Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FULL MOON & EMPTY ARMS: Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version of _____'s Piano Concerto No. 2 were steady juke-box nickel-pullers...
Last week, the process known as creating a demand began. Front-page headlines read: STRAVINSKY ADAPTS HIS 'FIREBIRD,' SEEKING JUKE-BOX FAME, ROYALTIES...
...Petrillo has been searching his nimble brain to find new ways to make radio programs, records and juke boxes play cash-jingling tunes on his union till. His edict against recording did not sound like a true pitch to the broadcasting and recording companies. It sounded more like bargaining bluster. His Dec. 31 deadline coincides with contract renewal time for the record 'makers...
...radio stations were more vulnerable targets than juke boxes. Broadcasters .would probably soon feel the pinch of Petrillo's ban on transcribed programs (of the 900-plus stations in the U.S., only about one-third employ musicians; many a small station owes its livelihood to the transcribed singing commercial). Petrillo had another threat up his sleeve; he might bar his musicians from playing on programs carried across the country by radio networks...
...Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...