Spike Jones- Black And Blue Danube Waltz

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@josephosheavideos3992 2 жыл бұрын

To keep a straight face as that cellist did with the firecrackers going off around him takes REAL talent. The rest of the orchestra was top notch too.

@michaelmapes4119 Жыл бұрын

Especially when the timing is so important to the gag. Cannot be a beat too soon or too late!

@alfgarnet-nq6dl Жыл бұрын

spike and your city slickers ty for making me laugh so so so much , its 2023 there isnt much to laugh at no comedy now a million thanks amen

@SpooksMcGoose 6 ай бұрын

Keep your humor up! It's not all bad

@davidevans3227 29 күн бұрын

july 2024.. a grey and rainy uk cheered by spike! 😃 ever heard of rod hull and emu? lol

@mongo3029 Жыл бұрын

I grew up to the 78's my mom had of his. Love "the Hawaiian War Chant" and "Cocktails for two"

@pacificostudios Жыл бұрын

Television is fantastic for Spike, because of all the sight-gags he added to what had been only records.

@allenjones3130 Жыл бұрын

A broken kettledrum and a trick cello! And tubular bells that fall of their rack! Spike was a genius!

@ianmorton4136 Жыл бұрын

I always said music should be fun, bit this is ridiculous. I love it !!!

@harrybailey6299 5 жыл бұрын

Pure insanity at its best. Glad we were able to have Spike an his Band and the recordings of his shows

@dayneallensheetsftm 2 жыл бұрын

I had only listen to the 78 speed records my dad had when I was growing up. I loved listening to them and using my imagination as to how the sounds were made. I'm 70 and this is the first time I've seen it being performed. It's even funnier 😄

@deedoyle4069 Жыл бұрын

Me too, at 84....STILL hilarious !!! Thanks for posting.

@larrybrennan1463 5 жыл бұрын

Think how good a musician you had to be to play like that. Jones's were considered some of the best.

@allenbooth5193 3 жыл бұрын

Spike Jones was as much a comedian as a musician!

@larrybrennan1463 3 жыл бұрын

@@allenbooth5193 And good at both!

@bennyjazzful 6 жыл бұрын

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan. PURE GENIUS.......

@deedoyle4069 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. 84yo

@andrewp.schubert2417 5 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic. Love the music, guns and comedy.

@gamleprut8175 5 жыл бұрын

Spike Jones - the first original Punk Rock mucician ever !

@alfgarnet-nq6dl Жыл бұрын

organised chaos brilliant

@snarflatful Жыл бұрын

This act must have slayed in the '50s.

@deedoyle4069 Жыл бұрын

It did!

@senorkaboom 6 жыл бұрын

My dad was a Spike Jones fan from way back. While others in his group were listening to Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, dad said he liked Spike Jones. We had several re-releases of his music on RCA albums and I became hooked on his music. It is good to see others are continuing to enjoy his crazy way.

@hestheMaster 4 жыл бұрын

Wow Billy Barty. I remember him from a 1970 kids show called the Bugaloos and the sidekick to Dr.Shrinker.

@denvan3143 3 жыл бұрын

A priceless introduction to the classics.

@johnnyjames7139 5 жыл бұрын

Spike inspired my love of classical music. Watched him on tv, laughed and laughed.

@glennjohnson8170 6 жыл бұрын

Glenn Johnson I have never seen this clip before!All these years to view all this wonderful footage of a very clever man,professional musicians etc.All live!My late father`s all time favourites as well.Listened to all the records in his collection as a kid!Thanks for this posting.

@odairbonfim Жыл бұрын

I lost it when the tubular bells fell.

@richarddowney1972 4 жыл бұрын

These were truly talented musicians with a sense of humor

@cannedmusic Жыл бұрын

They don't make music like that, anymore. (wasn't that what Spike Jones said in the narration) No, it was "fortunately, they don't make music like that, anymore..." I think...

@randalbuhler9042 Жыл бұрын

Mad Genius 💓🙀⁉️‼️😂😂😂

@nazfrde 4 жыл бұрын

just imagine doing all this LIVE.

@davidhennen7045 Жыл бұрын

Finally some really thought out silly entertainment from the vault of the past.

@joeybonin7691 2 жыл бұрын

Just the thing for that restful night at home.

@maddingo 5 жыл бұрын

holy cow.. that is fantastic...

@ironox8480 5 жыл бұрын

AH spike jones, The living example of the very thin line between genius and insanity.

@BirdLady68 5 жыл бұрын

I like to think I'm living that dream myself.....

@lambchop6278 3 жыл бұрын

@@BirdLady68 😂.... Legend

@rtnproductions5411 4 жыл бұрын

"Thank you, music lovers..."

@user-pn6cc3nw1o 4 жыл бұрын

Блеск! Отличные музыкальные эксцентрики! Сейчас совсем нет таких современных номеров! Super!!! 👍🏻❤️🎹😂

@bockforzelorum01 6 жыл бұрын

Such a kind of creativity..... Wundervoll..... Affentittengeil. ....

@richardpodnar5039 Жыл бұрын

Die Affentitten haben ihn bestimmt gern!😜

@craigchabot3002 8 ай бұрын

I never really watched or paid attention to Spike but then i watched a video and i realized just how amazing he and his band are to be able to put comedy in with the music outstanding

@jameslovelady7751 5 ай бұрын

Knew it was getting old when I bought a 50th anniversary CD and realized I had bought the original 78s when they came out.

@gutmensch9339 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely music....

@pronkerpronker6708 3 жыл бұрын

All the gang and Billy Barty, too! I saw him at a collectible show once.

@lesliefish4753 2 жыл бұрын

It's like the Three Stooges set to music!

@dariomulonia3480 Жыл бұрын

documento stupendo

@brucephilp Жыл бұрын

Completely unique!

@jacksagrafsky4936 4 жыл бұрын

Don't know what I just watched, but I liked it.

@johnnydunstan9163 4 жыл бұрын

INSANE - SUPERB

@helenscott8202 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up a big fan of Spike Jones. But I will say I felt the last 6 months of his tv show really disintegrated into pure chaos, no genius apparent.

@davidlafleche1142 7 жыл бұрын

Only Spike Jones could make a waltz sound like the Three Stooges doing Dixieland.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 6 жыл бұрын

with Ernie Kovacs visuals.

@BerlinBo 6 жыл бұрын

When Television was worth watching!

@andrewey9389 4 жыл бұрын

Anarchy in 4 4 rhythm

@jacobturner3059 2 ай бұрын

They actually used samples from Spike Jones for early Chuck E. Cheese shows.

@IrishAmericanconnection 3 жыл бұрын

Spike and his band is the literal embodiment of 1950s cartoons

@deedoyle4069 Жыл бұрын

Yep. True. I was there!

@edwardnigma2638 3 жыл бұрын

So he creates the term logically insane

@NellieKAdaba 2 жыл бұрын

Yes 😆

@JulianaBlewett 11 ай бұрын

Spike Jones is 10000000000000X funnier than most "comedy" acts today.

@jsl151850b 4 жыл бұрын

I have the CD. 25 of his best known performances.

@NellieKAdaba 2 жыл бұрын

One day, I'll buy his records, I love his music.

@toonamivhs4176 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload.I love this band. So ahead of there time.

@nicholastosoni707 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Monty Python got the idea for "The Exploding Blue Danube" from this?

@jeffcraven7376 6 жыл бұрын

Spike and his band hit the time just right for many people. There will never be a time when everyone likes Spike's brand of humor, but from around 1958 (I was born in 1957) thru present, nothing funnier to me than Spike's band or the later, The Benny Hill Show. Monty Python had it's moments but intermittently as funny as either Spike Jones or Benny Hill.

@dankwartdenkhardt5714 6 жыл бұрын

If the Residents and Frank Zappa had played together in the 40s, it would had been exactly the same.

@josemoreno3334 6 жыл бұрын

Classic.

@MrJoeybabe25 4 жыл бұрын

Everything is so Goddamned serious today.. music, politics, Jeepers, just standing around not doing nothin', not hurting anybody can get you in trouble. I was dumping my garbage in the river this morning and I got a ticket for not wearing a mask. Thank God I was naked at the time. We need Spike Jones more today than ever. Won't you please help us resurrect him? Just send ten dollars to "Raise Spike" P. O. Box 69 Pubic, Virginia 23456. That would be nice.

@richardpodnar5039 Жыл бұрын

I was planning to pass through Pubic, Virginia (your fair city?!) on my next road trip!😜

@MrJoeybabe25 Жыл бұрын

@@richardpodnar5039 These are hairy days in Pubic ( sorry, what else could I say?).

@chrisstanley1843 5 жыл бұрын

Dig the white strat at 2:07 !

@barbarafuglein3918 2 ай бұрын

Sehr gut!!😊

@richardwilliams473 Жыл бұрын

Being a Percussionist myself, I found Spike Jones to be very inventive in using various Percussion instruments in his gags.

@TheMikester307 2 жыл бұрын

Very Ernie Kovacs!

@Lavendawid 6 жыл бұрын

amazing :D xD

@KaribaMusic Жыл бұрын

Glad I didn't have this gig

@larrybrennan1463 5 жыл бұрын

together!

@janerauscher872 6 жыл бұрын

ACHDERLIEBER from the MULCHMIESTER!!!!!

@erickpaolo7742 4 жыл бұрын

Classical music changed into criticism of notable waltz music But it was banned from the BBC

@herondelatorre4023 3 жыл бұрын

Erick Paolo: When you say "IT" was banned by the BBC. Do you mean the Spike Jones video or the real Blue Danube Waltz song????

@PizzaTimeFanatic 6 жыл бұрын

Pizza time theatre Pizza time theatre!!!!

@jamespeyton9144 5 жыл бұрын

Spike Jones to me looks a little like Jimmy Cagney.

@larrybrennan1463 5 жыл бұрын

He is Jimmy Cagney. You've never seen them tigether!

@hertzair1186 4 жыл бұрын

James Peyton : an emaciated Jimmy Cagney

@KeithE4 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Red Skelton.

@jerometotes5311 Жыл бұрын

Wasn't that Billy Barty at 3:28?

@andrejshamin1452 Жыл бұрын

👏🤯

@wambutu7679 Жыл бұрын

Was that the dwarf from Foul Play? The Goldie Hawn movie.

@marekjurkovic1595 6 жыл бұрын

try Victor Borge but u are kinda right.

@russs7574 2 жыл бұрын

I think the comedy...OK, the insanity....detracts from the fact that the City Slickers, in their various incarnations, were tremendously talented musicians.

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, no. It proves how great of musicians they were. It's more difficult to play it comically than to play it straight.

@russs7574 Жыл бұрын

@@echoecho3108 You're right, it does. What I meant was an observation on the way people watching them perform perceived them as musicians. I think a lot of "music connoisseurs" tend to underappreciate the talents of comedic musical acts.

@echoecho3108 Жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 😊👍 I've always loved those crazies. Used to watch Spike's tv show waaaay back when. Note to 'modern' listeners: Spike Jones is the only musician you'll never need to say 'More cowbell' to.

@bobwitkowski6410 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone think that a group like Spike Jones and the City Slickers would work today

@echoecho3108 Жыл бұрын

Only if the audience understood 'funny'. 🙄

@robertosolito1276 3 жыл бұрын

...Frank Zappa deve molto a Spike...

@alberto.iiimartinez2992 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@NellieKAdaba 2 жыл бұрын

I know, the best. Lo mejor.

@kentondickerson 7 жыл бұрын

Is that a young Billy Barty at 3:51?

@nicholastosoni707 7 жыл бұрын

It certainly is!

@JoeLibby 6 жыл бұрын

And the guy Billy is whacking on the head is Mousie Garner. Appropriately, Mousie was one of Ted Healy's stooges after Howard, Fine, and Howard went off on their own.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 6 жыл бұрын

Was Billy Barty ever young?

@rotunda57 6 жыл бұрын

M. M. Maybe not, but I think he was always short!

@janettucker3196 Жыл бұрын

The band was having more fun than the audience.

@momeara7482 Жыл бұрын

Everyone was having fun. As we do watching it now. This is laugh-out-loud funny.

@wigwagstudios2474 Ай бұрын

2:04 lol

@bockforzelorum01 6 жыл бұрын

Better sometimes than Charli....

@jamescox172 8 жыл бұрын

we need more of this less of beaver

@wa1ufo 7 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with beavers?

@rleebig 7 жыл бұрын

beavers are great as long as they dont sing.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little hairy beaver.

@cirrus1976 4 жыл бұрын

@@Bigbadwhitecracker James might have ment Justin Beiber!

@ivanolsen8596 4 жыл бұрын

Leave it to Beaver?

@RandyTheBee 6 жыл бұрын

Did you know that Weird Al is Spike Jones' grandson? . . . Probably not, I just made it up.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 6 жыл бұрын

No, Wierd Al is Frankie Yankovic's .... relavitve.

@danielarick2105 6 жыл бұрын

Actually he is not related to Frankie at all, just the same name thats all.

@howlinhobbit 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielarick2105 - but they played together at least once.

@maryabernethy5231 Жыл бұрын

I spoke to Weird AL over 25 years ago, and Spike Jones was an influence in his music!

@wa1ufo 7 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha Ha!!!

@murilonascimento8878 7 жыл бұрын

0:17

@ronagoodwell2709 Жыл бұрын

At least he wasn't chewing gum for this one.

@dhansel4835 5 жыл бұрын

This TV program must have been one of the very earliest ones. It looks like about 3 levels from the Three Stooges. Looks silly to me.

@bufordpusser424 4 жыл бұрын

It looks silly? It was supposed to. That's what made it so great. Slap-stick comedy at it's funniest.

@ralphturner3798 2 жыл бұрын

They are better than the Three Stooges.

@PacoOtis 2 жыл бұрын

It junk was pitiful but we were forced to like it as that was all there was. Can you imagine this group trying to make it today? It would be catastrophic! Good old days, my ass!

@GamingPlus10 Жыл бұрын

Ya ol' stick in the mud

@texastinman2189 Жыл бұрын

These days we have Two Cellos.

@richardpodnar5039 Жыл бұрын

Golly, Debbie Downer!😟

@ms.annthrope415 Жыл бұрын

Just don't see any sort of humor is these over the top gags. Spike Jones was on TV at a time when it was still experimental and studios were heavily influenced by vaudeville and delved into all sorts of silliness to see what the audience wanted, and the audience was more intrigued with the idea of simultaneous moving pictures and sound in their living rooms than any sort of sharpened comedic taste.