Spike Jones and The City Slickers (1953)

Spike Jones and The City Slickers (1953) - MDA Telethon

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Check out Spike Jones and The City Slickers during the 1953 MDA Labor Day! Spike Jones and The City Slickers' comedy routine will have you laughing out of your chair! You don't want to miss this!
The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an enchanting yearly variety show that ran for half a century. Hosted for many years by Jerry Lewis, the telethon featured top stars from the world of music, comedy, and Broadway and was like no other show on earth.
The telethon was created to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is leading the fight against muscular dystrophy. MDA dedicates itself to strength, independence and life. To learn more about MDA and to donate, please visit www.MDA.org.

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@timbarnes-trb Ай бұрын

Huge Slicker fan here! Never saw this clip before! Thanks for making it available!

@TubeNotMe 11 ай бұрын

One of the great comedic geniuses now lost in the past. So great to see this performance still preserved!

@patriozeb 5 жыл бұрын

Thats my Dad playing the Bass Trombone I was thrilled to find the clip!

@78rpmblog 5 жыл бұрын

He's doing a superb job to keep a straight face to Freddie Morgan's antics.

@demef758 4 жыл бұрын

It took a ton of will power to keep a straight face as Pop did while Freddie did his thing!

@josephinerimmer6888 4 жыл бұрын

Patrick Nole Wow!!!

@josephinerimmer6888 4 жыл бұрын

Was he good at Poker? He shoulda been with that face. God bless all of them, we will never see their like again. Xxx

@patriozeb 4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t gamble but he was alot of fun! Love my pops

@deepblue1963 Жыл бұрын

Amazing musicians. When Spike paused the comedy during their shows and they just jammed. It was mind-blowing! 💯👊🏻

@ThomasPrior-wv6zn Жыл бұрын

ITS 2023 I LOVE THESE GUYS STILL AS FUNNY NOW AS THEN R I P SPIKE AND SLICKER,S

@andyleclerc3600 Жыл бұрын

Forget trying to keep s straight face once Freddie Morgan starts his bit🤣🤣🤣

@LUSCIOUSDUNCAN Жыл бұрын

i was born in 1990. i ostensibly should perceive this as a painfully cringey relic of a bygone era BUUuuUUuuUT i gotta say this is unbelievably funny. the banjo player is SUCH a good physical comedian it's insane

@baumcollcsame7871 5 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! 1953 MDA Telethon with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis still together! And Spike Jones and his City Slickers at their finest. This video is a great find!!

@jokerfreak1973 11 ай бұрын

I want so bad to find videos of Spike Jones. He was introduced to me when I was a child by my Grandfather when he was alive.

@johnmitchelljr Жыл бұрын

Never disappoints. Thank you.

@demef758 4 жыл бұрын

Jones had the good sense to know that when you have great comedic talent on the staff, such as Freddie Morgan, then you let them do their things, stand back, and enjoy it with the audience. Although Jones is the straight man here, you can see Jones bust out laughing @ 4:07. What a fantastic act Jones had!

@omalone1169 Жыл бұрын

when they claim that they dont see colour

@qqleq Жыл бұрын

I only know Morgan form Spike Jones, but I can see immediately that he is one of the best in clownery that I've ever seen.

@williamcaspers7087 11 ай бұрын

My mom famous dancer all over the world first husband was banjo great Freddie Morganstern.. two seldom together due to different talents yet had my gorgeous step sister Ann.. who died recently in her 80's our mom Sethma Williams died 2014 at 99... Freddie and Eddie Peabody considered two of the world's best banjo players in their time and both revered by banjo players around the world 🌎

@petelarose998 3 жыл бұрын

😉☺😊😄 Spike Joan was a genius and also very very funny I've always loved his music good Peter

@omalone1169 Жыл бұрын

please what brings you here

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

The only time no one needs to shout 'More Cowbell!' 🙄 😊

@thepizzasnobofnepasnj3730 3 жыл бұрын

Surprised to learn the MDA telethon has been around that long.

@phillipnelson6076 2 жыл бұрын

For many of the early years it was only on a few TV stations.

@j.c.b6473 2 жыл бұрын

Madness! 😂

@michaelthomsen4919 Жыл бұрын

Chaos pilots and break dancers ... before they where invented. Amazing

@wilihgrolsch3544 5 жыл бұрын

Timeless. Genius. 'That's a killer!' I laughed at your wedding. At last they were rid of youooooo!

@johnsturdy6429 4 жыл бұрын

beat that!!! impossible

@carolynebbert1482 Жыл бұрын

Could that have been the worlds first break dancer at the 6:39 time stamp? Seen him doing more extensive moves elsewhere.

@carolynebbert1482 Жыл бұрын

Could someone tell us his name?

@KlandestinosProducciones 5 жыл бұрын

6:39 The very first BREAKDANCE ever

@exploreguitar684 4 жыл бұрын

First thought the same, but have a look here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5qBeNJ2rty5pZ8.html

@KeithE4 3 жыл бұрын

@@exploreguitar684 -- That film was from 1946. Curly Howard of the Three Stooges was "break dancing" a decade earlier. Woowoowoowoowoo!

@ellenrosenblatt5463 2 жыл бұрын

First came Spike Jones in the 50's followed by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 60's.

@davidwesley2525 9 ай бұрын

80s , 90s & 2000s came Weird AL Yankovic. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@zacharydetrick7428 2 күн бұрын

And don't forget Peter Shickele

@jackfitzpatrick5566 Жыл бұрын

Crazy to think Spike Jones and Dean Martin interacted at some point. I don’t know why this is a crazy concept but they’re such polar opposites.

@AudiophileTommy 10 ай бұрын

🤯I now know where Rowan Atkinson got his character Mr.Bean from (watch the banjo player at the start of this performance .

@MikeSmith-eb2jm Жыл бұрын

I can see where Mad Magazine got it's character Alfred E Newman

@screamingeagle3032 3 жыл бұрын

Is that Dean Martin in the beginning clip?

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Dino and Jerry were still speaking to each other then.

@MrTruckerf 6 жыл бұрын

Freddie Morgan reminds me of Harpo Marx at times, and the whole schtick here is one of bedlam and chaos in the fashion of the Marx brothers.

@batouttahell454 Жыл бұрын

Anyone remember ERNIE KOVACS???

@pianopappy Жыл бұрын

Yes, from the time he first went on television on WPTZ, channel 3, in Philadelphia in the early 1950's. His zany program, called "Three to Get Ready", aired in the early-morning time slot eventually taken over by NBC's "Today" show. Ernie, himself, later starred in daytime and evening network programs on NBC and later on ABC. He often used music in his bits until he died in January 1962 in a one-car accident.

@russs7574 8 ай бұрын

Kovacs was hysterical. He is generally credited with developing "blackout comedy," which was raised to another level in the late 60's/early 70's on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In." Not only that, he was married to Edie Adams, who was hot, hot, hot.