jukebox
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Lunch finished, we settle next to a Wurlitzer jukebox in the corner of the room.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
So instead, Jackson’s family — who largely backed the film — producer Graham King and director Antoine Fuqua opted to refocus the film more squarely on his music, effectively turning it into a jukebox musical.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 26, 2026
How has a band that’s been together for more than 50 years managed to remain a creative force without burning out, splitting up or devolving into little more than a human jukebox pumping out nostalgia?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
A duet with the singer Riley Green, it sounded as retro as a dusty jukebox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
I had to speak loudly to make him hear me above the shouts and the amplified wails of jukebox rock-and-roll music.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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In the 1980s, jukeboxes with 45s gave way to CD jukeboxes, then a generation later, to streaming ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Today we all walk around with the equivalent of portable jukeboxes in our hands, able to access virtually every song known to man for ourselves and our children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
We’re talking about a furor unlike anything we’d seen since men with sledgehammers were smashing jukeboxes, trying to kill rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
On the road, his sidemen would rib him as he fed jukeboxes to hear weepers like “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2021
The jukeboxes were wailing Erskine Hawkins’ “Tuxedo Junction,” Slim and Slam’s “Flatfoot Floogie,” things like that.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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