February 11, 1951 To learn some fun stuff about this production number, go to: • Spike Jones - Behind t...
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@ghostsignal Жыл бұрын
I'm a misanthropic metalhead, and yet I'm somehow incredibly entertained by this. Whomever has kept this stuff archived all these deserves an award.
@MrRudyc Жыл бұрын
If you were my age, you would remember him on TV. Always sight gags and lots of laughs
@io-fu9zn Жыл бұрын
@@MrRudyc Back when you could acknowledge that fat people were comical.
@Mr22thou4 жыл бұрын
Laverne was so believable as a shy and ordinary audience member, I was really surprised as I realized she was a professional comedian and singer. The talent level on this show was amazing!
@ferociousgumby Жыл бұрын
Amazing soprano voice! Spike always used the very best musicians and singers. A parody perfectionist.
@geoffdeller7747 Жыл бұрын
I'm 53 and I was with my Dad in about 1978/79 at a record and book clearance and he picked up a vynal copy of the best of spike Jones and his city slickers. I still give it a spin every now and then. I love it
@johnmitchelljr2 жыл бұрын
Best 10 minutes 17 seconds in show-business. Thank you.
@jimcoupe6247 Жыл бұрын
I wish there was something like this around now! Fantastic musicians!
@brianbyrne81638 күн бұрын
He only hired the best of the best sidemen (and sometimes women). Each of them had his own band.
@robertcieslak18615 жыл бұрын
There will never be another Spike Jones and his band. Never!
@jimharkel94639 жыл бұрын
What memories.My mother took me to see his show and I can remember some of the bits like it was yesterday. I met some of the players .I still have the autographs and program.Thakns for the great videos.
@sandraclowdus65492 жыл бұрын
yea. Prescience memories. a.k.a.,,,=you suck. tell it to your parole officer.
@sirebinouze18702 жыл бұрын
These guys knew how to have fun and create a hell of a mess on stage. Much more modern and creative than the garbage we get these days 😜 Tex Avery world coming alive. Brilliant
@joestephan11115 жыл бұрын
Spike Jones was one of the all-time great mad men.😎
@joestephan11115 жыл бұрын
In one of his shows he was conducting the band with a pistol instead of a baton. No performers to day would do that.😮
@Bigbadwhitecracker5 жыл бұрын
They'd send David Hogg to preach against guns.
@BerlinBo10 жыл бұрын
Just slightly before my time, but way ahead of where we are now!!
@MrEoin239 жыл бұрын
Contrary to an earlier posting, this is not Spike Jones's wife. This is LaVerne Pearson, whose game show appearance brought her a brief career as a singer and comedian in the US and Australia. A lovely singer, much of her comedy seems to have hinged on her weight.
@EliezerPennywhistler8 жыл бұрын
+Eoin F The 50s in a nutshell.
@randymagnum1434 жыл бұрын
So, like a talented, funny version of rebel wilson?
@baumcollcsame78715 жыл бұрын
As kids in the 50's we lived in a two story bldg above my grandparents. Some nights we would "gather around" my grandparents TV (my parents couldn't afford one in those days") and watch this and many other great comedy shows of that era. Spike Jones was my favorite!! Man watching this brings back such great memories of that time. Now I watch Spike and his City Slickers on KZbin on my TV with my grandkids, and we laugh our asses off. I'm building great memories for them with hopes that they can watch Spike Jones with their grandkids in whatever medium will be available at that time. Maybe they will be watching it on their trip to Mars? Or maybe on Mars!! I HOPE SO!!
@donwatkins55805 жыл бұрын
Clever brilliant sometimes astonishing but always funny!! The original Spike.
@thomasklugh43452 жыл бұрын
I read recently, Spike's wife is in her nineties and still living out in Cal. Imagine the stories she could tell.
@jorgegarciafan6 жыл бұрын
LaVerne Pearson is my mom's 2nd cousin. Thank you for posting this!!
@pata2996 жыл бұрын
My tummy sure don't wiggle like that, but dang she makes me laugh!
@Bigbadwhitecracker5 жыл бұрын
I was wondering who she was. I've never seen her before.
@cephoras4 жыл бұрын
She can really sing!
@tubularblonde4 жыл бұрын
I just saw this and besides laughing a lot, I want to say that I just assumed LaVerne Pearson was a trained operatic soprano. She obviously has had voice training! She's great!
@lukegriffith28284 жыл бұрын
I will have to research her. A very good voice reminds me of Dorothy Kirsten and Eileen Farrell and so many others who sang properly back in those days. Unlike the Renee Flemings and Juan Diego Flores of the world now.
@werksdesign5 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of when I was just a kid. Always watch Spike Jones..... and the Milton Berle Show, etc.
@synthonaplinth59805 жыл бұрын
Spike's double-take had me laughing uncontrollably.
@johnnyjames71395 жыл бұрын
Spike inspired my love of classical music, I would roll on the floor laughing.
@rickflorke7605 Жыл бұрын
Why something like Spike and the Slickers aren't on TV shows just how down our culture has fallen. Thanks to everyone who posts content like this, we need the laughs
@ms.annthrope4154 ай бұрын
Maybe that slapstick crap gets old really quick. The manic zany circus atmosphere is really tiresome. And those suits. My eyes hurt.
@demef7584 жыл бұрын
Try imagining an act today where the band leader fires off a couple of shots on a revolver for comedic effect! Cop stops Jones for speeding. "What's that revolver for?" "That? Oh, I'm a bandleader. It's part of the act." "Okay, have a good day, sir!"
@brittakriep29384 жыл бұрын
From the late 50s to late 90s sometimes the swiss singer/musican Hazy Osterwald appeared in german TV. When performing the song ,Kriminaltango' one band member always fired a blank shot.
@sablatnic80309 ай бұрын
Just for information, he mostly used blanks in it!
@duncandruhl15154 жыл бұрын
Chicago used to have entertainment - now is has lots of bodies and politicians that would make Huey Long blush.
@SteveStalzle5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Spike Jr.!!
@scrumsie7 жыл бұрын
Gottta love that belt buckle.
@MrRichiekaye6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Consummate professionals!
@derekburhans655910 жыл бұрын
She had the band in stitches, for sure.
@sarsgarrs Жыл бұрын
50years before my time but so glad these are a treasure!
@EnemyAce885 жыл бұрын
If you see it here, you can have it!
@gillestremblay34654 жыл бұрын
Well, no need to wonder anymore why he was Frank Zappa's earliest influence.
@williampaulbeaugruendler79014 жыл бұрын
...and Weird Al's!
@timothytikker3834 Жыл бұрын
...and Peter Schickele's!
@TomBarrister11 жыл бұрын
Spike Jones at his best.
@fernandogarajalde4066 Жыл бұрын
1:13 Spike’s double-take gave the gag away but was such a “spontaneous reaction” to Laverne’s body language. 😆. Definitely a ratings booster!
@lenhummel576614 күн бұрын
Absolutely brilliant comedic crazy music satire and oodles of talent. They were tops.
@nickmad8873 жыл бұрын
love the old ones
@ColtDee2 ай бұрын
Fantastic Spike Jones and the gang are great.
@anthonylowder66872 жыл бұрын
Wonder what ever happened to his guest…..she has a outstanding voice!!
@lesliefish47532 жыл бұрын
Damn, does anybody notice what a great voice she's got?
@Steinwaygrande10 жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant - pity we dont have that sort of entertainment any more, insted of the garbage we are brainwashed with this modern crap day in and day out.
@elfcounsul Жыл бұрын
Vaudeville is dead. Music back then was just like today, some great, some so so, and some total garbage.
@ArmenChakmakianАй бұрын
6:08 - no count off. Spike just raises his hands as part of the act and the entire ensemble comes right in with him when he strikes the first note, right on the beat and super tight! Great ensemble!
@trevormiles58524 жыл бұрын
I sure hope us humans are judged by these talents . Who would ever not want to not be friends with us.
@johnmitchelljr2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@petermaxwell29655 жыл бұрын
A lovely little arpegio it is too 🎵
@BooBop19873 жыл бұрын
That is so cool!
@alfgarnet-nq6dl Жыл бұрын
NOW THATS ENTERTAINMENT NOT LIKE THE CRAP OF TO DAY R I P SPIKE J , T Y
@joanbonnet8229 Жыл бұрын
This one of my husband’s favorite Spike Jones songs
@zoom75338 ай бұрын
Good old times!
@anthonyhaylock6655 Жыл бұрын
Spike is a genius and so funny
@ryker6richard5 жыл бұрын
FUNNY STUFF
@debruggen110 жыл бұрын
That 's too much....... I pissed my pants!!
@dkneuer Жыл бұрын
Just loads of fun!
@cephoras4 жыл бұрын
Did you ever try Hydromatic? OMG !
@anthonyhaylock6655 Жыл бұрын
That’s a heck of a laugh Mrs Pearson lol
@ThomasPrior-wv6zn Жыл бұрын
BOY DID THEY WORK HARD FOR THERE MONEY LOVE SPIKE AND HIS GANG
@johnbethell19525 жыл бұрын
OMG this had mnearly pissing myself it was so funny
@mickaparrish Жыл бұрын
Happy days when all you needed to be was funny, before the laughter police arrived to police our entertainment.
@TheBartok445 жыл бұрын
9:26!!!!! I laughed my ass off!
@mplsmark222 Жыл бұрын
I have been watching these Spike Jones videos because I’d never heard of him until I watched the Last Waltz film by The Band. Up on Cripple Creek has a line about Spike Jones. After watching a few I can see why I didn’t know about him, kind if the same joke over and over with different song and people. Glad he had such a following, but it’s not my cup of tea. Still don’t know why they say “can’t take the way he sings”, I can’t find a video where he sings at all.
@Accam5708 ай бұрын
That line in the Band's song is referring to the Spike Jones parody of the Ink Spot's song, 'You Always Hurt the One You Love.' There's a singer and a narrator, who has a southern accent - if you listen to it you'll understand. And no, Spike didn't sing, the idea that Spike was doing both voices is what makes it funny.
@drdischord10 жыл бұрын
FWIW the song actually starts at about 7:40
@PatrickRsGhost10 жыл бұрын
Actually it starts at 6:10.
@theninjafilmcompanyvidioan62356 жыл бұрын
Stand aside the goon show!! Here come SPike👴
@DoubleAgents9 жыл бұрын
She sounds a LOT like whoever sang the part of Carmen in Spike's 'Carmen Murdered'.
@burnleysayswhat45504 жыл бұрын
No, the female vocalist on "Carmen..." was Eileen Gallagher.
@TheIgnatzz4 жыл бұрын
It's funny, but so many of the jokes are about LaVerne Pearson's weight, and she's such a lovely woman.
@keithpennington8259 Жыл бұрын
Her name actually was LaVerne Pearson
@alanoneill3065 Жыл бұрын
she's good!
@TheErick555557 жыл бұрын
Un peu de détente haha
@paskuniag11 жыл бұрын
That was Helen Grayco, aka Mrs. Spike Jones, who sang "Glow Worm" both on the record and here on TV. And it's still a hoot to see it again.
@YorkyOne5 жыл бұрын
The lady in the video is Helen Grayco? Don't think so, nothing like.
@The_DuMont_Network Жыл бұрын
This is not Helen Grayco. See later comments.
@telsport9 жыл бұрын
Spike Jones looks and talks like Dr Oz !
@nealsausen46514 жыл бұрын
Tom Loughlin Jr. : You mean You Dr. Oz looks like Spike Jones Don’t you?!
@echoecho31082 жыл бұрын
Don't insult the great Spike Jones!
@glennso476 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember an announcement by Spike Jones somewhere in the 1950s on tv that he was abandoning the funny stuff and switching to just straight up Dixieland Jazz?
@LathropLdST Жыл бұрын
People did not want to listen to him being serious 😂 so he switched back to his more outrageous music shenanigans. And thank goodness he did! No one can doubt his musical savvy, nor play it as he did. It takes a real skilled musician to perform these skits here.
@lenb72756 жыл бұрын
Did mrs. Pesrson know what was going on ? and The baseball bat was that part of the act ?
@markschildberg16674 жыл бұрын
Yes, she was a cast member. This was all rehearsed.
@rogerpropes71297 жыл бұрын
Is the drummer with the bubble Candy Candido?
@burnleysayswhat45504 жыл бұрын
No, this is Joe Siracusa.
@ferriusnillan53238 жыл бұрын
Hehehe)
@andrejshamin1452 Жыл бұрын
👍😂
@kathleenmorrison29085 ай бұрын
I wish I could do that with my fat! I know it's because of her vocal training but still 😂 I think I'd feel better about myself.
@olsmokey Жыл бұрын
... and not a swear word to be heard.
@EliezerPennywhistler8 жыл бұрын
What's with his gum chewing?
@sirstrongbad8 жыл бұрын
+Eliezer Pennywhistler probably because he was a heavy smoker, he died of emphysema at 53.
@spikejj8 жыл бұрын
+Eliezer Pennywhistler Hi - Band leaders and their musicians in his day dressed for the most part in tux's and were very reserved. Spike chewed gum, shot off guns, and he and his band wore loud, checked suits. More ways of not being PC. Hope that helps.
@callofthewillman44693 жыл бұрын
Anti-PC Movement!
@southfloridaarcheryguy114 Жыл бұрын
It’s his thing……
@WeemusStudio20174 жыл бұрын
Kate Smith??!!
@LouT15014 жыл бұрын
Look for her on Bing, she is a singer and also has been on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950
@e-mananimates22746 жыл бұрын
Oh, what is this? A big band performance or a circus act? XD
@danielstump32046 жыл бұрын
yes
@alanberent44285 жыл бұрын
Both. :-)
@alcelaya13655 жыл бұрын
This was prime time TV in 1951.
@fredborne905 жыл бұрын
SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT WHICH WE TO DAY HAVE LOST. NOW WE HAVE SMUT
@Bigbadwhitecracker5 жыл бұрын
yes.
@bwilliams4634 ай бұрын
Well, file this one under 'Not Today.' Political Correctness would not permit it.
@reneblom21605 жыл бұрын
Also before my time. But my dad had a couple of 78 rpm records with 'Spike Jones and His Cis City Slickers' in his collection, and that's how I came to know about these guys. (I remember, that one of those records also contained a song by: 'Spike Jones and His Country Cousins') Having now watched some of these very funny videos of the band here on KZbin, I must admit that I rather prefer just listening to the recordings they made. To me, all that goofing around on the stage takes too much focus away from Spike Jones' clever musical arrangements.
@RatPfink6611 ай бұрын
> 'Spike Jones and His Cis City Slickers' not so cis here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqbQZYuCbt2ShNU