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. 🤪😆🥁🎉
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.
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!
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.
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......
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!
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).
@@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 ua-cam.com/video/pCu7lh1TqzM/v-deo.html
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).
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.
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.
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!
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!
@ Definitely all live and if something went wrong, they had to keep going. There's a good documentary on Spike here on UA-cam 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!
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.
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.
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.
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. {^_-}
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..." "
@@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.
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.
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.
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."
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. 🤪😆🥁🎉
Simply amazing. And all done in real time without a single electronic aid or pre-recording of any sort. Stunning!
And on top of it all Spike was a brilliant percussionist!
Spike learned to play the drums from Gene Krupa
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.
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.
Fantastic Spike. Am now 86 and have had a lifetime of enjoyment listening to your music. Regards to all your fans from England. 2022.
It's just NON STOP, isn't it? Gag after gag after gag... brilliant. :D
The singer deserves an award for being able to retain his straight face and actually SING amidst the chaos.
Probably part of their contract required never reacting.
he really didnt. but his chuckles were, damn that was professional
He's used to it. They were always crazy the whole time anybody was singing.
@@hudsonsteele1674 If I'm not wrong, the singer is Bill Hayes. Bill starred on Broadway and became a long-time soap opera star.
There were a couple little chuckles, like when the guy kisses him on the cheek.
Wow thats 10 times better than SNL
My father loved The Spike Jones Show. It brings memories of him laughing loudly when the show was on.
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.
Pops had an EXCELLENT sense of humor, probably your whole family had fun together, at least, I hope you did! Peace, I'm out!♥️
my parents as well
Spike Jones and his band were all acting and music bosses.
Spike did all of this while chewing gum. Pure genius.
Yes, funny how he always was chewing gum. quite casual .
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!
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.
Correction: "and not for the better in ALL ways."
Talented. Clever. Daring on live television. It's good to have this recording.
I loved Spike Jones when I was a kid of 5 and 71 years later I still do.
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......
When you reach down and feel
There’s a big, slippery eel
That’s
A Moray
When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that a moray.
When your ass hits the grass like a slow quarterback's youve been sacked
When you pull up your line, and it wiggles and shines, that's a moray.
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.
A moraine!
Forgotten trivia, but Spike Jones was an accomplished drummer with Bing Crosby's orchestra before he formed the "City Slickers".
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!
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).
@@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
ua-cam.com/video/pCu7lh1TqzM/v-deo.html
"When an eel lunges out and bites off your snout, that's a moray." - B.C.
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).
ONE WORD - GENIUS !!!!!!!
0:35 Spike totally misses his cue.
He was just being fashionably late with it
The cheapest of cheap laughs and we love it.
Love Freddie Morgan and the mandolin.......
Always my favourite!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Anthony Hengst Freddie is awesome 😂😂😂
As the old gag line went, Freddie had a face made for radio.
No one had the Talent that Spike Jones had!
Extraordinario!!
I have neve laughed so hard at a sour note on an accordion in my life....
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.
@@Baribrotzer They're not 'wrong' in any sense. They're just FUNNY!!
After Spike Jones was the accordion player part of that wonderful show with Lawrence Welk?
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.
I dont care how many times i watch Thats Amore,,, I laugh out loud...
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!
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!
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!
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!
Those guys and gals are absolutley wondrous.
There will never be another Spike Jones😂😂😂😂
I m really glad about your observations! I m sure this quality of show is more than our modern society needs and consumes today...
Spike Jones..was a musical..and comedic genius..!!
1:30 it looks like Mr Bean get inspired straight from this character, that's hallucinating
My brain has a giant smile. Thank god for Mr. Jones. Great channel.
Can't help laughing when I hear that off-tone accordion...
He was truly the Eric Andre of music in the 30’s and that’s really saying something
My ex wife adored the Dean Martin recording of this song... so this is a welcome antidote!
when a fish bites your nose and it's long as a hose, that's amore!
All of these stunts were performed live, which is crazy.
I think everything it is in playback... It would be crazy however!!!
And they could do it without computers.
@ Definitely all live and if something went wrong, they had to keep going. There's a good documentary on Spike here on UA-cam 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!
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.
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.
I haven't seen an inner tube in the LONGEST time...
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.
👏👏👏WoW ! Wonderful , crazy and very very good ! 😍i Love it ❤️
this is so good . Gold 🤗🤗
Legendary!
MORE COWBELL! 😜
How Great! A Clown doing it all just out of Love!!
He's the lovechild of the Riddler and the Joker!
Great imagination, super musicians, an artist!
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.
That accordion wrong note. YIKES!!!!!!
Genius
Hahaha they predicted Gorbachev nicely!! Haha 02:44
I can’t take the way he sings but I sure love to hear him talk...
Up on Cripple Creek ...
Genuine talent .
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.
{^_-}
I want to know what happened to Spike Jones' suit and instruments...?
The singer is Doodles Weaver who's niece is Sigourney.
No, here's Doodles.
ua-cam.com/video/Otf0y-blINc/v-deo.html
I don't know what the historical context will be but I see it as a burlesque, a circus music
This show is a comedy.
3:11
Only video ever made with a gay tarantula. (Tarantella)
Was that Alfred E Newman on the Mandolin?
Well we know one of Frank Zappas influences.
Weird Al, Dr. Demento and countless other parody/gag artists all can point back to Spike Jones.
I think Spike got his suit off a guy that sells previously owned vessels :-)
Same tailor as Herb Tarlek, I believe. 🙄
Spike Jones is the original memer
Remember watching in the 1950's
AFTER SPIKE, THE ART OF ENTERTAINMENT TOTALLY DISAPPEARED, IMHO.
You don't talent like this today
How did that guy keep singing?!
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..."
"
HA...............HA...........ha....
Could you a fiord to make such a bad joke as that?
Kevin Wilson
@@lordeden1475 Norway could she a fjord to make such a bad joke!
@@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.
Funny funny funny
Demented - in a good way!
if Senzawa was there it would be so much more chaos.
The original Wierd Al
And here i was thinking this came from Dean Martin.
filmed in early 1950's for TV
👍😂
0:20 & 2:31
To Be Continued
*insert background music play Runnabout by Yes*
Spike liked to chew gum.
say did weird l learn his style from spike?
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.
the ancestors of the Residents
when you look that weird you better be funny
Anyone know the name of the singer?
😂
When was this recorded?
Some time..
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.
2021
The musical cousins of the Marx Brothers. Never bettered
0.36 Spike misses his Q but forgiven bless them all
Great stuff and of course that is from whom Terrance Milligan got his nickname. But is the gum chewing necessary.
Yes, Spike was a chain smoker, and chewed gum to alleviate his nicotine cravings.
In fact, Spike died of emphysema nearly 59 years ago.
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.
Agree.
I half-heartedly agree. What we are served is swill but real talent is out there and will prevail. 🖖
3:15 the guy from David Lynch's Eraserhead.
That banjo/mandolin player with the goofy face, what is his name? I've always wanted to know.
Freddie Morgan
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."
medieval humor
...chissà se Elio...
Spike chewing gum is distracting.
Man muss auch falsch spielen können, wenigstens mal verasucharchen,,,,