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...wants to make noise in sedate Switzerland, he is expected to go off to a mountain and yodel. Last year the U.S.'s Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. decided to liven things up: it introduced the jukebox to Switzerland...
...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...
Master's Voice. In Newark, Ark., a span of mules heard the opening bars of Mule Train over a nearby jukebox, broke into high gallop at the first "Hiyah," scattered and splattered their load of plows all across town...
...Fitzgerald edge, a few bopped-up old favorites, her latest raid on Mother Goose (a scat version of Old Mother Hubbard), and a couple of friendly imitations of her old pals Louis Armstrong and Rose ("Chichi") Murphy. As always, her gently rasping voice, halfway between jungle wail and jukebox jangle, brought the house down...
Musically, Young Man will offend jazz purists, however it may send the jukebox set. Most of the trumpet work, dubbed by Harry James while Douglas goes skillfully through the motions, is badly out of character. It has all of James's technical finesse but it is often nearly as commercial as the kind of music that Trumpeter Douglas rails against. Jazz fans will also be surprised to learn that a Greenwich Village jazz haunt's customers all wear impeccable evening dress...