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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll
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The devil in nylon hose.

Radio DJ/producer of Haunted Jukebox: red-hot, swingin’ rock’n’roll/R&B/doo-wop/rockabilly, & Snakes and Roundabouts: eclectic music for mixed-up people.

https://www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachelRoll/
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Seems Smokey approves my musical choices this evening (the song you can hear the end of, if you can hear it over the purrs, is The Emperors - I May Be Wrong).

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January 30, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Coming up on Sunday night, A Haunted Valentine’s Mardi Gras Ball - a romantic rock’n’roll parade, seasoned with a generous helping of New Orleans R&B. Get your gladrags on and join the party from 9pm GMT

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A green mock record label advertising the next episode of my rock’n’roll radio show. Middle text, in a jazz-flavoured early 20th century carnival lettering, reads HAUNTED JUKEBOX, and sits under a ghost with hearts for eyes wearing Mardi Gras beads. Text around top half reads: ROCK’N’ROLL - DOO-WOP - ROCKABILLY- RHYTHM & BLUES. Under the middle text, to bottom left, in a right-slanting retro lettering, is text reading ‘With Rockin’ Rachel Roll’ with hearts over the eyes. To bottom right is the cut-out head of the host, a dark-haired white woman with hair piled up and large pink-tinted sunglasses. Scattered over the whole thing are glittery purple and gold hearts.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Tonight’s selections.

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Seven LPs laid out on a brownish carpet: Lester Young - The Aladdin Sessions Sarah Vaughan - How Long Has This Been Going On? Ella Fitzgerald - At The Opera House Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy In Paris Ray Charles - The Incomparable Ray Charles Barney Kessel Quartet - Workin’ Out With The Barney Kessel Quartet Art Pepper - Omega Alpha
January 26, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Oh, that we might all be as cosy and content as my boy and his hairy little feet.
Close-up of a hand gently stroking the cheek of a snoozing fluffy grey cat on a blanket. The same cat’s paws, one upside down and outstretched, showing that they’re almost as furry on the bottom as they are on the top. Also visible is a glimpse of his incredibly fluffy belly.
January 25, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Soul cleanse/cathartic cry time.

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LP sleeve of Jimmy Cliff - House Of Exile, featuring a stylised illustration of Jimmy Cliff in aviator shades and snakeskin-print shirt against a background of red and orange sunrays.
January 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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One of my all-time favourites on the deck now, pictured here under its framed inner sleeve.

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To the top right, the framed inner from Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here. Text, in white on black (with pink and green highlights) reads: There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of any investment. Music, for example. Buying music is an investment. To get the maximum result you must LISTEN TO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER OPTIMUM CONDITIONS. Not in your car or on a portable player through a headset. Take it home. Get rid of all distractions (including her or him). Turn off your cell phone. Turn off everything that rings or beeps or rattles or whistles. Make yourself comfortable. Play your LP. LISTEN all the way through. Think about what you got. Think about who would appreciate this investment. Decide if there is someone to share this with. Turn it on again. Enjoy yourself. Gil Scott-Heron. Slightly to the right below is the album sleeve (balanced atop a turntable with lid down), featuring a close-up black and white portrait of Gil Scott-Heron, a middle-aged Black man with pepper and salt moustache, smoking a Marlboro cigarette, and the title in pink, his name in green, to the top right of the sleeve. To the left of the album is a framed sepia portrait of Miles Davis with mint green mount, to the right, next to the turntable, is a silver-framed piece of sheet music artwork featuring a young woman in typical 1950s top and trousers, playing a record, overlaid with cut out type reading GET OUT THOSE OLD RECORDS.
January 24, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Feels like a ‘pulling out the classics’ kinda night - especially since I’ve finally put away all recent purchases and Christmas presents.

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LP sleeve of Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon, with a grey, smoky backdrop, featuring a Black woman, head in hands, sitting on a pile of blackened rubble.
January 24, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Spent the last of my Xmas record token on this. Blasting The Specials - an incredible band who would not have existed, like the rest of 2Tone ska, without Caribbean immigrants and the collaboration of musicians of different races - on this bloody awful day.

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Special 40th anniversary edition LP of The Specials - More Specials, featuring members of the band drinking together round a table on the cover, and a black strip to the right which notes that it’s a double LP at 45rpm and includes a bonus 7”.
January 24, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Got some sale bargains at RPM and one of the charity shops, too - rude not to at that price.

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Three LPs, all with red £3 stickers: Slade - Slade In Flame Al Stewart - Orange Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - Running Wild Three singles, with stickers indicating they’ve been reduced to 25p: Brook Benton - Revenge and Kiddio Kalin Twins - When
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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The elusive record from Monday has been found, purchased, and is already on my turntable. Some stellar NOLA soul, including rare singles I hadn’t a hope of owning otherwise, and unissued tracks.

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Yellow LP sleeve of Sehorn’s Soul Farm (volume one) on the Charly R&B label, featuring a red, white, and black illustration of a farm building, with short blue diagonal stripes down the left hand side, and blue musical notes to the top right.
January 24, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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The wind and rain are still battering fruitlessly against the windows, I left a doo-wop playlist going in the next room, and went to bed with a new book. Cosy doesn’t begin to describe the situation.

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In a room lit only by a bedside lamp, a hand holds up a somewhat bedraggled Penguin paperback edition of The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen, against a backdrop of cowboy-patterned duvet cover.
January 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Sometimes my visceral reaction to the words ‘80s music’/hatred of 80s production makes me forget how much great music there was fighting against the tide of bland, soulless pap that decade.

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Black and white LP sleeve of Ian Dury and The Music Students - 4000 Weeks Holiday, featuring Ian in black vest and braces, with a peace sign shaved into his hair.
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Such a brilliant album. All killer, no filler, a perfect accompaniment to meat or fish.

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LP sleeve to The Beat (known in the US as The English Beat) - I Just Can’t Stop It, featuring black, white, and pink stylised silhouettes of the band members, and (top left) the Go-Feet label mascot, known as Beat Girl.
January 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Been to the supermarket in me curlers and headscarf like a low-rent Nana.
Three-quarter profile selfie of pale youngish auld wifey with dark hair in curlers/escaping curlers under a black and white headscarf patterned with lipsticks, wearing a dark red wool coat, and glasses.
January 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Another album I hadn’t listened to in a good while - seems to be the day for those. Love this one for probably the same reasons critics hated it - sometimes a lo-fi, claustrophobic, could-easily-be-one-long-song LP just hits the spot.

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LP sleeve of the recent(ish) reissue of Life Without Buildings - Any Other City, featuring a collage of a partial black and white portrait of someone androgynous, a penny, and four unused matches.
January 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Pulled this out cos I haven’t heard it in ages, and can confirm it’s still a great time of an LP.

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Blue LP sleeve of Half Man Half Biscuit- Back In The D.H.S.S. featuring an out of focus, pink tinted photograph of a young man making a fairly indescribable face, but sort of like someone doing an impression of a startled bulldog.
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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I’ve been absolutely devouring this book, my first Zola but definitely not my last. Thoroughly enjoying it, despite having to find it on Project Gutenberg to compensate for my very battered copy’s missing pages (which is a shame, because that translation doesn’t seem to be as good). #booksky
A more-than-lightly foxed ‘Best Seller Library’ English copy of Au Bonheurs des Dames by Émile Zola sits on top of a pine bookcase.
January 20, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Gettin’ funky with the only record I ended up buying yesterday, despite sending two poor record shop staff scurrying all over looking for an LP (found the record, but not the sleeve) that ‘must be somewhere’. I am a scourge.

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On top of a record player with the lid down, the LP sleeve to Clarence Carter - Patches, featuring a triple-exposed, red and purple lit photograph of CC, matching the Atlantic Records label on the record itself, on the turntable below.
January 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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No idea why the sky over St. James’s was so yellow earlier, but it looked cool.
A foggy yellow-tinged night sky over a slightly wet pavement, bare trees and a modern hospital building loom ominously behind iron railings to the right. To the left, lit streetlamps line a main road. The bare branches of a tree reach down from the top third of the frame, a yellow-tinged foggy sky dominating the image. Lit streetlamps and smaller bare trees on the right hand side of the road, silhouetted buildings on the left. A three storey late 18th/early 19th century end of terrace house with one top window lit up on the left of a cityscape, a very tall, bare tree to its right in the centre of the frame. Traffic and car lights reflect on the slightly wet road, and the treetops of a park are visible in the distance on the left hand side of the road. A foggy sky looks golden yellow.
January 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Jazz Photo Archives posted this on Instagram as unknown subject and photographer, titled Jazz From The Bleachers. I don’t know who took it, but that is clearly me back in the ‘50s.
A colour photograph from the 1950s, depicting a woman with dark curled hair and glasses, wearing an elegant two-piece grey wool skirt suit with black trim, sitting on bleachers drinking out of a large brown glass bottle with her high heels off, holding a lit cigar.
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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Possibly my favourite Christmas present - someone even asked what it was so I got to do Bogey’s line, too - finally in its new spot on the bookcase.

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A black resin replica of the titular Maltese Falcon (or is it?) from the book/film of the same name, sitting on a pine bookcase to the left of a candle (out of shot, but visible by the glow).
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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At this point, I’m basically preparing a dossier on this pervy little twat and his associates.
Screenshot from the Duolingo app after a lesson has been completed. Duo, a green cartoon owl, is looking back over his shoulder (I don’t think owls have shoulders, but that’s not the weirdest part. We’re getting there), poutily blowing on a party horn and making a thumbs up sign (okay, owls definitely don’t have thumbs, but apparently this prick does), whilst flexing a disturbingly mammalian/humanoid arse, literally highlighted by the art style. Text below the image reads: Soooo much XP Where will you put it all?
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Ex-jukebox copy of Ray Agee - Mr. Clean on yellow Highland Records label
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Proof my warped 45 sounds better.

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January 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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This, too, from the same dealer (who, very helpfully, was selling everything at half the marked price). Very fuckin’ tasty.

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Weird over-exposed photo of a copy of Jimmy McCracklin’s seminal The Walk on Checker, sitting on a turntable ready to rock.
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM