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Various Artists - John Lennon's Jukebox

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett 2:33
  2. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass 2:53
  3. The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 2:54
  4. My Girl - Otis Redding 2:54
  5. 1, 2, 3 - Len Barry 2:23
  6. Hi Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker 2:48
  7. The Walk - Jimmy Mccracklin 2:46
  8. Gonna Send You Back To Georgia - Timmy Shaw 2:23
  9. First I Look At The Purse - Contours 2:56
  10. New Orleans - Gary U.S. Bonds 2:50
  11. Watch Your Step - Bobby Parker 2:43
  12. Daddy Rollin' Stone - Derek Martin 2:25
  13. Short Fat Fannie - Larry Williams 2:26
  14. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 2:08
  15. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 2:37
  16. Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel 2:19
  17. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan 3:54
  18. Daydream - The Lovin' Spoonful 2:19
  19. Turquoise - Donovan 7:02
  20. Slippin' And Slidin' - Buddy Holly 3:33
Volume 2
  1. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent 2:35
  2. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry 2:42
  3. Steppin' Out - Paul Revere And The Raiders 2:14
  4. Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful 2:05
  5. Some Other Guy - The Big Three 2:48
  6. Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers 2:31
  7. She Said 'yeah' - Larry Williams 1:50
  8. Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly 2:04
  9. Slippin' And Slidin' - Little Richard 2:40
  10. Quater To Three - Gary U.S. Bonds 2:32
  11. Ooh My Soul - Little Richard 2:11
  12. Woman Love - Gene Vincent 2:32
  13. Shop Around - The Miracles 2:48
  14. Bring It On Home To Me - The Animals 2:42
  15. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody - James Ray With The Hutch Davie Orchestra 1:56
  16. What's So Good About Goodbye - The Miracles 2:21
  17. Bad Boy - Larry Williams 2:16
  18. Agent Double O Soul - Edwin Starr 2:40
  19. I've Been Good To You - The Miracles 3:32
  20. Oh I Apologise - Barrett Strong 2:21
  21. Who's Lovin' You - The Miracles 3:03

Notes

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From the liner notes:

"A few years ago a portable jukebox was discovered which belonged to John Lennon in the 1960s. The jukebox contains a fascinating tracklist of 40 records - soul, R&B and Rock & Roll - written in Lennon's own handwriting.

These are the songs which shaped Lennon's musical education and they reveal many of the original sources of inspiration for his later songwriting.

This album has been carefully researched and brings together Lennon's favourite music while revealing how his orginality was born out of imitation."

From Wikipedia:

"In 1989, John Lennon's jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's,
and was sold for £2,500 ($4,907) to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox – specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic – in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour. Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs catalogued in Lennon's spidery handwriting. When Midwinter developed cancer, and his health began to deteriorate, his desire to see the player featured in some kind of documentary became all the more important.

The story finally reached its wider public in 2004, when The South Bank Show broadcast a documentary on the jukebox in which many of the represented artists, along with Sting, were asked to comment. Developed by Steve Jansen for the UK television production company Initial, headed by Malcolm Gerrie, the project took longer than was hoped to get picked up. This fact was rendered all the more poignant in that the show was commissioned mere days after Midwinter died. A compilation album was also released, containing thirty-four of the singles' A-sides and seven of their B-sides.

XM Satellite Radio's "'60s On 6" channel featured Lennon's jukebox singles as an insight to the Beatle's personal taste in pop music and Mr. Midwinter's passion for the jukebox."