The "Perry" impersonator is tenor sax player Gil Bernal (1931-2011), who was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician. Over the years, he worked with such musicians as: Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ry Cooder and Duane Eddy.
Gil Bernal, singer and sax player does the singing here, he worked with Spike Jones 1955-1957. He died at 80 years old in 2011. Left is Freddy Morgan, right is Mousy Garner.
I was looking here for that info. Thanks. That Freddy Morgan was a NUT! And he could contort his face in so many ways, I bet the police couldn't even identify him. He could have gotten away with anything!!!
Gil Bernal's career as an L.A. session saxophonist ranged from "Rebel Rouser" by Duane Eddy to recording with Ry Cooder not long before his death. One of the great.
So suttle, full of emotion, enough to change faces in such a romantic expression. Oh love send me more of these arrows, Soul singers eat your heart out.
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
Glenn Johnson I`d like to pay tribute to my late father,who got me into Spike`s music in the 50`s and to top that,his favourite male vocalist was Perry Como!Thankyou for this wonderful footage.
A tribute to your father...it was my father that got me listening to Spike Jones also in the 50's and I find him just as hilarious today as I did when I was 6
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Glenn Johnson Thankyou Elaine.It`s great that there is all this TV footage kept in the USA archives.Not the case here in the UK but there you go.All the best.Take care.Stay safe
@@glennjohnson8170 at least you can come here to RU-vid and still enjoy a lot of old archived material that otherwise would be long forgotten....You take care also and please stay safe over there across the pond
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Ah,thanks for getting back,Elaine.Tonight when i put my feet up,i shall watch some of Spike before retiring to bed.You take care.All the best.Stay safe and keep well.
Besides being an ace banjo player, Freddie Morgan really helped to fill in the gaps with Spike Jones' orchestra after Doodles Weaver and Red Ingle had moved on. Meanwhile, Gil Bernal's name may ring a bell: he was a saxophonist who worked in both big bands and bridged the gap into '50s rock'n'roll, doing sax solos on records for Duane Eddy, among others.
From Spike Jones to McCarthy, from Zappa to Westmoreland, whatever you think from America but there´s hardly any other country with such a span wide of variety.
I feel genuine sorrow for Ameria atm The quiet, dignified engineers I have had the honour and privilege of working for, and with, in the UK in the '70s, bear no relation to the appalling image put out by MSM. I'm frankly disgusted. Americans are not just being lied to, but they are being lied ABOUT :/
The guy on the left who looks like the love child of Alfred E. Neuman and Moe Howard is banjo player Freddie Morgan. He was with Jones for almost his entire career, and was probably considered the "3rd banana" after Jones himself and George Rock, who did a much funnier version of this song, BTW.
I would like to be able to find "the Fanny song". They used to play it on my country music station every once in awhile. Sure would love it if you would come up with it!
I think the joke is that even a cool crooner like Como would have been singing in Elvis's "hot" style in the summer of 1957, because Elvis had released three consecutive #1 pop singles during the first half of the year. That's what Spike's spoken introduction seems to be getting at.
Rock N Roll was so smug and stupid that Spike had a hard time parodying it. Had he not gotten sick in the 60s and died before Nam and "art rock" took over, he'd have blown the genre out of the water. When rock got pompous and self righteous, that is the exact moment where Spike could wreck it like he did the more conservative and stuffy music of his own time.
I'd say it's Vic Damone. Whoever it is, it's a perfect parody of a suave, pretentiously cool has been swing singer, trying to make like Elvis. How to make money in the pop music business is what this skit is portraying (including the present music environment). We lovers of jazz and swing laugh at a parody, but aren't impressed with anything but talent honed with lots of practice, singer or otherwise. Spike Jones and his boys were great, including talented!
+DickWhittington1000 It was an old jazz song but this was sending up Billy Williams' 1957 version which in 1998 was the last song in "You've Got Mail."
