The jukebox is a partially automated music-playing devise, very different from the spangled "iPod" devices those hooligans that ruin your lawn listen to. Back in the day, jukeboxes where operated by inserting a coin into the machine. Then you could select a song you wished to listen to, using buttons with letters on them. Then you could sit back and enjoy your club soda while listening to the hottest new track by "Frank Sinatra".
Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos were the first forms of automated coin-operated musical devices. These instruments used paper roles, metal disks, or metal cylinders to play a musical section on the instrument, or instruments, enclosed within the device. Most machines could only hold one song. These types of devices where very popular in the 1890's. In 1918 Hobart C. Niblack patented an apparatus that automatically switched between records. This lead to one of the first jukeboxes released by the Automated Musical Instrument Company in 1927. This early version was known as the "Audiophone machine". It was very wide and bulky, with a ferris wheel like device inside that held eight different records that could be played. This revolutionized public music listing, and presumedly tormenting many teenagers' parents by making them listen to hardcore music like "Perry Como".
The term "jukebox" came into use in the United States in the 1940's. The name was derived from the familiar phrase "juke joint", derived from the Gullah word "joog" meaning disorderly, rowdy, or wicked. Song-popularity counters told the owner of the machine the most popularly played albums (A and B sides could not be distinguished). This allowed the the owner to swap the less played records for fresh records. Thus remaining "hip", and "cool".
Here is a very hip and cool video:Jukebox Rhythmjukebox rhythm, JUKEBOX RHYTHM 1, JUKEBOX RHYTHM 2, JUKEBOX RHYTHM 3, JUKEBOX RHYTHM 4, JUKEBOX RHYTHM 5, JUKE BOX RHYTHM 1959 JACK JONES, HULLY GULLY
And here are some o' them fancy computer-pictures:
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