Crossword clues for victrola
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, trademark of a phonograph, from Victor Talking Machine Co. According to a contemporary letter from company head Eldridge R. Johnson, coined because it had "a sound suggestive of music," with ending from pianola.
Wiktionary
n. Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phonograph%20record using a steel needle.
Wikipedia
"Victrola" is a single by the band Veruca Salt. It was released in 1995 on Minty Fresh Records. It includes a cover of The Knack's " My Sharona".
The cover artwork does not actually depict a Victrola (a brand name of early phonograph with the horn inside a wooden cabinet), but rather an early 20th-century outside horn gramophone or phonograph.
The single was the third release from the album American Thighs but unlike the first two, failed to reach the Top 75 Singles Chart in the UK, peaking at #110.
Victrola may refer to:
Usage examples of "victrola".
The first refugees had come with carpets and armchairs, radios, Victrolas, lampstands, dressers, spreading them out before the harbor, under the open sky.
Chuck the dachshund sat nearby staring at his master like the dog staring at the old victrola on the RCA label.
There were photographs on the old-fashioned fruit wood mantel above the fireplace, too, and on both the handsome hand-crank Victrola near the door and the big console television set in the far corner.
And he bought a Victor victrola, a tall Gothic instrument, and he went regularly to see what new records had come in.
He listened to jazz records on a Victrola, prowled around in the evenings and quit high school prematurely, which angered me, because Sister Aimee prefers her slaves to have a high school diploma.
Then Ancient Evelyn would take Gifford and Alicia into her room, and crank up the little Victrola.
Gifford and Alicia into her room, and crank up the little Victrola.
The foyer was dominated by a large hall tree, and the living room contained not only antique bookcases and china cabinets but a pristine Victrola and a beautiful baby-grand piano.
And, if you'd like to build a Victrola, explore the mass media implications, plan the route for a railroadnot to mention learn about the engines for the trains, well, this is the place.
I had the boys bring up for me a large Victrola from the dining room, a sizable music box with a fine tone.
Later, it was a kind of children's playroom, the room where my mother had played the old Victrola, where she had sung along with Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
If the movie is a talking picture, it needs a better sound system than a Victrola.