It’s sometimes said that while Americans invented rock ‘n’ roll, it was the British who perfected it. Now the Brits are out to do the same to that quintessentially American manifestation of pop music ...
LONDON, July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A British games and Jukebox entrepreneur, Alexander Walder-Smith, has acquired Rock-Ola, the last authentic American Jukebox manufacturing company and one of the ...
Ever since I was a kid, I have been crazy about jukeboxes. At times I think my life has amounted to nothing more meaningful than seeking out the best jukebox in the United States. I am ...
It was just before 8 a.m. on a Monday when I awoke in a Loop hotel room with a ringing in my ears. I thought it was some kind of hangover from Iceman Robinson’s guitar solos at Rosa’s on the West Side ...
In Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Perry Rosen walks over to a 1967 Rock-Ola Imperial jukebox, punches in a letter and a number and smiles as the song "Spooky" by Dennis Yost and the Classics IV starts ...
For years now, jukebox fans have been playing the same song, a blues bemoaning the disappearance of those music machines once considered fixtures of every neighborhood tavern, pizza parlor or roadside ...