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SLIP A QUARTER into my jukebox. Chances are the music will be thin, but with my luck, the management will turn the volume up. Chords that were farfetched or tries-counting become velvety, even lash, and, if you hear the song more than once, you can bury yourself in it as you munch your french fries. You might believe whatever the song tells you-as you swim in the music and hug the jukebox...
...cranked out just to appease fans hungry for new tunes from their idols. These tracks are usually written around familiar themes and sound remarkably similar to their predecessors on earlier records, evoking the mass response: "This sounds just like the last one!" Surprise, surprise. Some fans, weaned on the jukebox mentality, get by on these give-the-people-what-they-want productions. But others, interested in artistic growth, look for innovation and creativity, risky though these may be in an era of intense competition from imports lurking just beyond the immigration desk. Happily then, there is Jimmy Buffett, who throughout...
...make chairs interesting is an extraordinary accomplishment," said Mel the Booksel- ler, who frequents the corner booth near Tommy's jukebox for most of each...
Inflation and changing life-styles have combined to shatter the jukebox market. The price of a typical machine has risen from under $1,900 five years ago to nearly $3,000. Yet operators are afraid to raise the normal 25? price per play for fear of driving away business. Result: fewer jukeboxes are being installed...
Among the few remaining jukebox havens are taverns, especially in the South, where the record players first got their name. Juke was a slang term for disorderly in the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. The name stuck to the music machines, although manufacturers prefer to call them coin-operated phonographs. However they are known, the once proud symbols of teen-age America may now be on their way to becoming just collectors' items and sources of nostalgia...