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The Spike Jones Story DVD
SPIKE JONES & HIS CITY SLICKERS

(Harlequin Records England)

  Just $14.98
The Spike Jones Story with Milton Berle, Danny Thomas and Dr. Demento featuring such City Slickers as Billy Barty, George Rock, Earl Bennett (Sir Frederic Gas), Ruth Foster, Joe Siracusa, Mousie Garner, Bernie Jones, and Eddie Brandt.
And the Spike Jones family, Helen Grayco,(Mrs. Spike Jones), Spike Jones Jr., Linda Selsman-Jones, Leslie Jones and Gina Jones.
The Spike Jones Story is the first documentary yet made about this innovative, musical humorist. Today Jones is best remembered as the creator of deliriously surreal musical numbers which topped the charts in America for over ten years. These recorded classics are popular to this day because of their inspired and very complex lunacy. Clearly, Jones was an inspiration to dozens of other innovators, including Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ernie Kovacs.

This documentary combines his personal and professional history with many examples of his hit recordings, like Cocktails For Two, Der Fuehrer's Face, You always Hurt The One You Love, Laura and All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, along with some rarely seen 1950's rock and roll parodies

Part of the focus of this 60 minute documentary is to reveal different facets, either forgotten or never revealed, about this widely loved figure in popular music. Jones really was a show business visionary. A tireless worker, Jones ended up revolutionizing the music industry with his ambititous Musical Depreciation Revue, a pioneering concept.

Made in 1951 with Don McGlynn as producer and director.

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