Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was a popular musician & comedian. He was innate around Long Beach, California.

His father was the Southern Pacific railroad agent. He had his nickname by existence therefore thinly that he was in comparison the railroad spike. At a age of eleven he had his foremost placed of drums. As a adolescent he played inside elastic that he formed himself. The chef around the railroad eating place taught him training apply altered pots & pans, forks, knives & spoons when instrument. He ofttimes played around theater pit orchestras. In the 1930's he joined the Victor Young Band and thereby got many offers to appear to radio shows including the Al Jolson Lifebuoy Show, Burns and Allen (with George Burns) and ''Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall. Within 1940, he had an uncredited a portion in the film Give Me Wings, & inside 1942 as a hillbilly around Pass a Biscuits, Mirandy''. He joined higher using vocalizer Del Porter and performed in Los Angeles, gaining a cult resulting. By 1941 the band included fiddler Carl Grayson. More band members were George Rock (voice and cornet), Doodles Weaver (voice) and Red Ingle (voice). It became his backing band The City Slickers.Jones's wife was a singer Helen Grayco, who performed in a bit of of his radio shows. It recorded 5 records for Victor's label "Bluebird" before getting their large break. A rock band Aerosmith almost named themselves "Spike Jones" in the late bandleaders honor.

Der Fuehrer's Face

Around 1942 Walt Disney made a propaganda cartoon known as "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land". It contained a song "Der Fuehrer's Face" which was released as a single. It reached total Deuce. These are said that potentially Hitler heard it. Spike experienced 7 top tenner hits from either 1942 to 1949, potentially though there are no freshly recordings were bring the year when you took a strike per American Federation of Musicians. His theme song, Cocktails for Both, was recorded inside astir 1943. Around 1945 he got his have indicate. Inside further than Lx shows his guests involved Groucho Marx, Hank Williams, Frankie Laine and Burl Ives. Spike's parody of Vaughn Monroe's "Ghost Riders In the Sky" was quickly withdrawn and occurs as prized rarity. Sinatra appeared inside October 1948, Lassie in May 1949. Through the late 40s & early L's a b& toured a America and Canada under a title "The Musical Depreciation Revue". A band grew from either 7 to 16 players. He appeared around the xii films in the late forties & fifties, universally swimming himself.

Murdering The Classics

One of his earliest recordings was an adjustment of Liszt's "Liebestraum". It was played at the jaunty pace in incompatible instruments. Rossini's "William Tell Overture" was rendered on kitchen implements. Within survive shows Spike would acknowledge a hand clapping using complete solemnity, saying "Thank you music lovers". The collection of Xii one homicides was freed inside 1971 as "Spike Jones is Murdering The Classics". Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other Warner Brothers cartoin characters, provided the singultus on "Clink Clink Another Drink". It used glass when instrument. Within 1948 Spike recorded "(All I want for Christmas is) my two Front Teeth". It was the first hit. Dora Bryan had a hit around 1963 with a variation known as "All I want For Christmas is a Beatle".

Soundies

The series of short musical films were mass produced per band. These therefore-alleged soundies were put onto juke boxes. Witharound a children you understand Jones dressed in the lawsuit by owning an tremendous prevent pattern, leaping around swimming cowbells, the suite of claxon, foghorns, so marimbthe so shooting a shooting iron into the air. One of their instruments was the "latrinophone", the potty seat by having strings. A band had their have variety in NBC then CBS from 1954 to 1961. Inside 1990 BBC2 screened six compilation shows from either these broadcasts. Songs from either the soundies were freed in a compilation known as Non Your systems Standard Spike Jones Collection.

The Fifties

A war years were lean days for Frank Sinatra and he was glad to get act doing the guest spot by using Jones. Another time his fame grew, Sinatra repaid his debt to Spike by inviting him onto his indicate around 1958. "The Perry Como Show" had him as a guest inside 1956, and Jack Benny in the same season. Besides within 1956, Jones freed his number one LP, ''Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry. By 1959 his act seemed old-fashioned and work dried up. Spike Jones died within Beverly Hills on 1st Might 1965. He is buried around Holy Cross Cemetery inside Culver City, California.

Radioland Murders

Around 1994 Mel Smith directed the film according to a script by George Lucas. Placed within 1939, it contains fictionalized versions of Spike Jones & Frank Sinatra. Radioland Murders'' was poorly reviewed & equated unfavourably sustaining Woody Allen's Radio Days. It contains a endure appearance of George Burns. 2 members of Spike Jones's band pop up in the film - Billy Barty (1924 - 2000) and Paul "Mousie" Garner (1909 - 2004), playing themselves.

Misleading biographies

Numerous compilations from either a seventies & eighties contained spurious dates of birth & dying for Spike in the liner notes. Regrettably it st& been widely reproduced within the internet and in books. He was nin natural in 14th Might 1916, nor did he die on March 29th 1966. His very title was non Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty.

Influence

There is a clear line of influence from either a Marx Brothers to Spike Jones and to Stan Freberg, The Goons, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and to "Weird Al" Yankovic. Billy Barty possibly appeared around the streaming videos by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Another easily-known tracks involved: "Cocktails for Two" "I Went to Your Wedding" "That Old Black Magic" "The Blue Danube" "The Sheik of Araby" "You Always Hurt the One You Love" "William Tell Overture"