I have a remastered CD of Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones' "greatest hits?" I remember listening to him on the radio as a youngster, during the 1940's and, perhaps, early 1950's. He had started his musical career as a fairly straight drummer during the 1930's. Starting with pots and pans and various other percussion oddities, he eventually took over what became known as his "City Slickers." The first big hit was "Der Fuhrer's Face," recorded just prior to a two-year recording blackout caused by a musicians union strike in the early 1940's. What most people may not realize is just how good he and his musicians had to be to pull off some of the craziness they were noted for. He was definitely the "Weird Al" of his day. They harpooned everything from classical favorites to Vaughn Monroe's "Ghost Riders in the Sky," where they actually nailed him, by name, in the last verse.