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Spike Jones: The Man Who Murdered Music
Spike Jones
Spike Jones: The Man Who Murdered Music
Genre: Comedy & Spoken Word
 
The tracks are: 1. That Old Black magic, 2. Charlestono-Mio, 3. Riders in The Sky, 4. Morpheus, 5. By The Beautiful Sea, 6. Oh! By Jingo, 7. Little Bo Peep has Lost Her Sheep., 8. The Blue Danube, 9. The Great Big Saw Came...  more »

     
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All Artists: Spike Jones
Title: Spike Jones: The Man Who Murdered Music
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: RCA/BMG
Genre: Comedy & Spoken Word
Style: Comedic Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 017313579864

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The tracks are: 1. That Old Black magic, 2. Charlestono-Mio, 3. Riders in The Sky, 4. Morpheus, 5. By The Beautiful Sea, 6. Oh! By Jingo, 7. Little Bo Peep has Lost Her Sheep., 8. The Blue Danube, 9. The Great Big Saw Came Nearer and Nearer, 10. Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue, 11. Jones Polka, 12. I Wuv A Wabbit, 13. My ornet, 14. Gesundheit, 1`5. Winter, 16, Sante, 17. I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, 18. Tennessee Waltz, 19. Fiddle Faddle, 20. Alti, Baritone and Bass, 21. Nyet!, and 22. Carmen.

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Eric K. (SoulfulStuff)
Reviewed on 1/26/2017...
Original RCA Victor recordings by
musician/bandleader Spike Jones,
the most successful satirical recording
artist of the 1940s and early 1950s.
Jones had nearly 20 hit singles in the
years 1942-53.

This compilation is from the Good Music
Record Co. (no, not the Kanye outfit!)
which sold reissue stuff like this
mostly through TV advertising in the
1990s. Sound quality is petty good
considering the age of the material.

According to the booklet notes,
Jones' rendition of "That Old Black
Magic" was "often used to start his
stage show off with a bang. The
number featured live pigs that slid
down chutes and were chased around
the stage by a giant and a dwarf."
Sounds like a sight to be seen, but
it'd never fly in today's world.

This disc also includes the "banned"
version of "Riders in the Sky," which
was censored in America because of an
unkind reference to fellow RCA
recording star Vaughn Monroe, who had
a hit version of the same song (and
who also held considerable stock in
RCA).

Relevant to the end, Jones' 1963
recording "Nyet!" was a commentary
on Russia during the time of Kruschev
and Kennedy.

Spike Jones died in 1965 at age 53.
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