On the other end of the scale is the comedic spike jones version released in december 1945 as spike jones presents for the kiddies. In accordance with the directives of government and health authorities, we have temporarily suspended operations. Nov 06, 2016 peninsula school of performing arts the nutcracker spanish dance artistic director. With spike jones, spike jones and his city slickers, hugh obrian, buddy hackett. Dec 06, 2010 from the 1973 rca release spike jones is murdering the classics, your favorite highlights from the nutcracker. Back to the fairy ballthey dance on the seat of their pants. With his 1950s tv show now on dvd, the late bandleaders wife. Musical madness 194549 thank you, music lovers, spike jones would shout during his weekly salutations. Complete song listing of spike jones on spike jones songs list covid19. Spike jones and his city slickers the blue danube lyrics.
Spanish dancers chocolate arabian dancers coffee chinese dancers tea. A film intended for bud abbott and lou costello that ended up starring hugh obrian and buddy hackett. Hip hop dancers perform the nutcracker video bossip. Provided to youtube by sony music entertainment nutcracker suite. This is one of the characteristic dances that show up in the second act of the nutcracker, when clara and the prince arrive at the kingdom of sweets, ruled by the sugar plum fairy. Now when im lookin at the funnies i get as mad as mad. The nutcracker suite, a selection of pieces from tchaikovskys nowclassic christmas ballet the nutcracker, is a personified depiction of the changing of the seasons. These classics are popular because of their inspired and complex lunacy. Darren curtis skanson released it on the album a light classical christmas in 2001. The nutcracker suite spike jones rca victor wp143 3 7 45rpm box set total time.
On this, one of the best collections of jones music, the listener is treated to such trademark sounds as gunshots, gurgling, cowbells, belches, and car horns. The pianist and conductor mikhail pletnev adapted some of the music into a virtuosic concert suite for piano solo. Spike jones biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Bring the music of peter tchaikovskys, spanish dance from the nutcracker ballet to life for your students with these cute finger puppets.
Spike jones was a popular musician and comedian during the 1940s and 1950s. Arranged by joe country washburne with lyrics by foster carling. Spike jones and his city slickers the nutcracker suite. The spike jones material is a solid five stars all the way,no question,but the packaging this time around and the way. When i was a kid, we had an album out of the library that broke us up with laughter called spike jones is murdering the classics it was on rca red seal and i believe it was a new release in the early 70s of spike s classic sendups of classical pieces. Another group of pieces in this concert will highlight dance music, like bedrich smetanas polka from the bartered bride, an opera that celebrates bohemian peasant life. He and his backing band the city slickers employed a wide variety of zany vocals, household implements and shotguns to produce their wacky, yet musically intriguing tracks.
You have another wife, and i have another husband, and he has another wife, and she has another husband. This page features a ballet video titled nutcracker 1974 vs today. Dec 19, 2015 hip hop dancers perform the nutcracker videothe california philharmonic turned their annual holiday performance of the nutcracker on its head on dec. Spike jones and his city slickers did versions of the william tell overture, and ponchiellis dance of the hours. Spike jones and his city slickers dance of the hours. He and his merry men of musical mayhem delighted audiences and themselves with musical parodies, spoofs, noisemakers and just plain silliness. Spike jones the nutcracker suite 1953, vinyl discogs.
Dance of the hours spike jones and his city slickers. Spike jones was the original madcap bandleader who was popular in the 1940s and 50s. Shirims legendary klezmer rendition of the nutcracker is a brilliant crosscultural achievement which is fun, serious and rocking all at once. Spike jones released the following albums including the best of spike jones, vol.
This is the newest and second release of rare spike jones tv material from the spike jones estate and produced by his son spike jones jr. This lively arrangement is remarkably true to tchaikovskys original version, with. The city slickers preformed under a variety of names over the years, and some of the rotating cast of members followed spike when he formed a second group of more serious musicians in 1946 called spike jones and his other orchestra which played lush arrangements of dance hits. He and his backing band the city slickers employed a wide variety of zany vocals, household implements and shotguns to produce their wacky, yet. The night before christmas in texas, that is gene autry. I bought a little bunny, then i bought another bunny. Jones and his band of likeminded men and women lampoon the most serious of all music.
Nutcracker suite spike jones and his city slickers. A salute to spike jones, arranged by calvin custer, samples just about every bell, whistle and horn in the percussion toy box. Spiked is definitely a worthy addition to your collection. In the wild and woolly days before multitrack recording, mtv, and certainly digital entertainment content, spike jones put together a topflight musical organization that the world has not seen the likes of since. Reputed to have the most talented and highlypaid musicians of the day, spike jones and his musicians were considerably more than simply novelty. Spike jones and his city slickers none but the lonely.
Ballads receiving the jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones was given his own television show, the spike jones show, which aired early in 1954, and club oasis on nbc, in the summer of 1958. From the 1973 rca release spike jones is murdering the classics, your favorite highlights from the nutcracker. Get youtube premium get youtube tv best of youtube music sports gaming movies tv shows news live. The spike jones story is the first documentary made about this innovative, musical humorist. This dvd set is what every spiker spike jones fan has been waiting to see and i am sure will watch over and over again. Lindley armstrong jones december 14, 1911 may 1, 1965 known as spike jones, was an american musician and bandleader specializing in satirical arrangements of popular songs and classical music.
As recorded by spike jones and his city slickers, vocal refrain by george rock by carl hoefle and del porter, tune town tunes, 1949 recitative. Spanish dance from the nutcracker finger puppets by. It was a shock when i first saw this item suddenly come up for sale. Spike jones and his city slickers nutcracker suite. Spike jones, son of a railroad agent, was born lindley armstrong jones, getting his nickname from a telegraph operator who thought that jones was skinny as a railroad spike. Dance of the sugar plum fairy by darren curtis skanson was written by pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky and was first performed by the orchestra of the imperial mariinsky theatre conducted by riccardo drigo. Spike jones and his other orchestra played lush arrangements of dance hits. Dec 29, 2009 spike jones and his city slickers broke the mold of conventional music decades ago with humor, drums, cowbells and even cannons. Aug 29, 2016 spike jonzes new commercial for kenzo perfume is as bold as it gets. In this case, spike jonze has done that quite literally. Jones was always prepared to adapt to changing tastes. Now, jones is best remembered as the creator of surreal musical numbers which topped the charts in america for over a decade.
Lindley armstrong jones december 14, 1911 may 1, 1965, known as spike jones, was an. Lindley armstrong jones december 14, 1911 may 1, 1965, known as spike jones, was an american musician and bandleader specializing in satirical arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Spike jones dinner music for people who arnt very hungry duration. Its that music that walt disney wanted in the leadoff spot in his animated film fantasia and that spike jones chose to. Spike jones and his city slickers music, videos, stats, and. In 1944 rca victor released his spike jones presents for the kiddies version of tchaikovskys nutcracker suite, in three 10. You cannot think of cowbells, air horns and whistles being used as musical instruments without thinking spike jones first. In accordance with the directives of government and health authorities, we. The fairy and the people of the kingdom perform several dances for clara and the prince, including a spanish dance that is sometimes called chocolate. Complete your spike jones and his city slickers collection.
Cover versions of dance of the sugar plum fairy by darren. Listen to all i want for christmas is my two front teeth, all i want for christmas is my two front teeth and more from spike jones. The reindeers dance mitch miller and the sandpipers golden r68 1 6 78rpm record in sleeve. Tv guide reported that spike was going to downplay his celebrated cementmixer cacophony and prettymuch play it straight on this series.
Most of the footage was given over to spike jones and his city slickers, about the all hands members of a 1910 fire company about to be mechanized. Spike jones is murdering the classics spike jones and his city slickers. Some suggested usesas part of your guided listening students move the character whenever they hear that theme, demonstrate tempo, move when they hear a c. In 1957 he revamped again with spike jones and the band that plays. Spike jones go crazy with spike jones vinyl discogs.
Trix sisters ukulele lullaby 1926 since ukulele lady had a ukulele baby josephine trix on uke. The nutcracker suite with apologies to tchaikovsky, featuring humorous lyrics by foster carling and additional music by joe country washburne. This article is about the ballet and the music by tchaikovsky. Us based, his speciality was sending up the songs of the time using a vast array of sound effects including pots and pans, gongs, horns, guns, bells, broken glass effects anything. Heres the tune they dance to when they get a chance to its a kind of a rinkydinky, ending with a whirliigig. Umpi, umpg publishing, and 6 music rights societies. Although spike jones was known as the king of corn, another more appropriate title may have been the king of cacophony. Spike jones and his city slickers the nutcracker suite rca victor usa. Shirim performs the klezmer nutcracker plus other hanukah favorites in concert at club passim.
If you give an auteur a commercial, dont be surprised when he or she goes off the wall. The nutcracker suite is the second segment of the 1940 disney film fantasia. The paraphrase on tchaikovskys flower waltz is a successful piano arrangement from one of the movements from the nutcracker by the pianist and composer percy grainger. On the other end of the scale is the comedic spike jones version released in. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video.
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