Carol Worth We were and yet are blessed to have had the experience of a Spike Jones. Laughter is great medicine, Pretty certain Spike knew that, also enjoyed being the provider. Be well, Carol.

I'm 70 y.o., and I remember seeing Spike Jones on our tiny screen TV back in the early '50s when I was about 4 y.o.

sorry to be so offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid forgot my account password. I would love any assistance you can give me!

@Kyler Messiah instablaster ;)

@Deandre Dario Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out now. I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.

I used to tape the doctor demento show every Sunday night in the late seventies and I have about 120 entire shows. Eventually I burned them all on CD . Over the years I have listened to the many many times and it's the most interesting music I have ever heard. My favorite Spike jonze tune was when he would play the Hawaiian War Chant . 😂

​@@chriskroll4166 Oh, how I loved the Doctor! I can't hear either of the words, "Pico" or "Sepulveda" without my brain singing, "Pico and Sepulveda...Pico and Sepulveda... Pico and Sepulveda..." (I know this is supposed to be about Spike Jones, but when you mentioned Dr Demento, my mind suddenly became 14 yrs old again and first thought was about the Dr Demento Show!) I envy your collection of Dementia!

I'm willing to guarantee Frank was a HUGE Spike fan. From using everything from bicycles to guns to create musical sounds, (Frank of course was famous for treating every type of sound under the sun as a musical note,) to how rehearsed his band always was. Frank's many Mothers' lineups were easily the most rehearsed musicians in any band other than Spike's City Slickers.

I thought of Frank Zappa during this too. But the one he was really influenced by was the composer Edgard Varese.

"Yeah, I was a massive Spike Jones fan, and ah when I was I guess about six or seven years old he had a hit record called "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". And I sent him a fan letter because of that, and … hem … I was expecting a photograph of Spike Jones in the mail, but instead I got a photograph of a man named George Rock who was the actual vocalist on that … hem … tune. And he looked like a master criminal. It was like a frightening thing to receive in a mail. (...) And the, ah … the guy he looked, ah … if you remember the old Untouchables television series, there was a guy named Bruce Gordon who played Frank Nitti? Yeah. Well, that's what this guy looked like. And he was a trumpet player." - Frank Zappa in Ode To Gravity - Frank Zappa: World Affairs Commentator.

"During the pretour rehearsals, the band members pencil in these 'extras' in next to 'the real notes', so when they originally have the show learned, they know not only the 'song as originally-written' but also, superimposed on it, a flexible grid which will support a constantly mutating collage of low-rent Americana. I owe this part of my creative existence to Spike Jones" - FZ, The Real Frank Zappa Book

It was originally 1 program that I had to split into 2 pieces when I uploaded it. It should all be there (at least everything that was on the tape I transferred it from which was from a TV broadcast).

@@KnowlesKnows Thank you. This is priceless.👍👍👍💖💎

Don’t think anyone would have worried about that at the time, when Hitler was the most hated person in the world. But much more risqué was the gag he did in the TV show (I think not shown in this video) where the backcloth falls down to reveal a man embracing a life-size female doll.

Glenn Lego compared to the stuff we have now, this is a clean as one could get.

She probably doesn't "get" Frank Zappa either.

Spoil sport! Bet she don't like Tom and Jerry either!!😂

It's one of the best comments on Spike ' s artistic heritage . He would love it ❤