Word: jukebox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Jukeboxes. In 1947, Scott flew to Lake Success. He heard the jukeboxes of America blaring the hit of the day, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I Don't Want to Leave the Congo. Unlike the missionaries in the jukebox hymn, the Rev. Scott was not so sure that "civilization is fine...
...with the U.S. hungry for what the trade calls "oat" or "popcorn" songs, Lange was right about the hot hit. After Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, et. al. had taken a ride on it, Mule Train last week was clippity-clopping out of every jukebox and radio right across the nation...
...know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started...
...complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
...flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor, jig, and waltz, Scherzo, downbeat, jazz, and smaltz, Jukebox, drumstick, and Puccini, Bassoons, batons and Toscanini...