I had only listen to the 78 speed records my dad had when I was growing up. I loved listening to them and using my imagination as to how the sounds were made. I'm 70 and this is the first time I've seen it being performed. It's even funnier 😄
My dad was a Spike Jones fan from way back. While others in his group were listening to Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, dad said he liked Spike Jones. We had several re-releases of his music on RCA albums and I became hooked on his music. It is good to see others are continuing to enjoy his crazy way.
Glenn Johnson I have never seen this clip before!All these years to view all this wonderful footage of a very clever man,professional musicians etc.All live!My late father`s all time favourites as well.Listened to all the records in his collection as a kid!Thanks for this posting.
They don't make music like that, anymore. (wasn't that what Spike Jones said in the narration) No, it was "fortunately, they don't make music like that, anymore..." I think...
I never really watched or paid attention to Spike but then i watched a video and i realized just how amazing he and his band are to be able to put comedy in with the music outstanding
Spike and his band hit the time just right for many people. There will never be a time when everyone likes Spike's brand of humor, but from around 1958 (I was born in 1957) thru present, nothing funnier to me than Spike's band or the later, The Benny Hill Show. Monty Python had it's moments but intermittently as funny as either Spike Jones or Benny Hill.
Everything is so Goddamned serious today.. music, politics, Jeepers, just standing around not doing nothin', not hurting anybody can get you in trouble. I was dumping my garbage in the river this morning and I got a ticket for not wearing a mask. Thank God I was naked at the time. We need Spike Jones more today than ever. Won't you please help us resurrect him? Just send ten dollars to "Raise Spike" P. O. Box 69 Pubic, Virginia 23456. That would be nice.
And the guy Billy is whacking on the head is Mousie Garner. Appropriately, Mousie was one of Ted Healy's stooges after Howard, Fine, and Howard went off on their own.
I think the comedy...OK, the insanity....detracts from the fact that the City Slickers, in their various incarnations, were tremendously talented musicians.
@@echoecho3108 You're right, it does. What I meant was an observation on the way people watching them perform perceived them as musicians. I think a lot of "music connoisseurs" tend to underappreciate the talents of comedic musical acts.
@@russs7574 😊👍 I've always loved those crazies. Used to watch Spike's tv show waaaay back when. Note to 'modern' listeners: Spike Jones is the only musician you'll never need to say 'More cowbell' to.
It junk was pitiful but we were forced to like it as that was all there was. Can you imagine this group trying to make it today? It would be catastrophic! Good old days, my ass!
Just don't see any sort of humor is these over the top gags. Spike Jones was on TV at a time when it was still experimental and studios were heavily influenced by vaudeville and delved into all sorts of silliness to see what the audience wanted, and the audience was more intrigued with the idea of simultaneous moving pictures and sound in their living rooms than any sort of sharpened comedic taste.
To keep a straight face as that cellist did with the firecrackers going off around him takes REAL talent. The rest of the orchestra was top notch too.
Especially when the timing is so important to the gag. Cannot be a beat too soon or too late!
Television is fantastic for Spike, because of all the sight-gags he added to what had been only records.
I grew up to the 78's my mom had of his. Love "the Hawaiian War Chant" and "Cocktails for two"
Think how good a musician you had to be to play like that. Jones's were considered some of the best.
Spike Jones was as much a comedian as a musician!
@@allenbooth5193 And good at both!
spike and your city slickers ty for making me laugh so so so much , its 2023 there isnt much to laugh at no comedy now a million thanks amen
Keep your humor up! It's not all bad
july 2024..
a grey and rainy uk cheered by spike! 😃
ever heard of rod hull and emu? lol
A broken kettledrum and a trick cello! And tubular bells that fall of their rack! Spike was a genius!
Pure insanity at its best. Glad we were able to have Spike an his Band and the recordings of his shows
I had only listen to the 78 speed records my dad had when I was growing up. I loved listening to them and using my imagination as to how the sounds were made. I'm 70 and this is the first time I've seen it being performed. It's even funnier 😄
Me too, at 84....STILL hilarious !!! Thanks for posting.
My dad was a Spike Jones fan from way back. While others in his group were listening to Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, dad said he liked Spike Jones. We had several re-releases of his music on RCA albums and I became hooked on his music. It is good to see others are continuing to enjoy his crazy way.
This is fantastic. Love the music, guns and comedy.
Spike inspired my love of classical music. Watched him on tv, laughed and laughed.
I always said music should be fun, bit this is ridiculous. I love it !!!
Spike Jones - the first original Punk Rock mucician ever !
Glenn Johnson I have never seen this clip before!All these years to view all this wonderful footage of a very clever man,professional musicians etc.All live!My late father`s all time favourites as well.Listened to all the records in his collection as a kid!Thanks for this posting.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
PURE GENIUS.......
Agreed. 84yo
Wow Billy Barty. I remember him from a 1970 kids show called the Bugaloos and the sidekick to Dr.Shrinker.
A priceless introduction to the classics.
Блеск! Отличные музыкальные эксцентрики! Сейчас совсем нет таких современных номеров! Super!!! 👍🏻❤️🎹😂
just imagine doing all this LIVE.
These were truly talented musicians with a sense of humor
They don't make music like that, anymore. (wasn't that what Spike Jones said in the narration) No, it was "fortunately, they don't make music like that, anymore..." I think...
AH spike jones, The living example of the very thin line between genius and insanity.
I like to think I'm living that dream myself.....
@@BirdLady68 😂.... Legend
This act must have slayed in the '50s.
It did!
"Thank you, music lovers..."
organised chaos brilliant
All the gang and Billy Barty, too! I saw him at a collectible show once.
I lost it when the tubular bells fell.
Just the thing for that restful night at home.
Lovely music....
I never really watched or paid attention to Spike but then i watched a video and i realized just how amazing he and his band are to be able to put comedy in with the music outstanding
holy cow.. that is fantastic...
I grew up a big fan of Spike Jones. But I will say I felt the last 6 months of his tv show really disintegrated into pure chaos, no genius apparent.
Such a kind of creativity..... Wundervoll..... Affentittengeil. ....
Die Affentitten haben ihn bestimmt gern!😜
Mad Genius 💓🙀⁉️‼️😂😂😂
Only Spike Jones could make a waltz sound like the Three Stooges doing Dixieland.
with Ernie Kovacs visuals.
It's like the Three Stooges set to music!
When Television was worth watching!
Don't know what I just watched, but I liked it.
Knew it was getting old when I bought a 50th anniversary CD and realized I had bought the original 78s when they came out.
Spike and his band is the literal embodiment of 1950s cartoons
Yep. True. I was there!
Finally some really thought out silly entertainment from the vault of the past.
Completely unique!
INSANE - SUPERB
They actually used samples from Spike Jones for early Chuck E. Cheese shows.
documento stupendo
I have the CD.
25 of his best known performances.
One day, I'll buy his records, I love his music.
Classic.
Anarchy in 4 4 rhythm
Dig the white strat at 2:07 !
If the Residents and Frank Zappa had played together in the 40s, it would had been exactly the same.
Thanks for the upload.I love this band. So ahead of there time.
I wonder if Monty Python got the idea for "The Exploding Blue Danube" from this?
Spike and his band hit the time just right for many people. There will never be a time when everyone likes Spike's brand of humor, but from around 1958 (I was born in 1957) thru present, nothing funnier to me than Spike's band or the later, The Benny Hill Show. Monty Python had it's moments but intermittently as funny as either Spike Jones or Benny Hill.
So he creates the term logically insane
Yes 😆
Being a Percussionist myself, I found Spike Jones to be very inventive in using various Percussion instruments in his gags.
amazing :D xD
ACHDERLIEBER from the MULCHMIESTER!!!!!
Spike Jones is 10000000000000X funnier than most "comedy" acts today.
Sehr gut!!😊
Spike Jones to me looks a little like Jimmy Cagney.
He is Jimmy Cagney. You've never seen them tigether!
James Peyton : an emaciated Jimmy Cagney
I was thinking Red Skelton.
Everything is so Goddamned serious today.. music, politics, Jeepers, just standing around not doing nothin', not hurting anybody can get you in trouble.
I was dumping my garbage in the river this morning and I got a ticket for not wearing a mask. Thank God I was naked at the time.
We need Spike Jones more today than ever. Won't you please help us resurrect him?
Just send ten dollars to "Raise Spike" P. O. Box 69 Pubic, Virginia 23456.
That would be nice.
I was planning to pass through Pubic, Virginia (your fair city?!) on my next road trip!😜
@@richardpodnar5039 These are hairy days in Pubic ( sorry, what else could I say?).
Pizza time theatre Pizza time theatre!!!!
Classical music changed into criticism of notable waltz music
But it was banned from the BBC
Erick Paolo: When you say "IT" was banned by the BBC. Do you mean the Spike Jones video or the real Blue Danube Waltz song????
together!
Very Ernie Kovacs!
Wasn't that Billy Barty at 3:28?
try Victor Borge but u are kinda right.
Glad I didn't have this gig
Is that a young Billy Barty at 3:51?
It certainly is!
And the guy Billy is whacking on the head is Mousie Garner. Appropriately, Mousie was one of Ted Healy's stooges after Howard, Fine, and Howard went off on their own.
Was Billy Barty ever young?
M. M. Maybe not, but I think he was always short!
👏🤯
Was that the dwarf from Foul Play? The Goldie Hawn movie.
I think the comedy...OK, the insanity....detracts from the fact that the City Slickers, in their various incarnations, were tremendously talented musicians.
Oh, no. It proves how great of musicians they were.
It's more difficult to play it comically than to play it straight.
@@echoecho3108 You're right, it does. What I meant was an observation on the way people watching them perform perceived them as musicians. I think a lot of "music connoisseurs" tend to underappreciate the talents of comedic musical acts.
@@russs7574 😊👍
I've always loved those crazies.
Used to watch Spike's tv show waaaay back when.
Note to 'modern' listeners:
Spike Jones is the only musician you'll never need to say 'More cowbell' to.
Does anyone think that a group like Spike Jones and the City Slickers would work today
Only if the audience understood 'funny'. 🙄
Better sometimes than Charli....
2:04 lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I know, the best. Lo mejor.
...Frank Zappa deve molto a Spike...
we need more of this less of beaver
What's wrong with beavers?
beavers are great as long as they dont sing.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little hairy beaver.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker James might have ment Justin Beiber!
Leave it to Beaver?
Did you know that Weird Al is Spike Jones' grandson?
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Probably not, I just made it up.
No, Wierd Al is Frankie Yankovic's .... relavitve.
Actually he is not related to Frankie at all, just the same name thats all.
@@danielarick2105 - but they played together at least once.
I spoke to Weird AL over 25 years ago, and Spike Jones was an influence in his music!
Ha Ha Ha!!!
0:17
This TV program must have been one of the very earliest ones. It looks like about 3 levels from the Three Stooges. Looks silly to me.
It looks silly? It was supposed to. That's what made it so great. Slap-stick comedy at it's funniest.
The band was having more fun than the audience.
Everyone was having fun. As we do watching it now. This is laugh-out-loud funny.
They are better than the Three Stooges.
At least he wasn't chewing gum for this one.
It junk was pitiful but we were forced to like it as that was all there was. Can you imagine this group trying to make it today? It would be catastrophic! Good old days, my ass!
Ya ol' stick in the mud
These days we have Two Cellos.
Golly, Debbie Downer!😟
Just don't see any sort of humor is these over the top gags. Spike Jones was on TV at a time when it was still experimental and studios were heavily influenced by vaudeville and delved into all sorts of silliness to see what the audience wanted, and the audience was more intrigued with the idea of simultaneous moving pictures and sound in their living rooms than any sort of sharpened comedic taste.