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Bella Musica (Dinah Shore; Victor). This one is almost certain to hit the juke trade hard: it has plenty of repetition, a jigging rhythm and not a trace of plot or even idea...
...voice behind two trends: 1) a duet with another popular singer, and 2) a hillbilly song. This one is a razzmatazz spoof on a pair of country folk on their way to a Saturday night spree. It is fast and loud, and its whipcracking arrangement gives it a fine juke-box flavor...
...Virgin Mary comes to earth accompanied by great crashed of thunder, zaps of lightning, blasts of organ music, and finally springs up like the Cheshire cat. When it comes time for the actual miracle to take place, Warner's has the sky change colors as rapidly as a drugstore juke box, and the sun comes diving down toward the earth with appropriate sound effects. This "improvement" only makes the improbable seem impossible...
...Juke Box," John Harvey has drawn on recollections of his stay in Alaska to paint some intriguing characters killing time in a quick-lunch room. But Harvey never really ekes a story out of it. Even one of the most interesting characters, a drunk named Bearpaw, whose hands are just fleshy stumps, never gets into the plot. The author leaves him outside the lunchroom, pounding in the window to get in. Quotation marks, used in other stories, would have helped "Juke Box" a great deal...
...Worth My Tears" should start coming forth from juke-boxes, radios, and bobby-boxers throughout the nation within a few days, and John P. Richards '52 may have the song-success he has been working for since...