firm”? Making, or just parts?

[SkyPilot]

There’s a great video of today’s middle schoolers listening to Led Zeppelin, and their thoughtful reviews of the music.

I watched a YouTube video of a Zeppelin song, and read the comments. One of them said:

"My parents and grandparents got this incredible music. We got Cardi B."

[Lou Foxwell]

“HOUND DOG” BY ELVIS WAS MY FIRST. I was sick to my stomach.

[blam]

Years ago while driving between Houston and Mobile on I-10, I was in a spell of station changing and settled in on one that was apparently a call-in dj station. I was very amused when a young girl called in near hysteria on learning that the singer, Paul McCartney of Wings, was in another group before he was in Wings.

[blam]

I saw Led Zeppelin in concert at the Fillmore west in 1969. It is still the best concert I’ve attended.

[vetvetdoug]

I got a 1918 Victrola and collected 78’s for it. They pressed 78’s up until 1958 and even after then the children's records were pressed on shellac 78’s up until the mid 60’s. I lucked out and have a complete collection of the “Sons of the Pioneers” and “Bob Wills” in 78 and one original pressing of Patsy Montana's “I want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart” that was a gift from Patsy's daughter.

[SES1066]

I can remember in my long-ago youth, being puzzled by “Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand” as the title of a Col. Glen Miller piece (Yes, I use his rank as he died honorably while wearing it!) My grandparents used to travel with me as a child, in west Oklahoma on a single paved lane 2-way road. There was only one lane paved and if there was oncoming traffic on the paved side, you moved to the gravel.

Every generation changes but the changes have gotten swifter lately!

[smalltownslick]

Thank you for that!!

[Signalman]

[dfwgator]

Nope. For now, done with all sports, even if they come back.

[Clay Moore]

The greatest part is when you get slid down the bar and the jukebox starts playing “Staying Alive “ right after your head smashes into it.