Play the Jukebox: Hey Mister That’s Me Up on the Jukebox

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Here we are, ten days into the countdown of songs referencing jukeboxes in the song, and we finally get to a song that has “jukebox” in the title of the song! If you have a good memory for music you hopefully remembered this one and suspected that it would be on the list. Of course it would be!!! Hey Mister That’s Me Up on the Jukebox - James Taylor James Taylor had a rough early career. He was in and out of treatment facilities and mental health clinics before he was 20. Then he gets a record deal…and promptly has a wreck where he broke both hands and feet and couldn’t tour. On top of all of that, while he was in one rehab facility a friend committed suicide. Taylor paid tribute to her in one of his most classic songs, “Fire and Rain”: “Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone, Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you.” With this song, you can tell that Taylor still hadn’t found his footing. He was lost in California (“I need your golden gated city like a hole in the head”), but he didn’t think going back east was the idea. Meanwhile, he’d lost faith in the treatments (“let the doctors and the lawyers do as much as they can”). We have lost a lot of people in this world who couldn’t cope with the things Taylor was enduring. Thankfully, he survived. Hey Mister That’s Me Up on the Jukebox Written by James Taylor Recorded by James Taylor From Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, 1971 JUKEBOX LYRICS: title Let the boy become a man: