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Remember this from when I was a boy. I am now 86 and still enjoy listening to Spike who brought so much happiness to music lovers all overe the world. Regards from England. 2022.
Had this on an LP when I was a teenager. Didn't know there was a "video " (I believe they called them "soundies " in the Forties). Would love to see ones for "Chloe", "My Old Flame" or "You Always Hurt The One You Love."
Nothing much changes really. The Barron Knights in the 1960s were spoofing chart hits & the original bands & management were getting annoyed by it - until they realised that the B K's versions were *very* good & in effect promoted the original. It came to be a badge of honour that the Barron Knights thought your single(s) were worthy of their versions! Weird Al Yankovich similarly spoofs modern-day singles. Look up his "Star Wars" themed version of "American Pie".
George Carlin once said that as a kid he used to listen to Spike Jones records and try to imitate the sound effects -- the glug glug of Carl Grayson of course being one of them
@@tomkent4656 How true. Here is one of my favourite contemporary covers of the Spike Jones style ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2qx78NOL0jY.html
Well actually... the "Spin-Off" or Main Inspiration for "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention" WAS "Spike Jones and his City Slickers"! Listen to ANY Frank Zappa and you WILL HEAR the influences! Sure a bit more crude... but they took what Spike Jones did and just carried on with it! The main thread that BOTH bands had in common was that EVERY MUSICIAN was a VERTUOSO In their craft! You CAN NOT do this kind of crazy and zany stuff and NOT be Super Talented and a MASTER Of the Instrument{s} they played! Just Classic, Amazing and STILL Damned Funny stuff! :D
E' sempre un piacere guardare e sentire questo brano e non finisco mai di stupirmi per la grandissima bravura e la PERFEZIONE nell'interpretazione...unici, difficilmente si vedono cose del genere ai giorni nostri...
Fantastic !!! When I was a little kid, I LOVED Spike Jones and his nutty band. This Band set us kids into howls of laughter. That was important, since we 80+ [2024] folks were still living under the grim shadows of Victorian Rules! I'm 85 now.and Spike& crew STILL make me lol!
I'm 32 now but when I was around 10 or 11, my parents started making it a habit to get me comedy albums as gifts for my birthday or Christmas. One of the most memorable ones was a compilation album of skits from Spike Jones. Absolutely hilarious stuff.
Your parents were awesome to get you classic comedy albums like that. Me and my brother would sneak tapes of Eddie Murphy, Cheech and Chong and turn them way down because the cursing
Laugh again at the delights of satire, parody, "music, and Spike Jones. His wife, Helen Grayco (Greco) sang with the band, and of course is from Tacoma, Washington.
I saw live performances of Spike Jones and his City Slickers on two occasions back in my younger days. They put on a really great show. They mixed in a few proper musical selections, too, and they were fine musicians.
Absolutely!!! The use of percussion and found objects is something up Zappa’s alley as well as the straight faced delivery of the City Slickers. Spike Jones and his band must have been tremendous sight readers. I wonder what the rehearsals were like. Spike Jones was a treasure, a subversive genius of music and comedy. Films of those performances are still funny to people of any age.
Love this guy. I was born inn 50 so he was still on live TV when I was a little kid always loved the improvised musical instruments made of plumbing usually
I just discovered the collection of Spike Jones on RU-vid! Wonderful.. I think it should be viewed by kids under 10 and watch them laugh at some real funny stuff of years ago. Teens would just change channels, too bad. Thanks for putting it on RU-vid.
You could never do that in today’s society not that anyone would want to do that but they just couldn’t do it this is so far ahead of any kind of conglomerated talent that’s out there today God bless
So that's what that technique is called! I swear to God I've been hunting this down for years! I look this song up just to know what that sound was called!
My dad tried to tell me about how funny Ernie Kovacs was, but since I was in my 20's. I was unable to see the humor in his work. It wasn't until relatively recently that I came to see the quality of his work, when I was young, his car salesman skit was my least favorite of his work. But when I learned that he spent the entire budget for his show was spent on making that car fall through the floor ranks way up there among his best, like the Nairobi Trio Harry Nilsson did a spinoff of that when he did his cocoanuts song.
Composer of this beautiful song, Sam Coslow was not very amused about this terrible klamauk-version as he wrote in his book "Cocktails For Two" - and he was right. Note: Years before Spike Jones played trumpet in one of Coslow´s ball room orchestra´s :-)
its 2023 march , this is so wonder full the timing rely enjoyed this spike was all way chewing gum nerves ??? he apeard so layed back his suites great t y for posting this r i p spike j
On none of these live performances is the identity of the voice of the hiccup garbler vocalist exposed.I have always wanted to know it.Some examples of the great talent are "Hawaiian war chant" and "None but the lonely heart".I suspect it was Mel Blanc.Sometimes Red Ingle would make funny vocal sounds but the real funny was unknown.At least to me.
Spike’s son tried to restart the band. I read that he could not figure out how his dad had generated all of those crazy sounds. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
one minute fifty! 😃 greetings from the uk.. if it wasn't for my parents getting me a cassette many years ago, would never have heard of this lot.. which is a shame, they so entertaining.. thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x
