Spike Jones - That's Amore

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6 жыл бұрын

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@sonyahannah 6 жыл бұрын

The singer deserves an award for being able to retain his straight face and actually SING amidst the chaos.

@ronaldmorgan4734 5 жыл бұрын

Probably part of their contract required never reacting.

@elephant3109 5 жыл бұрын

he really didnt. but his chuckles were, damn that was professional

@hudsonsteele1674 4 жыл бұрын

He's used to it. They were always crazy the whole time anybody was singing.

@andycahill900 3 жыл бұрын

@@hudsonsteele1674 If I'm not wrong, the singer is Bill Hayes. Bill starred on Broadway and became a long-time soap opera star.

@SuperJNG18 Жыл бұрын

There were a couple little chuckles, like when the guy kisses him on the cheek.

@23Dakini Жыл бұрын

Watching this in 2023! Started listening to Spike on old records my father had in the 1960’s. Been on a Spike bender the last few days laughing my head off! Thanks Spike! You were one of a kind genius. 🤪😆🥁🎉

@SnakeBush Жыл бұрын

Wow thats 10 times better than SNL

@LaurieSavage 3 жыл бұрын

And on top of it all Spike was a brilliant percussionist!

@allanshulstad1783 2 жыл бұрын

Spike learned to play the drums from Gene Krupa

@jaredgollnitz5258 Жыл бұрын

Spike did all of this while chewing gum. Pure genius.

@lucguenette7534 Жыл бұрын

Yes, funny how he always was chewing gum. quite casual .

@moominsean 10 ай бұрын

The gum chewing could have helped him keep time while playing. Or it could have just been because he was a heavy smoker and it helped fill time between cigarettes!

@RosehillJewelry 4 жыл бұрын

My father loved The Spike Jones Show. It brings memories of him laughing loudly when the show was on.

@larrydevore6657 2 жыл бұрын

I can see why. It's a lot better that what they pass off for shows today. Shows like this will never pass this way again, it's sad.

@petergant1379 2 жыл бұрын

Pops had an EXCELLENT sense of humor, probably your whole family had fun together, at least, I hope you did! Peace, I'm out!♥️

@ignorecorporatenews Жыл бұрын

my parents as well

@sheilaglover6574 10 ай бұрын

Spike was always so cool and I love the casual way he fires off a round or two as part of the music. They were the real deal as musicians and they never fail to make me laugh. Thank the heavens we can get still get to see them on tape.

@demef758 2 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing. And all done in real time without a single electronic aid or pre-recording of any sort. Stunning!

@tumultegrayscale3847 4 жыл бұрын

Spike Jones and his band were all acting and music bosses.

@thomasklugh4345 Жыл бұрын

I remember my family watching Spike on our old B&W TV back in the mid 1950s. Also, everything on TV was done live back then.

@macronencer 2 жыл бұрын

It's just NON STOP, isn't it? Gag after gag after gag... brilliant. :D

@janettucker3196 11 ай бұрын

The cheapest of cheap laughs and we love it.

@HooDatDonDar 5 жыл бұрын

When you reach down and feel There’s a big, slippery eel That’s A Moray

@richardperkins5046 5 жыл бұрын

When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that a moray.

@markhorton3994 4 жыл бұрын

When your ass hits the grass like a slow quarterback's youve been sacked

@hudsonsteele1674 4 жыл бұрын

When you pull up your line, and it wiggles and shines, that's a moray.

@RobRendahl 4 жыл бұрын

And from an old B.C. comic strip from years ago: If an eel lunges out and bites off your snout That's a moray.

@BigAndTall666 3 жыл бұрын

A moraine!

@LtPowers 3 жыл бұрын

0:35 Spike totally misses his cue.

@RootlessNZ Жыл бұрын

I loved Spike Jones when I was a kid of 5 and 71 years later I still do.

@Kristy_not_kristine 3 жыл бұрын

Just learned that my grandpa liked this so I thought I'd check it out. He passed on 22 years ago, and it's fun to picture him watching/ laughing. "Entertainment" today is much different today. And not for the better in many ways.

@demef758 2 жыл бұрын

Correction: "and not for the better in ALL ways."

@ronaldstrange8981 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic Spike. Am now 86 and have had a lifetime of enjoyment listening to your music. Regards to all your fans from England. 2022.

@TrustJesusToday Жыл бұрын

Talented. Clever. Daring on live television. It's good to have this recording.

@dennisdivine7448 Жыл бұрын

Forgotten trivia, but Spike Jones was an accomplished drummer with Bing Crosby's orchestra before he formed the "City Slickers".

@jillfoley6389 4 жыл бұрын

Oh darling Spike, how could you ruin my Dean Martin song? You are an absolute genius - Cocktails For Two my favourite - I fell about laughing at this and will not be able to see my lovely Dean now without thinking of you! I remember my Dad playing your records in the fifties and I can still hear them and im just approaching my 78th birthday!

@jjmac3561 2 жыл бұрын

Dean would most probably loved it. Don't forget he had to endure Jerry goofing off when they worked together. Plus Dean would often goof around with his songs when he sang live. He would say "If you want to hear me sing it right, buy an 'albium' (sic).

@elephant3109 Жыл бұрын

@@jjmac3561 *def* i think spike jones and dean knew each other. they even do a charity show with them together, dean martin and jerry headlining it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqmlas-ZlrrVqoE.html

@JiveDadson Жыл бұрын

"When an eel lunges out and bites off your snout, that's a moray." - B.C.

@Plazzio Жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC - MARVELOUS - BRAVO . . . .BRAVO . . . . AMAZING .... THAT'S THE REAL SHOW MAN AND HIS ORQUESTA - THE BEST SHOW EVER - with all the old resources 50' and 60' Spike Jones it's out of this today (MISERABLE TODAY WORLD) WORLD......

@DainGerrUsss Жыл бұрын

ONE WORD - GENIUS !!!!!!!

@jimcoulter5877 4 жыл бұрын

No one had the Talent that Spike Jones had!

@anthonyhengst2908 5 жыл бұрын

Love Freddie Morgan and the mandolin.......

@totocalvo9507 5 жыл бұрын

Always my favourite!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@paulofreire7520 4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Hengst Freddie is awesome 😂😂😂

@demef758 2 жыл бұрын

As the old gag line went, Freddie had a face made for radio.

@oldtvnut Жыл бұрын

When my dad was young, he and some friends went to a live Spike Jones show, and were unexpectedly escorted to the first row. Then all the practical gags were played on them (like a tray of cups being spilled towards them but being attached to the tray with strings).

@synthonaplinth5980 3 жыл бұрын

I have neve laughed so hard at a sour note on an accordion in my life....

@Baribrotzer Жыл бұрын

But thet're just the RIGHT sour notes. If you'd heard Lanny di Jay playing them in a modern jazz context with Teo Macero, they'd have been perfectly OK.

@synthonaplinth5980 Жыл бұрын

@@Baribrotzer They're not 'wrong' in any sense. They're just FUNNY!!

@hopelewis5650 9 ай бұрын

After Spike Jones was the accordion player part of that wonderful show with Lawrence Welk?

@synthonaplinth5980 9 ай бұрын

An internet search turned up a guy named Myron Floren as the accordionist for Lawrence Welk. He was quite young at the time of the LW shows and did not wear glasses. I'm not quite sure who the accordion player was, here. He wears glasses and a hat, he looks to be in his mid to late fifties. Even as an older man Myron had quite a bit of hair.

@harrybernstein4745 Жыл бұрын

There will never be another Spike Jones😂😂😂😂

@maryannebagala9109 3 ай бұрын

Spike Jones..was a musical..and comedic genius..!!

@MrMartyO1 2 жыл бұрын

Those guys and gals are absolutley wondrous.

@maryabernethy5231 Жыл бұрын

Performers are always trying to do their best every performance. I do not doubt that Spike's guests had their hands full performing with the Slickers!

@notperfect.forgiven6042 Жыл бұрын

I dont care how many times i watch Thats Amore,,, I laugh out loud...

@kurtb8474 12 күн бұрын

My high school buddy turned me on to SJ. His dad said he got to see them in concert. He said the band had to stop playing at one point because they were laughing so hard.

@jejesus 2 жыл бұрын

Extraordinario!!

@glennjohnson8170 6 жыл бұрын

Glenn Johnson How great to view this footage for the first time.My late dad`s love of Spike Jones became infectious growing up in the 50`s and a lot of this Tv footage we didn`t get to see until the 80`s.So clever,funny,professional and from an era that is now due to have a revival!Thankyou for the laughs,i need `em!

@MrTruckerf 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't get to see until the '80s? I am seeing this for the first time right now and I am a senior citizen! Love it!

@annabaldwin38 5 жыл бұрын

i grew up listening to Spike Jones, in the late 40's and early 50's. One time, we were living in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Spike played a concert at the hotel just down the street from us - so Dad and I went. OH! We never laughed so hard in our lives! It takes master musicians to perform all those shenanegans. Whew!

@timothytikker3834 Жыл бұрын

My ex wife adored the Dean Martin recording of this song... so this is a welcome antidote!

@scottsauers1845 2 жыл бұрын

He was truly the Eric Andre of music in the 30’s and that’s really saying something

@madwhitehare3635 9 ай бұрын

He's the lovechild of the Riddler and the Joker!

6 жыл бұрын

I m really glad about your observations! I m sure this quality of show is more than our modern society needs and consumes today...

@the_real_vdegenne 5 жыл бұрын

1:30 it looks like Mr Bean get inspired straight from this character, that's hallucinating

@gillestremblay3465 4 жыл бұрын

Can't help laughing when I hear that off-tone accordion...

@crazyman8472 4 жыл бұрын

MORE COWBELL! 😜

@123cappadocia 4 жыл бұрын

when a fish bites your nose and it's long as a hose, that's amore!

@megelizabeth9492 5 жыл бұрын

All of these stunts were performed live, which is crazy.

5 жыл бұрын

I think everything it is in playback... It would be crazy however!!!

@mattanderson6336 5 жыл бұрын

And they could do it without computers.

@anonagain 2 жыл бұрын

@ Definitely all live and if something went wrong, they had to keep going. There's a good documentary on Spike here on KZfaq with interviews of his musicians. During one of the shows one of the crew had a heart attack and died, but they finished the show!

@hulagun 4 жыл бұрын

And then the confidence to throw your drum stick on the ground and have it fly up and catch it. He must have practiced that for hours.

@demef758 2 жыл бұрын

Spike seemed to do that after almost every number. He clearly was very, very practiced at it. It was almost as if it became his way of putting an exclamation point after every song.

@paulofreire7520 4 жыл бұрын

Legendary!

@noelinegrondin1067 5 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏WoW ! Wonderful , crazy and very very good ! 😍i Love it ❤️

@johnmitchelljr Жыл бұрын

My brain has a giant smile. Thank god for Mr. Jones. Great channel.

@donschwartz9585 Жыл бұрын

The singer is Doodles Weaver who's niece is Sigourney.

@jimmysnyder1 Жыл бұрын

No, here's Doodles. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdqWY9xex9Ktfpc.html

@joansmith6092 6 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen an inner tube in the LONGEST time...

@jwmc41 Жыл бұрын

Great imagination, super musicians, an artist!

@webinator9715 4 жыл бұрын

I can’t take the way he sings but I sure love to hear him talk...

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

Up on Cripple Creek ...

@elainebmack 2 жыл бұрын

That accordion wrong note. YIKES!!!!!!

@lenathompson1733 8 ай бұрын

This show is a comedy.

@simondastrange5460 3 жыл бұрын

How Great! A Clown doing it all just out of Love!!

@adriangussolovskiworld9440 Жыл бұрын

this is so good . Gold 🤗🤗

@calebrush3833 Жыл бұрын

Genuine talent .

@ernesthastie-gg7kn 4 ай бұрын

You don't talent like this today

@j-man6001 3 ай бұрын

Hahaha they predicted Gorbachev nicely!! Haha 02:44

@corporalwolf7058 3 ай бұрын

The original Wierd Al

@petergant1379 2 жыл бұрын

This guy speaks to me, on a level both subtle and obvious, where has he been all my life!? Oh, right, for much of it, he's PROBABLY been DEAD! Still, love him and his band's performances! Heck, I'm STILL watching 3 Stooges, although I know almost every routine they've EVER done! Fun Fact; Did you know, the 3 Stooges had an animated series, much like The Jackson Five, AND, The Beatles!? It's TRUE! I'm still waiting for the Robert Palmer Animated Series, where. He poses as a famous singer, and, along with His Back up Girls, travels the World, spying for the Government, ala Our Man Flint.

@tanpengjoo7205 Жыл бұрын

Genius

@DainGerrUsss Жыл бұрын

AFTER SPIKE, THE ART OF ENTERTAINMENT TOTALLY DISAPPEARED, IMHO.

@Lasalas777 Жыл бұрын

I don't know what the historical context will be but I see it as a burlesque, a circus music

@Wizardess 3 жыл бұрын

When a stick has an end that's a 'mallow that's somore'. Gawd how I used to LOVE that show when I was little. I destroyed my 45 of "All I want for Christmas" playing it so often. {^_-}

@thorkillthered6595 4 жыл бұрын

Spike Jones is the original memer

@dandogful 4 жыл бұрын

Well we know one of Frank Zappas influences.

@kylekatarn5964 4 жыл бұрын

Weird Al, Dr. Demento and countless other parody/gag artists all can point back to Spike Jones.

@MikeSmith-eb2jm Жыл бұрын

Was that Alfred E Newman on the Mandolin?

@paulmicelli5819 Жыл бұрын

Remember watching in the 1950's

@alexharris3872 2 жыл бұрын

I think Spike got his suit off a guy that sells previously owned vessels :-)

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

Same tailor as Herb Tarlek, I believe. 🙄

@dudefrombelgium 3 ай бұрын

And here i was thinking this came from Dean Martin.

@HooDatDonDar 5 жыл бұрын

3:11 Only video ever made with a gay tarantula. (Tarantella)

@pattigee1 Жыл бұрын

Demented - in a good way!

@davidkulczyk678 4 жыл бұрын

I want to know what happened to Spike Jones' suit and instruments...?

@francislarv3012 11 ай бұрын

Funny funny funny

@indiosveritas Жыл бұрын

Spike Jones was a bizarrely unpleasant person .Having a foul temper on and off stage , Jones had open contempt for his fans and groupees. Most people in the fledgling TV industry could not stand him nor stand too close to him , the latter being explained by the following quote from Tv cameraman Jimmy Resnick: "Spike had questionable hygiene habits , refusing to bathe for weeks. New female talent refused to stand close to him . It was a big problem."

@alexandervaneijken7741 Жыл бұрын

The musical cousins of the Marx Brothers. Never bettered

@jenniferkelly4702 6 жыл бұрын

When I was in college, I worked summers at a Girl Scout camp. One day we had an international celebration where the girls were split into groups and given a country . Each country had to represent at campfire with a costume, a skit, and a song. The country my group was assigned was Norway. Costume and skit were easy. Vikings. Song was really hard. We ended up singing, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, atsa Norway..." "

@MrTruckerf 5 жыл бұрын

HA...............HA...........ha....

@lordeden1475 5 жыл бұрын

Could you a fiord to make such a bad joke as that?

@brianbell7976 5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Wilson

@YorkyOne 5 жыл бұрын

@@lordeden1475 Norway could she a fjord to make such a bad joke!

@HooDatDonDar 8 ай бұрын

@@YorkyOne Why not? This is Viking country, it’s really axe-iting. Did you know some Vikings got reincarnated in Norway? They were Bjorn again. The head god arranged it. There is a video explaining how available for downl-odin.

@user-ve3dg3hb4w 2 жыл бұрын

2021

@ftargr 11 ай бұрын

when you look that weird you better be funny

@staplesock5549 Жыл бұрын

if Senzawa was there it would be so much more chaos.

@johcafra Жыл бұрын

Watch closely. No sleight-of-hand(s) involved. "Live TV," one take, no second chances, and every musical instrument you think has no right to make music...does.

@7Steveski 2 жыл бұрын

How did that guy keep singing?!

@kenkindrick4227 Жыл бұрын

Spike liked to chew gum.

@andrejshamin1452 Жыл бұрын

👍😂

@ignorecorporatenews Жыл бұрын

filmed in early 1950's for TV

@antoniopappalardo8976 8 ай бұрын

😂

@dankwartdenkhardt5714 2 жыл бұрын

the ancestors of the Residents

@tamahome1970 2 жыл бұрын

0:20 & 2:31 To Be Continued *insert background music play Runnabout by Yes*

@samarthur1847 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff and of course that is from whom Terrance Milligan got his nickname. But is the gum chewing necessary.

@brulai 6 ай бұрын

Yes, Spike was a chain smoker, and chewed gum to alleviate his nicotine cravings. In fact, Spike died of emphysema nearly 59 years ago.

@Bob-nu3xe 4 жыл бұрын

0.36 Spike misses his Q but forgiven bless them all

@blazwings1021 4 жыл бұрын

say did weird l learn his style from spike?

@eshiffer 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone know the name of the singer?

@gianca60 4 жыл бұрын

3:15 the guy from David Lynch's Eraserhead.

@jourwalis-8875 4 жыл бұрын

When was this recorded?

@BigAndTall666 3 жыл бұрын

Some time..

@echoecho3108 2 жыл бұрын

Spike and his band performed starting in the 1940s, and I watched his tv show in the 1950s. I don't know when this was specifically recorded, or when this clip aired, but I'm guessing the record was made in the 40s, but this clip is from the 50s.