Spike Jones - That's Amore

[@23Dakini]

Watching this in 2023! Started listening to Spike on old records my father had in the 1960’s. Been on a Spike bender the last few days laughing my head off! Thanks Spike! You were one of a kind genius. 🤪😆🥁🎉

[@demef758]

Simply amazing. And all done in real time without a single electronic aid or pre-recording of any sort. Stunning!

[@LaurieSavage]

And on top of it all Spike was a brilliant percussionist!

[@allanshulstad1783]

Spike learned to play the drums from Gene Krupa

[@sheilaglover6574]

Spike was always so cool and I love the casual way he fires off a round or two as part of the music. They were the real deal as musicians and they never fail to make me laugh. Thank the heavens we can get still get to see them on tape.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Fantastic Spike. Am now 86 and have had a lifetime of enjoyment listening to your music. Regards to all your fans from England. 2022.

[@sonyahannah]

The singer deserves an award for being able to retain his straight face and actually SING amidst the chaos.

[@ronaldmorgan4734]

Probably part of their contract required never reacting.

[@elephant3109]

he really didnt. but his chuckles were, damn that was professional

[@hudsonsteele1674]

He's used to it. They were always crazy the whole time anybody was singing.

[@andycahill900]

@@hudsonsteele1674 If I'm not wrong, the singer is Bill Hayes. Bill starred on Broadway and became a long-time soap opera star.

[@SuperJNG18]

There were a couple little chuckles, like when the guy kisses him on the cheek.

[@RosehillJewelry]

My father loved The Spike Jones Show. It brings memories of him laughing loudly when the show was on.

[@larrydevore6657]

I can see why. It's a lot better that what they pass off for shows today. Shows like this will never pass this way again, it's sad.

[@petergant1379]

Pops had an EXCELLENT sense of humor, probably your whole family had fun together, at least, I hope you did! Peace, I'm out!♥️

[@ignorecorporatenews]

my parents as well

[@Kristy_not_Kristine]

Just learned that my grandpa liked this so I thought I'd check it out. He passed on 22 years ago, and it's fun to picture him watching/ laughing. "Entertainment" today is much different today. And not for the better in many ways.

[@demef758]

Correction: "and not for the better in ALL ways."

[@thomasklugh4345]

I remember my family watching Spike on our old B&W TV back in the mid 1950s. Also, everything on TV was done live back then.

[@macronencer]

It's just NON STOP, isn't it? Gag after gag after gag... brilliant. :D

[@HooDatDonDar]

When you reach down and feel There’s a big, slippery eel That’s A Moray

[@richardperkins5046]

When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that a moray.

[@markhorton3994]

When your ass hits the grass like a slow quarterback's youve been sacked

[@hudsonsteele1674]

When you pull up your line, and it wiggles and shines, that's a moray.

[@RobRendahl]

And from an old B.C. comic strip from years ago: If an eel lunges out and bites off your snout That's a moray.

[@BigAndTall666]

A moraine!

[@jaredgollnitz5258]

Spike did all of this while chewing gum. Pure genius.

[@lucguenette7534]

Yes, funny how he always was chewing gum. quite casual .

[@moominsean]

The gum chewing could have helped him keep time while playing. Or it could have just been because he was a heavy smoker and it helped fill time between cigarettes!

[@jillfoley6389]

Oh darling Spike, how could you ruin my Dean Martin song? You are an absolute genius - Cocktails For Two my favourite - I fell about laughing at this and will not be able to see my lovely Dean now without thinking of you! I remember my Dad playing your records in the fifties and I can still hear them and im just approaching my 78th birthday!

[@jjmac3561]

Dean would most probably loved it. Don't forget he had to endure Jerry goofing off when they worked together. Plus Dean would often goof around with his songs when he sang live. He would say "If you want to hear me sing it right, buy an 'albium' (sic).

[@elephant3109]

@@jjmac3561 *def* i think spike jones and dean knew each other. they even do a charity show with them together, dean martin and jerry headlining it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnTYaJ-eZrmksK8

[@JiveDadson]

"When an eel lunges out and bites off your snout, that's a moray." - B.C.

[@hayden3483]

Jill, your comment made me smile. I hope you're still alive and doing very well, God bless you!

[@tumultegrayscale3847]

Spike Jones and his band were all acting and music bosses.

[@dennisdivine7448]

Forgotten trivia, but Spike Jones was an accomplished drummer with Bing Crosby's orchestra before he formed the "City Slickers".

[@TrustJesusToday]

Talented. Clever. Daring on live television. It's good to have this recording.

[@Plazzio]

FANTASTIC - MARVELOUS - BRAVO . . . .BRAVO . . . . AMAZING .... THAT'S THE REAL SHOW MAN AND HIS ORQUESTA - THE BEST SHOW EVER - with all the old resources 50' and 60' Spike Jones it's out of this today (MISERABLE TODAY WORLD) WORLD......

[@glennjohnson8170]

Glenn Johnson How great to view this footage for the first time.My late dad`s love of Spike Jones became infectious growing up in the 50`s and a lot of this Tv footage we didn`t get to see until the 80`s.So clever,funny,professional and from an era that is now due to have a revival!Thankyou for the laughs,i need `em!

[@MrTruckerf]

Didn't get to see until the '80s? I am seeing this for the first time right now and I am a senior citizen! Love it!

[@annabaldwin38]

i grew up listening to Spike Jones, in the late 40's and early 50's. One time, we were living in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Spike played a concert at the hotel just down the street from us - so Dad and I went. OH! We never laughed so hard in our lives! It takes master musicians to perform all those shenanegans. Whew!

[@RootlessNZ]

I loved Spike Jones when I was a kid of 5 and 71 years later I still do.

I m really glad about your observations! I m sure this quality of show is more than our modern society needs and consumes today...

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Love Freddie Morgan and the mandolin.......

[@totocalvo9507]

Always my favourite!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulofreire7520]

Anthony Hengst Freddie is awesome 😂😂😂

[@demef758]

As the old gag line went, Freddie had a face made for radio.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Wow thats 10 times better than SNL

[@larrydevore6657]

SNL are just a bunch of pikers.

[@oldtvnut]

When my dad was young, he and some friends went to a live Spike Jones show, and were unexpectedly escorted to the first row. Then all the practical gags were played on them (like a tray of cups being spilled towards them but being attached to the tray with strings).

[@johnmitchelljr]

My brain has a giant smile. Thank god for Mr. Jones. Great channel.

[@DainGerrUsss]

ONE WORD - GENIUS !!!!!!!

[@jejesus]

Extraordinario!!

[@synthonaplinth5980]

I have neve laughed so hard at a sour note on an accordion in my life....

[@Baribrotzer]

But thet're just the RIGHT sour notes. If you'd heard Lanny di Jay playing them in a modern jazz context with Teo Macero, they'd have been perfectly OK.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

@@Baribrotzer They're not 'wrong' in any sense. They're just FUNNY!!

[@hopelewis5650]

After Spike Jones was the accordion player part of that wonderful show with Lawrence Welk?

[@synthonaplinth5980]

An internet search turned up a guy named Myron Floren as the accordionist for Lawrence Welk. He was quite young at the time of the LW shows and did not wear glasses. I'm not quite sure who the accordion player was, here. He wears glasses and a hat, he looks to be in his mid to late fifties. Even as an older man Myron had quite a bit of hair.

[@janettucker3196]

The cheapest of cheap laughs and we love it.

[@LtPowers]

0:35 Spike totally misses his cue.

[@thehusksnetwork]

He was just being fashionably late with it

[@noelinegrondin1067]

👏👏👏WoW ! Wonderful , crazy and very very good ! 😍i Love it ❤️

[@gillestremblay3465]

Can't help laughing when I hear that off-tone accordion...

[@petergant1379]

This guy speaks to me, on a level both subtle and obvious, where has he been all my life!? Oh, right, for much of it, he's PROBABLY been DEAD! Still, love him and his band's performances! Heck, I'm STILL watching 3 Stooges, although I know almost every routine they've EVER done! Fun Fact; Did you know, the 3 Stooges had an animated series, much like The Jackson Five, AND, The Beatles!? It's TRUE! I'm still waiting for the Robert Palmer Animated Series, where. He poses as a famous singer, and, along with His Back up Girls, travels the World, spying for the Government, ala Our Man Flint.

[@jimcoulter5877]

No one had the Talent that Spike Jones had!

[@maryabernethy5231]

Performers are always trying to do their best every performance. I do not doubt that Spike's guests had their hands full performing with the Slickers!

[@j-man6001]

Hahaha they predicted Gorbachev nicely!! Haha 02:44

[@notperfect.forgiven6042]

I dont care how many times i watch Thats Amore,,, I laugh out loud...

[@MrMartyO1]

Those guys and gals are absolutley wondrous.

[@the_real_vdegenne]

1:30 it looks like Mr Bean get inspired straight from this character, that's hallucinating

[@adriangussolovskiworld9440]

this is so good . Gold 🤗🤗

[@megelizabeth9492]

All of these stunts were performed live, which is crazy.

I think everything it is in playback... It would be crazy however!!!

[@mattanderson6336]

And they could do it without computers.

[@anonagain]

@ Definitely all live and if something went wrong, they had to keep going. There's a good documentary on Spike here on KZbin with interviews of his musicians. During one of the shows one of the crew had a heart attack and died, but they finished the show!

[@hulagun]

And then the confidence to throw your drum stick on the ground and have it fly up and catch it. He must have practiced that for hours.

[@demef758]

Spike seemed to do that after almost every number. He clearly was very, very practiced at it. It was almost as if it became his way of putting an exclamation point after every song.

[@timothytikker3834]

My ex wife adored the Dean Martin recording of this song... so this is a welcome antidote!

[@123cappadocia]

when a fish bites your nose and it's long as a hose, that's amore!

[@crazyman8472]

MORE COWBELL! 😜

[@scottsauers1845]

He was truly the Eric Andre of music in the 30’s and that’s really saying something

[@skyebird3933]

Better than a LOT of today's entertainment.

[@Wizardess]

When a stick has an end that's a 'mallow that's somore'. Gawd how I used to LOVE that show when I was little. I destroyed my 45 of "All I want for Christmas" playing it so often. {^_-}

[@corporalwolf7058]

The original Wierd Al

[@davidkulczyk678]

I want to know what happened to Spike Jones' suit and instruments...?

[@samarthur1847]

Great stuff and of course that is from whom Terrance Milligan got his nickname. But is the gum chewing necessary.

[@joansmith6092]

I haven't seen an inner tube in the LONGEST time...

[@maryannebagala9109]

Spike Jones..was a musical..and comedic genius..!!

[@harrybernstein4745]

There will never be another Spike Jones😂😂😂😂

[@jwmc41]

Great imagination, super musicians, an artist!

[@simondastrange5460]

How Great! A Clown doing it all just out of Love!!

[@donschwartz9585]

The singer is Doodles Weaver who's niece is Sigourney.

[@jimmysnyder1]

No, here's Doodles. kzbin.info/www/bejne/haXJYaxjl9F8hMU

[@paulofreire7520]

Legendary!

[@MikeSmith-eb2jm]

Was that Alfred E Newman on the Mandolin?

[@kurtb8474]

My high school buddy turned me on to SJ. His dad said he got to see them in concert. He said the band had to stop playing at one point because they were laughing so hard.

[@elainebmack]

That accordion wrong note. YIKES!!!!!!

[@dandogful]

Well we know one of Frank Zappas influences.

[@kylekatarn5964]

Weird Al, Dr. Demento and countless other parody/gag artists all can point back to Spike Jones.

[@tanpengjoo7205]

Genius

[@webinator9715]

I can’t take the way he sings but I sure love to hear him talk...

[@echoecho3108]

Up on Cripple Creek ...

[@alexharris3872]

I think Spike got his suit off a guy that sells previously owned vessels :-)

[@echoecho3108]

Same tailor as Herb Tarlek, I believe. 🙄

[@jenniferkelly4702]

When I was in college, I worked summers at a Girl Scout camp. One day we had an international celebration where the girls were split into groups and given a country . Each country had to represent at campfire with a costume, a skit, and a song. The country my group was assigned was Norway. Costume and skit were easy. Vikings. Song was really hard. We ended up singing, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, atsa Norway..." "

[@MrTruckerf]

HA...............HA...........ha....

[@lordeden1475]

Could you a fiord to make such a bad joke as that?

[@brianbell7976]

Kevin Wilson

[@YorkyOne]

@@lordeden1475 Norway could she a fjord to make such a bad joke!

[@HooDatDonDar]

@@YorkyOne Why not? This is Viking country, it’s really axe-iting. Did you know some Vikings got reincarnated in Norway? They were Bjorn again. The head god arranged it. There is a video explaining how available for downl-odin.

[@HooDatDonDar]

3:11 Only video ever made with a gay tarantula. (Tarantella)

[@johcafra]

Watch closely. No sleight-of-hand(s) involved. "Live TV," one take, no second chances, and every musical instrument you think has no right to make music...does.

[@thorkillthered6595]

Spike Jones is the original memer

[@madwhitehare3635]

He's the lovechild of the Riddler and the Joker!

[@indiosveritas]

Spike Jones was a bizarrely unpleasant person .Having a foul temper on and off stage , Jones had open contempt for his fans and groupees. Most people in the fledgling TV industry could not stand him nor stand too close to him , the latter being explained by the following quote from Tv cameraman Jimmy Resnick: "Spike had questionable hygiene habits , refusing to bathe for weeks. New female talent refused to stand close to him . It was a big problem."

[@paulmicelli5819]

Remember watching in the 1950's

[@arizona8855]

Learned about Spike from Dr. Demento.

[@calebrush3833]

Genuine talent .

[@Lasalas777]

I don't know what the historical context will be but I see it as a burlesque, a circus music

[@rickriffel6246]

That banjo/mandolin player with the goofy face, what is his name? I've always wanted to know.

[@rjsegedin7116]

Freddie Morgan

[@7Steveski]

How did that guy keep singing?!

[@pattigee1]

Demented - in a good way!

[@alexandervaneijken7741]

The musical cousins of the Marx Brothers. Never bettered

[@staplesock5549]

if Senzawa was there it would be so much more chaos.

[@blazwings1021]

say did weird l learn his style from spike?

[@lenathompson1733]

This show is a comedy.

[@tamahome1970]

0:20 & 2:31 To Be Continued *insert background music play Runnabout by Yes*

[@DainGerrUsss]

AFTER SPIKE, THE ART OF ENTERTAINMENT TOTALLY DISAPPEARED, IMHO.

[@kenkindrick4227]

Spike liked to chew gum.

[@andrejshamin1452]

👍😂

[@francislarv3012]

Funny funny funny

[@sunnysuzanna]

strange humor after 70 years.... and I hate the chewinggum. But....noooo....nooooo!!! I laughed!!!!!

[@garnerjazz58]

There's an old adage that "you don't chew gum in the orchestra". THAT'S why he's chewing gum...

[@josephclift3662]

Funny is funny forever - and this is hysterical 🙂

[@banjochris]

@@garnerjazz58 Also he smoked a LOT and the gum helped while he was on stage.

[@ernesthastie-gg7kn]

You don't talent like this today

[@ignorecorporatenews]

filmed in early 1950's for TV

[@Musician-r5q]

This is from when you actually had to be Talented and Creative. Nowadays you only have to look good and let Autotune do the rest.

[@warnerbeachful]

Agree.

[@LukanCoda]

I half-heartedly agree. What we are served is swill but real talent is out there and will prevail. 🖖

[@Bob-nu3xe]

0.36 Spike misses his Q but forgiven bless them all

[@eshiffer]

Anyone know the name of the singer?

[@ftargr]

when you look that weird you better be funny

[@dudefrombelgium]

And here i was thinking this came from Dean Martin.

[@jourwalis-8875]

When was this recorded?

[@BigAndTall666]

Some time..

[@echoecho3108]

Spike and his band performed starting in the 1940s, and I watched his tv show in the 1950s. I don't know when this was specifically recorded, or when this clip aired, but I'm guessing the record was made in the 40s, but this clip is from the 50s.

[@antoniopappalardo8976]

😂

[@ЕрлицкМистер]

2021

[@dankwartdenkhardt5714]

the ancestors of the Residents

[@onemarine6666]

Spike chewing gum is distracting.

[@gianca60]

3:15 the guy from David Lynch's Eraserhead.