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Most of us have a soundtrack to our lives, a mental playlist we retrieve at the moments we find most celebratory or unbearable or just right. For much of my early childhood, mine came from a 1950s ...
In an era of iPods, Internet radio, DJs and high-tech sound systems, the venerable jukebox is still an object of fascination. It's hard not to grin when Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" crackles ...
The Break Room brings to its stage a cast singing a jukebox full of hits of the 1950s and ’60s when it presents “Dream a Little Dream: A Jukebox Musical,” which opens Valentine’s Day. The ...
Pop music in a time machine. That's how Scott Bradlee, founder of Postmodern Jukebox, describes the band's sound. It might take listeners a few moments to realize the vintage 1950s doo-wop song ...
Theater review: In Long Beach’s ‘Life Could Be a Dream,’ the songs are the stars The 1950s jukebox musical features fine singing though the characters could be more sharply defined.
Wurlitzer Jukebox Co. Jukebox maker gives the Internet a spin The jukebox, that artifact of 1950s-era diners spinning 45-rpm records, has fallen on hard times.
Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends ...
Piano man Scott Bradlee, at center, is the creative brain behind Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox, a musical collective that gives songs of the moment a vintage treatment. (Scott Bradlee ...