SPIKE JONES - COCKTAILS FOR TWO

[@deedoyle4069]

Fantastic !!! When I was a little kid, I LOVED Spike Jones and his nutty band. This Band set us kids into howls of laughter. That was important, since we 80+ [2024] folks were still living under the grim shadows of Victorian Rules! I'm 85 now.and Spike& crew STILL make me lol!

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Remember this from when I was a boy. I am now 86 and still enjoy listening to Spike who brought so much happiness to music lovers all overe the world. Regards from England. 2022.

[@brianthomas2434]

Had this on an LP when I was a teenager. Didn't know there was a "video " (I believe they called them "soundies " in the Forties). Would love to see ones for "Chloe", "My Old Flame" or "You Always Hurt The One You Love."

[@garywilloughby6893]

My mother loved Spike Jones.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

@@garywilloughby6893 Your mother had good taste Gary. Regards, Aprilo, ss2023.

[@deedoyle4069]

85 yrs., still loving Spike....from California.

[@Ronin4614]

There has never ever been another Spike Jones and his band. Thanks, Spike and the boys.

[@j.s.connolly8579]

Well actually... the "Spin-Off" or Main Inspiration for "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention" WAS "Spike Jones and his City Slickers"! Listen to ANY Frank Zappa and you WILL HEAR the influences! Sure a bit more crude... but they took what Spike Jones did and just carried on with it! The main thread that BOTH bands had in common was that EVERY MUSICIAN was a VERTUOSO In their craft! You CAN NOT do this kind of crazy and zany stuff and NOT be Super Talented and a MASTER Of the Instrument{s} they played! Just Classic, Amazing and STILL Damned Funny stuff! :D

[@joemachado6134]

Nobody today could play and perform with that group

[@obkb1150]

So many memories of listening to the Dr. Demento show in my youth and enjoying this exquisite melody come flooding back. Thank you!

[@howardjohnson2138]

I grew up on Spike Jones. Thank you

[@kathyraygoza3299]

Ah h music of my chilhood. You have to be top musician and singer to be able to this. Can't see Beethoven doing this but Wolfie motzart yes.

[@josephosheavideos3992]

The hours upon hours it must have taken to get the choreography just right (let alone the music)! Amazing!

[@davidevans3227]

Absolutely

[@robertleo7394]

My parents had a recording of this on a 78 rpm. Listened to and loved this when a kid in the early 1950's.

[@alfiococo8117]

E' sempre un piacere guardare e sentire questo brano e non finisco mai di stupirmi per la grandissima bravura e la PERFEZIONE nell'interpretazione...unici, difficilmente si vedono cose del genere ai giorni nostri...

[@silvestri99]

I burned through this tape when i was a kid. Spike and Weird AL were my heroes! Thanks for bringing the memories back Mr. Fallon!

[@njosborne6152]

Haven’t heard this in 60 years and it’s still fantastic‼️

[@cannissolis]

great musicians, great timing , great rythm, and a sense humor and showmanship who could do it today?

[@davidevans3227]

and the straight bits are good too! lol

[@321abcable]

At age nine I had a huge Spike Jones 78 record collection and I still think they are great fun to hear.

[@happychappy12]

Mighst allChrighty what a performance, absolutely Fantastico, so much talent is on show here. ...great posting...xx

[@tomkent4656]

Songwriters always complained that any song "done" by Spike and his gang were never taken seriously again!

[@eddylauterback1312]

But they gladly endorsed the royalties checks!

[@Thomas828]

Other songwriters saw it as a badge of honour!

[@tomkent4656]

Probably why good songs like "My Old Flame" and "Cocktails for Two" never became "standards" after Spike got his hands on them!

[@stephenphillip5656]

Nothing much changes really. The Barron Knights in the 1960s were spoofing chart hits & the original bands & management were getting annoyed by it - until they realised that the B K's versions were *very* good & in effect promoted the original. It came to be a badge of honour that the Barron Knights thought your single(s) were worthy of their versions! Weird Al Yankovich similarly spoofs modern-day singles. Look up his "Star Wars" themed version of "American Pie".

[@DancingNotes83]

I saw live performances of Spike Jones and his City Slickers on two occasions back in my younger days. They put on a really great show. They mixed in a few proper musical selections, too, and they were fine musicians.

[@secretagentviper8382]

What year?

[@rolfh]

Absolutely they were fine musicians! You can’t make funny with music otherwise. And Spike Jones with his band set the standard.

[@lostinspace699]

He died 51 ,old Smoked 5 pack of cigarette's a day ..

[@alfgarnet-nq6dl]

its 2023 march , this is so wonder full the timing rely enjoyed this spike was all way chewing gum nerves ??? he apeard so layed back his suites great t y for posting this r i p spike j

[@euggiemonad2523]

George Carlin once said that as a kid he used to listen to Spike Jones records and try to imitate the sound effects -- the glug glug of Carl Grayson of course being one of them

[@YuckTradingCo]

I'm 32 now but when I was around 10 or 11, my parents started making it a habit to get me comedy albums as gifts for my birthday or Christmas. One of the most memorable ones was a compilation album of skits from Spike Jones. Absolutely hilarious stuff.

[@secretagentviper8382]

Your parents were awesome to get you classic comedy albums like that. Me and my brother would sneak tapes of Eddie Murphy, Cheech and Chong and turn them way down because the cursing

[@717rocket]

Cool parents.

[@mattanderson6336]

My dad's 'Thank You Music Lovers' LP brought me here. This was the lead cut.

[@KenTenTen]

Ah, yes. From the album Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Really Hungry. Marvelous.

[@empathic11]

Also on "Thank You, Music Lovers."

[@RedVynil]

My love of Spike Jones' music brought me here!

[@ThomasPrior-wv6zn]

ITS 2023 IN ENGLAND WATCHED THIS TWICE ALL READY TO DAY MAN AS FUNNY THEN AS TO DAY LOVE SPIKE AND THE GANG R I P EVERY ONE

[@taggett666]

How can you ever replace these people. We will never be there again. I so wish I was born in 1940 so I could enjoy this when it was happening.

[@RalphOnofrio]

Genius..we need some entertainment like this in 2024

[@tangobango9653]

Very silly, but some hugely talented musicians here. Luv it!

[@idachau1080]

I remember Spike and Cocktails for Two being played on the old dial radio.. Spike and his band was alway fun to listen to.

[@pauldquam1]

I just discovered the collection of Spike Jones on KZbin! Wonderful.. I think it should be viewed by kids under 10 and watch them laugh at some real funny stuff of years ago. Teens would just change channels, too bad. Thanks for putting it on KZbin.

[@kathleenebsen2659]

I used to play this for my kids! Kept them in stitches!😂

[@mickbrenton]

What an absolutely talented crew Spike had!!!

[@dennisflannigan2242]

Laugh again at the delights of satire, parody, "music, and Spike Jones. His wife, Helen Grayco (Greco) sang with the band, and of course is from Tacoma, Washington.

[@martyw34]

Brilliantly clever.Had this on a 78 in the UK.Never seen him before.Thanks.

[@katphish4186]

Love this guy. I was born inn 50 so he was still on live TV when I was a little kid always loved the improvised musical instruments made of plumbing usually

[@aattura1541]

One of Mom Sylvia's favorite songs-- we kiddies knew ALL the Spike Jones songs by the time we wuz Five.

[@Cinnemax77]

You could never do that in today’s society not that anyone would want to do that but they just couldn’t do it this is so far ahead of any kind of conglomerated talent that’s out there today God bless

[@davidevans3227]

one minute fifty! 😃 greetings from the uk.. if it wasn't for my parents getting me a cassette many years ago, would never have heard of this lot.. which is a shame, they so entertaining.. thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x

[@stevendimmock4791]

Timeless and wonderful.

[@crystalhicks5391]

I am reading Joel Grey's autobiography and he says his father Micky Katz did the 'glug" sound on this song...lol

[@pauljohnson3340]

I loved listening to Spike when I was a kid.

[@coreolanus2.02]

Masterful and unbeatable

[@Extremelybadpiggies]

Best performance for a old fashioned bar! And also at 0:47 there is a cut that appeared in king of the hill in texas city twister.

[@JohannesMclean]

That's my Great Aunt Charlotte Tinsley playing the Harp (and "meeting Spike's Hand"@ 1:04).

[@behindthen0thing]

John B how did she like him

[@JohannesMclean]

I don't know. I learned about all this after she had passed away.

[@uboat6313]

Cool!

[@robertleo7394]

Cool!

[@southboundtracks]

Very cool.

[@jamesabrams6908]

I always assumed this was a post-Prohibition song. Enjoying cocktails for two after sneaking around for so long.

[@paulofreire7520]

The eternal genius of Spike and the city slickers 👍🏻🙏🏻😂

[@karenoxornjazzvocalist]

My cousin wrote the lyrics to this song and wasn't crazy about the spoof...until the royalty checks arrived!

[@tomkent4656]

Unfortunately it killed the song stone dead for future covers!

[@karenoxornjazzvocalist]

@@tomkent4656 How true. Here is one of my favourite contemporary covers of the Spike Jones style kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKLbaGuEhLFjoLs

[@Rodin99]

never saw this film....very funny...always enjoy Spike Jones.

[@cynthiapickett7403]

Imagine if you will: a Looney Tunes edition of a big band; witness Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

[@JamesCPotter13]

Truly those would be some *Merry Melodies*

[@larrydehaan5718]

There are two volumes of the music by Carl Stallings , who did the Looney Toons music! But Spike Jones and his bands were one of a kind .

[@lolliadriano]

Quelli erano tempi migliori di oggi. Grandi professionisti

[@ironox8480]

Ah yes Spike Jones crazy as a loon but brilliantly funny.

[@theplayingbartender7734]

Great. That's pure gold.

[@TheAloweWolf]

LOL! Very funny song!! A really Good Friend mentioned this song to me. ;)

[@ellenrosenblatt5463]

The Original Mothers of Invention

[@coyoteboy5601]

Well said!

[@ricardofranciszayas]

Absolutely!!! The use of percussion and found objects is something up Zappa’s alley as well as the straight faced delivery of the City Slickers. Spike Jones and his band must have been tremendous sight readers. I wonder what the rehearsals were like. Spike Jones was a treasure, a subversive genius of music and comedy. Films of those performances are still funny to people of any age.

[@elcastro369]

Esses tipos de humoristas fazem falta hoje em dia. pena que pouca gente toma conhecimento de que tais artista existiram...

[@dsantamaria713]

Love Spike and the Band! ❤❤❤

[@9999Foxy]

Wonderful!

[@3nails3days1way]

Excellent!!!

[@PeteLindup]

Carl Grayson. The world's greatest Glugger!

[@DalokiMauvais]

And a very fine singer, too!

[@johnstantinople]

So that's what that technique is called! I swear to God I've been hunting this down for years! I look this song up just to know what that sound was called!

[@johnstantinople]

Any idea how to do it?

[@teto85]

One of those instrumentalists was Sigourney Weaver's uncle, Doodles.

[@SuperClairezee]

My Dad loved this. 😅

[@smokin1982]

I wish we still had people around like Spike.

[@cliftonjarvis8010]

Just found out about this great program 👋

[@MrTrevor181]

That is CLASSIC comedy!.

[@sabines.5181]

Einfach nur genial!

[@stanochocki8984]

a GENIUS!!

[@davidnorthdale1164]

Still so funny. Love it.

[@Dicky104]

I played Spike Jones 78 records when I was a kid. Thought they were great.

[@philipinchina]

Wonderful.

[@kurtemonster578]

The bit that starts at 1:37 is what does it for me! 😂😂😂

[@jeffreycraven8154]

Fred Warren and the Pennsylvanians: When compared to Spike's band, Fred should've stuck to playing light opera tunes in a band pit.

[@kierangreen1500]

jimmy and Blake what a duo

[@rudiruttger]

When I am asked of my favorite genre.

[@symbadawg1]

Now that was a time when you actually had to have talent as apposed to just looking good.....Today is all flash and so very little substance...

[@spacemissing]

Introduced by Barry Hansen (Dr. Demento).

[@robertdileo3269]

I remember them well.

[@elkartian]

soneone was selling every spike jones tv show on dvd on ebay i bought them its great

[@prof.t.c.pfeiler1280]

Composer of this beautiful song, Sam Coslow was not very amused about this terrible klamauk-version as he wrote in his book "Cocktails For Two" - and he was right. Note: Years before Spike Jones played trumpet in one of Coslow´s ball room orchestra´s :-)

[@jackvoss5841]

Spike’s son tried to restart the band. I read that he could not figure out how his dad had generated all of those crazy sounds. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@alanbuxbaum3190]

Has anyone else noticed that the tune is the same as the song, "Pretend"?

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

Now THIS is TV. Not all this modern PC garbage.

[@nonnayobiznus573]

My mom turned me on to Spike Jones long before Dr Demento was playing the tracks. It's like the Marx brothers got a swing band and sang every film.

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

2:02 to 2:23 Classic singing. ❤

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Forget fallacy Fallon. Spike Jones and Carl Grayson brought me here.

[@dariowiter3078]

I see that Dr. Demento is narrating a bit of "dementia" for all "deementions and deementytes."

[@JohnSmith-dh4gw]

What a hoot!

[@jimthompson7402]

Red Ingle is the one in the striped suit on the extreme left, he was extremely funny.

[@empathic11]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nauVepqYnJ5nhNE Red Ingle - Pagan Ninny's keep'er goin' stomp written by Paganini-Rossini-Mellorini

[@BerlinBo]

Timing, timing!!

[@davemartin9557]

Before there was Weird Al Yankovic…..there was Spike Jones.

[@whwbsn]

Anybody know the name of the straight singer?

[@mundrubjet]

I don't think anyone on the earth could ever do what the guy on the right did. I think it lived and died with him!! What the hell was that!!?? Lol!!

[@Metalkind1]

@pauldquam1 I'm 19 and I think that spike jones was a genius, I'd like to see more than whats on KZbin.

[@corianderolive]

Thank you Jimmy Fallon!!

[@FreezerSpaces]

This song reminds me so much of my grandmother XD

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

Fought Space She acted like this?

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

@nwo detox ?

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

@nwo detox ???

[@Johnny35130]

On none of these live performances is the identity of the voice of the hiccup garbler vocalist exposed.I have always wanted to know it.Some examples of the great talent are "Hawaiian war chant" and "None but the lonely heart".I suspect it was Mel Blanc.Sometimes Red Ingle would make funny vocal sounds but the real funny was unknown.At least to me.

[@reubencutts7361]

It was Carl Grayson - the lead vocalist in this performance. Look up examples like 'The Shiek of Araby'

[@lordofthegames6601]

1:42 guy on the right, HOW DOES HE DO THAT?? also wasn’t he the voice of filbert the frog on the bozo the clown records?

[@TheSiggib]

GREAT!!! 2022 .-)

[@TaeNy35v]

Brave Little Toaster brought me here..... hahahax...

[@glennso47]

TaeNy35v Hyundai Sonata brought me here. but I had to drive it!

[@author7027]

it was very good, why had such a style disappeared?

[@WillyM79]

this is mad funny

[@xiaopan1030]

At 1:40 the hiccups make music. Never knew you could do that.

[@stevendimmock4791]

Does anybody have a clue what year this was recorded?

[@hellbooks3024]

So great. Almost as funny as Mingus’ version.

[@Convert96]

Cool. It seems like all slang got started in he 1920d