Cake & Jukeboxes

I don't really like cake, except for the frosting. Just give me a tub of frozen chocolate frosting and a teaspoon, and I will be happy. (I don't eat frosting much anymore). I do like ice cream cake.

November 26, 2025, Cascades at Delray Beach (my physical rehabilitation facility)

I loved playing the jukebox at The Pioneer diner in West Islip, Long Island, New York, in the early 1970s, when my parents and I occasionally ate dinner there. Each table had its individual jukebox terminal. I would always play the 45-rpm vinyl record of the Paul and Linda McCartney song "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," starting from its release in 1971, when I was ten years old. Could it be that they were using those large magnetic tape cartridges like the radio stations were using?

I also remember playing Side B of the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water," which was an alternate version to the radio version on Side A. That song was released in 1972.

I also remember playing the Eric Clapton song "Lay Down Sally" on many wintry Saturday mornings at a diner in nearby Bay Shore, while waiting for a bus to take my friends John and Tommy and me to go skiing in the "mountains" of nearby northern New Jersey. That was when the song was released in 1977, when I was sixteen years old. Actually, we probably played it in 1978, because I was hospitalized with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in May 1977, so I likely didn't go skiing that winter.

Also, my cousin Burt had a dog named Sally, so I would laugh whenever he said the title of the song to her.

November 26, 2025, Cascades at Delray Beach (my physical rehabilitation facility)