Guest Alec Templeton, Monica Lewis
In this radio show, the opening song is 'Is It True What They Say About Dixie?' Next, Spike takes listeners on a radio tour of Atlanta as part of the second chapter of his series called 'Seeing America With Spike'. Following 'The Spike Jones Amateur Hour,' the band performs 'Laura'. During this number, Alec does an impression of a player piano.
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements and satire of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with various sound effects, including gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, sneezes, animal sounds and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded for RCA Victor under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and they toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue".
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“Guest Alec Templeton, Monica Lewis.” The Spike Jones Show. Radio broadcast, February 20, 1949.
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