A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers

Spike Jones & His City Slickers - A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers

A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers
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Artist: Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-04-05
Music Label: Proper Introduction
Soundtracks:
  1. Minka
  2. Ugga Ugga Boo Ugga
  3. Knock, Knock (Who's There?)
  4. Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?
  5. Rum Tee Diddle Dee Yump
  6. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  7. Chinese Muletrain
  8. Fiddle Faddle
  9. So' Elp Me
  10. Tennessee Waltz
  11. Dance of the Hours
  12. Alto, Baritone and Bass
  13. What Is a Disk Jockey?
  14. Hot Lips
  15. Baby Buggie Boogie
  16. I Went to Your Wedding
  17. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  18. Winter
  19. Lulu Had a Baby
  20. Captain of the Space Ship
  21. Dragnet
  22. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
  23. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Music reviews of A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers

Music Review: The best of the rest...
Rating: 5 Stars

The title is certainly misleading. Most of the biggest hits of Spike Jones & the City Slickers are included in the 4-CD Proper Box Strictly for Music Lovers, which is highly recommended.
After I acquired that set, I was aware that it was missing one of my all-time favorite Spike Jones tracks, "Ghost Riders in the Sky." Then I figured out that, rather than being an "intro," this disc is a supplement to the boxed set.
It includes several of the band's "original" novelty songs, which are hardly as interesting as their parodies. However, when you remember that these guys were on the radio regularly, and so they needed a steady stream of new material, you can't help being impressed that the originals work as well as they do.
The parodies here are as good as any of the more famous hits. "Fiddle Faddle" has impeccable vocals by Homer & Jethro (plus a mandolin solo by Jethro Burns) as a special treat. The "angel choir" radio performance of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is brilliant, Doodles Weaver's "new" auto race version of "Dance of the Hours" comes close to topping the original, and the routine with Tommy Dorsey on "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" is a choice bit.
These are not for the most part the "essential" Spike Jones tracks, but there is an awful lot of more obscure excellent material here.

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