Guest Alec Templeton, Peggy Mann
Downbeat Magazine has given the orchestra the title of 'King Of Corn' for the seventh time in a row. The band performs 'In A Persian Market.' A guest named Alec Templeton does funny imitations of the whole band playing 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?' (it's really amazing!). After that, Alec and the City Slickers act out the story behind Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' (it's really smart and funny).
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, Peggy Mann.” The Spike Jones Show. Radio broadcast, January 16, 1949.
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