Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Artist Details

Spike Jones & His City Slickers

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Date Born/Group Began: December 14, 1911 (nuguy56789)

Date Died/Group Ended: May 1, 1965 (nuguy56789)

Also Known As:

Davey Crackpot and his Mexican Jumping Beans (City Slicker)

Hangnails Hennessey and Wingy Brubeck (City Slicker)

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (nuguy56789)

Spike Jones (Captain Wayne)

Spike Jones & His Other Orchestra (Captain Wayne)

Spike Jones & His Wacky Wakakians (Captain Wayne)

Spike Jones & The Band That Plays for Fun (Captain Wayne)

Spike Jones and his City Snickers (soweird)

Spike Jones and his Country Cousins (City Slicker)

Members:

Lindley Armstrong (Spike) Jones (Stavro Arrgolus)

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Facts:

According to legend, Spike Jones was a consummate professional musician who took his craft of making novelty music quite seriously. Maybe a bit too seriously. He demanded perfection out of his band and was known to immediately fire those who were caught drinking on the job. (Stavro Arrgolus)

Spike Jones is considered by many to be the cornerstone of and/or father of novelty music and an inspiration for newer musicians of the age to make it. (Stavro Arrgolus)

Jones' musical influence reached far and wide. George Carlin even quotes a sound effect from a Spike Jones record in a bit from his 'Class Clown' album (Little David, 1972). (Stavro Arrgolus)

Web pages about this Artist:

Spike Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (MarlinsGirl)

spikejones.com (artpaul)

Spike Jones Fan site: News (artpaul)

*Appears on the following 56 albums:*
Dr. Dementos 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time	Dr. Dementos 25th Anniversary Collection	Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Christmas Novelty CD
Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Novelty CD of All Time!	A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers	Christmas Crackers [Import]
Cocktail Hour [Original recording remastered]	Cocktails for Two	Corns A-Poppin
Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry	EMI Comedy [Import]	Fonk
Greatest Hits	Its a Spike Jones Christmas	Lets Sing a Song of Christmas
Louder & Funnier	Musical Depreciation	Musical Depreciation Revue Anthology
Musical Mayhem [Import]	Not Your Standard Spike Jones Collection	People Are Funnier Than Anybody
Riot Squad	Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Greatest Hits [Entertainers]	Spike Jones - Greatest Hits
Spike Jones Goes Classics [Import]	Spike Jones in Hi-Fi (Spike Jones in Stereo)	Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics
Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics [Import]	Spiked!: The Music of Spike Jones	Strictly for Music Lovers [Box set]
Strictly for Music Lovers, Vol. 1	Strictly for Music Lovers, Vol. 2	Strictly for Music Lovers, Vol. 3
Strictly for Music Lovers, Vol. 4	The Best of Spike Jones and His City Slickers	The Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1
The Bluebirds	The Jones Laughing Record	The Jones Laughing Record
The Ones You Always Wanted But Thought You'd Never Get	The Radio Years, Vol. 1	The Radio Years, Vol. 2
The Very Best of Spike Jones	The Very Worst of Spike Jones	The Wacky World of Spike Jones
Transcribed	V-Disc Recordings	Golden Goofers
Holidays in Dementia	Essential Collection	Dr. Dementos Delights
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time (6 LP set)	60 Years of 'Music America Hates Best'	The Very Best Of Spike Jones
Omnibust	The Worst of Homer & Jethro
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*Artist played on 825 shows:*
	03-12-72, #KMET-72-11	10-31-82, #82-44	12-25-94, #94-52
	04-02-72, #KMET-72-14	11-07-82, #82-45	01-15-95, #95-03
	04-30-72, #KMET-72-18	11-28-82, #82-48	01-22-95, #95-04
	05-28-72, #KMET-72-22	12-05-82, #82-49	01-29-95, #95-05
	08-27-72, #KMET-72-35	12-12-82, #KMET-82-50	02-05-95, #95-06
	10-22-72, #KMET-72-43	12-19-82, #82-51	03-05-95, #95-10
	12-31-72, #KMET-72-53	12-26-82, #82-52	04-16-95, #95-16
	09-09-73, #KMET-73-36	01-02-83, #KMET-83-01	04-30-95, #95-18
	12-30-73, #KMET-73-52	01-09-83, #83-02	06-18-95, #95-25
	03-17-74, #KMET-74-11	01-16-83, #83-03	06-25-95, #95-26
	07-07-74, #1	01-23-83, #83-04	07-16-95, #95-29
	07-14-74, #2	02-06-83, #83-06	08-06-95, #95-32
	07-21-74, #3	02-20-83, #83-08	08-13-95, #95-33
	08-04-74, #5	03-06-83, #83-10	10-08-95, #95-41
	08-11-74, #6	03-20-83, #83-12	10-22-95, #95-43
	08-18-74, #7	03-27-83, #83-13	11-12-95, #95-46
	08-25-74, #8	04-03-83, #83-14	11-26-95, #95-48
	09-01-74, #9	04-24-83, #83-17	12-24-95, #95-52
	09-15-74, #11	05-15-83, #83-20	02-11-96, #96-06
	09-22-74, #12	05-29-83, #83-22	02-25-96, #96-08
	09-29-74, #13	06-12-83, #83-24	03-17-96, #96-11
	10-06-74, #14	06-26-83, #83-26	04-07-96, #96-14
	10-13-74, #15	07-10-83, #83-28	04-28-96, #96-17
	10-20-74