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BIG 98's On The Job JUKEBOX
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The BIG 98 On The Job Jukebox has arrived. The Big 98 Morning Show plays back your selected BIG Hits. Send in your list of 10 to 15 BIG Songs that you would like to hear during the 9am hour on Wednesday while you are on the JOB listening to the NEW BIG 98...send it on company letterhead so we know where you work and can mention it on the air (don't have company letterhead? Then send it on any piece of paper but be creative and make up your own letterhead!)...it'll make your Boss happy and may even result in you getting a well deserved raise---heck if you own the business then you get a free plug for just sending in your list of BIG Hits. Our mailing address is BIG 98 On The Job JukeBox, 401 Mall Blvd, Suite 101-D, Savannah, GA 31406!
History of the Jukebox
 Coin-operated music boxes, jukeboxes and player pianos carved out a place for automatic pay-per-tune music in fairgrounds, amusement parks and other public places (such as train stations in Switzerland) a few decades before the introduction of reliable coin-operated phonographs. Some of these automatic musical instruments were extremely well built and have survived to this day in the hands of collectors and museums. In the long run they could not compete with the jukebox since they played the same instrument (or instruments) over and over again and could not reproduce the human voice.
The immediate ancestor of the jukebox, called the "Coin-slot phonograph", was the first medium of sound recording encountered by the general public, before mass produced home audio equipment became common. Such machines began to be mass produced in 1889, using phonograph cylinders for records. The earliest jukeboxes played but a single record (of about 2 minutes of music or entertainment), but soon devices were developed that allowed customers to choose between multiple records. In the 1910s the cylinder was superseded by the gramophone record.
The term "juke box" or "jukebox" came into use in the United States in the 1930s, derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance". Early jukeboxes began to appear in road houses, sometimes called juke or jutte joints. In 1927, the Automatic Music Instrument Company manufactured the first electrically amplified multiple selection phonograph or jukebox. jukeboxes could now compete with live music and made it possible for establishments to attract customers by providing high fidelity music anywhere without having to hire a band or orchestra.
Once the depression ended, sales of jukeboxes skyrocketed as the jukebox became more colorful and advanced in its design. The 1946 Wurlitzer model "1015-Bubbler" jukebox featured multi-colored lights and bubble tubes which made it the most popular and copied jukebox of all time. The shellac 78rpm record dominated jukeboxes until the Seeburg Corporation introduced an all 45 rpm vinyl record jukebox in 1950. AMI, Rock-Ola, Wurlitzer, and the Seeburg names became synonymous with the word "jukebox" and became the leading manufacturers of jukeboxes. Jukeboxes became even more popular with teenagers during the 1950's and 1960's as drive-in hamburger stands began popping up all over the country and of course, with the advent of rock and roll music.
Starting in the 1980s, compact discs became the norm for modern jukeboxes. Towards the end of the 20th century several companies started introducing completely digital jukeboxes which did not use CDs, downloading the tunes from a secure signal sent over the Internet or through a separate, proprietary transmission protocol over phone lines. In addition to automatically downloading a potentially larger selection than what is available on CDs in a single machine the digital jukeboxes also send back information on what is being played, and where, opening up new commercial avenues.
Jukeboxes and their ancestors were a very profitable industry from the 1890s on. They were most popular from the 1940s through the mid-1960s, particularly during the 1950s. Today jukeboxes are often associated with early rock and roll music, but were very popular in the swing music era as well. As a result, stores and restaurants with a retro theme, such as the Johnny Rockets chain, include jukeboxes. |
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