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.

@brianthomas2434

Жыл бұрын

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."

@garywilloughby6893

Жыл бұрын

My mother loved Spike Jones.

@ronaldstrange8981

Жыл бұрын

@@garywilloughby6893 Your mother had good taste Gary. Regards, Aprilo, ss2023.

Songwriters always complained that any song "done" by Spike and his gang were never taken seriously again!

@eddylauterback1312

Жыл бұрын

But they gladly endorsed the royalties checks!

There has never ever been another Spike Jones and his band. Thanks, Spike and the boys.

@j.s.connolly8579

Жыл бұрын

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

@joemachado6134

Жыл бұрын

Nobody today could play and perform with that group

Glad my dad got me into Spike Jones. I'm a fairly-ish young 41 and I still love em.

The hours upon hours it must have taken to get the choreography just right (let alone the music)! Amazing!

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

I grew up on Spike Jones. Thank you

@kathyraygoza3299

Жыл бұрын

Ah h music of my chilhood. You have to be top musician and singer to be able to this. Can't see Beethoven doing this but Wolfie motzart yes.

great musicians, great timing , great rythm, and a sense humor and showmanship who could do it today?

Ah, yes. From the album Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Really Hungry. Marvelous.

@empathic11

3 жыл бұрын

Also on "Thank You, Music Lovers."

My parents had a recording of this on a 78 rpm. Listened to and loved this when a kid in the early 1950's.

How can you ever replace these people. We will never be there again. I so wish I was born in 1940 so I could enjoy this when it was happening.

My dad's 'Thank You Music Lovers' LP brought me here. This was the lead cut.

What an absolutely talented crew Spike had!!!

At age nine I had a huge Spike Jones 78 record collection and I still think they are great fun to hear.

So many memories of listening to the Dr. Demento show in my youth and enjoying this exquisite melody come flooding back. Thank you!

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.

@secretagentviper8382

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Spacejunk63

Жыл бұрын

Cool parents.

ITS 2023 IN ENGLAND WATCHED THIS TWICE ALL READY TO DAY MAN AS FUNNY THEN AS TO DAY LOVE SPIKE AND THE GANG R I P EVERY ONE

I am reading Joel Grey's autobiography and he says his father Micky Katz did the 'glug" sound on this song...lol

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

One of Mom Sylvia's favorite songs-- we kiddies knew ALL the Spike Jones songs by the time we wuz Five.

I burned through this tape when i was a kid. Spike and Weird AL were my heroes! Thanks for bringing the memories back Mr. Fallon!

My cousin wrote the lyrics to this song and wasn't crazy about the spoof...until the royalty checks arrived!

@tomkent4656

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it killed the song stone dead for future covers!

@karenoxornjazzvocalist

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomkent4656 How true. Here is one of my favourite contemporary covers of the Spike Jones style kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKWsmZqHf6-Wmrw.html

Masterful and unbeatable

Haven’t heard this in 60 years and it’s still fantastic‼️

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 just discovered the collection of Spike Jones on KZread! 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 KZread.

My love of Spike Jones' music brought me here!

Very silly, but some hugely talented musicians here. Luv it!

Mighst allChrighty what a performance, absolutely Fantastico, so much talent is on show here. ...great posting...xx

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...

Timeless and wonderful.

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.

@secretagentviper8382

3 жыл бұрын

What year?

@rolfh

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely they were fine musicians! You can’t make funny with music otherwise. And Spike Jones with his band set the standard.

@lostinspace699

2 жыл бұрын

He died 51 ,old Smoked 5 pack of cigarette's a day ..

I loved listening to Spike when I was a kid.

I played Spike Jones 78 records when I was a kid. Thought they were great.

I always assumed this was a post-Prohibition song. Enjoying cocktails for two after sneaking around for so long.

I remember Spike and Cocktails for Two being played on the old dial radio.. Spike and his band was alway fun to listen to.

The eternal genius of Spike and the city slickers 👍🏻🙏🏻😂

Brilliantly clever.Had this on a 78 in the UK.Never seen him before.Thanks.

@katphish4186

4 жыл бұрын

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

Best performance for a old fashioned bar! And also at 0:47 there is a cut that appeared in king of the hill in texas city twister.

That's my Great Aunt Charlotte Tinsley playing the Harp (and "meeting Spike's Hand"@ 1:04).

@behindthen0thing

7 жыл бұрын

John B how did she like him

@JohannesMclean

7 жыл бұрын

I don't know. I learned about all this after she had passed away.

@uboat6313

5 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@robertleo7394

4 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@southboundtracks

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool.

One of those instrumentalists was Sigourney Weaver's uncle, Doodles.

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

Excellent!!!

Imagine if you will: a Looney Tunes edition of a big band; witness Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

@JamesCPotter13

4 жыл бұрын

Truly those would be some *Merry Melodies*

@larrydehaan5718

5 ай бұрын

There are two volumes of the music by Carl Stallings , who did the Looney Toons music! But Spike Jones and his bands were one of a kind .

The Original Mothers of Invention

@coyoteboy5601

4 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@ricardofranciszayas

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Great. That's pure gold.

Wonderful.

That is CLASSIC comedy!.

never saw this film....very funny...always enjoy Spike Jones.

Ah yes Spike Jones crazy as a loon but brilliantly funny.

Wonderful!

Esses tipos de humoristas fazem falta hoje em dia. pena que pouca gente toma conhecimento de que tais artista existiram...

Einfach nur genial!

Quelli erano tempi migliori di oggi. Grandi professionisti

My mom turned me on to Spike Jones long before Dr Demento was playing the tracks. It's like the Marx brothers got a swing band and sang every film.

I wish we still had people around like Spike.

a GENIUS!!

jimmy and Blake what a duo

Love Spike and the Band! ❤❤❤

Fred Warren and the Pennsylvanians: When compared to Spike's band, Fred should've stuck to playing light opera tunes in a band pit.

LOL! Very funny song!! A really Good Friend mentioned this song to me. ;)

soneone was selling every spike jones tv show on dvd on ebay i bought them its great

When I am asked of my favorite genre.

2:02 to 2:23 Classic singing. ❤

Timing, timing!!

Now THIS is TV. Not all this modern PC garbage.

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

I remember them well.

Introduced by Barry Hansen (Dr. Demento).

Red Ingle is the one in the striped suit on the extreme left, he was extremely funny.

@empathic11

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ma5mq8mbl5yaftI.html Red Ingle - Pagan Ninny's keep'er goin' stomp written by Paganini-Rossini-Mellorini

Now that was a time when you actually had to have talent as apposed to just looking good.....Today is all flash and so very little substance...

Forget fallacy Fallon. Spike Jones and Carl Grayson brought me here.

Has anyone else noticed that the tune is the same as the song, "Pretend"?

Before there was Weird Al Yankovic…..there was Spike Jones.

Thank you Jimmy Fallon!!

I don't think anyone on the earth could ever do what the guy on the right did. I think it lived and died with him!! What the hell was that!!?? Lol!!

A God..Then..Now.

Genius!

this is mad funny

I see that Dr. Demento is narrating a bit of "dementia" for all "deementions and deementytes."

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 :-)

At 1:40 the hiccups make music. Never knew you could do that.

Brave Little Toaster brought me here..... hahahax...

@glennso47

6 жыл бұрын

TaeNy35v Hyundai Sonata brought me here. but I had to drive it!

GREAT!!! 2022 .-)

I never knew it took 3 guys to do the gluck gluck thing.

Brilliant 😅

This song reminds me so much of my grandmother XD

@spencerfrankclayton4348

6 жыл бұрын

Fought Space She acted like this?

@spencerfrankclayton4348

2 жыл бұрын

@nwo detox ?

@spencerfrankclayton4348

2 жыл бұрын

@nwo detox ???

Cool. It seems like all slang got started in he 1920d

@pauldquam1 I'm 19 and I think that spike jones was a genius, I'd like to see more than whats on KZread.

Anybody know the name of the straight singer?

Me too... Jimmy Fallon is good for reviving oldies.

Ditto...Jimmy brought me here also..

This is very good, but nothing beats the cover version by Felix Unger and the Sophisticados.

jimmy sent me lol had to see the original

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.

@reubencutts7361

2 жыл бұрын

It was Carl Grayson - the lead vocalist in this performance. Look up examples like 'The Shiek of Araby'

Hoot.

The weird Al of the 40s

it was very good, why had such a style disappeared?

Way before "my time" but very funny music.

Just a silly sight gag. The flower is "growing" out of the top of his head...