Research Guru / Moderator
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Dec 14, 2011, 9:18 PM
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Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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The musical satirist and genius was best known for his raucous version "Cocktails For Two."
He was born Lindley Armstrong Jones (an only child) in Long Beach, California; he died in Beverly Hills on May 1, 1965... at just 53.
The 1953 Casper, The Friendly Ghost cartoon By The Old Mill Scream shows spooks having a convention in a supposedly closed opera house, each performing his own specialty act. There's a reference to Spike Jones ("Spook Bones, One Man Band").
In the 1947 Noveltoon The Mild West, a Spook Bones orchestra performs in the desert.
Also from Famous Studios, Boos In The Nite (1950) has an appearance by "Spook Jones and His 7 Creeps."
A huge success for Jones, "Der Fuehrer's Face" was originally written as the title song of the Oscar-winning 1943 Donald Duck propaganda short of that name. It was first titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land, according to the Disney Archives. The Jones record's success prompted Disney to retitle the cartoon.
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters, performed a drunken, hiccuping verse for 1942's "Clink! Clink! Another Drink" (reissued in 1949 as "The Clink! Clink! Polka").
Jones' (Jones's?) "That Old Black Magic" was on the soundtrack of the Disney video compilation DTV Monster Hits (1987); his rendition of "Cocktails For Two" was heard in the direct-to-video movie The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, released a decade later.
Original music by Jones was on the 2009 short Juiced and Jazzed, a production of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Dec 14, 2011, 9:18 PM)
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Key Animator / Contributor
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Dec 16, 2011, 5:27 PM
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Re: Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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It's Jones's. Apostrophe + s is appended to a single owner's name. When there is more than one owner, and the name ends with an "s," only an apostrophe is appended: Jones'. Example: Spike Jones recorded a song, which would be Spike Jones's song. The Jones family recorded a different song, which would be the Jones' song.
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Animator
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Dec 17, 2011, 12:07 PM
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Re: Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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I love Spike Jones. I figured it was Mel Blanc on "Clink! Clink! Another Drink". The drunk voice sounds a bit familiar, like the drunk voice he's used in many cartoons, including Punch Trunk. Blanc was even in the "Soundie" of "Clink".
Some of my favorites include Chinese Mule Train, Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma, and Through Those Swinging Doors.
He also did renditions of classical pieces. Two that he did as background music for radio commentary on sporting events were "William Tell Overture", which was the background for a horse race, and "Dance of the Hours", which was used for a car race. The winner in both races was a broken-down horse named Feitelbaum.
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Apprentice
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Dec 17, 2011, 5:29 PM
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Re: Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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I think "You're A Sap, Mr. Jap" was a Spike Jones song.
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Supervising Animator
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Dec 19, 2011, 5:47 PM
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Re: Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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With NO Spike Jones...we have no Weird Al.
Really...I feel Weird Al's Polkas are a combination of Cleveland's Fan Frankie Yankovic and Spike Jones!
He has a monologue here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GQ9Al0VmBE
And without Spike Jones...Weird Al would NEVER do songs like this!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO9jAfY8fbU
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Animator
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Dec 19, 2011, 7:59 PM
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Re: Thank you, music lovers, Spike Jones is 100!
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I have that "Spike Jones: The Legend" DVD. It is too hilarious. Weird Al actually said in an interview and on the DVD that Spike was his biggest influence.
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