SPIKE JONES: 12th Street Rag.mov

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @rickflorke7605
    @rickflorke7605 4 года назад +30

    I had heard of Spike Jones but hadn't heard any of his work. Now I'm hooked, and can't go a day without watching him and the slickers. Those guys were amazing musicians.

    • @RowdyLowdy
      @RowdyLowdy Год назад +1

      Every single one of them too. The guy playing the trombone, Larry Collins, would regularly play 3-4 instruments in a night; brass, strings, percussion, tap dance. A true musical talent.

    • @RamDragon32
      @RamDragon32 Год назад +1

      Same. Discoverd him las week, and I'm still watching it every night.

  • @rockinrana3074
    @rockinrana3074 5 лет назад +19

    Besides being an excellent showman and musician, Spike Jones had the ability to put a smile on your face. Even after 50 years, these clips are still creative and funny to watch!

  • @paperdain
    @paperdain 5 лет назад +28

    "….and, for the first time on television, we showed the bottom half of Elvis. " Priceless!

  • @slicksnewonenow
    @slicksnewonenow 3 года назад +9

    EVERYONE on that show was a Maniac... And the best damn Musicians of all time.

  • @PoodlesDancing
    @PoodlesDancing 5 лет назад +16

    I'm a professional trombonist and have never heard of Larry Collins....that was a great show of flexibility on the instrument. Very neat way of disconnecting the bell also.

    • @secretagentviper8382
      @secretagentviper8382 3 года назад +1

      It's odd being a professional trombone player and never heard of him. I was a professional guitar player for years so I get it, it depends on what style your into the most, but to us string players a brass is a brass, make it a trio sax trumpet trombone and then you have a real sound

  • @gerardimmersi1411
    @gerardimmersi1411 10 лет назад +17

    There will never be another ! I watched the original on TV on a 12 inch DuMont my uncle FRANK MUSTICA was a musician and he would play his records for me , what great times they were!

    • @garnerjazz58
      @garnerjazz58 3 года назад +1

      I bet you remember that Dumont had a net work. It languished though because Dumont was more interested in manufacturing TVs then running a network. I think they got it backwards

  • @Thoughtbubble788
    @Thoughtbubble788 11 лет назад +31

    So much energy, so much talent and so much creativity. It's amazing jut how far ahead of its time this material seems. The Entertainers of toay could do with taking a look back at a time when you had to have real talent and charisma to be a public figure.

    • @pviguy227
      @pviguy227 6 лет назад +1

      could not have said it any better!

    • @ignorecorporatenews
      @ignorecorporatenews 3 года назад +1

      so, why do you say it's "ahead of it's time". ????

  • @IanRob2011
    @IanRob2011 Год назад +1

    Watched these guys as a kid. They were brilliant musicians and very funny too. Great combo of talents

  • @karinjeffrey7981
    @karinjeffrey7981 10 лет назад +6

    Laughed til I cried. What an entertainer. Thank you.

  • @mainstreetsaint36
    @mainstreetsaint36 11 лет назад +23

    The bottom half of Elvis! Fun!

    • @cyclos12
      @cyclos12 9 лет назад

      +Timothy Dalbeck because he always did all that pelvic thrusting.

  • @dutchharrysm8
    @dutchharrysm8 9 лет назад +28

    The man was a genius.

  • @ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1
    @ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 8 месяцев назад +1

    loved watching him when i was a kid and still do

  • @stanochocki8984
    @stanochocki8984 7 лет назад +14

    such a surreal quality about this production. Respectfully, not unlike a Warner Bros. cartoon form the 40's, or 50's.

    • @megelizabeth9492
      @megelizabeth9492 6 лет назад +2

      No, their zany antics are totally like a living cartoon.

    • @captbiptoe
      @captbiptoe 3 месяца назад

      And live. No editing. Impressive

  • @MrYfrank14
    @MrYfrank14 7 лет назад +27

    just when you thought you had seen it all, a guy dissembles his trombone and plays the pieces.

    • @sonyahannah
      @sonyahannah 6 лет назад +2

      That's "disassembles" -- otherwise, he lied [to/through/with] his trombone. But I concur with your observation!

    • @MrYfrank14
      @MrYfrank14 6 лет назад +3

      sonyahannah - what the heck did i write? I am going to blame auto correct. Or maybe the cat.

    • @sonyahannah
      @sonyahannah 6 лет назад +3

      Blame auto-correct, unless your cat is like my sister's monster. "Dissembles" means "lies" or "misleads." Think "dis-assembles."

    • @synthonaplinth5980
      @synthonaplinth5980 5 лет назад +1

      There's always at least one jaw-dropping moment in each clip.

  • @robertglenzer2584
    @robertglenzer2584 Год назад +1

    Enjoy very much. Was a quintet with George Rock during the 1960s

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 5 лет назад +6

    I remember rolling on the floor, laughing every time Spike Jones show came on television.

  • @allanshulstad1783
    @allanshulstad1783 3 года назад +6

    His musicians were first class players. 👍

  • @smd1uk
    @smd1uk 3 года назад +6

    Sheer comic genius and musical virtuosity.

  • @tomcooper6108
    @tomcooper6108 8 месяцев назад +2

    Love Spike!!!!!!

  • @pauledie882
    @pauledie882 5 лет назад +5

    Larry Collins and Wilbur Hall were popular featured performers with Paul Whiteman in the 1920's. They were fairly "big names" at that time.

  • @EliezerPennywhistler
    @EliezerPennywhistler 8 лет назад +28

    One does not often think of Spike's band having a harpist.

    • @NoDozBukowski
      @NoDozBukowski 6 лет назад +5

      Dude, when she's not playing she usually sits there knitting a scarf.

    • @lordeden1475
      @lordeden1475 6 лет назад +2

      And to think I thought they were all har-pist!

    • @secretagentviper8382
      @secretagentviper8382 3 года назад +3

      Charlotte Tinsley is her name, her relatives has commented on Spike's vids here on RUclips.

    • @lindajones6903
      @lindajones6903 3 года назад +1

      @@lordeden1475 up

    • @garnerjazz58
      @garnerjazz58 3 года назад +3

      The fact that she’s knitting is a reference to the fact that in a professional symphony the harpist does not play all that often and in fact there is no harp in most classical orchestral repertoire; Beethoven, Braum’s, Mozart.An inside joke maybe, but in those days the average person knew a hell of a lot more about music than they do today. Many in the audience would’ve gotten the joke.

  • @DwayneBrue
    @DwayneBrue 3 месяца назад

    Wilbur Hall playing The Bicycle Pump. I love it.

  • @darrenthornton8299
    @darrenthornton8299 4 года назад +2

    Roy Clark later recorded it to open his first album. His version will make your fingers hurt!

  • @educatethemax9714
    @educatethemax9714 4 года назад +3

    What talent these guys had to be doing all this stuff LIVE without breaking up and ruining the whole skit. As kids we had old 78 rpm records of Spike and his orchestra and just LOVED them. Ah when fun and comedy were real fun and comedy. Nothing to compare with it today.

  • @secretagentviper8382
    @secretagentviper8382 3 года назад +2

    The bottom half of Elvis was genius and Bart barty was in the 👖 dancing his heart away

  • @PaulMcCaffreyfmac
    @PaulMcCaffreyfmac 3 года назад +3

    The beautiful satirical irony of only showing the legs of the man whose legs weren't shown on tv for fear of inflaming the gals. I love Spike for so many different reasons

  • @angelbeas9137
    @angelbeas9137 4 года назад +1

    I've been looking for this for a while

  • @DeanHiriiende
    @DeanHiriiende 12 лет назад +2

    ^^ im glad this isnt gone. one of my favs....

  • @josephosheavideos3992
    @josephosheavideos3992 Год назад +1

    Any fan of PDQ Bach can readily see how Peter Schiekele modeled his spoofing of classical music on Spike Jones. Also, Spike got in a gentle jab at Ed Sullivan with his quip at the end, "...and we finally got to see the bottom half of Elvis."

  • @allanshulstad1783
    @allanshulstad1783 3 года назад +1

    Freddy Morgan played the banjo in the orchestra. The rubber-faced guy

  • @edmundhoffman4055
    @edmundhoffman4055 3 года назад +1

    Old TV shows with my grandma...

  • @dollhaus1
    @dollhaus1 7 лет назад +3

    This is pure genius. PDQ Bach followed Spike Jones with the same zany orchestra. Love the humour.

  • @zedster911
    @zedster911 11 лет назад +2

    OMG! WOW!! My introduction into Music when I was about 12yo... Scottie (from Woodplumpton) played this on his clarinet... my introduction to the Blues/Jazz and music in general... I actually learned the ersion By Pee Wee Hunt on the Accordian when I was about 13yo! LOL... dont knock it! an accordian was cheaper and more transportable than a piano and a helluva lot cheaper than Synthesizers in the early 1970s LOL

  • @alancharles6789
    @alancharles6789 11 месяцев назад

    Astonishing musicianship in his bands. The comedy is superb “the bottom half of Elvis” was the sort of thing makes even English blokes like me laugh! One thing caught my eye. At 45 seconds a chap is seen playing what looks like a white Fender Jazzmaster on his lap. He may have a steel or glass bottle neck going on, but at the end it looks like he is playing in that bizarre but effective way the late Jeff Healey played, where your thumb gets used for fretting giving the fretting hand enormous reach. I wondered if he was Roy Clark, himself an incredible musician, but sadly back then, guitars were seen as a bit gimmicky and featured only as novelty items

  • @THECLARENCES
    @THECLARENCES 11 лет назад +2

    The Clarences love & support Spike!

  • @nickmad887
    @nickmad887 3 года назад

    thank you.

  • @BerlinBo
    @BerlinBo 10 лет назад +4

    No band complete, without a harp!

  • @RUBYMUNRO
    @RUBYMUNRO Год назад

    Brilliant.

  • @leifvejby8023
    @leifvejby8023 9 лет назад +6

    Was it Wilbur Hall on bicycle pump?

    • @EliezerPennywhistler
      @EliezerPennywhistler 9 лет назад

      +Leif Vejby Gee. What did Spike say? Didn't you watch?

    • @leifvejby8023
      @leifvejby8023 9 лет назад

      +Eliezer Pennywhistler
      Watched it again - obviously didn't pay attention the first few times!

    • @EliezerPennywhistler
      @EliezerPennywhistler 9 лет назад

      +Leif Vejby And yet you posted here.

    • @leifvejby8023
      @leifvejby8023 9 лет назад

      Eliezer Pennywhistler
      Believed that I needed to know if it was W. Hall playing the pump. (It looked like him, but maybe someone knew for sure).
      Why are you using that Christus portrait?

    • @EliezerPennywhistler
      @EliezerPennywhistler 9 лет назад

      +Leif Vejby It's my avatar.

  • @dennis7511
    @dennis7511 6 лет назад +4

    They were amazing!

  • @scowell
    @scowell 6 лет назад

    Thumbs Carlisle at 00:41? On the left?

    • @scowell
      @scowell 6 лет назад

      I guess not... Thumbs was right-handed.

    • @HowRJ
      @HowRJ 5 лет назад

      I was thinking the same thing......

  • @jljnbj
    @jljnbj 6 лет назад

    At around 2:50 -- Is it just me or does Spike look like he could be Bob Crane's (Hogan's Heroes") father?

  • @OllieByGolly
    @OllieByGolly Год назад +1

    Controlled Chaos!

  • @SFShoim
    @SFShoim 2 месяца назад

    Is that Thumbs Carlisle on electric guitar?? ;^>

  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks Год назад

    A super charged version of Lawrence Welk.

  • @doctorcraptonicus7941
    @doctorcraptonicus7941 2 года назад +1

    I just wonder if we should tell Priscilla Presley that Elvis' bottom half was played by Billy Barty?

  • @joeybonin7691
    @joeybonin7691 3 года назад +1

    And I thought I was good on the stereo bicycle pump. Oh, well.

  • @dont-want-no-wrench
    @dont-want-no-wrench Год назад

    how many times did they have to rehearse this stuff
    and 'bottom half of elvis' LOL

  • @Saviour3
    @Saviour3 Год назад +2

    Ah, the days of innocence ... I remember watching Amos and Andy back in the 50s and on until, yes they did, the naacp cost them their good jobs ...

    • @TomSpeaks-vw1zp
      @TomSpeaks-vw1zp 4 месяца назад

      And the NAACP should be ashamed and sued. They denied those wonderful actors their due. It’s the NAACP who are the real racists.

  • @Mikegrungejazz
    @Mikegrungejazz 11 лет назад

    The best

  • @denvan3143
    @denvan3143 3 года назад

    These guys must’ve been wired for 220 V 😆

  • @lenbuckholtz2740
    @lenbuckholtz2740 3 года назад

    ALL live, done with no electronics whatsoever.

  • @angelbeas9137
    @angelbeas9137 4 года назад +1

    ...Spongebob?

  • @ThomasPrior-wv6zn
    @ThomasPrior-wv6zn Год назад

    bottom halth of elvis lol spike mate pity your not alive to day in this drab world where music has reached rock bottom r i p spike and all city slickers

  • @Lasalas777
    @Lasalas777 Год назад

    A mockery against African-American music from Chicago and New Orleans?

  • @petermaxwell2965
    @petermaxwell2965 5 лет назад +1

    Ha,ha bottom half of Elvis. Lol