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	Spike Jones Fan site: Register
		Regards "Chloe," it seems as though Spike's version is based on the Paul Whiteman record of it, made on February 27, 1928.
		Spike's record 'What Is A Disc Jockey' was issued in Australia, but not in the USA.
		You may be interested in the fact that as a disc jockey in Sydney in the 60's that I met and spoke often to Spike Jones on my radio show and he sent me a Christmas card every year until his death.
	www.spikejones.net /signup.php (497 words)

	Spike Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spike had seven top ten hits from 1942 to 1949, even though no new recordings were made for a year during a strike by the American Federation of Musicians.
		Spike Jones died in Beverly Hills on 1st May 1965.
		There is a clear line of influence from the Marx Brothers to Spike Jones and to Stan Freberg, The Goons, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and to "Weird Al" Yankovic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spike_Jones (951 words)

	Spike Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and comedian.
		Spike's parody of Vaughn Monroe's "Ghost Riders In the Sky" was quickly withdrawn and is a prized rarity.
		Once his fame grew he repaid his debt to Spike by inviting him onto his show in 1958.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Spike_Jones (965 words)

	Spike Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Spike Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and comedian.
		On his death in 1965, Spike Jones was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
		A useful and well-remastered compilation is The Spike Jones Anthology (Rhino Records, 1994), which was co-produced by Dr.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/spike_jones (263 words)

	Splogman's schrijfsels: Spike Jones
		In ons eigen land zeggen mensen als Fay Lovsky en André van Duin die, geloof het of niet, een periode heeft gehad waarin hij écht leuk was, dat zij in Jones een groot voorbeeld gehad hebben.
		Jones merkt echter, dat je als je het soort muziek wilt spelen dat je zelf jarenlang belachelijk hebt gemaakt, je genadeloos door het publiek wordt afgestrafd.
		Het is Spike's bedoeling hier een theaterproduktie in grote bezetting met koor en orkest van te maken: het komt niet van de grond.
	www.dse.nl /%7Emereldwijn/spikejones.html (1135 words)

	Spike Jones CDs and DVDs from CornBands
		In the world of Corn Bands, no group is better known than Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
		Spike (born Lindley Armstrong Jones in 1911 in California) was especially adept at taking classics and working them over to a degree that produced music that floated around in your brain until it became the standard.
		There is scarcely a person under 70 that doesn't have Red Ingle (a Spike Jones vocalist who went on to fame with his own band, The Natural Seven and later played in Freddie Fishers final LP) belching out the words to a song that, in its natural state, was a bit of a bore.
	www.hoosierhotshots.com /cb/spikejones.html (356 words)

	The Spike Jones Show OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Spike Jones, son of a railroad agent, was born Lindley Armstrong Jones, getting his nickname from a telegraph operator who thought that Jones was skinny as a railroad spike.
		Ever since he was a child, Spike had an affinity for music, playing the drums at an early age, and organizing groups as a teenager.
		Jones was one of those people that slogged in anonymity for a decade and then became an overnight smash success.
	www.otrcat.com /spikejones.htm (526 words)

	The Very Worst of Spike Jones : Film Music CD Reviews-July 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Spike with his gang of lyrical and light classics terrorists were let loose around that time, and were often heard as an antidote to all the saccharine on BBC record requests programmes like Forces Favourites.
		This, 'The Very Worst of Spike Jones' is a collection of 20 of his marvellous missiles recorded between 1945 and 1949.
		Spike appeared in a number of films including Thank Your Lucky Stars and Variety Girls and had his own TV show.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/july00/SpikeJones.htm (439 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Spike Jones), Spike Jones Jr., Linda Selsman-Jones, Leslie Jones and Gina Jones.
		Today Jones is best remembered as the creator of deliriously surreal musical numbers which topped the charts in America for over ten years.
		Jones hired his band members for their fine musical skills and their comic abilities, which made the selection process very difficult.
	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p23783424 (517 words)

	Spike Jones
		Variety Girl (1947) (as Spike Jones and His City Slickers)....
		Bring on the Girls (1945) (as Spike Jones and His Orchestra)....
		Spike and his City Slickers appeared in four 1942 Soundies, which were musical shorts made for coin-operated viewing machines.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0005066 (370 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - The Spike Jones Show
		Dressed in his trademark loud suits and ever chewing gum, Spike Jones was the maniac-in-chief of the most lunatic bunch of madcap musicians ever assembled - the City Slickers.
		Jones and his crazy gang first rose to prominence with the 1942 wartime propaganda song 'Der Fuhrer's Face', which became a huge hit.
		Born in Long Beach, California, on 14 December 1911, Spike Jones was the major influence upon a line of British musical eccentrics that includes the Temperance Seven, the Alberts, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band and Madness.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/s/spikejonesshowth_7775940.shtml (296 words)

	Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones
		Spike told an often-reworked story about going to hear Stravinsky conduct The Firebird at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. Stravinsky is wearing some new patent leather shoes, and Spike is sitting close enough to notice that every time the composer-conductor goes up on his toes just before a downbeat, the shoes squeak.
		Today, at a distance of nearly 50 years, it looks more like some labelling reflex-- Spike was successful, in all of the established media plus early television, so somebody had to come up with a category that could account for him.
		Spike's preferred structure was first to state the theme in as respectably mainstream a manner as possible, then subversively descend into restatement by way of sound effects, crude remarks, and hot jazz, the very idiom Spikes Jones and his Five Tacks had begun with back in high school, to the great displeasure of their parents.
	www.pynchon.pomona.edu /uncollected/spiked.html (1524 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: The Work of Director Spike Jonze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the DVD: The Work of Director Spike Jonze is a double-sided DVD (one in a series that includes the equally dazzling work of Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham) accompanied by an informative 52-page booklet.
		Presentation is a little shoddy with perhaps a lack of coherence to it all, but to be honest all I really care about is the content which, as you'd expect from a director of his callibre is excellent.
		Spike Jonze packs more ideas into 5 minutes, on limited budgets, than most directors muster in a lifetime.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DK4ON (1428 words)

	Producer Spike Jones, Jr. to Produce 55th West Coast Writers Guild Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		-- Spike Jones, Jr., will serve as producer of the annual Writers Guild Awards, to be held Saturday, March 8, 2003 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
		"Spike's talent and knowledge as a producer are equaled by his professionalism and determination, said Victoria Riskin, President of the Writers Guild of America, west.
		Jones has served as producer of the Creative Emmy Awards for the past seven years and will be working with writer, Tony De Sena, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Saturday Night Live, Later with Greg Kinnear to shape the 55th Writers Guild Award Show.
	www.wga.org /pr/1202/spikeawards.html (277 words)

	Pynchon - Music: Spike Jones
		Spike Jones was quite an interesting figure, a musical comedian working in the vein of the Big Band sound in the 30s and 40s.
		The coronet on Spike's head is a standard costume-house model, featuring metallic points behind which are somehow wedged four erect, slightly oversize corncobs.
		Spike is glaring, his legs tightly crossed, his mouth in an O. his eyes focused far, far away.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_music_jones.html (2528 words)

	Weirdomusic.com :: news from the darkest corners of the musical universe
		Comedic bandleader Spike Jones and the City Slickers were the original bad boys of music, directly influencing such iconoclasts as Frank Zappa, Ernie Kovacs, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Stan Freberg and George Carlin.
		Earl Bennett, 87, who performed with the Spike Jones novelty band as Sir Frederick Gas, died Oct. 4 of complications from old age at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, a hospital spokeswoman said.
		Bennett performed with Jones' musical and comedy ensemble on radio and TV, and appeared in the live act for several years in the 1950s, sporting a wild mane and making odd sounds from two sticks rubbed together like an improvised violin.
	www.weirdomusic.com /news.htm (2527 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Jones, Spike: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This television documentary chronicles the career of Spike Jones, a talented musical satirist who had audiences of the '50s rolling in the aisles as he and his City Slickers committed inventive forms of musical murder on some of America's most beloved songs.
		only on records it gave me new insights as to exactly what Spike was like live and on TV and how he worked.He obviously had a good screen presence and put on an hilarious show but more importantly it showed me exactly just how talented he and all his band members were.
		In concluding I can only say that if you want a greater respect/appreciation for Spike Jones' music then this DVD is just what the doctor ordered.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001AOYGK (616 words)

	Spike Jones vs. Spike Lee - SternFanNetwork
		Jones said in court papers that he and his family own the rights to the name, likeness, recorded performances and TV shows that belonged to his father, the 1940s and '50s bandleader.
		A biographical movie about his father, with the tentative title, Spike, is in the works, Jones said, and was concerned that the injunction against Viacom would hinder production.
		Jones' father had hits with the songs Yes, We Have No Bananas, Der Fuehrer's Face and Don't Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel.
	www.sternfannetwork.com /forum/showthread.php?threadid=18814 (613 words)

	Dirt Rag Forums - Spike Jones Was a BMXer
		Jones was a founder, back in the mid-80's.
		I recently saw a "Spike Jones Was a BMXer" sticker slapped on a newspaper box here in Philly.
		I still remember the slappy grind how to— it was shot by Spike Jonze and performed by his partner Mark Lewman, who was last seen (by me) as the second writer to Matt Hoffman's Biography, The Ride of My Life.
	www.dirtragmag.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1859 (374 words)

	Spike Jones & His City Slickers MP3 Downloads - Spike Jones & His City Slickers Music Downloads - Spike Jones & His ...
		Spike Jones kept a frenetic pace in the late 1930s as a freelance studio musician for motion pictures, records and radio shows.
		The busy young drummer commuted to Hollywood studios in a station wagon that was a veritable junkyard on wheels.
		During the 1970s, Steve Martin was the most successful stand-up comedian in America, earning the level of commercial success -- sell-out arena performances, platinum records, hit singles and...
	www.mp3.com /spike-jones-&-his-city-slickers/artists/169365/summary.html (247 words)

	Tuesday
		Viacom has found an ally in its courtroom fight against Spike Lee, and his name is...
		Spike Jones Jr., son of the late cornball Big Band musician, says he doesn't think the filmmaker should be allowed to prevent Viacom's TNN network from renaming itself Spike TV.
		"I find it frightening that a court would allow Spike Lee to appropriate and acquire an exclusive (and free) ownership interest in the name 'Spike' in the television and entertainment field, preventing others with at least as legitimate an interest in using the name from doing so," said Jones in an affidavit.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2003/jun03/jun23/2_tues/news1tuesday.html (330 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Spike Jones in Hi-Fi (Spike Jones in Stereo) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a classic recording that was advertised for years in the back of Famous Monsters of Filmland.
		Spike Jones combines cornball humor and accomplished musicianship to create a spellbinding and silly theater of the mind.
		It is a great showcase for Paul Frees, the genius who did Boris Badenov, the voice of Disney's Haunted Mansion, George of the Jungle's Ape, the Orson welles-style intro to George Pal's "War of the Worlds", and a zillion other things.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B0000EWO3C (318 words)

	Deroy Murdock on Spike Lee & Spike TV on National Review Online
		ilmmaker Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is suing Viacom over its plans to rename the TNN cable network "Spike TV." Viacom's channel would appeal to American males aged 18 to 34.
		Spike Lee's civil action is an Oscar-worthy example of the litigation culture that is consuming America like a $500-per-hour tumor.
		One spike who has complained is Spike Jones Jr., the son of Lindley A. "Spike" Jones, the Swing-era orchestra leader who interwove vivid sound effects with precise, frantically played big-band music.
	www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock062603.asp (997 words)

	Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face Lyrics
		Buy Spike Jones's CD Spike Jones & His City Slickers
		Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth Lyrics
		Spike Jones - I Cannot Milk Tonight Lyrics
	www.lyricsxp.com /lyrics/d/der_fuehrer_s_face_spike_jones.html (165 words)

	SILLYSONGBOOK.com----Spike Jones
		"SPIKE" JONES WAS BORN LINDLEY ARMSTRONG JONES ON DECEMBER 14, 1911 IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA.
		WHEN PLAYING LIVE, JONES AND HIS CITY SLICKERS WERE A VISUAL ASSAULT ON THE SENSES AS WELL.
		SPIKE JONES DIED ON MAY 1ST, 1965 IN BEL AIR, CALIFORNIA.
	members.aol.com /sillysongbook/JONES.htm (280 words)

	Spike Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Before the advent of rock and roll, Jones and his lunatic band dedicated their efforts to savaging the popular songs of the day and knocking the hot air out of classical music, much as the Marx Brothers did to popular culture on screen.
		Spike conducted with a starter pistol--need I say more?--and his band specialized in everything from gargling to breaking glass to honking bicycle horns to blowing whistles--and they could play "traditional instruments" with the best of their contemporaries.
		In terms of pure aural chaos and subversion, they were the equal of the Sex Pistols if not Little Richard, and if there were ever a band born before its time (they would have owned television), it is this one.
	www.columbia.k12.mo.us /hhs/mc/amroots/sjs.htm (239 words)

	Spike Jones - Verve Records
		JONES HAD MANY A TOP 10 HIT DURING HIS HEYDAY WITH SUCH SONG PARODIES AS "YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS", "DER FUHRER'S FACE", AND "COCKTAILS FOR TWO" AMONG MANY OTHERS.
		WHEN PLAYING LIVE, JONES AND HIS CITY SLICKERS WERE A VISUAL ASSAULT ON THE SENSES AS WELL.
		SPIKE JONES WAS TO THE 1940s WHAT "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC IS TO THE CURRENT MUSICAL SCENE: A MASTER OF MUSICAL PARODY AND MAYHEM.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&src=prd&aid=2840 (305 words)

	Spike Jones & his City Slickers - Strictly for Music Lovers
		Released in 1999 by England's Proper Records Ltd., this 4-CD package provides a comprehensive overview of Spike's peculiar brand of "musical depreciation" during the earlier part of his career, from 1941 through 1947.
		The 95 tracks are far from the Jones aggregation's entire output during the period covered.
		Spike Jones & his other Orchestra with the City Slickers.
	www.geocities.com /doo_wop_gino/spike.htm (1472 words)

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