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...backed by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Trumpet is muted all the way through, and the music is at once restrained in attack yet powerful in beat(despite the one-man rhythm section). . . Glenn Miller's Song of the Volga Boatmen (BLUEBIRD) is probably going to be a terrific hit in juke-box circles. I'm so happy...
...have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer Barrel Polka. Pardon me while I run down to Scollay Square...
...favorites did not disappoint the fans. The big, coal-black Hodge Brothers, Will & Sim, who operated a juke joint until one night they murdered a bothersome customer, ran away-as usual-with the calf-roping event. In the four years they have competed in the Prison Rodeo, the Hodges have set several unofficial world's records at calf roping, have won some $400 in prizes. Last October, Will was top money winner with $76, Sim runner-up with...
Last week, while most record buyers eyed the month's output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops...
...distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired...