Posted on 07/11/2020 7:19:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Are young people even listening to Olivia Newton-John?
I thought she meant don’t play with B-17s. Those are dangerously big aircraft. They could hurt you if you play with them.
My 18 year old son loves playing vinyl of AC/DC, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Cream, and whatever else good rock and I collected over the years, or he finds for cheap at used record stores. I love hearing what he’s spinning.
They probably don’t know why a TV Remote is called a “clicker” either.
My 15 year old nephew received a record player for his birthday.
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He must have been happy to hear Joe Biden advise people to “make sure you have the record player on at night.”. LOL
Wow I didn’t even get it....I thought it was talking about something from the bomber! Don’t know the song so can’t go by that either.
Anyway, yes, it’s a jukebox ref.
But our jukebox wasn’t quite that way. The AMI used a wheel so there was no “stack”. Just plain numbered all the slots in order by 10s with letters to separate.
In my era it was a nickle in the jukebox to play Earth Angel.
That’s one of my favorite doo wop songs. I noticed a few days ago that Fred Parris of In the Still of the Night fame is still with us. He’s well over 80 years old at this point.
That is an awesome memory and had to have been one of the best things ever for a kid to get to do.
Peach
I would leave today to live in 1957. Or 67. Or even 77.
What is a pay phone?””
When I was a kid growing up, WE had a phone on the wall in the kitchen.
CRANK PHONE with 20 party line.
2 ‘longs’ & 1 ‘short’ was our ‘number’.
I could go for 1957, but 1967 sucked!
My wife told her students something about don’t be a broken record. Blank stares.
My eighteen year old just learned what a phone busy signal sounds like. He had never heard it before.
I never knew those were the actual lyrics.
There’s also an early Springsteen song (”Growin Up”) where he says, “I pushed B-52 and bombed ‘em with the blues.”
Rarely does one get to live in the country they grew up in...
We have juke wall units at our local diner chain. Partly replaced by those damn video units.
Of course, our closest branch just closed (even wo the stupid virus). The first branch to ever close; unbelievable.
Obviously, Olivia was a Liberator kind of girl.
She never said not to play B-24...
I tjought it was an airplane.
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