Spike Jones
American musician and band leader (1911-1965) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 53
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements and satire of popular songs and classical music.
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Frank Faylen Also in Thank Your Lucky Stars and Variety Girl
Walt Disney Produced Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
Dizzy Gillespie Duets: Cocktails for Two (1934)
Veronica Lake Also in Variety Girl and Bring on the Girls
Art Tatum Duets: Cocktails for Two (1934)
Coleman Hawkins Duets: Cocktails for Two (1934)
Roy Eldridge Duets: Cocktails for Two (1934)
David Butler Directed Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Sidney Lanfield Directed Bring on the Girls (1945)
Jack Kinney Directed Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
Sonny Tufts Also in Variety Girl and Bring on the Girls- Robert Scheerer Directed Swinging Spiketaculars
Mark Hellinger Produced Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Leslie Goodwins Directed Fireman Save My Child (1954)
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Jones as a senior at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, 1929
Jones with some of his musical instruments - empty tin cans - in the background
Spike Jones, Jr. and Sr. with Howdy Doody
Jones and his wife, Helen Grayco, with Bill Dana in 1960. Dana wrote and produced the summer replacement show, as well as performed on it.Awards
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Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with various sound effects, including gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, sneezes, animal sounds and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded for RCA Victor under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and they toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue".
