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The Return of the Desert Island Jukebox Draft - Drop in a quarter (1 Viewer)

Yo Mama said:
Should we also have “catch up” picks on Saturday so we all land on the same round by end of day (in case we end up mid-round Friday)?
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We'll work out the details on Friday afternoon/evening but I wanted to get the plan out there so people could start planning their weekend drinking.

 
MAC_32 said:
So many covers of this song, but none compare to this one. 

7.24 The Clash - I Fought The Law (1979)

@Pip's Invitation
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This song has a jukebox connection:

In mid-1978, the Clash were working on their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope. Singer Joe Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones flew to San Francisco to record overdubs in September–October at the Automatt studio. The owner of the Automatt kept his collection of classic jukeboxes distributed around the various rooms of the studio complex. Strummer and Jones listened to the Bobby Fuller version of "I Fought the Law" for the first time on one of the jukeboxes, and by the time they returned to England, they could perform the song.

 
Jazz, Blues, Gospel Roots

Rd 7 And that Reminds Me by Della Reese (1957)

B aside: I Cried For You

Born in the poor neighborhood of Black Bottom, Delloreese Early was always a performer. Even as a young child she was acting out the scenes from her mom's favorite movies and singing at Church. By 13, she was performing as part of Mahalia Jackson's Gospel Group. She briefly attended Cass Tech High School (and was classmates with Ellen Burstyn) before graduating at age 15. The first in her family do so. She was forced to dropout of Wayne State to support her family after the death of her mother and very quickly she won a contest to sing one night at a Detroit club. She would perform 8 straight weeks there. From these clubs, she would expand her musical knowledge beyond the Church gospel and into jazz. Changing her name to Della Reese, the singer would become the first Detroit performer to take their gospel roots from the church to the top of the Billboard Pop charts. Her jazz background helped her create music that appealed to a broad 1950s and 1960s American audience. Hitting the top of the Pop Chart meant that her records had crossed over to White America. In 1958, when And That Reminds Me became a million record seller, it meant a poor, part Black, part Cherokee girl had used her brains, talent and dedication to create a path to stardom. A path that many more Detroiters would follow in. She remained a star the rest of her life producing ten top 100 songs, one Gold Album and appearing in over 30 TV shows including regular roles on Chico and The Man and Touched by an Angel. 

 
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A common thread among some of my very favorite songs is "controlled chaos" -- something that's wild and builds up a ton of momentum and feels like it's going to go off the rails but doesn't. This song is one of my favorite examples of that, and I get a prime B-side with it as well.

7.25 Led Zeppelin -- Immigrant Song

Year: 1970

Album: Led Zeppelin III

B-Side: Hey Hey What Can I Do

I hate to take something from such a deep year so early, but this song has been in my head since we started and I can't resist anymore. It not only fits my theme but the theme of the whole draft as well. The music is the perfect testament to what we want coming out of a juke box. The lyrics are a different story -- it's another one of Ray Davies' sad tales about quirky English folk; in this case, a woman who believes the lyrics coming from her juke box are real life. 

8.01 The Kinks -- Juke Box Music

Year: 1977

Album: Sleepwalker

B-side: The UK B-side fits my theme better than the US B-side (which is a fine song but is damned depressing), so I'm going with that. Sleepless Night

 
Ilov80s said:
Jazz, Blues, Gospel Roots

Rd 7 And that Reminds Me by Della Reese (1957)

Born in the poor neighborhood of Black Bottom, Delloreese Early was always a performer. Even as a young child she was acting out the scenes from her mom's favorite movies and singing at Church. By 13, she was performing as part of Mahalia Jackson's Gospel Group. She briefly attended Cass Tech High School (and was classmates with Ellen Burstyn) before graduating at age 15. The first in her family do so. She was forced to dropout of Wayne State to support her family after the death of her father and very quickly she won a contest to sing one night at a Detroit club. She would perform 8 straight weeks there. From these clubs, she would expand her musical knowledge beyond the Church gospel and into jazz. She changed her named to Della Reese and would become the first Detroit performer to take their gospel roots from the church to the top of the Billboard Pop charts. Her jazz background helped her create music that appealed to a broad 1950s and 1960s American audience. Hitting the top of the Pop Chart meant that her records had crossed over to White America. In 1958, when And That Reminds Me became a million record seller, it meant a poor part Black, part Cherokee girl had used her brains, talent and dedication to create a path to stardom. A path that many more Detroiters would follow in. She remained a star the rest of her life producing ten top 100 songs, one Gold Album and appearing in over 30 TV shows including regular roles on Chico and The Man and Touched by an Angel. 
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Della would have been an enormous star a generation later - Oprah with pipes. A former client of mine went the Vegas route for a while, got to know Miss Reese and once told me, "this is the black Judy Garland. there's nothing she cant do. sing, dance, talk, joke, hell - she could interview Kruschev."

 
krista4 said:
Very close!  I doubt anyone will take the time to suss out snipes on me, so I'll just announce my theme now.

My theme is in tribute to the brilliant idea, Garfield Minus Garfield and is entitled "Beatles Minus Beatles."  I will be choosing only songs by or heavily involving someone who has had a collaboration with one or more of the Beatles.  I'm only including collaborations that include being an integral part of a song or album, not the whole cast of "All You Need Is Love" who just wandered by and did backing vocals.  My picks will not involve any songs with actual Beatles.

So far:

Procol Harum - Gary Brooker did keyboard/piano/vocals in the 4th and 5th iterations of Ringo's All-Starr band (1997-99).

Booker T. & the M.G.s - Steve Cropper played on three Ringo albums, one John album, and with George at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert.  

The Beach Boys - Brian Wilson contributed vocals on Ringo's album, Time Takes Time.  Paul contributed a song, "A Friend Like You," to Brian's album, Gettin' In Over My Head.

Sly and the Family Stone - Andy Newmark was the drummer on Sly's album Fresh, and was also the drummer on two of John's albums (as well as one of Yoko's).

Roy Orbison - Traveling Wilburys with George.  Duh.

Sam Cooke - Billy Preston obviously had lots of Beatles collaboration with the band and the individuals, and as a 16-year-old he contributed the organ parts for Sam Cooke's album Night Beat.  I chose the song I did because it so prominently features Billy (Sam even calls him out by name) and his "talking" style of organ playing.

Willie Nelson - Ringo's song "Write For Me" on his Ringo Rama album was a duet with Willie.
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This is awesome. You could probably have a great draft just using people who played with the All-Starr Band. 

 
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Modification to Free Play rules

We're almost halfway to the first Free Play so it's a good time to announce a refinement to the rules.

The first roll after round #15 will still involve the three most popular years from the draft.  However, the next three Free Play rolls after rounds #20, 25 and 30 will be modified to include the top five, seven and ten years respectively. 

Ties will be included in the rolls so the round #15 roll could be between more than three years.

 
This year was one of the deepest for me, so hopefully it gets a free play at some point. This is one of my all time favorite songs, so that’s why I’m picking it over some other protest heavy hitters from 1970. Yo Mama selects:

8.03 - Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1970)

No B-side since it was too badass (and long) to be released as a single

I’m pretty sure I’ve taken this song in a few other drafts (including the last jukebox draft). I really dig the video made for this one in the link above too. 
 

 
wikkidpissah said:
Della would have been an enormous star a generation later - Oprah with pipes. A former client of mine went the Vegas route for a while, got to know Miss Reese and once told me, "this is the black Judy Garland. there's nothing she cant do. sing, dance, talk, joke, hell - she could interview Kruschev."
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Cool to hear. It seems like she was just one of those people who was born a star- a natural entertainer coupled with intelligence and a fierce drive. Given where she started her life, she was a heck of a success and managed to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that often come with that lifestyle. Judy certainly had them and my next artist who followed a similar path of Church to Charts never was able to shake the troubled start he got in life. 

 
Ilov80s said:
wikkidpissah said:
Della would have been an enormous star a generation later - Oprah with pipes. A former client of mine went the Vegas route for a while, got to know Miss Reese and once told me, "this is the black Judy Garland. there's nothing she cant do. sing, dance, talk, joke, hell - she could interview Kruschev."
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Cool to hear. It seems like she was just one of those people who was born a star- a natural entertainer coupled with intelligence and a fierce drive. Given where she started her life, she was a heck of a success and managed to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that often come with that lifestyle. Judy certainly had them and my next artist who followed a similar path of Church to Charts never was able to shake the troubled start he got in life. 
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Reese walked through a plate glass door in 1970 and required a thousand stitches.  She made a PSA about it. 

 
Eephus said:
We'll be going to one pick per day starting on Saturday. 

Unless there is a code red imminent risk of being sniped, you don't need to make your pick first thing in the morning.  It's better for the thread if the picks are spread throughout the day like an enriching layer of mulch.
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Oh, I see. I can still do two picks every two days, right? ;)

 
Going to go to zig to another favorite name song, this one is a shout out to my Aunt Eileen, who like my Mom, didn’t use her first name, but used her middle name, must have been a born in the 20’s thing...

"Come On Eileen" won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards and in 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's sixth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[5] It was ranked number eighteen on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s
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8.4 - Come on Eileen - Artist: Dexys Midnight Runners - 1982

Come on Eileen

B Side - Dubious

MPH - JUKEBOX - 52Girls

 
@mphtrilogy I am digging your theme for many reasons (I too have lived in a house full of women virtually entire life), but I have an Aunt Eileen who I have grown closer to than any of my other living aunts. good stuff

 
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Eephus said:
Reese walked through a plate glass door in 1970 and required a thousand stitches.  She made a PSA about it. 
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I also went through a plate glass door in 1970, I kid you not... first day we moved into our new home, our old house had a screen door with a broken latch, and was used to just opening freely, I was horsing around with my much older brother on the day we are moving in ( I was 4 at the time and my parents weren’t even in the new house yet) and raced to go outside to get away from him and crashed though the Plate glass front door.  Received about 100 stitches on The front and back of my right arm and a “small” 6inch one on my left.  Missed my veins by a millimeter.   Still remember waking up on operating table, seeing the massive needle and passing out again.  I did win award for not crying from the nurses, a tin plated palm tree (maybe that’s why I have always been a fan of Mr Roberts) Sadly I lost track of it over the years.  Still have the scars though 😎

 
As long as we're sharing plate glass door stories, I provided the shove that pushed my fraternity brother forward to break some kids through our plate glass window (they were uninjured) that he had in his clench because they were grabbing ### in the main room of our house. 

I never thought about how dumb that was until later in life. 

 
Doo ***

Rd 8 Lonely Teardrops by Jackie Wilson (1958)

B aside: In the Blue of the Evening

Jackie Wilson is the yang to the yin of Della Reese and he transitions us out of the Jazz, Blues, Gospel Roots and into my Doo *** chapter. Like Reese, Jackie had a rough early life. He was the only of his parents' 3 kids to survive childhood. His father was an alcoholic and his parents split at an early age.Jackie took solace in the church. He wasn't religious but he liked the chance to sing and perform. Unlike Della who was a stand out student, Jackie was a gang member and was frequently in trouble. Della graduated at 15, Jackie dropped out at 15. Two years later, Wilson was a father. This pushed him from pursuing boxing to pursuing a singing career. His first group was The Falcons who also featured his cousin Levi Stubbs (The Four Tops). But it was when Wilson went solo that his career really took off. "Mr. Excitement" and "The Black Elvis"  was so famous for his high energy live performances that James Brown would later admit he took much of his act from Wilson.

Years of drinking and mass consumption of salt tablets (salt tablets and a lot of water produced extreme sweating which Jackie thought made the girls go wild at his shows) led to serious health problems. Multiple run ins with the law and poor financial management also left the singer broke. After collapsing on stage in 1976, he would remain in a comatose or semi-comatose state until he died at in 1984 at the age of 49. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Wayne, Michigan. A few years later an Orlando disc jockey raised money to build a mausoleum for Jackie and his mother. The marker reads, "No More Lonely Teardrops".  While I have never been to see it, I am curious as he is buried about 10 minutes from where I grew up. 

Please enjoy this live show from Mr. Excitement himself (featuring Darlene Love on backing vocals)

 
Round7- The Hustle- Van McCoy(1975)

Let's keep the party going with this classic.

About 6 years ago at a friend's wedding I was drunk and actually went into the dance floor with my wife to this song. I was so bad at it they made me sit down because I was screwing up everyone else's rhythm. Haven't had to dance in public since .

https://open.spotify.com/track/4wzUmBC4ZrF92IE1hPCTJp?si=6xFhpdCbR0CqKBVVW4QNXQ

 
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Raging weasel said:
http://Round7 The Hustle- Van McCoy(1975)

Let's keep the party going with this classic.

About 6 years ago at a friend's wedding I was drunk and actually went into the fancy floor with my wife to this song. I was so bad at it they made me sit down because I was screwing up everyone else's rhythm. Haven't had to dance in public since 
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That sounds even worse than when our CEO did the electric slide at last year’s holiday party. 

 
Raging weasel said:
http://Round7 The Hustle- Van McCoy(1975)

Let's keep the party going with this classic.

About 6 years ago at a friend's wedding I was drunk and actually went into the fancy floor with my wife to this song. I was so bad at it they made me sit down because I was screwing up everyone else's rhythm. Haven't had to dance in public since 
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You should dance again in public. Maybe they should've kept up with your rhythm, or maybe they should have cleared the dance floor for you like the people did for Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. You owe a round 8 too. 

 
Raging weasel said:
http://Round8- Just the two of Us- Grover Washington(1981)

Going with the shorter single version that came out in 1981 over the 7+ minute album version from 1980.
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Your links aren't working to the songs you've picked tonight.  I can post them for you or you can edit and try again.

 
Raging weasel said:
They are not pretty but at least they work now. Can't get the hang of the linking thing :bag:
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I link to youtube. Copy the link in youtube, and then write the name of the song here in your post. Then click that link icon you see above on that menu bar, paste the link in that and hit save, and then your link is good to go.

 
Raging weasel said:
Round8- Just the Two if Us- Grover Washington (1981)

Going with the shorter single version that came out in 1981 over the 7+ minute album version from 1980.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ko2lVN0vKGUl9zrU0qSlT?si=TSMSVW3qTpGwBocEqqu1zg
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I never met Grover Washington but I have two connections to him.

1. In the 60s he played in a band led by the dad of one of my best friends. They remained friends until my friend’s dad — who had a few record stores in West Philly after he left the music business — died in 1997. 
 

2. My aunt and uncle lived next door to the Washingtons in the 70s and early 80s. Grover would have Dr. J and some of the other Sixers over to shoot hoops in his driveway. My cousin would watch through the fence. A couple of times Grover’s son (Grover III) came over to play while I was there.

 
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