oh boy, yes they fooled around and acted the fool, but by god were these blokes talented. it took me a long time to appreciate just how gifted they all were, as a youngster I just found them funny, but eventually, I learned that to be this funny you had to be incredibly good first of all....

Love this show when it was on. Go Tiny Little.

My paternal grandfather,..WW2 veteran ( three theaters,.Europe, Middle East, & New Guinea ),..a toy maker & ‘hobbyist’ prankster & comedian,…To the chagrin & disappointment of his own deeply conservative father, he indulge in prize-fighting when he was a very young fellow. He used to show me the tattoos he had of boxers on his arms, that changed position when he flexed his biceps. He trained horses & he could whip a piece of paper right out of your mouth. Or off the top of your head. He just loved Spike Jones. Had a beautiful collection of his recordings !…I loved it when he’d put them on his record player for me to listen to with him. Love you, Papa ( that’s what I called him )…We’ll not your likes ever again.

and with that voice of Jim Baccus,,,,, this is great!!

What talent, and what an amazing unique approach to music for its time

Just jaw-dropping how good this was.

I need that suit he was wearing.

This was my Dad's favorite to crank on Sunday mornings.It wasn't until I got older that I began to understand how great they where.Rip Pops,I'm listening to Spike on Sundays❤❤❤

After coming to the US as a teenager in the 1930's, Werner Klemperer seldom spoke German ever again. Thus, it is very unusual to hear him sing Silent Night (Stille Nacht) in its original German. Bing Crosby must have had some great persuasive powers to get Klemperer to do something (sing in German) he did not ordinarily care to do.

Actually, she had a very nice voice.

SPIKE JONES:Tchaikovsky Medley. 2.12.24. Door slamming slags aside, I am durmiding the great sage shouted from his morally superior giving foot laden opium den: without this guy the residents wouldn't have known where to begin. A bunch of fags bring upset at compositional discord....

00:40, naissance du Jazz et les musiciens représentés sont blancs 😂

That's a metal banjo before metal exist

10:14 The wonderful Jim Backus, aka Mr Magoo and Thurston Howell lll

Spike looks like he could be related to Neil Patrick Harris

Wow. This is real entertainment! So many post-WWII, talented musicians- and dancers! And Jim Bachus! This was one of the first TV shows ever. So creative and absurd! Precious stuff. Kinescope? Guess so...

In the 50s nobody took anything too seriously, Spike was not alone...😢

Who is that marimba player??👍

Saludo enriq 777 🎉🎉 1:19

7:20 Wow, I can't believe Buckethead was a legend even back in the 50s! He truly is a timeless legend!

7:19 Daft Punk - Around the World

At 8.10 the voice of Mr Magoo.

These gʻuys were classic drag queens like Milton Berĺe unlike the freaks today !!!

My mother who was born in Northern Idaho in 1915 in a log cabin̈ with a dirt floor told me she saw Spike jones at the Hollywood Bowĺ in the 1940s and and laughed so hard she peed her panties and died died at 98 without ever having to depends!!!

The first trans band!

Spike was a genius!!! I want to start a band like this today!! In 2024.

She is beauty, she is grace. She throws her left breast up and past your face!!!

"I'm touched." "Yes yes, I-I know that you're touched." LMAO

I don't like Midgets

Spike was a genius...We need more talent like this in 2024.

GENIUS....We need this kind of entertainment back....As a drummer,I would do it!!!.Loved Spike since I was a kid......( 70+tears )

Is that Thumbs Carlisle on electric guitar?? ;^>

Memories hard times good times was all new, still a mystery. We had two TV’s one had a pretty good picture the other one you could get sound.

Being a top notch comedian s a feat in itself. Being a top notch musician is another feat in itself. But to be a top notch comedian and a top notch musician is nothing short of impossible. Yet Spike Jones and his City Slickers have done the impossible and with the precision of a Swiss watch. Absolutely incredible (and hilarious as well)… 😂😂😂😂😂😂

5:27 so that's where they stole breakdancing from 😂

Every generation needs a guy like this.

Spike’s bands were more than just bands, they were first-rate entertainers.

As a child, I LOVED this show. “Cocktails for two” was my favorite tune. Yeah, I used to be weird, but I’m better now.

My grandma told me about this guy last night. Really cool to still have her around.

Has Anybody gotten the impression, the guy on the Left side of the screen, looks sometimes like Alfred E. Neuman, the face of MAD MAGAZINE ? Hint: Round face , similar hair style, and the "What, Me Worry ?" Expression!

Wow this is arts in true form . Not the satanic garbage they’re putting out today . 👏👍

After seeing this no one can blame cell phones and video games for short attention spans. Attention spans have been short at least since vaudeville

Wilbur Hall playing The Bicycle Pump. I love it.

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

Dr. Demento! I know that dude! The doctor Demento show.

eminem is scared of this guy

Now me and my mate were back at the shack We had Spike Jones on the box She said, "I can't take the way he sings But I love to hear him talk" Now that just gave my heart a throb To the bottom of my feet And I swore and I took another pull My Bessie can't be beat

And, chewing gum the whole while!

Thanks for posting this and bringing back memories.

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