Word: stoutz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jukebox Promoter Eric de Stoutz, executive vice president of SARI, Geneva representative of Wurlitzer, said last week: "I didn't expect them to be a success at all. I was afraid of the colors-so American looking! I was astonished to find that many Swiss thought them beautiful. At first they regarded the jukebox with curiosity . . . [then] they realized that the tone was better than anything they had heard. Believe it or not, some people now bring their own records to cafes, ask the proprietor to put them in the jukebox, and they pay to have their own records...
...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...