[Jukebox-list] Another haunted jukebox, Years Ago...

[Bob E.]

At 02:03 PM 10/10/07 -0700, you wrote:
>
>--- david wendell <dwaw12 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>   It was done on Night Gallery (a cousin to The
>> Twilight Zone) about 1971.  The title was "The Tune In
>> Dan's Cafe".  I have not seen it since that time, so
>> long ago.  It was  about a jukebox playing the same
>> song over and over.  It was in a cafe and a violent
>> love triangle existed.  As I remember the cafe burned
>> as the jukebox played again and again.  The song was
>> "If You Leave Me Tonight" by Jerry Wallace.
>
>I remember that episode.  I think the jukebox was a Seeburg.
>Maybe an M100-C?  A couple was in the cafe and it would
>start playing at random times.  It would play through
>the song until the lyric was "'til death... 'til death...
>'til death..." it would skip several times, then stop.
>Soon it would start up again.  I remember that story
>being really creepy (of course, I was a little kid then).
>But I never knew what the song was.  Now I've got to look
>for it!

Interestingly, my Joel Whitburn book lists this song as
the last hit that Jerry Wallace had, in 1972, and in an
incidental note about the song says it is "from TV's
Night Gallery: The Tune in Dan's Cafe"...so it looks like
that song was either introduced there, or it got the 
impetus to land on the charts from its appearance there.
It made it to # 38, and it had been eight years since
Wallace was last on the charts.

--Bob
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