Spike Jones And His City Slickers - Laura video free download

Leonard Tooley

CLASSIC

richard hajeski

Karl Grayson, the singer, usually did the "glug-glug" noises, most famously on "Der Fuehrer's Face".

vdosvixen

Two fellows I remember was the one and only Mel Blanc voice actor par excellence who did a great deal of the imitations of both people and just noisy objects in general. Another member of Spike Jones 'City Slickers' was 'Doodles' Weaver, who happened to be actress Sigourney Weaver's uncle, she has mentioned that her uncle could be just as nutty off-stage as he was on-stage.

joanbunny

Great memories. His orchestra was really superb playing the songs straight. So clever

ferociousgumby

My Dad used to have guests over, crank up the huge stereo, put this on, and watch their faces when the "pow-pow!" began. By the bye, they were a hell of a band! This is beautifully done. That's Mickey Katz on clarinet (Joel Grey's father, Jennifer Grey's grandfather). I think he also did the "glug-glug"s.

pierre dousset

Dyynamo was there a recoding of 'the invntion of the airplane' [comedy] & [discovery of america ] i thought it was by stan freberg but could be wrong Regards Pierre Aus

eriknospam

I believe you're thinking of "My Old Flame".

pierre dousset

was there not a part that sounded like peter lorrie doing his 'i saw this eye it kept winking & blinking etc or was it in something else that Spike Jones had recorded Pierre of oz

JarleyBox

@Dyynamo Thank you! Not just for that, but for posting up all this wonderful music. :D

Dyynamo

@JarleyBox I'll post it if I can find it. :-)

JarleyBox

May I request that you add I'm Forever Blowing Bubble Gum c:? I've never been able to find a complete version... hearing it on the old record really brings back memories.

Barry I. Grauman

True- Spike's boys could play "straight" when they wanted to (most of his personnel had previously played in commercial and studio bands, like Jones). But, as 'MNC' pointed out, very few people were interested in listening to his "straight" band [because it sounded TOO "straight"], and the "Other Orchestra" didn't last long.

peter noer

Who made the Sneezes & the Goofy sounding voices?

Rand Gerald

The same can be said for Weird Al Yankovic.

Rand Gerald

The same can be said for Wierd Al Yankovic.

Rand Gerald

@torchsonglover The same can be said for Wierd Al Yankovic.

historyman4773

@ torchsonglover I remember hearing that Vaughn Monroe really hated Spike for his version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky". I thought it was hilarious.

Bultaco15

Correction..silly is GREAT ;)

Seahorsefan

I've got the Spike Jones and his City Slickers on CD. I thought they were singing backwards. How can I get it to you?

Dyynamo

I've heard a load of his stuff and have quite a bit on LP, CD and DVD, but I don't recall hearing that. I'll keep a look out for it.

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