Entertainment desk
< December 11	<< Nov \| December \| Jan >>	December 13 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Entertainment Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

December 12

Put another WHAT in the jukebox baby?

I Love Rock 'n' Roll (1975)

I love rock'n'roll. Put another dime in the jukebox baby!

Put a Quarter in the Jukebox (1989)

Somebody put a quarter in the jukebox. Somebody play that certain hurtin' song.

I love rock'n'roll. But when did they raise the price? -- Toytoy (talk) 11:55, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sometime in the late 70s to late 80s, apparently. --Jayron32 12:00, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And, even earlier, one can find the lyric "Put another nickel in, in that nickelodeon". I'm (barely) old enough to remember when the price for a single play on a jukebox was a nickel. Deor (talk) 13:37, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

But it didn't increase in price in the 90s because "You can pay your last respects one quarter at a time" (Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)). Rmhermen (talk) 18:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Jayron has the time frame right. For most of the 70's it was one song for a dime and three for a quarter - it was the same for pinball. In my neck of the woods it was the early 80s when it went to one song for a quarter - and yes I am so old I remember when the were 45 rpm records in the jukebox :-) MarnetteD | Talk 19:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So when Joan Jett sang the song in 1982, probably these dime boxes were already gone or about to fade out? No wonder she liked rock'n'roll. They were not so expensive back then. Somebody put a quarter in the jukebox. (Because I can't afford the price!) Ha! -- Toytoy (talk) 08:04, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, interesting. When I were a lad, it were 1/- for two and 2/- for five, which is about half the US price (assuming an exchange rate of about $2 == £1). Was the exchange rate back then vastly different? Tevildo (talk) 22:09, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Strictly from memory (which could so easily be wrong) the rate back then was 5 dollars to one pound. It might have been even higher earlier in the decade. MarnetteD | Talk 23:01, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That would bring it back into alignment. My father used to refer to half-crowns (2/6) as "half-dollars", which is consistent with exchange rates of that magnitude. Tevildo (talk) 23:19, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a deeper reason for that: Crown (British coin) mentions that there were many silver coins around the world of a similar size and weight, including pieces of eight. That's another name for the spanish dollar, the prototype for the US dollar. (Not to imply your recollections date back to 1707.) Card Zero (talk) 03:01, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In the Bretton Woods system of 1945–71, UK£1 was worth US$2.80 from 1948 to 19 Nov 1967 and US$2.40 thereafter. jnestorius^(talk) 14:25, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The history of the Jukebox is quite interesting. If you can remember when you put a nickel in, to play your 78 RPM record, and then had to crank it, then you're really dating yourself. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:37, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes, I used to play "Top of the World", "Photograph", and "Angel of the Morning" for a quarter at the diner in Ocean City, NJ, when my dad took me fishing and we stopped for breakfast. μηδείς (talk) 22:49, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good stuff. :) I wonder if jukeboxes at bars and other potential birthday party locations still include Eddy Howard's rendition of "Happy Birthday"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:04, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Video involving momoko from momomo sumomomo

What is the name of the song that inspired the video with Momoko from Momomom Sumomomo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.154.129 (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case anyone needs a link for this tongue-twister (I do): Sumomomo Momomo. ---Sluzzelin talk 18:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In fact its Japanese title (すもももももも) is not as tongue twisting as its Latin character transliteration.

Even if you don't know anything about Japanese, you can easily tell that these weird characters are just repeated. The transliteration is like "banananananananana...." You simply don't know when to stop. -- Toytoy (talk) 08:12, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]