Spike Jones - Spiked - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Spike Jones became one of the most influential musical satirists of the twentieth century. His troupe of comedic musicians, The City Slickers, performed a visual assault as well as musical mayhem. Consummate master musicianship was vital to creating the apparent chaos. Spike and his Slickers had it. Big time.

R. Schumann - Symphonies 3 & 4 [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Hybrid SACD date 03/31/2009

Spike Jones In Stereo A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound! • The revolutionary 1959 stereo extravaganza returns on slime-green Vinyl and CD. • Features vocals by Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion's unseen ghost, Pillsbury Doughboy), Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony The Tiger, InchYou're A Mean One Mr. GrinchInch), George Rock (InchAll I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front TeethInch), and Lulie Jean Norman (singer on the theme from Star Trek). • Detailed liner notes from Joe Marchese (thesedoncdisc. Com) feature new interviews with Spike's children multiple Grammy-winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones, Emmy-winning producer-director Spike Jones Jr. , and Linda Lee Jones. Since the early 1940s, Spike Jones' endlessly inventive recordings had made an art out of honking car horns, gunshots, burps, sneezes, hiccups, and all other manner of musical insanity. But, in 1959, monsters were big Hollywood business. Spike Jones In Stereo A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound! #appeared on Warner Bros. Records later that year. Spike's longtime arranger, Carl Brandt, commented InchThe Spooktacular was a complicated album. We finally broke it down and ended up scoring it like a movie, because it had to be done in bits and pieces. Inch And, the results were astounding. Taking advantage of the new of stereo (just beginning to take hold across the country), In Stereo pushed the audio separation to it's limits. Credited to Spike Jones And The Band That Plays For Fun, vocals were handled by then and future superstars. Paul Frees was not only the InchvoiceInch of Boris Badenov and the Pillsbury Doughboy, but thrilled and chilled the millions who rode Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion as it's unseen ghost and tour guide. Thurl Ravenscroft was grrreat as Tony The Tiger, and became beloved after singing the iconic InchYou're A Mean One Mr. GrinchInch from 1966's How The Grinch Stole Christmas. G