SPIKE JONES - COCKTAILS FOR TWO
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2009
- From "The Spike Jones Story" 1998
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Songwriters always complained that any song "done" by Spike and his gang were never taken seriously again!
But they gladly endorsed the royalties checks!
Remember this from when I was a boy. I am now 86 and still enjoy listening to Spike who brought so much happiness to music lovers all overe the world. Regards from England. 2022.
Had this on an LP when I was a teenager. Didn't know there was a "video " (I believe they called them "soundies " in the Forties). Would love to see ones for "Chloe", "My Old Flame" or "You Always Hurt The One You Love."
My mother loved Spike Jones.
@@garywilloughby6893 Your mother had good taste Gary. Regards, Aprilo, ss2023.
Glad my dad got me into Spike Jones. I'm a fairly-ish young 41 and I still love em.
There has never ever been another Spike Jones and his band. Thanks, Spike and the boys.
Well actually... the "Spin-Off" or Main Inspiration for "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention" WAS "Spike Jones and his City Slickers"!
Listen to ANY Frank Zappa and you WILL HEAR the influences! Sure a bit more crude... but they took what Spike Jones did and just carried on with it!
The main thread that BOTH bands had in common was that EVERY MUSICIAN was a VERTUOSO In their craft! You CAN NOT do this kind of crazy and zany
stuff and NOT be Super Talented and a MASTER Of the Instrument{s} they played!
Just Classic, Amazing and STILL Damned Funny stuff! :D
Nobody today could play and perform with that group
My parents had a recording of this on a 78 rpm. Listened to and loved this when a kid in the early 1950's.
The hours upon hours it must have taken to get the choreography just right (let alone the music)! Amazing!
great musicians, great timing , great rythm, and a sense humor and showmanship who could do it today?
How can you ever replace these people. We will never be there again. I so wish I was born in 1940 so I could enjoy this when it was happening.
George Carlin once said that as a kid he used to listen to Spike Jones records and try to imitate the sound effects -- the glug glug of Carl Grayson of course being one of them
Ah, yes. From the album Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Really Hungry. Marvelous.
Also on "Thank You, Music Lovers."
I grew up on Spike Jones. Thank you
Ah h music of my chilhood. You have to be top musician and singer to be able to this. Can't see Beethoven doing this but Wolfie motzart yes.
I'm 32 now but when I was around 10 or 11, my parents started making it a habit to get me comedy albums as gifts for my birthday or Christmas. One of the most memorable ones was a compilation album of skits from Spike Jones. Absolutely hilarious stuff.
Your parents were awesome to get you classic comedy albums like that. Me and my brother would sneak tapes of Eddie Murphy, Cheech and Chong and turn them way down because the cursing
Cool parents.
My dad's 'Thank You Music Lovers' LP brought me here. This was the lead cut.
At age nine I had a huge Spike Jones 78 record collection and I still think they are great fun to hear.
What an absolutely talented crew Spike had!!!
E' sempre un piacere guardare e sentire questo brano e non finisco mai di stupirmi per la grandissima bravura e la PERFEZIONE nell'interpretazione...unici, difficilmente si vedono cose del genere ai giorni nostri...
One of Mom Sylvia's favorite songs-- we kiddies knew ALL the Spike Jones songs by the time we wuz Five.
I saw live performances of Spike Jones and his City Slickers on two occasions back in my younger days. They put on a really great show. They mixed in a few proper musical selections, too, and they were fine musicians.
What year?
Absolutely they were fine musicians! You can’t make funny with music otherwise. And Spike Jones with his band set the standard.
He died 51 ,old Smoked 5 pack of cigarette's a day ..
My love of Spike Jones' music brought me here!
Haven’t heard this in 60 years and it’s still fantastic‼️
So many memories of listening to the Dr. Demento show in my youth and enjoying this exquisite melody come flooding back. Thank you!
You could never do that in today’s society not that anyone would want to do that but they just couldn’t do it this is so far ahead of any kind of conglomerated talent that’s out there today God bless
I burned through this tape when i was a kid. Spike and Weird AL were my heroes! Thanks for bringing the memories back Mr. Fallon!
Laugh again at the delights of satire, parody, "music, and Spike Jones. His wife, Helen Grayco (Greco) sang with the band, and of course is from Tacoma, Washington.
I remember Spike and Cocktails for Two being played on the old dial radio.. Spike and his band was alway fun to listen to.
Very silly, but some hugely talented musicians here. Luv it!
ITS 2023 IN ENGLAND WATCHED THIS TWICE ALL READY TO DAY MAN AS FUNNY THEN AS TO DAY LOVE SPIKE AND THE GANG R I P EVERY ONE
Mighst allChrighty what a performance, absolutely Fantastico, so much talent is on show here. ...great posting...xx
My cousin wrote the lyrics to this song and wasn't crazy about the spoof...until the royalty checks arrived!
Unfortunately it killed the song stone dead for future covers!
@@tomkent4656 How true. Here is one of my favourite contemporary covers of the Spike Jones style ruclips.net/video/2qx78NOL0jY/видео.html
I loved listening to Spike when I was a kid.
Timeless and wonderful.
Masterful and unbeatable
Brilliantly clever.Had this on a 78 in the UK.Never seen him before.Thanks.
Love this guy. I was born inn 50 so he was still on live TV when I was a little kid always loved the improvised musical instruments made of plumbing usually
I am reading Joel Grey's autobiography and he says his father Micky Katz did the 'glug" sound on this song...lol
The eternal genius of Spike and the city slickers 👍🏻🙏🏻😂
I always assumed this was a post-Prohibition song. Enjoying cocktails for two after sneaking around for so long.
I just discovered the collection of Spike Jones on RUclips! Wonderful.. I think
it should be viewed by kids under 10 and watch them laugh at some real funny
stuff of years ago. Teens would just change channels, too bad. Thanks for
putting it on RUclips.
The Original Mothers of Invention
Well said!
Absolutely!!! The use of percussion and found objects is something up Zappa’s alley as well as the straight faced delivery of the City Slickers.
Spike Jones and his band must have been tremendous sight readers. I wonder what the rehearsals were like. Spike Jones was a treasure, a subversive genius of music and comedy. Films of those performances are still funny to people of any age.
its 2023 march , this is so wonder full the timing rely enjoyed this spike was all way chewing gum nerves ???
he apeard so layed back his suites great t y for posting this r i p spike j
Imagine if you will: a Looney Tunes edition of a big band; witness Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Truly those would be some *Merry Melodies*
There are two volumes of the music by Carl Stallings , who did the Looney Toons music! But Spike Jones and his bands were one of a kind .
Esses tipos de humoristas fazem falta hoje em dia. pena que pouca gente toma conhecimento de que tais artista existiram...
Quelli erano tempi migliori di oggi. Grandi professionisti
never saw this film....very funny...always enjoy Spike Jones.
Best performance for a old fashioned bar! And also at 0:47 there is a cut that appeared in king of the hill in texas city twister.
That's my Great Aunt Charlotte Tinsley playing the Harp (and "meeting Spike's Hand"@ 1:04).
John B how did she like him
I don't know. I learned about all this after she had passed away.
Cool!
Cool!
Very cool.
Great. That's pure gold.
Excellent!!!
Wonderful!
That is CLASSIC comedy!.
Love Spike and the Band! ❤❤❤
a GENIUS!!
Ah yes Spike Jones crazy as a loon but brilliantly funny.
One of those instrumentalists was Sigourney Weaver's uncle, Doodles.
Einfach nur genial!
I wish we still had people around like Spike.
jimmy and Blake what a duo
LOL! Very funny song!! A really Good Friend mentioned this song to me. ;)
When I am asked of my favorite genre.
Just found out about this great program 👋
My mom turned me on to Spike Jones long before Dr Demento was playing the tracks. It's like the Marx brothers got a swing band and sang every film.
2:02 to 2:23 Classic singing. ❤
soneone was selling every spike jones tv show on dvd on ebay i bought them its great
Now THIS is TV. Not all this modern PC garbage.
I played Spike Jones 78 records when I was a kid. Thought they were great.
Wonderful.
Thank you Jimmy Fallon!!
Has anyone else noticed that the tune is the same as the song, "Pretend"?
Fred Warren and the Pennsylvanians: When compared to Spike's band, Fred should've stuck to playing light opera tunes in a band pit.
I remember them well.
Before there was Weird Al Yankovic…..there was Spike Jones.
Now that was a time when you actually had to have talent as apposed to just looking good.....Today is all flash and so very little substance...
Forget fallacy Fallon. Spike Jones and Carl Grayson brought me here.
Introduced by Barry Hansen (Dr. Demento).
Timing, timing!!
Red Ingle is the one in the striped suit on the extreme left, he was extremely funny.
ruclips.net/video/gz2Igbg94No/видео.html Red Ingle - Pagan Ninny's keep'er goin' stomp written by Paganini-Rossini-Mellorini
Spike’s son tried to restart the band. I read that he could not figure out how his dad had generated all of those crazy sounds.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
GREAT!!! 2022 .-)
Anybody know the name of the straight singer?
this is mad funny
This song reminds me so much of my grandmother XD
Fought Space She acted like this?
@nwo detox ?
@nwo detox ???
Brave Little Toaster brought me here..... hahahax...
TaeNy35v Hyundai Sonata brought me here. but I had to drive it!
Genius!
A God..Then..Now.
I don't think anyone on the earth could ever do what the guy on the right did. I think it lived and died with him!! What the hell was that!!?? Lol!!
I see that Dr. Demento is narrating a bit of "dementia" for all "deementions and deementytes."
Composer of this beautiful song, Sam Coslow was not very amused about this terrible klamauk-version as he wrote in his book "Cocktails For Two" - and he was right. Note: Years before Spike Jones played trumpet in one of Coslow´s ball room orchestra´s :-)
I never knew it took 3 guys to do the gluck gluck thing.
Brilliant 😅
At 1:40 the hiccups make music. Never knew you could do that.
Cool. It seems like all slang got started in he 1920d
Ditto...Jimmy brought me here also..
@pauldquam1 I'm 19 and I think that spike jones was a genius, I'd like to see more than whats on RUclips.
it was very good, why had such a style disappeared?
Jimmy Fallon brought me here.
Same!
ditto
Yeah
Same here Jimmy brought me here....
Same :)
Way before "my time" but very funny music.
Carl Grayson.
The voice behind Spike Jones' madness.
1:42 guy on the right, HOW DOES HE DO THAT?? also wasn’t he the voice of filbert the frog on the bozo the clown records?
jimmy sent me lol had to see the original
Me too... Jimmy Fallon is good for reviving oldies.
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