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Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
...Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...
After 34 years, during which Peg had been done wrong by innumerable tenors, she was once again deep in the U.S. heart and high on the hit parade. Last week, for the second week, the late Fred Fisher's 1913 sentimental tune was the nation's jukebox favorite. Its revival had started with the Harmonicats, a Midwest mouth-organ trio, who recorded it, and a Chicago disc jockey named Eddie Hubbard, who plugged their recording into popularity...
...Come on out to Tessie's, on Route 7, and hear that Bing Crosby record on the jukebox...
...device called the "Spectro-Chrome" that constantly changes its garish-colored lights, jukebox fashion. With head pointing north, the patient receives "tonations" at favorable times of the day, with a "Favorscope," which is supposed to correct unfavorable "solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute...