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Jukebox AmericaWilliam Bunch

Jukebox America

1994293 pages
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Imagine John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, to a soundtrack of Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra: Three years ago, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Will Bunch heard Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" blaring from a New York City jukebox, and he knew he'd found his calling. He had to find America's Greatest Jukebox. What he was looking for wasn't the chrome-adorned item itself; it was the unique musical collection, the joyful, anarchic alchemy of golden hits and forgotten 45's that only an unsung, back-of-the-bar jukebox could offer. But more, much more that…

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  • Other · English · 1994
    St. Martin's Press · 293 pages · 9780312110130
Popular culturePopular musicJukeboxesPop-KulturGeschichte 1959-1991Popmusik