Dude, where's my carMignon?

Jez Ford

editorial If you go through my singles collection (not that I'd let you), you'll find that a great many of my 45s from the late 1960s and early 1970s have their centres punched out. This is not uncommon for that era and the decade preceding, and I can hear the vinyl cognoscenti among you saying, 'Ah yes, those will be jukebox singles' — because jukeboxes required records with no centres so they could be held suitably firmly on a thick spindle to play reliably while girls in bobby sox were dancing round them in milk bars, or whatever really went on in those days. I was told only recently by a friend that she subscribed to a record club which sent you used jukebox 45s — something of a lottery,…

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