Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll." (Rest assured, though--no vocals, no rhumbas, no waltzes, not even "I Got Rhythm"). After all, anybody can turn on the radio and get "Mares Eat Oats" or "Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing in the world to find any place that will serve you. "Tin Roof Blues,' "Original Dixieland One Step," and "Fidgety-Feet," especially with chummy program notes...
...Austin kids first heard New Orleans jazz when a copy of the Friars Society Orchestra "Tin Roof Blues" found its way into the juke box at the Poodle Dog, which was the local version of McBride's without the beer...
Soon billboards screamed "Halo Wawa."Seattle newspapers snapped it on the end of news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...
Last week, via the voices of Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers, this musical tickler was mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S. The top song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
...cost of Christmas greetings and other personal telegrams and cables, juke boxes, vitamin pills, valet services, and $225 for "a spare set of false teeth...