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...where new ways and weapons are tested, the soldiers of this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South...
First the sheep sang Oh, I Got a Little Brother in the New Graveyard, then the goats did a juke-joint caper, Let the Deal Go Down. Brother Wilson preached in the words of the great James Weldon Johnson...
...investors lost millions. Director Roosevelt had resigned (in the fall of 1928) to run for Governor of New York. For the time being the Roosevelt interest in slot machines waned, and almost undisputed kingpin of the U. S. slot and vending machine trade (pinball games, crackerjack machines, juke boxes) was once more Chicago's Mills Novelty...
...September his U. S. records had begun to muscle in on the 35? juke-box trade, where Decca had been making hay. By last week U. S. Records (Royale and Varsity) had ended its first six months with an output of 1,500,000. Its biggest hit to date, Johnny Messner's suggestive She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, had sold more than 150,000 copies...
...roughly comparable, in Grand O1' Opry circles, to the way Lily Pons was welcomed to the Metropolitan. Right off, Edith was invited to join the Opry company. And Uncle Dave, Roy Acuff and the rest were pretty sure that The Broken Heart, properly whanged up, would be a juke-box hit in no time...