Spike Jones Video Showcase

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Spike Jones and his City Slickers: Outrageous Parodies

Spike Jones was a musician and bandleader who satirized popular and classical music in the 1940s and 1950s with his band The City Slickers. His arrangements, which sometimes started out sounding quite urbane and sophisticated, would quickly devolve into mayhem featuring gunshots, cowbells, raspberries, sirens, whistles, gongs and oddball vocalizations. One of his biggest hits was 1942's "Der Fuehrer's Face," which was written for a Walt Disney propaganda film featuring Donald Duck.

The videos in this showcase are from YouTube. Occasionally videos will be taken off YouTube for various reasons. If you click on a video and it's no longer available, please leave me a comment. I check comments and will be able to replace it.

Photo by MobyD: Cover of 60 Years of "Music America Hates Best" by Spike Jones and the Band that Plays for FUN!, a 1960 recording satirizing the popular RCA series 60 Years of Music America Loves Best.

Cocktails for Two

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Clink! Clink! Another Drink

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Hawaiian War Chant

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Der Fuehrer's Face

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Yes, We Have No Bananas

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William Tell Overture

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I Went to your Wedding

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You Always Hurt the One You Love

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The Black and Blue Danube Waltz

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Mairzy Doats

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Spike Jones: The Legend

with "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Spike Jones on Amazon

This is just a sample of popular Spike Jones recordings. Amazon listed 56 titles as of January 1, 2011. For more, check out Amazon's Spike Jones Store. <--Click! Click! Another Link
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Spike Jones on eBay

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Novelty Song Links

Novelty Songs Lenses by MobyD
A bit of history about novelty songs, Dr. Demento, Weird Al, and links to video showcases for Dr. D, Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, Victor Borge and another lensmaster's showcase for Weird Al Yankovic.

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  • trektark Oct 27, 2011 @ 8:31 am | delete
    Love Spike Jones. Introduced his unique music to my kids and they enjoy it as well. Always get a good chuckle listening to him.
  • poddys Mar 13, 2009 @ 8:07 pm | delete
    Great lens, 5*****. Favorited, Lensrolled to my Humor lenses, and welcomed into the "Laugh Away" group.

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