Spike Jones didn't mess around with amateurs in his band--he was known to be very demanding--and any of his musicians had to be the best at their craft, and Wilbur Hal was no exception. You can bet that these bits were literally timed to the second.

Spike knew comic musical genius. Now we just need 30 million views to educate people. Thanks for sharing.

@osamucabral

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@David-yw2lv

4 ай бұрын

The father of musical parody.From his legacy came Homer and Jethro,Rod Hart,Ben Colder(pseudonym focSheb Wooley,Allen Sherman &Weird Al Yankovic.

Awesome! Ha ha ha...I think the violin was playing him! 😅

No props, no special effects, pure genius and talent. Try that lady goo goo.

This is incredible. How many thousands of hours precede this performance?

Wilbur Hall was a member of Paul Whiteman's orchestra for many years and is featured in the 1930 Technicolor feature "King of Jazz," available on DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion.

@peteratkinson922

3 ай бұрын

Great trombonist too

Now THAT was entertainment!!!!!!!!

The title of this video is not lying : this virtuoso violin play is executed in the most entertaining manner. Many Thanks for sharing this masterpiece 👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹

Oh I loved that. Had me laughin' every minute.

They were before our time. Mom and Dad loved them.

my dad remembers this from when he was little❤

@osamucabral

6 ай бұрын

Incredible!! Thanks for sharing!

Wilbur had been doing this and other musical gags since the 1920s, when he played trombone in the Paul Whiteman band. In their movie, _King of Jazz,_ he plays "Stars and Stripes Forever" on a bicycle pump.

Awesome violin playing.

@osamucabral

Жыл бұрын

I fell in love for this performance at the first time I saw! Thanks for comenting

I Like Spike!

Incredible!

Genius and still funny.

somewhere in the sony pictures vault there's an epsisode of the gong show from the 70s where wilbur hall did this routine as a contestant -- i genuinely wish that episode was floating around on youtube.

@j-jcote2675

4 ай бұрын

I remember seeing that! I stumbled across this just now, and had an amazing deja vu experience. At the time (and until just now), I had no idea that the old man on the Gong Show was a Spike Jones alumnus. It was one of the three most memorable acts (for me) from that show.

Simply amazing!

Genius.

Pretty amazing.

Damn ! The musicality and stage pressence of this guys is perfect! Wait, so is this where michael jackson got the idea for his smooth criminal body lean?

This is what Bruce Lee meant by practicing one kick a thousand times.

Love it

Insane!

amazing❤

Genius!

Holy cow! I want to say that this is fake, but Spike was all about live performances. No pre-recorded anything, all done live. As amazing as Mr. Hal was, the rest of Spikes band was equally as talented.

musical quotes in this performance: (corrections and additions welcomed!) 0:37 "Music Music Music" (Put Another Nickel In) (Stephen Weiss & Bernie Baum) 0:44 sounds familiar (I don't recognize it) 1:06 also sounds familiar (anyone know it?) 1:09 Pop Goes the Weasel itself actually started 1:28 don't recognize it 1:34 Bolero (Maurice Ravel) 1:42 sounds like The Peanut Vendor (El manisero) (Moisés Simons) but maybe isn't (?) 1:53 Chansonette AKA "Donkey Serenade" (Rudolf Friml) (he starts this melody with pizzicato and finishes by bowing it)

@michaelkohl6463

9 ай бұрын

yes, peanut i think, that was my first thought 😊 btw 00:50 wenn der weisse flieder wieder blüht

@adamferguson1064

8 ай бұрын

0:44 is the second Kreutzer etude… it gets quoted a lot as a joke among musicians.

The Spike Jones song I want is "Your Morning Feature", recorded under the one-off pseudonym The Country Dodgers. Recorded in the 1930's it had its one and only broadcast ever on the 3rd show of 1990 of the Dr. Demento show. The record was a promo by Standard Recording, sent to radio stations under the spoof label "Standirt Recording". Considered far too risque to broadcast in the 30's and decades later, it didn't raise a hair in 1990.

@gradycody9006

2 жыл бұрын

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@zahirallen8883

2 жыл бұрын

@Grady Cody instablaster ;)

@gradycody9006

2 жыл бұрын

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@greggv8

2 жыл бұрын

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@gradycody9006

2 жыл бұрын

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does he give lessons

1:09 when you play, if curly hears it

great performance, but ... why are faces of the 3 guys sitting behind artificially blurred @ parts of this?

@88THUMBS

Ай бұрын

They are not blurred, it’s just the lack of clarity from the kinescope recording. The show was done live, before the era of video tape, and the show was recorded by a 16mm movie camera in front of a b&w monitor. I believe the camera recorded at 30 frames per second rather than the standard 24 FPS so it would sync with the scanning of the monitor.

An exquisite chansonette, perhaps enjoyed best with a cigarette?

@HooDatDonDar

8 ай бұрын

And cocktails.

Funniest thing I ever saw

Hey fiddler, play that weasel tune.

Hilarious!

Somebody... Name of song, please?

@osamucabral

5 ай бұрын

“Pop goes the weasel “. Is the video’s name.

@ponchopilatos4361

5 ай бұрын

@@osamucabral Thanks!

Amazing acrobstics. But not funny to me.

Corny and silly, yet how few humans who have ever lived were physically and mentally disciplined to develop such skills?

@osamucabral

4 ай бұрын

I also ask myself that more often than I want lol

It is obvious that these musicians needed to be professionals in order to be comedic while playing amatuers couldnt perform like this

@osamucabral

7 ай бұрын

looooots of study hours!!