My Grandparents saw Spike Jones and the City Slickers live in Youngstown Ohio in 1949 I believe. My Grandpa Loved this group and I ended up loving them to.
I remember hearing Spike Jones for the first time in 1979. The song I first heard was "Der Feuhrer's Face". I had to go to the record store for his record. (remember records & record stores?) Very talented guy.
@user-sl2ko5ov1k : I first heard that song in 1986 when I was a teenager during the 80's . It was from an old Disney cartoon from World War II that made fun of Adolf Hitler. Sadly, by the time I first heard the song Spike Jones had already been dead for about 21 years. I would have enjoyed seeing him and his band either in person or maybe live on TV. But, still I can see and hear Spike Jones's music on old videos or recordings on CZcams.
Not only gifted comedians but disciplined musicians too - Spike insisted on it...and uploaded to CZcams on my birthday...possibly the best present ever...thank you!
"I went to your wedding.....although I was dreading.....the thought of seeing youhougggghhhhhh" and there wo go.......Great number from 1952.Suitable to play it on a party,especially without announcing,what's coming up.It brings different enjoyable reactions...all of them being laughed under the table!!! Good job,Spike!!!!
@@ivanolsen8596 Whatever keeps ya young! Dad died at 81, 16 years ago. He didn't know he was loaded with cancer. Every day for the previous 10 or 15 years of his life, he'd get up, have a cup of coffee, walk out the front door and go about 20 miles up river (sometimes crossing the river, first!), eat lunch and catch a bus back home or, he'd take the bus up 20 miles, eat lunch and walk back home. When he died, some people couldn't believe he was even 61!! Still had almost no grey hair at all!! I inherited mom's hair so, I've been grey for the past few years.
@@RedVynil Thank you for your reply! Your Dad was relatively lucky in that he was mobile, my knees and legs are buggered due to a back injury caused by long hours operating heavy earthmoving gear, so I spend my time answering, mocking and lauding commenters here. And of course watching Spike Jones, who has been a favourite since childhood. My Dad too was extremely active, but died of cancer in 1956 aged 68. I inherited nobodies hair, so am very sympathetic to billiard balls. May you exceed your Dad's age, and enjoy every minute of it.
@@ivanolsen8596 Thank YOU!! I'll think of you very time I sink the 8-ball on the break! (I've already done it at least 6 times.) Dad knew that the more you move around, the more mobile you'll be. (I had an uncle that spent his last 40 years sitting in the living room watching sports and movies ALL day, EVERY day and he could barely stand up by the time he was 70!! He died almost exactly 3 years ago at 82.) Dad had a LOT of back trouble in the `60's until his operation for it. Part of his problem was having one leg about 1/4" shorter than the other. That and spending all day at work (either in the truck or in the supply room) with a big fat wallet in one back pocket and another load of some sort in the other. I, kinda, used to do the same thing until about 35 years ago and started carrying my back pocket stuff in a small shoulder bag. That ended most of my back problems. Most people in my family lived well into their 80's and 90's! My aunt died 2 months shy of her 100th b-day and I'm pretty sure she'd STILL be alive at 107, or better, if her damn kids hadn't forced her into a nursing home where she withered away in just 2 years! She was hardly 5' tall, I'm nearly 7' and, if we walked together, I could barely keep up with her!! That's when she was about 97!! And I walk FAST!! Even macular degeneration didn't slow her down!! And, my uncle was 93 when he died and was singing Italian operas to my mother in full voice a couple days before he died! He went in to have his pacemaker checked and got a staph infection that killed him!! His mother was 94 when she died. My other grandmother was 89. She slipped on some ice on her front porch and died 2 days before Christmas. After several strokes, she still got around quite well!! I didn't even know she had the strokes until after she died!! I've had some HORRIFIC back trouble and, I'm here to tell ya, the more you move around, the better you'll get. One thing Spike and I have in common, we're both drummers and drumming helps with my back trouble. Especially having a 13-piece set!! All that swerving back & forth is good for your back! Being relaxed helps a LOT, too. Drumming does that. I first heard of Spike in the very early `60's but had no idea ho he was. About 10 years later, I got his "Nutcracker Suite" but still had no idea who he was. Late `70's, dad got a 5 album set of old music from the `40's and one was all Spike. I think that's the first I'd ever heard of him. Now, I've got LOTS of Spike! Even stuff with his straight band and an album that's definitely him but it doesn't have his name on it anywhere! A couple Freddy Morgan albums, a few of Spike's Dixieland albums and at least one George Rock single, even a Tony Levin single where he does two popular songs from the `70's in perfect Spike Jones style!! I also have a couple by Spike's son but, they aren't quite as good as Spike's stuff. I hope to be around for another 65 years. You, too!! I wish I could've found out about cancer cures BEFORE dad died rather BECAUSE he died. He'd be 97 in 2 months! It just never occurred to me to look for any before than! Here. You'll love these. czcams.com/video/-rN-IswNtl8/video.html czcams.com/video/6vGS0itFiW0/video.html Tony does all the vocals and instruments. I'm not sure if that's him on tuba. The first guy you see in this video is Tony. Another cueball! czcams.com/video/4SDt1TLUbzY/video.html And, this is him doing all 4 parts of a barbershop quartet. czcams.com/video/EJGQ-mDgcL8/video.html Enjoy!! Live long and prosper!!
Hello fellow music lovers, I I watched whenever Mr. Jones was on our Crosley 10"This may have been from the Colgate Comedy Hour or if my memory is still working, he moved over to ABC.
@tromakevin : haha I liked your sarcastic joke. haha But if it had been for real both legendary singers would have been only 11 years old when this show episode first appeared back in 1952.
I was first introduce to the Jones' zaniness in the mid 70's at Knott's Berry farm. It was for some boring so-called christian rock night but, just before all that crap in one theater was Spike Jones Jr. and the original City Slikers. I never laughed so hard in my life! It was sad that hardly anybody was there. But, I couldn't get enough of them from that day on. Eventually found Dr. Demento not to long after that. My life has never been the same.
I'm so sorry!! He's the funniest one of the bunch, especially with that rubbery face of his. And he's the best banjo player I've ever heard!! Another of his best bits was their rendition of The Poet And Peasant Overture from this very same episode.
@@maureenworley75 If they didn't have a job they'd be locked up as mentally ill.... today their call activists or Liberals . Some are almost carzy enough to be a Senator or Supreme Court Judge.
I'm not one of those who complains "It's in black and white", but Spike was ahead of the curve. Color and stereophonic sound would add so much vibrancy. Oh well.
@@synthonaplinth5980 I had to check but yes you are correct they had the early hit. Oddly the Ink Spots version doesn't have their classic sound, which Spike's chaps are parodying, at all.
Ah!! Well, from what I'm hearing, they can either regrow or replace that! Seems to me I've heard of these capsules made out of shark's cartledge that will go to those spots and "regrow" them. Pretty sure I saw them at Trader Joe's.
![What's My Line? - Spike Jones; Steve Allen [panel] (Jul 4, 1954)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/l5xIjcXJia4/mqdefault.jpg)
I am thankful thi marvelous silliness has been preserved and is now available.
Yes.
My Grandparents saw Spike Jones and the City Slickers live in Youngstown Ohio in 1949 I believe. My Grandpa Loved this group and I ended up loving them to.
I remember hearing Spike Jones for the first time in 1979. The song I first heard was "Der Feuhrer's Face". I had to go to the record store for his record. (remember records & record stores?) Very talented guy.
I remember❤️
@user-sl2ko5ov1k : I first heard that song in 1986 when I was a teenager during the 80's . It was from an old Disney cartoon from World War II that made fun of Adolf Hitler. Sadly, by the time I first heard the song Spike Jones had already been dead for about 21 years. I would have enjoyed seeing him and his band either in person or maybe live on TV. But, still I can see and hear Spike Jones's music on old videos or recordings on CZcams.
People don't realize that these were all professional musicians and comics with great talents. I, think I said too much. Oh well fun is fun.
My mother was in his show at one time. She still laughs about it and said she had a great time with Spike and the City Slickers!
Too bad you don't have more info
Did she do the Glowworm number??
What actual talent looks like. :)
Spike put together one hell of an ensemble.
True fact!
All were immensely talented.
Not only gifted comedians but disciplined musicians too - Spike insisted on it...and uploaded to CZcams on my birthday...possibly the best present ever...thank you!
one of the BEST suits, of all time...exquisitely tailor made..perfect match of the wild grid plaid.
Love Spike.....and his cohorts.
That suit was actually the official NBC test card, right up to the day they got the television cameras. :)
I need a suit like that.
Very good tele-film recording quality here, from 1952!
I think it's called a
Kinescope.
God bless you for this REAL entertainment.
laphroaiged YES! You get it. Thanks.
Outstandingly funny , utter genius 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm only 26 and I had trouble at work today not laughing too much at this... :D Thank's past life me for loving thins music during that time.
Does everybody who sees that face for the first time, fall in love with it? Listened to him all my life without once seeing him. A revelation!
They are still funny after all these years!
I love Freddy Morgan. Hell of a banjo player and a great comedian too!
Mobile phones in 1952! Awesome forward thinking.
Never gets old!
Freddie Morgan cracks me up every time.
Spike and the band always in our hearts! Gentlemen RIP you keep them smiling in heaven!
Gerard Immersi to the old man left in your life dirtdirty
Gerard Immersi to the old man left in your life dirtdirty
They held a beauty contest and nobody won.
Magoo, you've done it again!
By George !
Spike and his gang are brilliantly entertaining
and JIM!!....I'm a child of the Magoo years....followed by Gilligans Isle...
Such a forgotten talent It must have such a time to live!
D!
"I went to your wedding.....although I was dreading.....the thought of seeing youhougggghhhhhh" and there wo go.......Great number from 1952.Suitable to play it on a party,especially without announcing,what's coming up.It brings different enjoyable reactions...all of them being laughed under the table!!! Good job,Spike!!!!
I'm only 43, and this is so funny, thanks to my Dad for introducing me to it, and the Goon Show. :)
Jim Backus aka Mr. Thirston Howell III. Aka Mr. McGoo
Su tributo a The Ink Spots es soberbio! Cuánto talento para la comedia y la música. Son increíbles.
Love you Spike. !!
Happy birthday to Lindley Armstrong Jones today...amazing that he was 41 when he did this episode!
That's not old, I'm 61 and still playing drums.
@@RedVynil I am 78 and still playing the fool.
@@ivanolsen8596 Whatever keeps ya young!
Dad died at 81, 16 years ago. He didn't know he was loaded with cancer. Every day for the previous 10 or 15 years of his life, he'd get up, have a cup of coffee, walk out the front door and go about 20 miles up river (sometimes crossing the river, first!), eat lunch and catch a bus back home or, he'd take the bus up 20 miles, eat lunch and walk back home. When he died, some people couldn't believe he was even 61!! Still had almost no grey hair at all!! I inherited mom's hair so, I've been grey for the past few years.
@@RedVynil Thank you for your reply!
Your Dad was relatively lucky in that he was mobile,
my knees and legs are buggered due to a back injury
caused by long hours operating heavy earthmoving
gear, so I spend my time answering, mocking and
lauding commenters here. And of course watching
Spike Jones, who has been a favourite since childhood.
My Dad too was extremely active, but died of cancer
in 1956 aged 68.
I inherited nobodies hair, so am very sympathetic
to billiard balls.
May you exceed your Dad's age, and enjoy every
minute of it.
@@ivanolsen8596 Thank YOU!! I'll think of you very time I sink the 8-ball on the break! (I've already done it at least 6 times.)
Dad knew that the more you move around, the more mobile you'll be. (I had an uncle that spent his last 40 years sitting in the living room watching sports and movies ALL day, EVERY day and he could barely stand up by the time he was 70!! He died almost exactly 3 years ago at 82.) Dad had a LOT of back trouble in the `60's until his operation for it. Part of his problem was having one leg about 1/4" shorter than the other. That and spending all day at work (either in the truck or in the supply room) with a big fat wallet in one back pocket and another load of some sort in the other. I, kinda, used to do the same thing until about 35 years ago and started carrying my back pocket stuff in a small shoulder bag. That ended most of my back problems.
Most people in my family lived well into their 80's and 90's! My aunt died 2 months shy of her 100th b-day and I'm pretty sure she'd STILL be alive at 107, or better, if her damn kids hadn't forced her into a nursing home where she withered away in just 2 years! She was hardly 5' tall, I'm nearly 7' and, if we walked together, I could barely keep up with her!! That's when she was about 97!! And I walk FAST!! Even macular degeneration didn't slow her down!! And, my uncle was 93 when he died and was singing Italian operas to my mother in full voice a couple days before he died! He went in to have his pacemaker checked and got a staph infection that killed him!! His mother was 94 when she died. My other grandmother was 89. She slipped on some ice on her front porch and died 2 days before Christmas. After several strokes, she still got around quite well!! I didn't even know she had the strokes until after she died!!
I've had some HORRIFIC back trouble and, I'm here to tell ya, the more you move around, the better you'll get. One thing Spike and I have in common, we're both drummers and drumming helps with my back trouble. Especially having a 13-piece set!! All that swerving back & forth is good for your back! Being relaxed helps a LOT, too. Drumming does that.
I first heard of Spike in the very early `60's but had no idea ho he was. About 10 years later, I got his "Nutcracker Suite" but still had no idea who he was. Late `70's, dad got a 5 album set of old music from the `40's and one was all Spike. I think that's the first I'd ever heard of him. Now, I've got LOTS of Spike! Even stuff with his straight band and an album that's definitely him but it doesn't have his name on it anywhere! A couple Freddy Morgan albums, a few of Spike's Dixieland albums and at least one George Rock single, even a Tony Levin single where he does two popular songs from the `70's in perfect Spike Jones style!! I also have a couple by Spike's son but, they aren't quite as good as Spike's stuff.
I hope to be around for another 65 years. You, too!! I wish I could've found out about cancer cures BEFORE dad died rather BECAUSE he died. He'd be 97 in 2 months! It just never occurred to me to look for any before than!
Here. You'll love these. czcams.com/video/-rN-IswNtl8/video.html
czcams.com/video/6vGS0itFiW0/video.html
Tony does all the vocals and instruments. I'm not sure if that's him on tuba.
The first guy you see in this video is Tony. Another cueball!
czcams.com/video/4SDt1TLUbzY/video.html
And, this is him doing all 4 parts of a barbershop quartet.
czcams.com/video/EJGQ-mDgcL8/video.html
Enjoy!! Live long and prosper!!
Where has this been all my life?
Mr. Thurston Howell himself.
That’s Thurston Howell *III* to you!
And Mr. Magoo!
Feels like the Mothers of Invention learned some of their tricks here.
So did Weird Al Yankovic too, I guess!!
"Does Humor Belong in Music?" 😏
Spike was also a big influence on Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach) in the classical world.
4:35 I knew they were innovative but I didn't know they invented the first mobile/cell phone XD
Hello fellow music lovers, I I watched whenever Mr. Jones was on our Crosley 10"This may have been from the Colgate Comedy Hour or if my memory is still working, he moved over to ABC.
One of Frank Zappa's biggest musical and comical influences. 3:35
This is just pure clean honest comedy genius 😆😆😆😆😆
Love the suit on Spike Jones here! Musta been before 'fashion' became fashionable!
Absolutely - Jim Backus.
I LOVE MR MAGOO..
Thurston Howell the 3rd, my good man.
Simon & Garfunkel's first appearence!
@tromakevin : haha I liked your sarcastic joke. haha But if it had been for real both legendary singers would have been only 11 years old when this show episode first appeared back in 1952.
I was first introduce to the Jones' zaniness in the mid 70's at Knott's Berry farm. It was for some boring so-called christian rock night but, just before all that crap in one theater was Spike Jones Jr. and the original City Slikers. I never laughed so hard in my life! It was sad that hardly anybody was there. But, I couldn't get enough of them from that day on. Eventually found Dr. Demento not to long after that. My life has never been the same.
I have found endless pleasure for over seventy years with mr Jones and. His pals now I am over eighty I still laugh thank you
This is just Great takes me back to my very young days and the take off of the Ink Spots is wonderful
After Spike died his son tried to continue in his footsteps. Sadly, it didn't work out.
Which son you mean Nail Jones or Stake Jones? 😉
P.I.P. (Pierce in Peace)
awesome
Mr Howell!!
Never saw Freddy Morgan before today. Hilarious!!
I'm so sorry!! He's the funniest one of the bunch, especially with that rubbery face of his. And he's the best banjo player I've ever heard!! Another of his best bits was their rendition of The Poet And Peasant Overture from this very same episode.
That is brilliant impression of The Ink Spots.
Just think if this was in colour!
8:54 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel! ;-)
Very good! Is that Buddy Hackett (as "Paul")?
I was 3 yrs. old.
me too
I was still waiting for mom to meet dad.
Jim Bacus - "Mr. Magoo" !!!
wow..back in the days' comedy was pure and fun. not so nasty and vulgar like today.
Love it!!!!
Love Jim Backus. Big fan of Mad Mad World
@mrffej66 : You forgot two more mads . 🤭🤭🤭
1:33 he tries to subtly tuck in the guy's lapel and gets pissed when it doesn't work.
All of these people look like they stepped right out of Mad Magazine.
They DID!!!
Dorothyellen w you talking to me check it @dirtydirt.dirty bottom floor
Schools certainly don't provide education.
Yeah...great entertainment..!!
Sabre Dance..on VIMEO....great fun....
@@maureenworley75 If they didn't have a job they'd be locked up as mentally ill.... today their call activists or Liberals .
Some are almost carzy enough to be a Senator or Supreme Court Judge.
Jim Backus.... Going back to the Plant...... Howell Industries !!!!!
Freddie Morgan would have made a great silent movie comedian.
1950's beatboxing at its best :D
Their particular brand of brilliant insanity will never been seen again. Too bad...
I'm not one of those who complains "It's in black and white", but Spike was ahead of the curve. Color and stereophonic sound would add so much vibrancy. Oh well.
Holy Shyt! Thurston T. Howell the Third.
I didn't see a spoof on the Ink Spots coming. I laughed too hard there.
Notice the ink spots on their jackets?
What song was that sending up?
@@synthonaplinth5980 You always hurt the one you love.
@@YorkyOne Thanks. Wasn't that originally the Mills Brothers?
@@synthonaplinth5980
I had to check but yes you are correct they had the early hit. Oddly the Ink Spots version doesn't have their classic sound, which Spike's chaps are parodying, at all.
"Nightshades are falling" - Spike should have dropped a sack of potatoes instead of bottles!
(botanical reference)
eshiffer know a vide by primes
Classic TY
Prodigieuse activité talentueuse devenue légende...
I wore that album out!
Jim Backus !!!!!
7:15 Just in time for Christmas!
stpaulimdog You mean 'Jutht in time for Chrithmath'?
👍😂😅🤣😄😝😂😅🤣
Was that George Rock's laugh after Jim's 'Spade Cooley' joke?
MUSIC STARTS AT 3:28
Spike Jones does a pretty good job on Tchaikovsky.Tony
Ah!! Well, from what I'm hearing, they can either regrow or replace that!
Seems to me I've heard of these capsules made out of shark's cartledge that will go to those spots and "regrow" them. Pretty sure I saw them at Trader Joe's.
My favorite part of this video 8:39-10:51
What was the spike jones song which included periods of Belching Rude Boy?
Genius.
Thurston Howell the Third! Mr. Maggoo!
Is that Buddy Hackett in the trio that comes out near the end?
We could replace you with Spade Cooley...
And then someone hollers like Bob Wills
Is that Thurston Howell from Gilligan's Island
This a kinescope?
great gatsby! leonard dicaprio bears striking resemblance to spike
Yeah is that dude the voice of Mr Magoo?
+Khan Jet yep, and Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island
Yep, it's Jim Backus.
Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell and Rebel
WASAPI CCLXXIV yes it is
stpaulimdog, I didn't know about "Rebel Without a Cause". Cool!
Bacchus making a joke of the cabal's tricks, and people thought it was an act.
в финале спекулировали на образе Элвиса, смешно ;-)
poor spike J , passed away too early
Who is the guy doing the phone skit? He seems ahead of his time. Is that Earl Bennett?
8:56 Simon and Garfunkel
Is the guy in the fur coat that guy from H.R. Puffenstuff?
It's Earl Bennett. I don't know if he was involved with Puffenstuff.
@@JoeLibby AKA Sir Frederick Gas!
He's your friend when times get tough
Was that Simon and Garfunkel?
for a minute i thought he was doing Mr Howe from gilligan's island.... isn't that an almost simular character?
Thurston Howell was similar to Hubert Updike III, a character Jim played on the Alan Young Show on radio. So yes, he's playing similar character here.
😢
8:55 Parody on Simon + Garfunkel : avant la lettre
Thurston Howell III, lol
8:55 simon and garfunkel
Yes! Absolutely! I was gonna post the same thing.
4:34
bill hader looks like him, a lot