Pay per play
Those who can, do. I guess when you have a talent you figure out how to let others see what you are capable of. One field crossover that is always been interesting for me are those who can act and make music. I know, they are a multitude. I do remember the first movie star that gave me enough name recognition that I spotted her on a jukebox list. One of those machines found in a local restaurant where you flip through the pages chose your song dropped money into the slot and listen to what came out. I am unsure what movie I had seen her appear in but they can vividly remember sing the name Hayley Mills come up in the list of artists that were going to sing for me. And for everyone else in the restaurant, I guess. One of those moments that you can no longer duplicate because the old idea of buying your songs a coin at a time is from the distant past. I wonder where all those machines have gone. Later on during one of my first summer jobs I had the chance to fill a jukebox. With my records. Not songs I have performed you understand. Songs I had purchased. And so we went at it my friend and I with a fever. We filled all the record slots and wrote out the song titles by hand and turn the jukebox into something of value. And then the job came to a sudden end. Did I ever get my records back? Probably although I do not remember the mechanism. But I can tell you step by step how to turn a jukebox into something of value and that is a life skill. Did my records garner attention? I am unsure. This was in a roadside diner and I think that people coming in from filling their saddle tanks on the truck did not care about the jukebox.
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