Billy Barty is tremendous here. In just a couple of minutes we get to see his energy, wit, vocal range and broad comic abilities. What a gifted and wise performer.
So cool to see Billy Barty here! In the 80's, I was an extra on Wierd Al Yankovic's film "UHF" and during a night shoot outside of Tulsa, OK where it was shot, during crowd scenes at the "TV station", I was hanging out, waiting for them to set the next shot when I heard that little voice of his say, "Hey buddy, could you give me a lift?" It was Billy, who wanted me to help him onto the hood of a truck so that he could watch what was going on. (BTW, I am 6' 4"!) I heaved him like a beer keg onto the truck and hung out with him and chatted until he was ready to go get ready for his next shot. Such a fun memory!
And all these shows were done LIVE! What timing, what talent. Nothing like it anymore. Thank goodness for RUclips preserving such wonderful entertainment history.
Supposedly he got the Network to pay for guys who timed sight and sound gags for cartoons. Spike Jones was hard working, always thinking, and his band had a reputation among experts as one of the best in terms of technique .
Had the pleasure of meeting Billy Barty in the 1990's on two occasions. I remember he had a kids show on a local station in the mid 1960's. He would end it by always saying, " Always think big!" Thank you Billy for all the great memories and your contributions.
Great, great childhood memories!! Couldn't wait every week for the Spike Jones show to come on! My favorites were Billy Barty and Ishcabible!!! How I miss those innocent days. 😥
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Even the arrangements were carefully drawn. To get the song across without drowning out the humorous, dialogue and/ or gags.And anvils and pistol shots and banjoes... Really brilliant. Practice made perfect for the Spike Jones bands. In fact, an inconvenient truth for some leftists the model band for Louis Armstrong when he briefly had his own dance band... was.... Guy Lombardo!!! I couldn't believe it. But Armstrong wanted the precision that was so totally the Lombardo calling card !!! LOL Callaway and Lunceford were the same. Don't know who their arrangers were but they liked the White precision bands, for sure.
Bill Barty was the little assistant in Krofft Supershow's, "Dr.Shrinker" back in the 1970's. It's hard to believe, looking at him in this old clip from the 50's, that he would live up to the year 2000.
The Billy Barty show was some of the best "live television broadcast" done in the early nineteen sixties. There is no known film footage left. He would start with a song and dance, tell some funny jokes, then tell the kids who his guest were. There would be stage magicians, jugglers, clowns, and later on, cartoon shows. - Oh the humanity!
Arthur Cabral I was fortunate to have been on the billy barty show my name was called I came down from the audience, I was with my Cub scout troop LOL must have been about 1965-66 don't remember the exact date??
Billy Barty sure does bring back memories of my childhood ! remember his show in the 60's and how he would go into the audience and talk with the kids , tell jokes etc ,he was on everyday after school in the L.A. area then ,I couldn't wait to get home to watch his show after school ...ah those were the good old days :)
I would have been 12 months old when this was done but I do remember Billy Barty from 60's television. Mostly from his appearances on The Red Skelton Show. Small in stature but VERY large in heart.
Glenn Johnson Pure magic.Love everything about Spike Jones and his band.Saw Billy Barty a year ago on a repeat of,i believe "Highway to Heaven" with Michael Landon.Thanks for this posting.
I just watched Billy Barty in his very first film (unverified on IMdb but listed) as an infant with Mickey Rooney, its a silent short called Mickey The Detective and posted on YT.
I ran cross country in high school, We competed at Pierce College in Woodland Hills Ca. Billy Barty would show up almost every week to see someone compete. Real cool to see him here in his prime.
I thought it looked like Billy Barty on the thumbnail. I finally remembered his name, but still had to come on and be sure... he sure was limber when he was young! Quite the impressionist, too.
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
As a kid I loved Spike Jones's records but when the tv show went on the air, somehow I never got into it. I had no idea Billy Barty was part of what I was missing. I knew him on the Peter Gunn series but totally missed the real range of his talents.
I can second that. I think that the records let you use your own imagination, as to what went on, when you listened to them, but the TV-shows limit your imagination.
Growing up in L.A. in the Sixties, I remember watching Billy Barty's live afternoon show, where he was supposedly the emcee of a circus. I never saw him actually act or sing. In the late 60s he had a cameo on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he played Toulouse-Lautrec against David Frye's LBJ. Frye's line (as LBJ) was, "That's a little too loose, Lautrec," whereupon Barty kicked him.
Billy Barty was amazing. He could sing, dance and was an amazing gymnast. He could also act and do impersonations of stars. What a loss ! I feel sorry for the young people who only know him from the Wizard of Oz or other small parts (no pun intended but....)
Did you know there's a Bio Tribute Book and eBook authored by Billy's eldest Nephew published in 2002 and still available online? The titles are Within Reach and Billy Barty Within Reach and feature over 90 photo's and has a 4+ stars rating with 9 Reviews!
leo powers It used to be here on u-tube, one of the greatest skits ever. I always remembered seeing it when i was a little boy, whipped cream coming out of the candelabra. a lot of other bits done by Billy were taken off also. It might have something to do with Spike Jones estates .
Spike’s shows weren’t merely by top-notch bands with crazy arrangements & outrageous comedy, they were an experience like no other until Frank Zappa came along.
Billy Barty is tremendous here. In just a couple of minutes we get to see his energy, wit, vocal range and broad comic abilities. What a gifted and wise performer.
yes.
@@ColtDeeBilly Barty was in a Number of Saturday Morning Kid Shows.
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So cool to see Billy Barty here! In the 80's, I was an extra on Wierd Al Yankovic's film "UHF" and during a night shoot outside of Tulsa, OK where it was shot, during crowd scenes at the "TV station", I was hanging out, waiting for them to set the next shot when I heard that little voice of his say, "Hey buddy, could you give me a lift?" It was Billy, who wanted me to help him onto the hood of a truck so that he could watch what was going on. (BTW, I am 6' 4"!) I heaved him like a beer keg onto the truck and hung out with him and chatted until he was ready to go get ready for his next shot. Such a fun memory!
You must be like a 💯 ! Lol
what impresses me, is how much talent he had. i knew how funny he was, i didn't know he could sing or do such great impressions.
The great Billy Barty!? Wonderful!!!
That's one great great memory! Billy Barty was a gifted man. A truly generous and 'liked by all' personality. He was as big as they come!
HOW AWESOME!!!!! Loved Billy Barty Growing up!!
It’s the Jimmy Durante impression that gets me!
And all these shows were done LIVE! What timing, what talent. Nothing like it anymore. Thank goodness for RUclips preserving such wonderful entertainment history.
Live, but I am guessing they rehearsed.
Supposedly he got the Network to pay for guys who timed sight and sound gags for cartoons. Spike Jones was hard working, always thinking, and his band had a reputation among experts as one of the best in terms of technique .
Had the pleasure of meeting Billy Barty in the 1990's on two occasions. I remember he had a kids show on a local station in the mid 1960's. He would end it by always saying, " Always think big!"
Thank you Billy for all the great memories and your contributions.
I loved Billy Barty. All of Spike Jones programs were great.
Great! I didn't realize Barty did all these impressions - I saw him once at a collectibles show in Vegas, a treasured memory.
Man, Billy Barty, not just a stellar on-screen performer but voice actor and impressionist par excellence.
He did shows for Sid & Marty Krofft...
And, his son is almost 6' tall.
I can't believe people don't know about this stuff. Spike Jones was the internet before the internet.
spike jones and company-absolute genius
Great, great childhood memories!! Couldn't wait every week for the Spike Jones show to come on! My favorites were Billy Barty and Ishcabible!!! How I miss those innocent days. 😥
Love these blasts from the past. Wish there was more fun stuff like that these days on tv and live shows.
Haha!!! My dad introduced these guys to me 40 years ago. Love it!!!
That Johnny Ray impersonation absolutely killed me!
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⚘Jeffrey...you have great taste. Love your other video collections, too.
I don't recall Johnny Ray ever pulling off his clothes...
Those musicians were absolutely perfect. Back when you had to literally outshine a star in the sky to get on television
Very silly, but some hugely talented musicians here! Luv it!
Even the arrangements were carefully drawn. To get the song across without drowning out the humorous, dialogue and/ or gags.And anvils and pistol shots and banjoes...
Really brilliant. Practice made perfect for the Spike Jones bands. In fact, an inconvenient truth for some leftists the model band for Louis Armstrong when he briefly had his own dance band...
was.... Guy Lombardo!!! I couldn't believe it. But Armstrong wanted the precision that was so totally the Lombardo calling card !!! LOL Callaway and Lunceford were the same. Don't know who their arrangers were but they liked the White precision bands, for sure.
Bill Barty was the little assistant in Krofft Supershow's, "Dr.Shrinker" back in the 1970's. It's hard to believe, looking at him in this old clip from the 50's, that he would live up to the year 2000.
The Billy Barty show was some of the best "live television broadcast" done in the early nineteen sixties. There is no known film footage left. He would start with a song and dance, tell some funny jokes, then tell the kids who his guest were. There would be stage magicians, jugglers, clowns, and later on, cartoon shows. - Oh the humanity!
Arthur Cabral I was fortunate to have been on the billy barty show my name was called I came down from the audience, I was with my Cub scout troop LOL must have been about 1965-66 don't remember the exact date??
@@berzerker1100 Cool!
I loved his show, and tried to never miss it. He was one of a kind-- and dearly missed!
@@berzerker1100 before my time, Im mid 40s but why haven't any shows been saved
@@secretagentviper8382 they were probably sent out live
" Billy Barty " was the best. I grew up watching his show in the early sixties. Favorite actor of all time.
Great Billy Daniels impersonation on Old black magic.
Talent like this does not exist any more.
Thank goodness they have great moments like this recorded.
It was so daringly cornball, I'm astonished, he was ahead of his time.
I'm loving this! Thanks so much for making this priceless entertainment available!
Billy Barty sure does bring back memories of my childhood ! remember his show in the 60's and how he would go into the audience and talk with the kids , tell jokes etc ,he was on everyday after school in the L.A. area then ,I couldn't wait to get home to watch his show after school ...ah those were the good old days :)
That man was incredible!
That little guy is very good this is a classic
So few folks realize that it is many times harder to play good (fast) parody music than straight off the score.
Well said
Absolutely!
EXACTLY...Kind of like when Victor Borge would play "upside down" or backwards...
Incredible Musicianship!
I loved to watch this show when I was a kid.
Dang. Billy the kid! What an act. Great! Thanks.
Love, love, love it..Thanks for sharing..
I would have been 12 months old when this was done but I do remember Billy Barty from 60's television. Mostly from his appearances on The Red Skelton Show. Small in stature but VERY large in heart.
Glenn Johnson Pure magic.Love everything about Spike Jones and his band.Saw Billy Barty a year ago on a repeat of,i believe "Highway to Heaven" with Michael Landon.Thanks for this posting.
I have this album. Spike Jones Murders the Classics
They throw in three musically different ideas within one and half minute where as nowadays they repeat the one for five.
I think this could be an example for the residents. If the residents would had made their tunes in the 40 s, it probably would had sounded like that
Now THAT'S entertainment!!! :)
I had no idea that Billy Barty was so talented.
I just watched Billy Barty in his very first film (unverified on IMdb but listed) as an infant with Mickey Rooney, its a silent short called Mickey The Detective and posted on YT.
I ran cross country in high school, We competed at Pierce College in Woodland Hills Ca. Billy Barty would show up almost every week to see someone compete. Real cool to see him here in his prime.
Damn the dude was everywhere, and a great man from what I've heard, what year was you in school
@@secretagentviper8382 Class of 83
We had a friend who could play the Accordion and the Banjo very well he was a painter and decorator by trade
Billy's Durante is astonishing, he sounds just like him!
This guy is good I can’t stop watching the little fellow
Those Banjos play pretty fast.
There's one where Billy sings as Liberace. It'll kill ya if you hadn't heard it before!
Talent pouring over, and those gorgeous nurses, you know they had to beat the band off of them
This stuff should sell today,with the attention spans of younger people being what it is, this is fast stuff !
Very fit and clever people who loved to be crazy.
I thought it looked like Billy Barty on the thumbnail. I finally remembered his name, but still had to come on and be sure... he sure was limber when he was young! Quite the impressionist, too.
"Cripple Creek", by "The Band", brought me here.
Wow, haha!
Thanks for this!
What an act priceless 👍😄⚰️
Brilliant cover.
Today's generation can't comprehend this style of comedy.
Made my day ;-)
Billy B A Genius performer!
America was totally American then. So much energy. How can we get it back?
La Main Gauche en plein délire.
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
this is awesome..thx for the laugh
Musical Da Da, awesome 😂!
Hilarious and great music talent
Doing so many impressions of famous people is hard. I count Louis Armstrong(?), Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Durante.
As a kid I loved Spike Jones's records but when the tv show went on the air, somehow I never got into it. I had no idea Billy Barty was part of what I was missing. I knew him on the Peter Gunn series but totally missed the real range of his talents.
I can second that. I think that the records let you use your own imagination, as to what went on, when you listened to them, but the TV-shows limit your imagination.
Growing up in L.A. in the Sixties, I remember watching Billy Barty's live afternoon show, where he was supposedly the emcee of a circus. I never saw him actually act or sing. In the late 60s he had a cameo on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he played Toulouse-Lautrec against David Frye's LBJ. Frye's line (as LBJ) was, "That's a little too loose, Lautrec," whereupon Barty kicked him.
I was just fixin to ask if that was Billy Barty. Thanks. Remember him in Night Patrol? Billy Farty. Goofy good times
Also great in two 1970s movies with Chevy Chase (Foul Play & Under The Rainbow).
That’s the tightest band you’re ever going to hear.
Unseen talent
Which part ? did you see it ?? oh ooh, yes. UNseen 😬
Billy Barty was amazing. He could sing, dance and was an amazing gymnast. He could also act and do impersonations of stars. What a loss ! I feel sorry for the young people who only know him from the Wizard of Oz or other small parts (no pun intended but....)
We all die, its not a loss, he gave us a win in life.
I think they must have been an ancestor of the residents.
Clothes like that, you can’t just buy them off the rack! You gotta get ‘em built to order.
I want to see Bela Fleck play the banjo like that :D
Oh, those suits...
Somewhere out there is someone who is as turned as me wit this gig
Did you know there's a Bio Tribute Book and eBook authored by Billy's eldest Nephew published in 2002 and still available online? The titles are Within Reach and Billy Barty Within Reach and feature over 90 photo's and has a 4+ stars rating with 9 Reviews!
0:27 0:47 great clip of Freddy Morgan (the one with white spots on his suit) on the banjo!
He was probably the best banjo player in the US in his time. You would think the video was sped up but it wern't.
No matter what crazy stuff happened on stage, the City Slickers always ended the number with "TA-DAAAAAA"!!!
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I was having fun watching Billy, but when he went into his Jimmy Durante voice, I just lost it!
Radio Land Murders has a pretty good version of Old Black Magic with Billy Barty and Michael McKean as Spike Jones
Wish someone would post his impression of Liberace.
leo powers It used to be here on u-tube, one of the greatest skits ever. I always remembered seeing it when i was a little boy, whipped cream coming out of the candelabra. a lot of other bits done by Billy were taken off also. It might have something to do with Spike Jones estates .
Wow
Spike’s shows weren’t merely by top-notch bands with crazy arrangements & outrageous comedy, they were an experience like no other until Frank Zappa came along.
I didn't know he did impressions.
Spike Jones was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1940s.
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Third impression was Johnny Ray.
Jimmy Durante is in there. Cagney as well. The Johnny Ray is painfully funny.
The first one was Billy Daniels. ruclips.net/video/m8l6czSpwD4/видео.html
Thank you! I couldn't get it.
@dkfelix Actually, the first one was James Cagney
Billy Barty!
BILLY BARTY WASN'T FAMOUS FOR BEING A MIDGET/LITTLE PERSON. THAT MAN WAS TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED. HE WAS A GIFTED ENTERTAINER WITH A HEART OF GOLD.
Performers nowadays would need a lot of drugs to get that much energy and entertainment
Bily Bartey always a hit!
I always thought he came up a bit short
Short in stature long on talent.
I didn't know they did Flakka back then.
Who knew that Billy Barty could do Jimmy Durante?
A lot of energy and silly. I didn't know Billy Barty could sing and do impressions.
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what happened to the rest of the videos with billy . Did you remove them. Ie Billy doing Liberace Etc??? Why?? Can we buy them?
The first person Billy mimics is James Cagney. The second is Jimmy Durante. I'm not sure who the third was... if a third at all.
Johnny Ray.
turn out the lights and call the laws
Gwildor!
The pearl is in the river
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I definitely have a giant banana