PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN....

Remember when a NICKEL bought you a 45 play, or 5 for 25 cents. Add a few triple thick shakes and a perfect date nite was a few tunes away.
"Moppin' up soda pop rickies.
To our hearts' delight,
Dancing to a swingeroo quickie,
Jukebox Saturday night..."

"Jukebox" was African-American slang for "juke" or "jook", meaning "dance". The shellac 78 rpm record dominated jukeboxes until the Seeburg Corporation introduced an all 45 rpm vinyl record jukebox in 1950.
Seeburg Model "G", the "Happy Days Machine," used in the sitcom Happy Days had a 100 plays and features chrome pilasters.

Test your memory with some top HOT “100’s” trivia below….

1. The first number-one song on the Hot 100?
"Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson (August 4, 1958).

2. The youngest female to top the Hot 100?
Little Peggy March, also in 1963, with "I Will Follow Him" at the age of 15.

3. The number one hit with the shortest running time (1:37)?
Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs' "Stay."
4. Elvis Presley — "Hound Dog" / "Don't Be Cruel" (1956)
"Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts.

5. McGuire Sisters — "Sincerely" (1955) and Foreigner — "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981)
"Most Played by Jockeys" chart.

6. The song with the most versions on the Hot 100?
"Unchained Melody," which charted with nine different performers: Les Baxter (whose version topped the chart); Al Hibbler; the Righteous Brothers, who recorded two separate versions that charted 25 years apart; Roy Hamilton; June Valli; Vito & the Salutations; the Sweet Inspirations; and Heart. ("Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts.



7. The instrumental artist with the most Hot 100 hits?
Herb Alpert. Thirty of his thirty-five charting singles are without vocals.
He is also the only artist to reach number one with both a vocal
"This Guy's In Love With You" in 1968.

8. Barry White is the only artist to have written a #1 instrumental and #1 vocal songs within 1 year. "Love's Theme" by Love Unlimited Orchestra and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe" by Barry White both in 1974.

9. Elton John had at least one top forty hit every calendar year.
From 1970 (beginning with "Your Song") until 1999 with "Written in the Stars", a duet with LeAnn Rimes.

10. The Beatles and Usher are the only two artists to have both the year-end number-one and number-two songs in the same year, with the former having "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" in 1964, and the latter with "Yeah!" and "Burn" in 2004.

11. In 1973, George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"' replaced Paul McCartney's "'My Love".

12. Nat "King" Cole's Billboard career extended from November 1943 until his studio-spliced "duet" with daughter Natalie in 1991 ("Unforgettable"), some 48 years later.

13. Non-English language number-one
"Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno (Italian - September 1, 1958 for five weeks




"Cruise" the old Route 66 diners, malt shops and truck stops. Find them "jukes" and put another nickel in if only to prove the 45's are still alive.

Winnie's a waiting, pocket full-o- nickels, LET'S ROCK.

HAIL TO ....

A new book First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Best Friends
by Roy Rowan, Brooke Janis, tempted Winnie and me to research and give a paw up and bow-wows to a few…

So, on Presidents’ Day, let's pay tribute to those 4-legged pups who staved off reporters with a well placed nip; listened to the endless rehearsals of the State of the Union address; stood on the front line in world crises; gave unconditional love as his master’s popularity polls dipped, and marked history in their unique way.



Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fala - Scottish Terrier,
the most famous of his 7 dogs, accompanied him everywhere. All domestic and international travels and even met with Churchill.
Roosevelt taught Fala to stand up and salute when the Star Spangled Banner played.
The only known presidential dog to be so honored, Fala was buried next to Roosevelt’s grave.

Warren G. Harding’s Laddie Boy - Airedale Terrier, retrived any of Harding's golf balls hit in a tree.
He had his own hand carved chair to sit at cabinet meetings.
Celebrated his White House birthdays with other neighborhood dogs and served them dog biscuit cake.
Newspapers loved to publish mock interviews with the dog.
Laddie Boy, howled constantly the 3 days prior to the President's death at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, knowing of his master's imminent demise.

When Laddie Boy died, newsboys collected 19,134 pennies to be remelted and sculpted into a statue that now resided at the Smithsonian Institution.

John F. Kennedy’s, Charlie - Welsh Terrier
Charlie, two claims to fame were peeing on the leg of anyone he didn’t like. The next part reads like a soap-opera...


In '57, Laika became the first animal launched into orbit. (This photograph shows her in a flight harness.)
Soon, Belka and Strelka followed suit.
One of Strelka's pups, Pushinka, born after her mission, was given as a present to Caroline Kennedy by Khruschev in 1961.
After a brief interlude with Pushinka, while Khruschev and Kennedy discussed the Cold War... the end result (*) *Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie, and Streaker - (offspring of Pushinka and Charlie).
The press aptly named them the “Cold War Couple”.

Lindon Baynes Johnson’s two beagles, Him and Her, put the" Prez" in the "dog house".
A world-wide outcry for animal cruelty was directed at Johnson and the White House when the press photographed him picking up a beagle by its ears. Johnson held fast to his claim that it didn’t hurt the dog. However, no one ever had the opportunity to turn the table on Johnson.

Calvin Coolidge, or should we say the First Lady, had a passion for white collies.
Grace Coolidge, loved to dressed and parade them at White House functions.
She commissioned her White House portrait to include the white collies.
For the sittings she wore a red gown so as to contrast the white collies. The President, not amused, suggested she wear a white gown and paint the dogs red. Headline: Cramped quarters in Coolidge's Dog House.

So, Hail to all the top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
They all left their mark.
Millie, who dictated her book to Barbara Bush.
The first, First Dog, Sweet Lips, named by George Washington.
Paws DOWN to:
The only former dogless president, Clinton.
AND, one former president, Chester A. Arthur, with no record of any pets. Remember him, bet your kibbles, you don't.

Ciao!

Valentine Movies Sure to Hit a Cord

See how good you are at Matching these Movies & Songs:

"As Time Goes By"

"Moonglow"

"Where Do I Begin"

"That's Amore"

"Unchained Melody"

"Oh, Pretty Woman"

"My Heart Will Go On"

"Up Where We Belong"

"Somewhere, My Love" (Lara's Theme)

"Hopelessly Devoted to You"

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"


















































Answers Below.







Casablanca 1942 Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman “As Time Goes By”
Roman Holiday 1953 Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Doctor Zhivago 1965 Omar Sharif and Julie Christie “Somewhere, My Love“(Lara's Theme)
Love Story 1970 Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw “Where Do I Begin”
Moonstruck 1987 Cher and Nicolas Cage AND
Lady and the Tramp 1955 Animated “That’s Amore”
Ghost 1990 Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore "Unchained Melody"
Pretty Woman 1990 Julia Roberts and Richard Gere "Oh, Pretty Woman"
Titanic 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet "My Heart Will Go On".
An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Richard Gere and Debra Winger "Up Where We Belong”
Grease 1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
“Hopelessly Devoted to You”
Picnic 1955 William Holden and Kim Novak "Moonglow”

Whether you scored high or low, makes no difference, cause to quote a famous actor (you are on your own for this answer) "Who loves you baby!",
Winnie, Happy Valentine's Day wishes to all.

OH Them Capris

-- named after the Italian Isle of Capri.

One of two traffic stoppers of the 50’s and 60’s.

Mama Mia !! The snug-fitting capris worn by Mary Tyler Moore who played Laura Petrie, the young housewife in the Dick Van Dyke TV show, turned many a head and caused a fashion sensation. Censors screamed to sexy for TV viewing demanding wardrobe approval before tapings. Show to many curves and Laura is banished to modest attire. Censors eventually backed down. Viewers demands boosted ratings and females imitated Laura-capri look..
Then almost 40 years later, and the movie “Pulp Fiction“, Uma Thurman resurrects this phoenix fashion statement, without as much as a censor’s ban.

Not quite the end….Usher in….

The LINCOLN CAPRI, the ’50’s car, with "the race-on-Sunday sell-on-Monday "motto and philosophy.
If you were a few of the lucky BABY BOOMERS with rich parents, this luxury car was the ultimate status symbol.
Remember cars in the 50’s had no options.
Affordable, hardly.
$4000, twice the price of a close cousin, the Ford Custom and a reputation as the safest car in ’55 by Life Magazine.
What a traffic stopper--
Full-size, V-8 , 3-speed auto-trans, leather interior, a 130 mph speedometer, air conditioning, power windows …. the 1st automatic headlight dimmer, and
READY FOR THIS OPTION, “Multi-Luber“, a device that allowed the driver to send grease to components with the push of a button from inside the car. After all what well-to-do rich parents had grease under their nails even if Ronald Reagan commercialized the cleaning power of Lava Soap on TV.

Lincoln-Mercury, showcased its Capri in a most unusual way.

The Carrera Pan-American Endurance Race.
A 5-day, 2000 mile road show from the southern edge of Mexico to the U.S. border.

To quote Jack Parr…“I kid you not….“ standard mileage was 4 to 5 miles per gallon. So a little smoke-n-mirrors trick covered for fuel “guzzled” with a 55 gal. tank installed behind the front seat to back-up the standard 23 gal. tank.

The Capris’ one fault, hard to handle on rough curves but luxurious highway riding comfort. Sweeping the first 4 spots in the stock division in ‘52 and ‘53; but
‘54, the final year for the big race, it was disaster-after-disaster, named, “Lincoln engine failure“. One independent amateur, Ray Crawford, carried it to its last Carrera Pan-American victory and the end of both luxury racing and the infamous motto.

By today’s standards automakers couldn’t afford, ad agencies wouldn’t consider or bookies give odds for the likes of such a hyped-advertising stunt. Ralph Nader where are you!

So Ladies, the winner, our classic capris. Still takin the curves and turnin heads!!