Spike Jones
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 21
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- December 14, 1911
- Died
- May 1, 1965
- Place of birth
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Also known as
- Lindley JonesSpike Jones and His Orchestra
Biography
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue". Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
