Spike Jones
USA
Born: 14 December 1911
Died: 01 May 1965
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Big Band/Swing, Swing
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My father saw them at the Michigan Theater in Detroit back in 1943. "They were crazy, he started off the show with his regular big band, you know, just playing straight stuff. Then, after intermission, the stage went black and all these sirens and gun shots started going off. Then the stage lit up and it was Spike Jones & His City Slickers, the same band only dressed up crazy. They had a guy playing a toilet seat with strings on it, people on-stage wearing wigs and crazy outfits, oh geez, they were nuts. Nobody was doing anything like that back...
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