Spike Jones & His City Slickers - A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones: Thank You Music Lovers
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Artist: Spike Jones & His City SlickersEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-04-05
Music Label: Proper Introduction
Soundtracks:
- Minka
- Ugga Ugga Boo Ugga
- Knock, Knock (Who's There?)
- Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?
- Rum Tee Diddle Dee Yump
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
- Chinese Muletrain
- Fiddle Faddle
- So' Elp Me
- Tennessee Waltz
- Dance of the Hours
- Alto, Baritone and Bass
- What Is a Disk Jockey?
- Hot Lips
- Baby Buggie Boogie
- I Went to Your Wedding
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Winter
- Lulu Had a Baby
- Captain of the Space Ship
- Dragnet
- Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
- 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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