Billy Barty is tremendous here. In just a couple of minutes we get to see his energy, wit, vocal range and broad comic abilities. What a gifted and wise performer.
@ColtDee8 ай бұрын
yes.
@davidwesley25257 ай бұрын
@@ColtDeeBilly Barty was in a Number of Saturday Morning Kid Shows. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@educatethemax97144 жыл бұрын
And all these shows were done LIVE! What timing, what talent. Nothing like it anymore. Thank goodness for KZbin preserving such wonderful entertainment history.
@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b Жыл бұрын
Live, but I am guessing they rehearsed.
@gregorypalmer5403 Жыл бұрын
Supposedly he got the Network to pay for guys who timed sight and sound gags for cartoons. Spike Jones was hard working, always thinking, and his band had a reputation among experts as one of the best in terms of technique .
@Blissterd16 жыл бұрын
So cool to see Billy Barty here! In the 80's, I was an extra on Wierd Al Yankovic's film "UHF" and during a night shoot outside of Tulsa, OK where it was shot, during crowd scenes at the "TV station", I was hanging out, waiting for them to set the next shot when I heard that little voice of his say, "Hey buddy, could you give me a lift?" It was Billy, who wanted me to help him onto the hood of a truck so that he could watch what was going on. (BTW, I am 6' 4"!) I heaved him like a beer keg onto the truck and hung out with him and chatted until he was ready to go get ready for his next shot. Such a fun memory!
@petermaxwell29655 жыл бұрын
You must be like a 💯 ! Lol
@houngandave5 жыл бұрын
what impresses me, is how much talent he had. i knew how funny he was, i didn't know he could sing or do such great impressions.
@Zeusmelikios5 жыл бұрын
The great Billy Barty!? Wonderful!!!
@THE-HammerMan4 жыл бұрын
That's one great great memory! Billy Barty was a gifted man. A truly generous and 'liked by all' personality. He was as big as they come!
@user-bg7vm5oo4e4 жыл бұрын
HOW AWESOME!!!!! Loved Billy Barty Growing up!!
@kenkemzura9036 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of meeting Billy Barty in the 1990's on two occasions. I remember he had a kids show on a local station in the mid 1960's. He would end it by always saying, " Always think big!" Thank you Billy for all the great memories and your contributions.
@pronkerpronker67087 жыл бұрын
Great! I didn't realize Barty did all these impressions - I saw him once at a collectibles show in Vegas, a treasured memory.
@sooz94333 жыл бұрын
I loved Billy Barty. All of Spike Jones programs were great.
@Jcolinsol9 жыл бұрын
Man, Billy Barty, not just a stellar on-screen performer but voice actor and impressionist par excellence.
@KennyRyman6 жыл бұрын
He did shows for Sid & Marty Krofft...
@rotunda576 жыл бұрын
And, his son is almost 6' tall.
@DantheToonMan3 жыл бұрын
It’s the Jimmy Durante impression that gets me!
@leonardtooley445310 жыл бұрын
spike jones and company-absolute genius
@fredrick4433 жыл бұрын
Haha!!! My dad introduced these guys to me 40 years ago. Love it!!!
@johnquesnel63558 жыл бұрын
Love these blasts from the past. Wish there was more fun stuff like that these days on tv and live shows.
@KevyNova5 жыл бұрын
That Johnny Ray impersonation absolutely killed me!
@jeffreycraven81545 жыл бұрын
I stuck this video in my You Tube library under "Big Band Swing" to give the unsuspecting a charge. Please consider checking out my channel's category, "Comedy, my style".
@MorrigansRaven3944 Жыл бұрын
⚘Jeffrey...you have great taste. Love your other video collections, too.
@neshobanakni8 ай бұрын
I don't recall Johnny Ray ever pulling off his clothes...
@fo-sho10 жыл бұрын
I can't believe people don't know about this stuff. Spike Jones was the internet before the internet.
@baumcollcsame78716 жыл бұрын
Great, great childhood memories!! Couldn't wait every week for the Spike Jones show to come on! My favorites were Billy Barty and Ishcabible!!! How I miss those innocent days. 😥
@arthurcabral956110 жыл бұрын
The Billy Barty show was some of the best "live television broadcast" done in the early nineteen sixties. There is no known film footage left. He would start with a song and dance, tell some funny jokes, then tell the kids who his guest were. There would be stage magicians, jugglers, clowns, and later on, cartoon shows. - Oh the humanity!
@berzerker11008 жыл бұрын
Arthur Cabral I was fortunate to have been on the billy barty show my name was called I came down from the audience, I was with my Cub scout troop LOL must have been about 1965-66 don't remember the exact date??
@THE-HammerMan4 жыл бұрын
@@berzerker1100 Cool!
@THE-HammerMan4 жыл бұрын
I loved his show, and tried to never miss it. He was one of a kind-- and dearly missed!
@secretagentviper83823 жыл бұрын
@@berzerker1100 before my time, Im mid 40s but why haven't any shows been saved
@Dr.Thirteen Жыл бұрын
@@secretagentviper8382 they were probably sent out live
@tangobango96538 жыл бұрын
Very silly, but some hugely talented musicians here! Luv it!
@gregorypalmer5403 Жыл бұрын
Even the arrangements were carefully drawn. To get the song across without drowning out the humorous, dialogue and/ or gags.And anvils and pistol shots and banjoes... Really brilliant. Practice made perfect for the Spike Jones bands. In fact, an inconvenient truth for some leftists the model band for Louis Armstrong when he briefly had his own dance band... was.... Guy Lombardo!!! I couldn't believe it. But Armstrong wanted the precision that was so totally the Lombardo calling card !!! LOL Callaway and Lunceford were the same. Don't know who their arrangers were but they liked the White precision bands, for sure.
@porchfyre61210 жыл бұрын
Bill Barty was the little assistant in Krofft Supershow's, "Dr.Shrinker" back in the 1970's. It's hard to believe, looking at him in this old clip from the 50's, that he would live up to the year 2000.
@virginiawintersmith15096 жыл бұрын
I'm loving this! Thanks so much for making this priceless entertainment available!
@zionisimkills10987 жыл бұрын
" Billy Barty " was the best. I grew up watching his show in the early sixties. Favorite actor of all time.
@lonewolf2610002 жыл бұрын
Those musicians were absolutely perfect. Back when you had to literally outshine a star in the sky to get on television
@mr.roboto67132 жыл бұрын
Talent like this does not exist any more. Thank goodness they have great moments like this recorded.
@guynorth3277 Жыл бұрын
It was so daringly cornball, I'm astonished, he was ahead of his time.
@sunni4011 жыл бұрын
Love, love, love it..Thanks for sharing..
@Buffaloc5 жыл бұрын
I loved to watch this show when I was a kid.
@aprilmoreau68637 жыл бұрын
Billy Barty sure does bring back memories of my childhood ! remember his show in the 60's and how he would go into the audience and talk with the kids , tell jokes etc ,he was on everyday after school in the L.A. area then ,I couldn't wait to get home to watch his show after school ...ah those were the good old days :)
@glennjohnson81707 жыл бұрын
Glenn Johnson Pure magic.Love everything about Spike Jones and his band.Saw Billy Barty a year ago on a repeat of,i believe "Highway to Heaven" with Michael Landon.Thanks for this posting.
@davidrobinson83372 жыл бұрын
That man was incredible!
@darwinswille3795 Жыл бұрын
That little guy is very good this is a classic
@p8ryot5 ай бұрын
Such comical genius and talent. Just can't duplicate it today
@benjaminperez23263 жыл бұрын
I have this album. Spike Jones Murders the Classics
@benjaminallan-clark1746 жыл бұрын
Dang. Billy the kid! What an act. Great! Thanks.
@isaiahvillarreal45124 жыл бұрын
I ran cross country in high school, We competed at Pierce College in Woodland Hills Ca. Billy Barty would show up almost every week to see someone compete. Real cool to see him here in his prime.
@secretagentviper83823 жыл бұрын
Damn the dude was everywhere, and a great man from what I've heard, what year was you in school
@isaiahvillarreal45123 жыл бұрын
@@secretagentviper8382 Class of 83
@dankwartdenkhardt57148 жыл бұрын
I think this could be an example for the residents. If the residents would had made their tunes in the 40 s, it probably would had sounded like that
@rogerb56156 жыл бұрын
So few folks realize that it is many times harder to play good (fast) parody music than straight off the score.
@steffenrosmus18645 жыл бұрын
Well said
@ginnyjollykidd4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@slicksnewonenow3 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY...Kind of like when Victor Borge would play "upside down" or backwards... Incredible Musicianship!
@darwinswille3795 Жыл бұрын
This guy is good I can’t stop watching the little fellow
@olddoggeleventy2718 Жыл бұрын
I would have been 12 months old when this was done but I do remember Billy Barty from 60's television. Mostly from his appearances on The Red Skelton Show. Small in stature but VERY large in heart.
@miked17656 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that Billy Barty was so talented.
@supercherry5 Жыл бұрын
0:27 0:47 great clip of Freddy Morgan (the one with white spots on his suit) on the banjo!
@rotunda577 ай бұрын
He was probably the best banjo player in the US in his time. You would think the video was sped up but it wern't.
@jsilence4187 жыл бұрын
This stuff should sell today,with the attention spans of younger people being what it is, this is fast stuff !
@MarkMcCluney6 жыл бұрын
Billy's Durante is astonishing, he sounds just like him!
@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai7 жыл бұрын
Those Banjos play pretty fast.
@onsesejoo26058 жыл бұрын
They throw in three musically different ideas within one and half minute where as nowadays they repeat the one for five.
@hudsonsteele16745 жыл бұрын
I thought it looked like Billy Barty on the thumbnail. I finally remembered his name, but still had to come on and be sure... he sure was limber when he was young! Quite the impressionist, too.
@janedoe52294 жыл бұрын
Now THAT'S entertainment!!! :)
@MichaelHansel11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this!
@rtothes9367 жыл бұрын
"Cripple Creek", by "The Band", brought me here.
@KevyNova5 жыл бұрын
Wow, haha!
@secretagentviper83823 жыл бұрын
Talent pouring over, and those gorgeous nurses, you know they had to beat the band off of them
@jeffj93224 жыл бұрын
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
@PaulLea6 жыл бұрын
Very fit and clever people who loved to be crazy.
@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b Жыл бұрын
I just watched Billy Barty in his very first film (unverified on IMdb but listed) as an infant with Mickey Rooney, its a silent short called Mickey The Detective and posted on YT.
@Illuminate-gg5yt5 ай бұрын
Great Billy Daniels impersonation on Old black magic.
@dontaylor7315 Жыл бұрын
As a kid I loved Spike Jones's records but when the tv show went on the air, somehow I never got into it. I had no idea Billy Barty was part of what I was missing. I knew him on the Peter Gunn series but totally missed the real range of his talents.
@felixdk872710 ай бұрын
I can second that. I think that the records let you use your own imagination, as to what went on, when you listened to them, but the TV-shows limit your imagination.
@LaurentJames3 жыл бұрын
La Main Gauche en plein délire.
@mattanderson63366 жыл бұрын
Today's generation can't comprehend this style of comedy.
@Optimalillusion4 жыл бұрын
There's one where Billy sings as Liberace. It'll kill ya if you hadn't heard it before!
@bennyjazzful11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant cover.
@dutchharrysm88 жыл бұрын
Made my day ;-)
@VAXHeadroom12 жыл бұрын
I want to see Bela Fleck play the banjo like that :D
@dollhaus17 жыл бұрын
this is awesome..thx for the laugh
@JMDinOKC8 жыл бұрын
Growing up in L.A. in the Sixties, I remember watching Billy Barty's live afternoon show, where he was supposedly the emcee of a circus. I never saw him actually act or sing. In the late 60s he had a cameo on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he played Toulouse-Lautrec against David Frye's LBJ. Frye's line (as LBJ) was, "That's a little too loose, Lautrec," whereupon Barty kicked him.
@ihavefallenandicantreachmy21138 жыл бұрын
I was just fixin to ask if that was Billy Barty. Thanks. Remember him in Night Patrol? Billy Farty. Goofy good times
@FourHbcaps8 жыл бұрын
Also great in two 1970s movies with Chevy Chase (Foul Play & Under The Rainbow).
@brianneale2006 Жыл бұрын
We had a friend who could play the Accordion and the Banjo very well he was a painter and decorator by trade
@olive64059 жыл бұрын
Wish someone would post his impression of Liberace.
@66thru68veteran9 жыл бұрын
leo powers It used to be here on u-tube, one of the greatest skits ever. I always remembered seeing it when i was a little boy, whipped cream coming out of the candelabra. a lot of other bits done by Billy were taken off also. It might have something to do with Spike Jones estates .
@christopherlucy17723 жыл бұрын
What an act priceless 👍😄⚰️
@VanessaDillon-x3s2 ай бұрын
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!!!
@bliastreb64665 жыл бұрын
Billy B A Genius performer!
@hollygarnish73958 жыл бұрын
Somewhere out there is someone who is as turned as me wit this gig
@stevecannon47802 жыл бұрын
Billy Barty was amazing. He could sing, dance and was an amazing gymnast. He could also act and do impersonations of stars. What a loss ! I feel sorry for the young people who only know him from the Wizard of Oz or other small parts (no pun intended but....)
@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b Жыл бұрын
We all die, its not a loss, he gave us a win in life.
@rburnsiv3 ай бұрын
He wasn't in The Wizard of Oz
@Jana-x1n5h Жыл бұрын
Unseen talent
@jimmyohara2601 Жыл бұрын
Which part ? did you see it ?? oh ooh, yes. UNseen 😬
@theRealPlaidRabbit10 жыл бұрын
Oh, those suits...
@dankwartdenkhardt57143 жыл бұрын
I think they must have been an ancestor of the residents.
@ponynose49872 жыл бұрын
I was having fun watching Billy, but when he went into his Jimmy Durante voice, I just lost it!
@66thru68veteran12 жыл бұрын
what happened to the rest of the videos with billy . Did you remove them. Ie Billy doing Liberace Etc??? Why?? Can we buy them?
@DoubleAgents9 жыл бұрын
No matter what crazy stuff happened on stage, the City Slickers always ended the number with "TA-DAAAAAA"!!!
@travisdare8241 Жыл бұрын
🎉
@wealthwithoutwages9 жыл бұрын
Third impression was Johnny Ray.
@astolennova7 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Durante is in there. Cagney as well. The Johnny Ray is painfully funny.
@FawleyJude7 жыл бұрын
The first one was Billy Daniels. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2nPZ5awiNWqepY
@29BKing7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I couldn't get it.
@glennhecker44223 жыл бұрын
@dkfelix Actually, the first one was James Cagney
@markbleichwehl4 жыл бұрын
Hilarious and great music talent
@bobgoodman14519 ай бұрын
America was totally American then. So much energy. How can we get it back?
@bbartyfriends10 жыл бұрын
Did you know there's a Bio Tribute Book and eBook authored by Billy's eldest Nephew published in 2002 and still available online? The titles are Within Reach and Billy Barty Within Reach and feature over 90 photo's and has a 4+ stars rating with 9 Reviews!
@pacificostudios Жыл бұрын
Doing so many impressions of famous people is hard. I count Louis Armstrong(?), Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Durante.
@timothysullivan843 жыл бұрын
I didn't know he did impressions.
@thomasklugh43453 жыл бұрын
The first person Billy mimics is James Cagney. The second is Jimmy Durante. I'm not sure who the third was... if a third at all.
@rumginray2 жыл бұрын
Johnny Ray.
@kapryankennedy3064 Жыл бұрын
Musical Da Da, awesome 😂!
@rongreen89626 ай бұрын
That’s the tightest band you’re ever going to hear.
@jeffdawson2786 Жыл бұрын
Spike’s shows weren’t merely by top-notch bands with crazy arrangements & outrageous comedy, they were an experience like no other until Frank Zappa came along.
@rjwh6722011 ай бұрын
Clothes like that, you can’t just buy them off the rack! You gotta get ‘em built to order.
@thomasmckenna53728 жыл бұрын
Who is the little fellow in the movie I know his face
@paskuniag8 жыл бұрын
Billy Barty, who was around for forty years, and used his lack of height to great advantage.
@crorivpro6 жыл бұрын
Radio Land Murders has a pretty good version of Old Black Magic with Billy Barty and Michael McKean as Spike Jones
@nonnayobiznus5734 ай бұрын
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!
@mikeoudt32163 жыл бұрын
I didn't know they did Flakka back then.
@davidwesley2525 Жыл бұрын
Spike Jones was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1940s. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@kentondickerson4 жыл бұрын
I know Billy impersonated James Cagney and Jimmy Durante but I can't remember who the last one was.
@KevinFayte4 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking it was Johnny Ray. He had a big hit entitled, "Cry" and was known to break down in tears during his performances.
@unclejuniorsoprano3 жыл бұрын
BILLY BARTY WASN'T FAMOUS FOR BEING A MIDGET/LITTLE PERSON. THAT MAN WAS TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED. HE WAS A GIFTED ENTERTAINER WITH A HEART OF GOLD.
@larryduvall94753 жыл бұрын
turn out the lights and call the laws
@francislarv3012 Жыл бұрын
Performers nowadays would need a lot of drugs to get that much energy and entertainment
@brucekugler51646 жыл бұрын
who is the nutty faced comedic banjo player on the right ?
@shannonnonameinilovecats04 жыл бұрын
Wow
@stevemcdonald10335 ай бұрын
Who's the guy with the idiotic grin on his face, who plays the banjo? He may have been the earlier-day prototype of Alfred E. Newman at Mad magazine.
@EliezerPennywhistler9 жыл бұрын
Who was the third impression?
@LordlyJeremy9 жыл бұрын
+Eliezer Pennywhistler I think it might have been Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
@frankenrodgers99908 жыл бұрын
+Eliezer Pennywhistler 3rd was Jimmy Durante
@michaelshanks69324 жыл бұрын
Last one (after Cagney and Durante) was Johnny Ray.
@kreerh3273110 жыл бұрын
Record/video: Are You Lonesome tonight"
@scowell6 жыл бұрын
The first one he did was Louis Armstrong, if nobody noticed...
@jameswebb45936 жыл бұрын
Impressions in order. Billy Daniels . James Cagney. Jimmy Durante and Johnny Ray.