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...This week is Phonographs-for-Defense Week. Urged on by the U.S. Treasury Department, juke-box makers and operators tried to get Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...hadn't heard them. Then I played Billic Holiday's record of "Sugar" and Mildred Bailey's of "More Than You Know" on the phonograph and realized it even more acutely. Perhaps the radio and talkies had done the job, perhaps the demand for music for films, stage shows, juke-boxes, and all the other media through which the backneyed din reaches the public ear, has been too great. Output had to be stepped up, but the quality of the merchandise didn't matter...
Every afternoon shortly after 1, a crowd of sleepy-eyed "town girls," "call girls," "party girls," juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named Carl...
...trucks into the market square, did a brisk business in tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
Daddy (The Charioteers; Okeh). Low-down harmonizing of the No. 1 juke-box tune...