Music Box Cafe

You’ll recall that Elmwood lost his liquor license due to a preponderance of barroom brawls, and decided to re-tool his old scary tavern in a more genteel framework. While visiting a neighboring diner that had those miniature booth-side jukeboxes, he hit on the idea of offering his customers a “music box” menu instead of a wine menu. Thus, the Rustic Roost, closed by the authorities, has reopened as Elmwood’s Music Box Café.

Let’s review a few of the delectable items on Elmwood’s new bill of fare, which we’ll be pairing with his personal collection of historical music boxes, flute clocks, player piano rolls - and a jukebox in the corner, exclusively stocked with songs about music boxes.

1 - The Little Old Fashioned Music Box - Lee Johnson with Johnny Johnson and his Orchestra - 1937

2 – Cylinder-style Music Box - 1823

3 - A Young Man's Fancy (Music Box Song) - Harry A. Yerkes' Dance Orchestra – 1920

4 – Make Believe – Piano Roll created by composer George Gershwin – about 1924

5 - Musical Clock striking six o’clock - 1820s

Musical Snuff Box

6 - Musical Silver Snuff Box – 1815

7 - The Cradle and the Music Box - The Joe Green Orchestra - 1935

8 - A Musical Snuffbox (Anatoly Liadov Op. 32 1893) - Leopold Godowsky - 1924

9 - A Musical Snuffbox (Anatoly Liadov Op. 32 1893) - Victor Woodwind Ensemble - 1923

10 - Ships at Sea - Music Box - 1786

11 - Music Box Rag by Lucky Roberts - Victor Military Band - 1914

12 - There's a Music Box in the Moon - The Sun Maids and Artie Dunn with The Three Suns – 1948

13 – Jelly Roll Blues – piano roll created by composer Jelly Roll Morton - 1924

Flute Clock

14 - Musical Automaton Clock with Dancing Figures, Spinet and Organ – 1625

15 - An Old Music Box (Déodat de Séverac) - Mildred  Dilling - 1947

16 – Eighteenth Street Strut – Piano roll created by Fats Waller and played back in 1947

The Pianola

17 - Ragtime Oriole - James  Scott (Pianola) - 1948

18 - The Music Box (Peonity) - Mildred Dilling - 1947

19 - Fare Thee Honey Blues - Eubie Blake (piano roll) – 1921

20 – Juke Box Saturday Night – Paula Kelly and the Modernaires with the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra – 1946

21 - The Slack Rope Dancer – Musical Automaton - 1785

22 - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - James P. Johnson (piano roll) – 1947

23 – Mass-Produced Music Box with Interchangeable Disks - 1880s

24 - WWII Broadcast from Dow Field in Bangor, Maine - Jack Benny – 1943 (Radio Comedy)

25   - The Diary of Sophronia Winters - Suspense – 1943 (Radio Drama)