Indeed. Reality TV has little, to no creative influence, not much of a script (whatever IS scripted is obvious), and normally consists of contestants that make an complete fool (a$$) of themselves for the sake of being "on-air" (oh boy, TV 🙄), and chump change when compared to ad revenue. Then there are "game" shows on dumb dumb TV. Even jackpots of $100,000 is less than most 00.00:30 second spots costs. Every commercial costs between $120,000-$$160,000.00 for a 00.00.22 second spot so spare us with the voice over of contestants winning $5000 (FIVE THOUSAND) dollars 👀🙄, 🐑🐏 being played and they haven't got a clue. I understand wanting to "Turn on, tune out" after a long day but these days you'd have to be a complete moron to fall for any of today's do called "programming"
@fluffyunicorn57 Жыл бұрын
@@filmtvbiz Try watching some real tv. If you think Better Call Saul or the Mandalorian is bad, you have no tastes whatsoever.
@ChuckWortman Жыл бұрын
Breaking news....Florida has banned this video. Gov Desantis calls it woke and offensive to children
@karinjeffrey798110 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager, I babysat an eight month old. Her parents told me to play a Spike Jones record when she started crying. Sure enough, she started chuckling and smiling as soon as she heard Spike. I think she would have loved this!
@renemedina36419 жыл бұрын
📨love songs
@markschildberg16679 ай бұрын
Spike’s wife Helen Grayco said he loved coming up with gags and bits of all sorts to keep his TV and stage shows fresh. Spike was one of those people blessed with infinite creativity.
@cogidubnus19538 жыл бұрын
Spike was a genius...especially picking out brilliant musicians with both huge humour and, optionally, freekish looks....(George Rock is a typical example of the former!)....this guy was nutty all the way to the bank... I was introduced to him many years ago by my late mother-in-law (lovely lady), got hooked, and have never repented !
@emilysantoyo9184 жыл бұрын
I’m 23 years old & I find this hilarious!! I love this type of stuff bringing together music & comedy😂😂🎶🎭
@gedbalmer150151 Жыл бұрын
Me too
@kadzunk63 Жыл бұрын
good for you! I feel there is more you than just that. Do you have any relaritves or orther people that could be conected to this kind of music ??
@GODCONVOYPRIME Жыл бұрын
Age is just a number when it comes to comedy. To laugh is is to be human.
@emilysantoyo918 Жыл бұрын
The only relatives I know that loves this type of music is my grandparents😂😂
@emilysantoyo918 Жыл бұрын
A hundred percent agree💯
@anthonyellis3613 Жыл бұрын
Oh the many drunken Sunday afternoons with my parents and siblings listening to Spike Jones singing Beedle Bom, Der Fuerheurs Face, Cocktails For Two and others. Absolutely brilliant satirical works of the 40’s and 50’s. Memories are made of this!!
@JustElia4202 жыл бұрын
I Want Spikes Suits! He was Just the Best! Funny, Brilliant, Talented, I wish the Kids today had a billionth of this commitment to Comedy. Everyone there was just Amazing!
@hestheMaster5 жыл бұрын
George Rock was the best. Little child voices and silly things like slurring and spitting while just making us laugh. And a great trumpeter too.
@wms72 Жыл бұрын
Was the banjo player John Denver's father?
@hestheMaster Жыл бұрын
@@wms72 John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. So his dad was Henry John senior and he was actually a Army Air Force pilot whose nickname was Dutch. Obviously no relation to banjo player Freddie Morgan with his "Moe" style haircut.
@katefox884310 жыл бұрын
Spike is one of those rare creatures who looks like a living cartoon...I adore the footage of him conducting the orchestra with a baton in one hand and a revolver in t'other...trying to find that.
@synthonaplinth59805 жыл бұрын
Chester Gould thought the same thing!
@martnal3 жыл бұрын
It's here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2a7oIefi5t5qtk&ab_channel=CharlesEwingSmith Start at 26 and a half minutes Plunger, not baton, though. Even better!!
This is wonderful! Spike Jones really was ahead of his time. This type of comedy would be illegal today.
@oscarandgroucho9 жыл бұрын
No tape! All these stunts were done live. Man, for an all-girl band they sure had a lot of balls.
@SteeleyeSpan28 жыл бұрын
+Oscar Groucho Yep. In Live TV, dramatic shows needed actors who could do at least utility stunts, or stunt people who could at least act some. Hence Burt Reynolds.
@markschildberg16672 жыл бұрын
Most of them were in Hugh Herbert’s chest.
@adamyourke Жыл бұрын
That’s hilarious!
@kharbear53 Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@shirleyandrews115211 ай бұрын
Yes they were live. Sometimes their blunders were funnier that what was planned.
@TheStevewhelan10 ай бұрын
Best laugh I've had in ages. Always liked Spike & TCS ever since I heard my Dad's collection of 78s way back when but never got to see the grate man ( ;-) ) until Recently and ... boy! what a treat! PS: Rupaul... Eat Yer Heart Out ;-)
@JulienNeel4 жыл бұрын
The energy is so contagious. Fantastic!!!
@finley_seth3 жыл бұрын
Ya said it!:)
@joepalooka2145 Жыл бұрын
How in the heck did they write this stuff? How in the heck did they figure out all the moves and the timing and the music and the choreography? It's beyond amazing. There is nobody today who comes even close to this kind of hilarious black humour. Spike and his crew really knew how to be funny in ways that today we don't even understand.
@StormCrusher94 Жыл бұрын
To easily sum it up, people knew how to take a joke and weren't snowflakes with an easy access to cancel someone for something that they might have found offensive. Pretty sure back then people had to write letters to the studios if they deemed something "offensive".
@dawnsalois10 ай бұрын
Vaudevillians and left over Vaudeville and Burlesque skits.
@lordeden273210 ай бұрын
It's all that jazz and improvisation.
@metlhed7Ай бұрын
@@StormCrusher94 yeah, I can imagine the outrage over spike going "woke" with performers in drag
@Professional_FunHaverАй бұрын
@@metlhed7exactly. If this was done today it would be illegal in like 20 states.
@bennyjazzful8 жыл бұрын
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 72yo Aussie fan. One of the most talented group of Muso's of all time.....
@youngmindedman9 жыл бұрын
way back then, there were great variety shows on tv like Spike Jones. this man was a genius; and great entertainment!!!
@almeggs32476 жыл бұрын
Now it’s all anger and hate. When will the people realize that’s the real source of our massacres
@jubalcalif91006 жыл бұрын
Well said and well put, Percy ! These classic programs of yesteryear are PROOF that a show doesn't have to wallow in the gutter of violence, profanity and sexual vulgarity to be entertaining !
@shirleyandrews115211 ай бұрын
Yep, the good ol’ days 🤣😂
@tonymusolino23694 жыл бұрын
Beats the hell out of anything THAT passes as entertainment these days. We need more of this, and less of THAT. 😂😂😂
@devtrash Жыл бұрын
@@davidekstrand8544 don't watch it, if you don't like it.
@danieldipalma704 Жыл бұрын
Classic comedy and no one was banning drag shows then!
@martnal3 жыл бұрын
Magnificent!! This would upset so many people these days. I love it.
@geoffreypiltz271 Жыл бұрын
No it doesn't.
@DanielBarberMusic Жыл бұрын
I don't know why it should upset anyone, but yeah maybe it would get banned in Florida.
@hollerinwoman Жыл бұрын
@@DanielBarberMusic NO, it would not get banned in Florida. These guys are not serious, they are not trying to normalize their behavior, and they are not reading books to children while demanding to be taken seriously. Anyone with any common sense knows the difference between drag queen perversion and pure comedy silliness.
@22lyric Жыл бұрын
@@DanielBarberMusic at least Spike and the band weren't imitating sex acts, and didn't wear obscene costumes!
@philswaim392 Жыл бұрын
This video is banned in Tennessee and in schools in Florida
@pata2992 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorites...especially Freddie!!
@GeoffPace77346 жыл бұрын
Unquestionably the most insane, zany musical antics on record ( or tape or CD....or..)
@DoubleAgents9 жыл бұрын
Spike always had the best suits.
@paperdain8 жыл бұрын
Probably the best satirical comment ever on producers and sponsors who force artist to follow a certain format. You must have an all-girl band segment and a dancing girls number. Okay, have it your way. And yes, I'm aware Spike produced this himself but that didn't mean that he couldn't poke fun at other producers.
@Jinxterman696 жыл бұрын
Spike was absolutely one of a kind!!!!
@educatethemax97144 жыл бұрын
such talent and timing thewe guys have! I don't think anyone could replicate this madness today.
@andreperrault53938 ай бұрын
And Spike Jones was right in there on everything, like the rest of the band, and could improvise
@olelarsen76884 жыл бұрын
This is drag comedy in the right way(never would mistrust Spike). Some comidians thinks they can just dress up and be funny, or "funny", or even look good. When I was young, we had a man in danish TV who made comedy for youth. One man show. He played men and women. And he didn´t even look good as either. His name was Jesper Klein, and he was the greatest danish comedian for decades. He burned out after some time.
@jesslynstegman5036 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I wore my 45 of “Cocktails for Two” out. Love Spike Jones
@KathyWilliamsDevries5 жыл бұрын
Jesslyn Stegman we wore out Spike Jones Murders Carmen!
@track12192 жыл бұрын
I remember that listening to Dr. Dimento in the 70s!
@FirefighterSEIN Жыл бұрын
SJ's "Cocktails for Two" is my ringtone for the alarm on my cell phone. You can't sleep through that!
@Hopeless_and_Forlorn Жыл бұрын
Cross-dressing humor without hysterical response from the domestic fascists. The good old days.
@DCFunBud Жыл бұрын
This band had a great sound and a great spirit.
@nodlon208 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, my friend's brother (who was a good 15 to 20 years older than she) had quite a collection of Spike Jones records. We laughed so hard listening to them. There was one about a cowboy (Pete and his gang) where they mentioned "girdle creek"....that's quite a "stretch"!!
@dustyrhodes66994 жыл бұрын
They don't make entertainment like this anymore. This is pure comedy gold. This is Marx Brothers level entertainment.
@stephendobbins93169 жыл бұрын
Now This is real comedy and music for that matter! Well during an era of real music!
@HeronCoyote1234 Жыл бұрын
These performers are all extraordinarily talented. Spike and the strong man have wicked core muscles, too.
@tommygaston544 Жыл бұрын
Thanks , I really needed a good laugh today here in 2023 😂😂
@Ronin46144 күн бұрын
It has been a while. Good to see the ever so talented Spike Jones and his equally talented band. I just love the gum chewing Spike Jones.
@user-pn6cc3nw1o4 жыл бұрын
Сколько задора, юмора! Прекрасные музыкальные и силовые номера! Браво! 👍 💖
@sandraclowdus65492 жыл бұрын
what ever you said, 💋💐💐💐💐
@LathropLdST Жыл бұрын
@@sandraclowdus6549 "So much enthusiasm and humor! Great music and powerful numbers! Bravo!" You really cannot read.
@lordeden14755 жыл бұрын
They were the BEST OF THE BEST!
@luvrecords15 жыл бұрын
Loved Spike Jones. This show is so funny. Slapstick at it's best. What a shame this type of entertainment is lost in history. What a talent George Rock was. I still play my Spike Jones records today. I've posted some on KZbin.
@nodlon208 жыл бұрын
Also.."is that the perfume you always wear?? No this is stronger, it's more alive....What do you call it? Corral number five!"
@pcadamson Жыл бұрын
We did the first part of this at All State Music Camp at University of Iowa in the late 1980s. Great to see it again !
@patpatrick34463 жыл бұрын
Wonderful musicians, marvelous clowns, talent in its purest form. Doing all this work to make humans laugh, it was just awesome! To be honest, the majority of humans are not worth the investment artists make for them! Many humans are mean, bad, greedy, do not respect animals, or their planet, or other human beings, or anything for that matter ... They have little or no sensitivity, they are not very sensitive to the beauty of life. Most humans live their lives without thinking, without intelligence. Mr Spike Jones and all his wonderful friends: artists, musicians, clowns, actors without forgetting all the technicians of the show, lighting engineers, managers, and all the little hands without which nothing would be possible have offered us pure happiness. Now in 2021, I don't think we will find artists of this quality in our lifetime. Their work has been just fantastic: Staging, musicians of very, very high level, quality of the sketches, etc ... In short, a colossal work that we will certainly never see again. Thanks thanks ! and again a thousand times thank you! I do not believe in heaven, nor in paradise, and even less in all religions; Obviously it can be nice to think: "they continue, and they make people laugh after their death!" Me, I think not ... Some who "believe" think so; So 50/50. But, when in doubt, I think it is more reasonable to applaud and thank the "real artists" (I say that because there are a lot of fake ones) when they are alive! Kind regards to all of you ... PS: I'm talking about artists, but I pay the same tribute to all the doctors, researchers, engineers, nurses, teachers and of course to all the workers and artisans of all trades who make this planet more livable. For the rest, not being a believer, I say: Death to idiots! (hunters, toreadors, pedophiles, rapists, assassins, mafias, mafia, pimps, drug dealers, bandits of all kinds, white-collar crooks, corrupt politicians, etc.) Leave us alone, and let us live.
@MARKETMAN67896 ай бұрын
Don't lose your positive outlook on life whatever you do
@mikefortune27894 жыл бұрын
Real honest to God perfection in humour, timing and sheer professionalism. I was captivated by the originality for it's time❤️
@RadioHist10 жыл бұрын
Man what a HARD WORKING crew of nuts! Just simply amazing...I found this purely by accident... I'm just about the last person on earth looking for drag queens! And great video quality....
@__avery.___3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say their drag queens, just doing a skit
@echoecho31082 жыл бұрын
@@__avery.___ Probably, knowing Spike, one of 'the suits' said they had to have an all-girl number in the show, and this is the result.
@HeronCoyote1234 Жыл бұрын
@@__avery.___ that’s what drag shows are. Entertainment. That’s it.
@PaulLea4 жыл бұрын
The Kings (or queens in this case lol) of craziness !. We will always love Spike Jones & the City Slickers !.
@stueyalex6 жыл бұрын
Staggering musical ability of all the band
@tomcat28984 жыл бұрын
Roberta Pinkus, the epitome of female grace ... I´m in LOVE !
@davidlafontant2973 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@carnevale366 Жыл бұрын
_"Nobody's Perfect!?"_ 😉😊
@pronkerpronker67086 жыл бұрын
What a fine performer, and he's got great poise as a presenter. :)
@pinkpowderpuff81136 жыл бұрын
Zero vulgarity or obscenity, just very very funny. What's happened to us?
@jubalcalif91006 жыл бұрын
I think it's because too many of today's "comic" performers are lazy. Too many take the "easy road" of vulgarity, profanity & sex to get laughs. It takes TRUE talent to be funny without resorting to "blue" material.
@jonrod873111 ай бұрын
Satan, that's what happened to us. Satanism is wide spread now.
@yukyukyuk133511 ай бұрын
@@jonrod8731 Agree 100%.
@TheFaithArtist11 жыл бұрын
Love how Spike loses it at 11:08 - hilarious!
@lindyfd16067 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine that there will ever be a combination of talent, chemistry, and good natured fun like this ever again. My friends mom had this on VHS and My friends and I would crack up watching it. What I would like to know is who is Petrillo and why is he watching over Georgette Rock, and why is the piano player barefoot?
@SSgtBaloo7 жыл бұрын
Relevant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petrillo
@spikejj7 жыл бұрын
Hi - Thanks for the kind words. Wednesday, December 14 is Spike's B'day (105 years). We have rereleased two DVD set's. One of which is the title you were referring to. (The Best of Spike Jones).
@nealsausen46517 жыл бұрын
Portillo was the then head of the all powerful "A F M" / Anerican Federation of Musicians (the Musicians Union) he (Patrillo was evidently quite a "hard ass" who even instituted a "BAN" on All RECORDING) by A F M members! Ah, the fabulous 50's!!!!
@patrickchambers59996 жыл бұрын
Rumor had it that he was a poor trumpet player from Chicago where there was a bandshell in Grant Park along Lake Michigan named for him.
@larryneumann35946 жыл бұрын
9
@stevesummers577510 жыл бұрын
Frank Zappa obviously watched a lot of Spike
@David_Theisen10 жыл бұрын
Weird Al Yankovic too!
@MikeSmith7465310 жыл бұрын
David Theisen And Dr. Demento, whose he called Spike his idol!!!
@David_Theisen8 жыл бұрын
don't know!!! never listened to Dr. Demento
@gregorytrengove16547 жыл бұрын
Steve Summers iii
@MMOlivier6 жыл бұрын
And so The Monty Python, especially this number :D
@stevecline51024 жыл бұрын
Perhaps my imagination is running amok, but I’ve always thought that Spike Jones bears a passable resemblance to James Cagney with his pinched face and sandy hair.
@ivetterodriguez19944 жыл бұрын
I think it's the eyebrows a bit too.
@kevink9734 жыл бұрын
@@ivetterodriguez1994 Spike's biography says that people mixed him up with Cagney so much when asking for autographs that eventually he started signing Cagney's name.
@MixMastaCopyCat Жыл бұрын
I see a vague resemblance to quentin tarantino LOL
@stevecline5102 Жыл бұрын
@@MixMastaCopyCat Quite honestly, I have never heard of Quinton, so I looked the boy up, and sure enough he has those same pinch faced features of Spike Jones and Cagney. Maybe they have the same genes and DNA, Ha ha ha ha ha
This has to be the funniest thing i've seen this week, shared from a friend,
@otravez39167 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Insane. Thank you.
@gilmangus83 Жыл бұрын
Warning: Viewing this video in Florida is a criminal offense.
@50GreenDodge9 жыл бұрын
"Me and my mate were back at the shack We had Spike Jones on the box She said 'I hate the way he sings but I'd love to hear him talk.'" - Up On Cripple Creek Actually, this looks like group therapy from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
@LinCEllis3 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely hilarious, I'll be watching it frequently, thanks!!
@jongadsby16236 жыл бұрын
wonderful!!!!! Total madness!!!!
@PA-ss5cq Жыл бұрын
Goodness, to think that this has actually become our new reality. I thought it was a modern beauty contest.
@georgebeckydragan638910 жыл бұрын
Put these guys with their wigs in bell bottoms and unisex shirts, and you've got the 70's! They were ahead of their time!
@scottstiefel20616 жыл бұрын
GeorgeBecky Dragan The dude shredding on the banjo would've been A great metal guitarist in the '70s or '80s
@glennjohnson81705 жыл бұрын
Glenn Johnson My late father loved Spike Jones and true to say,so do i.I saw this footage some year`s ago and my dad said,that was unexpected,Hugh Herbert threw Spike Jones.So,guess that WAS unscripted.Classic.love it.Memories.
@wendynine-sc2sv11 күн бұрын
Insanely fabulous! Awesomely done!
@thomasmckenna53728 жыл бұрын
They went to great lengths to make people laugh .I think they are very funny
@jubalcalif91006 жыл бұрын
So many of today's comic performers who think they have to be vulgar & dirty to be funny could a lot from Spike and his gang !
@VictrolaJazz6 жыл бұрын
Great version of 12th Street Rag!
@HollywoodGraham4 жыл бұрын
George Rock (the trumpeter) was a friend of my fathers. He came to the house many times, I tried to emulate him by learning to play the trumpet. Unfortunately I stunk at it and quit........
@chuffpup4 жыл бұрын
That is very, very cool. They were really good musicians. That era was a sparkling, weird and wonderful, never to be seen again.... thing. Sounds like you were in the right place and time. I found some 78s of "Beetlebaum", "Cocktails for two", etc, in the 60s growing up in New Zealand, and it changed my life 😲... Thanks for sharing that.
@andycook410210 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. Found this by chance ! I like it !
@romeysiamese67126 жыл бұрын
Andy Cook me too
@drafe0079 жыл бұрын
my whata beavy of riotous laughs and good humor all around.
@nicot93056 жыл бұрын
Hah! "beavy"!
@randalbuhler9042 Жыл бұрын
Always Beyond WOW, a True Treasure that will always be with us in our Hearts and in our Minds and Music ‼️
@barbarafuglein39183 ай бұрын
Krass!!! Gefällt mir sehr gut!😊 Klasse!
@chuffpup4 жыл бұрын
Talented group of ... ladies.
@rongreen896229 күн бұрын
What a band! George Rock was one of the best trumpet players of all time.
@FJMLAM Жыл бұрын
Just Brilliant
@whirlingsu1 Жыл бұрын
They were activists ahead of their years. Or, maybe we’re behind. Artists, raising the vibration. So fun such good music
@geoffreypiltz271 Жыл бұрын
The original noise punks.
@nicolasartheau8224 жыл бұрын
Fabulous a bunch of enormous talents
@joepalooka21456 жыл бұрын
These guys were great musicians besides being hilarious comedians.
@bliastreb64666 жыл бұрын
When drag was still just funny!
@kellybrown6853 жыл бұрын
What are you TWELVE?
@gregorypalmer54033 жыл бұрын
Now it's just creepy and sad. " Prisscilla Queen of the Desert " spoiled " everything. There is nothing sad or pathetic about this Spike Jones clip. They were just making fun of other people, Ina Hutton and the other " all -Girl Orchestra " leaders. His trumpeter, for example , did " John and Marsha" routines on other episodes, was mocking Bandleader/ bugler Henry Busses, not something homosexual. And so here, this parody of all- Girl bands. It was not intended as a slur on homosexual men. Well actually with his amped-up bizarre takes ( my Dad, a musician back then, said they were probably a bit drug-fueled) WHO KNOWS what Spike Jones was thinking?! LOL. He sure was a talent, though, and what a talented band! Great to see Hugh Herbert here, too, near the end of his fine career.
@jubalcalif91006 жыл бұрын
Hubba hubba ! These gals ain't half bad lookin ! Now where did my seeing eye dog wander off to ?? :-)
@callofthewillman44693 жыл бұрын
The trombone player could play my bone anytime
@tonybmusic1166 Жыл бұрын
I’m a semi-retired professional musician and when I joined the union in 1964 James Petrillo was running it. That gag used to crack me up.
@robynowski2945 Жыл бұрын
Finally a entertaining and funny video! Thanks for recommending on my feed KZbin
@UncleDavesKitchen15 күн бұрын
wow, I bet that band was crazy to work with...great stuff, I barely remember Spike, my dad loved him.
@synthonaplinth59805 жыл бұрын
To go from that silly 'It's Tough To Be A Girl Musician' song to an insane version of '12th Street Rag'....wow.
@swrennie3 жыл бұрын
Could this simultaneously be the weirdest and most impressive thing SJ ever did?
@adamodeo93202 жыл бұрын
so ahead of its time
@petelarose9983 жыл бұрын
Spike Jones was geneus.
@gregoryagogo Жыл бұрын
Top notch musicians, all of them.
@jacquesuntel5401 Жыл бұрын
Just discovered this, never seen before. Thank you!
@BassistPaul4 жыл бұрын
Superb musicianship.
@jimnopidy9 жыл бұрын
These guys out-goon the goon show. brliant musicians . and all live recordings
@EliezerPennywhistler8 жыл бұрын
+James Quincey This is so completely un-Goon Show-like, I don't know where to begin. Maybe to say the Goons didn't do music ... funny or otherwise.
@egapnala657 жыл бұрын
You silly twisted boy you. "Ying tong Song" "My September Love" "You Gotta Go Owww!!" Needle nardle noo!! To name but a few!!
@josecalmon81413 жыл бұрын
Muitoooooo bom, em pleno 9/9/2020 (Niterói RJ-Brasil 🇧🇷) vendo essa apresentação divertidíssima de 1952, um humor sensacional até hoje.
@shirleyandrews115211 ай бұрын
One of my favorite songs was the horse race with “Beetle Boom”. We were so unsophisticated in those day. It was BETTER than now.
@BethPaige4 жыл бұрын
Spike was a looker. hubba hubba.
@fredgros66897 ай бұрын
Wish they were around and performing in today's political climate. Like to see them on tour in Florida.