| 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) |