Spike Jones and The City Slickers (1953) - MDA Telethon

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    Check out Spike Jones and The City Slickers during the 1953 MDA Labor Day! Spike Jones and The City Slickers' comedy routine will have you laughing out of your chair! You don't want to miss this!
    The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an enchanting yearly variety show that ran for half a century. Hosted for many years by Jerry Lewis, the telethon featured top stars from the world of music, comedy, and Broadway and was like no other show on earth.
    The telethon was created to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is leading the fight against muscular dystrophy. MDA dedicates itself to strength, independence and life. To learn more about MDA and to donate, please visit www.MDA.org.
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  • @patriozeb
    @patriozeb 5 лет назад +97

    Thats my Dad playing the Bass Trombone I was thrilled to find the clip!

    • @78rpmblog
      @78rpmblog 5 лет назад +9

      He's doing a superb job to keep a straight face to Freddie Morgan's antics.

    • @demef758
      @demef758 4 года назад +10

      It took a ton of will power to keep a straight face as Pop did while Freddie did his thing!

    • @josephinerimmer6888
      @josephinerimmer6888 4 года назад +3

      Patrick Nole Wow!!!

    • @josephinerimmer6888
      @josephinerimmer6888 4 года назад +6

      Was he good at Poker? He shoulda been with that face. God bless all of them, we will never see their like again. Xxx

    • @patriozeb
      @patriozeb 4 года назад +6

      He didn’t gamble but he was alot of fun! Love my pops

  • @TubeNotMe
    @TubeNotMe 10 месяцев назад +6

    One of the great comedic geniuses now lost in the past. So great to see this performance still preserved!

  • @timbarnes-trb
    @timbarnes-trb 23 дня назад

    Huge Slicker fan here! Never saw this clip before! Thanks for making it available!

  • @deepblue1963
    @deepblue1963 Год назад +4

    Amazing musicians. When Spike paused the comedy during their shows and they just jammed. It was mind-blowing! 💯👊🏻

  • @ThomasPrior-wv6zn
    @ThomasPrior-wv6zn Год назад +2

    ITS 2023 I LOVE THESE GUYS STILL AS FUNNY NOW AS THEN R I P SPIKE AND SLICKER,S

  • @baumcollcsame7871
    @baumcollcsame7871 5 лет назад +19

    Wow!!! 1953 MDA Telethon with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis still together! And Spike Jones and his City Slickers at their finest. This video is a great find!!

  • @andyleclerc3600
    @andyleclerc3600 Год назад +3

    Forget trying to keep s straight face once Freddie Morgan starts his bit🤣🤣🤣

  • @jokerfreak1973
    @jokerfreak1973 11 месяцев назад +1

    I want so bad to find videos of Spike Jones. He was introduced to me when I was a child by my Grandfather when he was alive.

  • @johnmitchelljr
    @johnmitchelljr Год назад +2

    Never disappoints. Thank you.

  • @LUSCIOUSDUNCAN
    @LUSCIOUSDUNCAN Год назад +3

    i was born in 1990. i ostensibly should perceive this as a painfully cringey relic of a bygone era BUUuuUUuuUT i gotta say this is unbelievably funny. the banjo player is SUCH a good physical comedian it's insane

  • @petelarose998
    @petelarose998 2 года назад +3

    😉☺😊😄 Spike Joan was a genius and also very very funny I've always loved his music good Peter

  • @demef758
    @demef758 4 года назад +14

    Jones had the good sense to know that when you have great comedic talent on the staff, such as Freddie Morgan, then you let them do their things, stand back, and enjoy it with the audience. Although Jones is the straight man here, you can see Jones bust out laughing @ 4:07. What a fantastic act Jones had!

    • @omalone1169
      @omalone1169 Год назад

      when they claim that they dont see colour

    • @qqleq
      @qqleq Год назад

      I only know Morgan form Spike Jones, but I can see immediately that he is one of the best in clownery that I've ever seen.

    • @williamcaspers7087
      @williamcaspers7087 11 месяцев назад +1

      My mom famous dancer all over the world first husband was banjo great Freddie Morganstern.. two seldom together due to different talents yet had my gorgeous step sister Ann.. who died recently in her 80's our mom Sethma Williams died 2014 at 99... Freddie and Eddie Peabody considered two of the world's best banjo players in their time and both revered by banjo players around the world 🌎

  • @j.c.b6473
    @j.c.b6473 2 года назад +1

    Madness! 😂

  • @echoecho3108
    @echoecho3108 2 года назад +4

    The only time no one needs to shout 'More Cowbell!' 🙄 😊

  • @thepizzasnobofnepasnj3730
    @thepizzasnobofnepasnj3730 3 года назад +4

    Surprised to learn the MDA telethon has been around that long.

    • @phillipnelson6076
      @phillipnelson6076 2 года назад

      For many of the early years it was only on a few TV stations.

  • @wilihgrolsch3544
    @wilihgrolsch3544 5 лет назад +3

    Timeless. Genius. 'That's a killer!' I laughed at your wedding. At last they were rid of youooooo!

  • @michaelthomsen4919
    @michaelthomsen4919 11 месяцев назад

    Chaos pilots and break dancers ... before they where invented. Amazing

  • @johnsturdy6429
    @johnsturdy6429 4 года назад +3

    beat that!!! impossible

  • @ellenrosenblatt5463
    @ellenrosenblatt5463 2 года назад +2

    First came Spike Jones in the 50's followed by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 60's.

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 9 месяцев назад

      80s , 90s & 2000s came Weird AL Yankovic.
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @carolynebbert1482
    @carolynebbert1482 Год назад +2

    Could that have been the worlds first break dancer at the 6:39 time stamp? Seen him doing more extensive moves elsewhere.

  • @KlandestinosProducciones
    @KlandestinosProducciones 5 лет назад +6

    6:39 The very first BREAKDANCE ever

    • @exploreguitar684
      @exploreguitar684 4 года назад

      First thought the same, but have a look here
      ruclips.net/video/14QEoEIvUuk/видео.html

    • @KeithE4
      @KeithE4 3 года назад +1

      @@exploreguitar684 -- That film was from 1946. Curly Howard of the Three Stooges was "break dancing" a decade earlier. Woowoowoowoowoo!

  • @jackfitzpatrick5566
    @jackfitzpatrick5566 Год назад

    Crazy to think Spike Jones and Dean Martin interacted at some point. I don’t know why this is a crazy concept but they’re such polar opposites.

  • @screamingeagle3032
    @screamingeagle3032 3 года назад +2

    Is that Dean Martin in the beginning clip?

    • @echoecho3108
      @echoecho3108 2 года назад +1

      Yep. Dino and Jerry were still speaking to each other then.

  • @AudiophileTommy
    @AudiophileTommy 9 месяцев назад

    🤯I now know where Rowan Atkinson got his character Mr.Bean from (watch the banjo player at the start of this performance .

  • @MrTruckerf
    @MrTruckerf 5 лет назад +10

    Freddie Morgan reminds me of Harpo Marx at times, and the whole schtick here is one of bedlam and chaos in the fashion of the Marx brothers.

  • @MikeSmith-eb2jm
    @MikeSmith-eb2jm Год назад

    I can see where Mad Magazine got it's character Alfred E Newman

  • @mellotronage7073
    @mellotronage7073 5 лет назад +3

    What ? No latrine-ophone ? (instrument made from a toilet seat that the City Slickers used/invented)

  • @user-ii1eb6eg8e
    @user-ii1eb6eg8e Год назад +1

    Надо же, ни одного чернокожего...

  • @batouttahell454
    @batouttahell454 Год назад

    Anyone remember ERNIE KOVACS???

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy Год назад

      Yes, from the time he first went on television on WPTZ, channel 3, in Philadelphia in the early 1950's. His zany program, called "Three to Get Ready", aired in the early-morning time slot eventually taken over by NBC's "Today" show. Ernie, himself, later starred in daytime and evening network programs on NBC and later on ABC. He often used music in his bits until he died in January 1962 in a one-car accident.

    • @russs7574
      @russs7574 8 месяцев назад

      Kovacs was hysterical. He is generally credited with developing "blackout comedy," which was raised to another level in the late 60's/early 70's on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In." Not only that, he was married to Edie Adams, who was hot, hot, hot.

  • @user-wt2rs2mm9n
    @user-wt2rs2mm9n 9 месяцев назад

    Funny as watching paint dry.

  • @mikerca
    @mikerca 4 года назад

    Terrible camera work though.

    • @pgh45rpms
      @pgh45rpms 4 года назад +2

      Early tv technology -- it's 1953.

    • @bobboscarato1313
      @bobboscarato1313 Год назад +1

      They had to belong to the union to get those jobs!

  • @petelarose998
    @petelarose998 2 года назад +2

    Christ is the ONLY WAY to heaven!!!

  • @GBart
    @GBart 4 года назад +1

    What the hell is this? Is this supposed to be funny?
    I'm glad I wasn't alive in the 50s, I'd have died of boredom

    • @KeithE4
      @KeithE4 3 года назад +5

      Lighten up, Francis! If you don't like it, don't post here. Nobody will miss you.

    • @cpbrestvankempen2867
      @cpbrestvankempen2867 3 года назад +3

      Your comment, on the other hand, now THAT'S fascinating.

    • @Johnny35130
      @Johnny35130 3 года назад +1

      The studio recordings were much funnier.

    • @joeybonin7691
      @joeybonin7691 2 года назад +5

      If you have to ask, you don't get it.

    • @danaldrich8278
      @danaldrich8278 2 года назад +1

      You my friend are very short sighted!