Scopitones

In the 1960s, long before we could stream music videos on our cell phones, there were Scopitones, great big audio-visual jukeboxes found primarily in bars where you could watch B-list pop stars gyrating to their latest hits. I don't remember ever seeing one of these contraptions but April Winchell used to post cheesy scopitones on her site during the early days of blogging and I took a liking to them. Recently my  buddy-in-blogging, Perfect for Roquefort Cheese, posted an excellent one and it sent me on a search for Scopitones of yore. Many of those I posted way back when have been taken down over the years but I found a few.

 

 

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