{"id":240436,"date":"2025-09-20T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240436\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:55:12","slug":"remember-when-john-lennon-carried-around-a-1965-discomatic-on-tour-with-45s-of-40-of-his-favorite-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240436\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When: John Lennon Carried Around a 1965 Discomatic on Tour With 45s of 40 of His Favorite Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1965, Beatlemania was in full swing. That year, the\u00a0Beatles<\/a> played their monumental show at Shea Stadium, performed for the last time on the Ed Sullivan Show, and capped off the year by releasing Rubber Soul. That year, John Lennon<\/a>\u00a0also bought a Swiss-Made KB Discomatic. A personal, portable playlist, Lennon filled the antediluvian music box with 40 of his favorite 45s to keep him \u201ccompany\u201d on tour with the\u00a0Beatles<\/a>. Lennon\u2019s selection of singles highlighted his diverse musical tastes, spanning rock, R&B, folk, pop, Motown, and blues.<\/p>\n

Lennon\u2019s analog \u201cplaylist\u201d featured Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Paul Revere & the Raiders, and The Lovin\u2019 Spoonful, among many more, including the Beatles 1962 tourmate Gary U.S. Bonds\u2019 1960 song \u201cNew Orleans\u201d and No. 1 \u201cQuarter to Three,\u201d\u00a0from 1961,\u00a0<\/strong>R&B singer\u00a0Fontella Bass\u2019s 1965 hit \u201cRescue Me<\/a>,\u201d the Animals\u2019 \u201cBring It On Home to Me,\u201d and even opens on Wilson Pickett\u2019s \u201cIn the Midnight Hour.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lennon also pointed out the five Smokey Robinson and the Miracles songs on his list. The Miracles appear on the Discomatic more than any other artist and were a significant influence on the Beatles, who covered the group\u2019s 1962 hit \u201cYou Really Got a Hold on Me\u201d\u00a0on\u00a0With the Beatles. \u201cThat\u2019s me trying to be\u00a0Smokey Robinson<\/a>\u00a0again,\u201d said Lennon in his\u00a0Jukebox\u00a0notes, likening The Beatles\u2019 1963 hit \u201cAll My Loving\u201d to something Robinson would have composed. <\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018John Lennon\u2019s Jukebox\u2019<\/p>\n

In 1989, the old jukebox resurfaced at a Christie\u2019s auction and was sold to the Bristol music producer John Midwinter for \u00a32,500 (approximately $2,770). Midwinter spent years restoring and researching the 45s that Lennon personally placed inside. Before he died in 2004, Midwinter shared the playlist, along with Lennon\u2019s handwritten notes about some of his favorite songs.<\/p>\n

Along with its release, the project was also the subject of a British documentary,\u00a0John Lennon\u2019s Jukebox,\u00a0which features interviews with some of the artists influenced by Lennon and featured on his Discomatic.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: 7 of John Lennon\u2019s Favorite Song<\/strong>]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Midnight Hour\u201d \u2013 Wilson Pickett
\u201cRescue Me\u201d \u2013 Fontella Bass
\u201cThe Tracks of My Tears\u201d \u2013 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
\u201cMy Girl\u201d \u2013 Otis Redding
\u201c1-2-3\u201d \u2013 Len Barry
\u201cHi-Heel Sneakers\u201d \u2013 Tommy Tucker
\u201cThe Walk\u201d \u2013 Jimmy McCracklin
\u201cGonna Send You Back to Georgia\u201d \u2013 Timmy Shaw
\u201cFirst I Look at the Purse\u201d \u2013 The Contours
\u201cNew Orleans\u201d \u2013 Gary U.S. Bonds
\u201cWatch Your Step\u201d \u2013 Bobby Parker
\u201cDaddy Rollin\u2019 Stone\u201d \u2013 Derek Martin
\u201cShort Fat Fannie\u201d \u2013 Larry Williams
\u201cLong Tall Sally\u201d \u2013 Little Richard
\u201cMoney (That\u2019s What I Want)\u201d \u2013 Barrett Strong
\u201cHey! Baby\u201d \u2013 Bruce Channel
\u201cPositively 4th Street\u201d \u2013 Bob Dylan
\u201cWild About My Lovin\u2019\u201d \u2013 The Lovin\u2019 Spoonful
\u201cTurquoise\u201d \u2013 Donovan
\u201cSlippin\u2019 and Slidin\u201d \u2013 Buddy Holly
\u201cBe-Bop-A-Lula\u201d \u2013 Gene Vincent
\u201cNo Particular Place to Go\u201d \u2013 Chuck Berry
\u201cSteppin\u2019 Out\u201d \u2013 Paul Revere & the Raiders
\u201cDo You Believe in Magic\u2019 \u2013 The Lovin\u2019 Spoonful
\u201cSome Other Guy\u201d \u2013 The Big Three
\u201cTwist and Shout\u201d \u2013 The Isley Brothers
\u201cShe Said, Yeah\u201d \u2013 Larry Williams
\u201cBrown Eyed Handsome Man\u201d \u2013 Buddy Holly
\u201cSlippin\u2019 and Slidin\u201d \u2013 Little Richard
\u201cQuarter to Three\u2019 \u2013 Gary U.S. Bonds
\u201cOoh! My Soul\u201d \u2013 Little Richard
\u201cWoman Love\u201d \u2013 Gene Vincent
\u201cShop Around\u201d \u2013 The Miracles
\u201cBring It on Home to Me\u201d \u2013 The Animals
\u201cIf You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody\u201d \u2013 James Ray with the Hutch Davie Orchestra
\u201cWhat\u2019s So Good About Goodbye\u201d \u2013 The Miracles
\u201cBad Boy\u201d \u2013 Larry Williams
\u201cAgent Double-O Soul\u201d \u2013 Edwin Starr
\u201cI\u2019ve Been Good to You\u201d \u2013 The Miracles
\u201cWho\u2019s Lovin\u2019 You\u201d \u2013 The Miracles<\/p>\n

Photo: John Lennon in Paris, January 16, 1964. (Harry Benson\/Express\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1965, Beatlemania was in full swing. That year, the\u00a0Beatles played their monumental show at Shea Stadium, performed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,7657,975,978,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-lennon","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-the-beatles","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234375296460270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}