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Spiked! The Music Of Spike Jones (CD)

By: Spike Jones (Artist)

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Spike Jones Artist Snapshot:

Bandleader Spike Jones spent the 1940s and '50s turning out madcap comedy records that alternately offered original, offbeat songs and satirized popular songs of the day. With his musical cohorts the City Slickers, the Long Beach, CA-born Jones managed the wonderful feat of not only being funny, but also making true musical jokes. The controlled pandemonium they took to the top of the pop charts in the '40s was the result of a top-flight band leader having stellar players at his command, unafraid to pillage anything from jazz to pop to classical music.

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DISC 1 for Spiked! The Music Of Spike Jones (CD) Album By Spike Jones (Artist)
1   Hotcha Cornia (Black Eyes)
2   Pal-Yat-Chee
3   Serenade To A Jerk
4   Knock Knock (Who's There?)
5   Holiday For Strings
6   Laura
7   I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
8   Baby Buggie Boogie
9   Red Wing
10   Minka
11   Deep Purple
12   Man On The Flying Trapeze, The
13   I Dream Of Brownie With The Light Blue Jeans
14   Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song)
15   I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
16   Powerhouse - (previously unreleased)
17   Frantic Freeway - (previously unreleased)
18   The Little Girl's Dream (Part 1) / Miniature Overture / March
19   Land Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Part 2) / Lemon Drop Waltz / Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
20   Chinese Dolls/The Fairy Ball (Part 3) / Chinese Dance / Dance Of The Flutes
21   The Mysterious Room (Part 4) / The Forbidden Room / Arab Dance
22   Back To The Fairy Ball (Part 5) / They Dance On The Seat Of Their Pants / Russian Dance / Waltz Of The Flowers
23   End Of The Little Girl's Dream (Part 6) / Granny Speaks / Goodnight, Sleep Tight
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (9/22/94, p.92) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...a broad overview of Jones' career through rare and obscure tracks dating from one of his first recordings, `Red Wing' (1941), to his final studio effort, `Frantic Freeway' (1961)...."

Title Note

SPIKED! is a compilation of various Spike Jones recordings--some previously

unreleased--with His City Slickers and with His Other Orchestra.

Spike Jones & His City Slickers includes: Spike Jones (drums, percussion); Judie Manners, Red Ingle, Doodles Weaver, Sir Frederick Gas, George Rock, Freddy Morgan, Dick Morgan, The Four Fifths, Jimmy Cassidy, Dr. Horaio Q Birdbath, Gil Bert, Del Porter, The Rhythmaires, Paul Frees, Carl Grayson, The Barefooted Pennsylvanians, Susan Scott (vocals).

Additional personnel includes: Homer & Jethro; Spike Jones & His Other Orchestra.

Recorded between 1941 and 1961. Includes liner notes by Thomas Pynchon and Tim Page.

Spike Jones, probably the only band leader who ever conducted with a starter pistol, was an aural Dadaist years ahead of his time. He brought the art of pop and classical music parody to its absolute apogee. Along with his crack band, the City Slickers, Jones also bequeathed several new instruments to the traditional orchestra, among them the latrineophone (a toilet seat strung with catgut).

This Jones anthology, released (oddly or appropriately enough) by BMG's avant-garde classical label, is interestingly programmed, with just a few of Jones' big hits ("Pal-Yat-Chee," "Laura," "Holiday For Strings") surrounded by more obscure sides. But just about everything here is either hysterical or musically brilliant--or both. As a bonus, SPIKED also includes an insightful liner note appreciation of Jones by the normally elusive Thomas Pynchon.

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