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Thread #142193 Message #3275871
Posted By: Will Fly
18-Dec-11 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: Happy 100th to Spike Jones (1911-1965)
Subject: RE: Happy 100th to Spike Jones (1911-1965)
Wasn't it, "And Banana's coming up through the bunch?" "And it's Cabbage by a head..."
Great stuff. My father's sister - only 14 years older than me - used to buy Spike Jones records on 78rpm. My treat, in the early '50s, was to go to my grandparents' house up the road and play them on the old wind-up gramophone. My first encounter with Spike was his version of Black Eyes - "Hotcha Chornia", with "Clink, Clink, Another Drink" on the other side.
But the record that had me literally crying with laughter the first time I heard it was "The Hawaiian War Chant". Priceless. Fond memories of a very funny man and a great musician.