Word: juking
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...note in TIME for Dec. 25 the correspondence concerning the dialect terms juke-box and jook, and the citation by Mr. T. F. Koch of Gainesville, of my paper on jook which I wrote when an undergraduate at the University of Florida. I wish to point out what has been brought to light regarding jook by recent research...
Dzug, Dzog, Dzugu, Jook, Juke...
...Tennessee Waggoner, Rabbit in the Pea Patch, Cross-Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...
...vocalist, little Bonnie Baker, to sing. Five months ago, with Band Leader Tucker's band, Vocalist Baker recorded it. So melting and cajoling were diminutive Bonnie's "Oh !s" (Chicago jitterbugs quickly changed the text to "Oh Bonnie, Oh!") that her record was soon jerking juke-box nickels faster than the fading Beer Barrel Polka (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, with 350,000 sheet-music copies and some 350,000 records sold to date, the revived Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was nudging South of the Border for first place on the best-seller list. Meanwhile Band Leader...
TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in the future. To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook-organ and nothing else...