11-08-2005, 06:18 PM
penelope Wrote:David Rockola
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They were named for the founder of the Rock-Ola company. There was a time when every bowling alley, gas station and soda fountain had one. One statistic reports that between 1935 and 1950 there were 700 000 jukeboxes in the U.S. alone. The first modern jukebox appeared in 1906 under the name "John Gabriel's Automatic Entertainer". The name "jukebox" was introduced in the thirties. The term "juke" was borrowed from the slang for brothel, "juke house".
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Who was the first British group to have a number 1 hit single in America?
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