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This forum should not be a compendium of every drive-by assault on the language, but you’d never know it by me. Don’t ask me how, but I happened to be a witness to an unusual usage at 57 seconds in to this more-than-forgettable country song (some songs are to be forgotten, some are to be violently flung away). “Juke” is a loan-word from Gullah meaning “wicked, disorderly”, echoing Wolof and Bambara dzug, for “unsavory”. Juke boxes appeared in the late thirties playing that unsavory black music in wicked juke joints, referred to in this 1941 multiracial number by Anita O’Day which showcases some provocative, disorderly jitterbugging.

I still play 45s, surprising considering I am 17. We have a jute box that plays them.
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000819.html

WURLITZER AMERICANA III JUTE BOX beleive it is 1960
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Also out there: jude, jube, and duke boxes.

I loved going to a particular restaurant in town because they had ‘losing my religion’ on the dukebox and I used to play it as often as I could.
http://jenny-theguidedogblog.blogspot.c … ow-it.html

Last edited by burred (2017-12-21 11:31:14)