Spike Jones and The City Slickers (1953) - MDA Telethon

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    Check out Spike Jones and The City Slickers during the 1953 MDA Labor Day! Spike Jones and The City Slickers' comedy routine will have you laughing out of your chair! You don't want to miss this!
    The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an enchanting yearly variety show that ran for half a century. Hosted for many years by Jerry Lewis, the telethon featured top stars from the world of music, comedy, and Broadway and was like no other show on earth.
    The telethon was created to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is leading the fight against muscular dystrophy. MDA dedicates itself to strength, independence and life. To learn more about MDA and to donate, please visit www.MDA.org.
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  • @patriozeb
    @patriozeb 5 років тому +100

    Thats my Dad playing the Bass Trombone I was thrilled to find the clip!

    • @78rpmblog
      @78rpmblog 5 років тому +9

      He's doing a superb job to keep a straight face to Freddie Morgan's antics.

    • @demef758
      @demef758 4 роки тому +10

      It took a ton of will power to keep a straight face as Pop did while Freddie did his thing!

    • @josephinerimmer6888
      @josephinerimmer6888 4 роки тому +3

      Patrick Nole Wow!!!

    • @josephinerimmer6888
      @josephinerimmer6888 4 роки тому +6

      Was he good at Poker? He shoulda been with that face. God bless all of them, we will never see their like again. Xxx

    • @patriozeb
      @patriozeb 4 роки тому +6

      He didn’t gamble but he was alot of fun! Love my pops

  • @timbarnes-trb
    @timbarnes-trb Місяць тому +2

    Huge Slicker fan here! Never saw this clip before! Thanks for making it available!

  • @TubeNotMe
    @TubeNotMe 11 місяців тому +7

    One of the great comedic geniuses now lost in the past. So great to see this performance still preserved!

  • @deepblue1963
    @deepblue1963 Рік тому +4

    Amazing musicians. When Spike paused the comedy during their shows and they just jammed. It was mind-blowing! 💯👊🏻

  • @ThomasPrior-wv6zn
    @ThomasPrior-wv6zn Рік тому +2

    ITS 2023 I LOVE THESE GUYS STILL AS FUNNY NOW AS THEN R I P SPIKE AND SLICKER,S

  • @baumcollcsame7871
    @baumcollcsame7871 5 років тому +20

    Wow!!! 1953 MDA Telethon with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis still together! And Spike Jones and his City Slickers at their finest. This video is a great find!!

  • @jokerfreak1973
    @jokerfreak1973 11 місяців тому +1

    I want so bad to find videos of Spike Jones. He was introduced to me when I was a child by my Grandfather when he was alive.

  • @andyleclerc3600
    @andyleclerc3600 Рік тому +3

    Forget trying to keep s straight face once Freddie Morgan starts his bit🤣🤣🤣

  • @LUSCIOUSDUNCAN
    @LUSCIOUSDUNCAN Рік тому +3

    i was born in 1990. i ostensibly should perceive this as a painfully cringey relic of a bygone era BUUuuUUuuUT i gotta say this is unbelievably funny. the banjo player is SUCH a good physical comedian it's insane

  • @johnmitchelljr
    @johnmitchelljr Рік тому +2

    Never disappoints. Thank you.

  • @petelarose998
    @petelarose998 3 роки тому +3

    😉☺😊😄 Spike Joan was a genius and also very very funny I've always loved his music good Peter

  • @echoecho3108
    @echoecho3108 2 роки тому +4

    The only time no one needs to shout 'More Cowbell!' 🙄 😊

  • @demef758
    @demef758 4 роки тому +14

    Jones had the good sense to know that when you have great comedic talent on the staff, such as Freddie Morgan, then you let them do their things, stand back, and enjoy it with the audience. Although Jones is the straight man here, you can see Jones bust out laughing @ 4:07. What a fantastic act Jones had!

    • @omalone1169
      @omalone1169 Рік тому

      when they claim that they dont see colour

    • @qqleq
      @qqleq Рік тому

      I only know Morgan form Spike Jones, but I can see immediately that he is one of the best in clownery that I've ever seen.

    • @williamcaspers7087
      @williamcaspers7087 11 місяців тому +1

      My mom famous dancer all over the world first husband was banjo great Freddie Morganstern.. two seldom together due to different talents yet had my gorgeous step sister Ann.. who died recently in her 80's our mom Sethma Williams died 2014 at 99... Freddie and Eddie Peabody considered two of the world's best banjo players in their time and both revered by banjo players around the world 🌎

  • @thepizzasnobofnepasnj3730
    @thepizzasnobofnepasnj3730 3 роки тому +4

    Surprised to learn the MDA telethon has been around that long.

    • @phillipnelson6076
      @phillipnelson6076 2 роки тому

      For many of the early years it was only on a few TV stations.

  • @j.c.b6473
    @j.c.b6473 2 роки тому +1

    Madness! 😂

  • @wilihgrolsch3544
    @wilihgrolsch3544 5 років тому +3

    Timeless. Genius. 'That's a killer!' I laughed at your wedding. At last they were rid of youooooo!

  • @michaelthomsen4919
    @michaelthomsen4919 Рік тому

    Chaos pilots and break dancers ... before they where invented. Amazing

  • @johnsturdy6429
    @johnsturdy6429 4 роки тому +3

    beat that!!! impossible

  • @ellenrosenblatt5463
    @ellenrosenblatt5463 2 роки тому +2

    First came Spike Jones in the 50's followed by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 60's.

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 9 місяців тому

      80s , 90s & 2000s came Weird AL Yankovic.
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @zacharydetrick7428
      @zacharydetrick7428 4 дні тому

      And don't forget Peter Shickele

  • @MikeSmith-eb2jm
    @MikeSmith-eb2jm Рік тому +1

    I can see where Mad Magazine got it's character Alfred E Newman

  • @KlandestinosProducciones
    @KlandestinosProducciones 5 років тому +6

    6:39 The very first BREAKDANCE ever

    • @exploreguitar684
      @exploreguitar684 4 роки тому

      First thought the same, but have a look here
      ua-cam.com/video/14QEoEIvUuk/v-deo.html

    • @KeithE4
      @KeithE4 3 роки тому +1

      @@exploreguitar684 -- That film was from 1946. Curly Howard of the Three Stooges was "break dancing" a decade earlier. Woowoowoowoowoo!

  • @jackfitzpatrick5566
    @jackfitzpatrick5566 Рік тому

    Crazy to think Spike Jones and Dean Martin interacted at some point. I don’t know why this is a crazy concept but they’re such polar opposites.

  • @MrTruckerf
    @MrTruckerf 6 років тому +11

    Freddie Morgan reminds me of Harpo Marx at times, and the whole schtick here is one of bedlam and chaos in the fashion of the Marx brothers.

  • @carolynebbert1482
    @carolynebbert1482 Рік тому +2

    Could that have been the worlds first break dancer at the 6:39 time stamp? Seen him doing more extensive moves elsewhere.

  • @AudiophileTommy
    @AudiophileTommy 10 місяців тому

    🤯I now know where Rowan Atkinson got his character Mr.Bean from (watch the banjo player at the start of this performance .

  • @batouttahell454
    @batouttahell454 Рік тому +1

    Anyone remember ERNIE KOVACS???

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy Рік тому

      Yes, from the time he first went on television on WPTZ, channel 3, in Philadelphia in the early 1950's. His zany program, called "Three to Get Ready", aired in the early-morning time slot eventually taken over by NBC's "Today" show. Ernie, himself, later starred in daytime and evening network programs on NBC and later on ABC. He often used music in his bits until he died in January 1962 in a one-car accident.

    • @russs7574
      @russs7574 8 місяців тому

      Kovacs was hysterical. He is generally credited with developing "blackout comedy," which was raised to another level in the late 60's/early 70's on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In." Not only that, he was married to Edie Adams, who was hot, hot, hot.

  • @screamingeagle3032
    @screamingeagle3032 3 роки тому +2

    Is that Dean Martin in the beginning clip?

    • @echoecho3108
      @echoecho3108 2 роки тому +1

      Yep. Dino and Jerry were still speaking to each other then.

  • @mellotronage7073
    @mellotronage7073 5 років тому +3

    What ? No latrine-ophone ? (instrument made from a toilet seat that the City Slickers used/invented)

  • @user-ii1eb6eg8e
    @user-ii1eb6eg8e Рік тому +1

    Надо же, ни одного чернокожего...

  • @user-wt2rs2mm9n
    @user-wt2rs2mm9n 10 місяців тому

    Funny as watching paint dry.

  • @mikerca
    @mikerca 4 роки тому

    Terrible camera work though.

    • @pgh45rpms
      @pgh45rpms 4 роки тому +2

      Early tv technology -- it's 1953.

    • @bobboscarato1313
      @bobboscarato1313 Рік тому +1

      They had to belong to the union to get those jobs!

  • @petelarose998
    @petelarose998 3 роки тому +2

    Christ is the ONLY WAY to heaven!!!

  • @GBart
    @GBart 4 роки тому +1

    What the hell is this? Is this supposed to be funny?
    I'm glad I wasn't alive in the 50s, I'd have died of boredom

    • @KeithE4
      @KeithE4 3 роки тому +5

      Lighten up, Francis! If you don't like it, don't post here. Nobody will miss you.

    • @cpbrestvankempen2867
      @cpbrestvankempen2867 3 роки тому +3

      Your comment, on the other hand, now THAT'S fascinating.

    • @Johnny35130
      @Johnny35130 3 роки тому +1

      The studio recordings were much funnier.

    • @joeybonin7691
      @joeybonin7691 2 роки тому +5

      If you have to ask, you don't get it.

    • @danaldrich8278
      @danaldrich8278 2 роки тому +1

      You my friend are very short sighted!