Spike Jones - Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 [RCA]
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Track List: Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 [RCA]
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- Cocktails For Two - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- William Tell Overture - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- Chloe - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- My Old Flame - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- The Glow Worm - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- None But The Lonely Heart - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- Laura - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- The Man On The Flying Trapeze - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- You Always Hurt The One You Love - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- Dance Of The Hours - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
- Hawaiian War Chant - Spike Jones And His City SlickersDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 [RCA]
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1975
- Label:
- Rca
- UPC:
- 078635374827
User Reviews: Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 [RCA]
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Wacky and Tacky
, November 25, 2000Reviewer: stunt1379 - See all stunt1379's reviewsThis was my first (and hopefully not last) Spike Jones album, and it did not disappoint me! The gun shots, the vocal outbursts, the sudden changes in tempo (and even Beetlebaum): it's all here. I admit that I laughed out loud at some of the craziness in this recording (check out "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" with Doodles Weaver), and that's what we all look for in a Spike Jones album, isn't it?
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Pro Reviews: Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 [RCA]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Given that it contains a mere 12 tracks, this is hardly an endall and beall overview of the career of America's greatest musical anarchist, Spike Jones, but if you're looking for a good beginners' sampler or want to get a friend or loved one hooked on Jones' cornball genius, you could hardly do better than this handy singledisc collection. The Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 has most of the bestknown hits from Jones and his band (including "Cocktails for Two," "The William Tell Overture," "Hawaiian War Chant (TaHuWaHuWai)," and "Der Fuehrer's Face"), and the performances here capture the City Slickers at their best. The stoponadime precision of their barrage of organized noise is truly remarkable (even more so given that these sides mostly date from the era before editing and overdubbing were commonplace in the recording studio), and while these tunes are consistently hilarious, they also work remarkably well as music. (Though this sure ain't easy listening this was probably the loudest and most disorienting popular music of the prerock era, which I regard as a compliment.) While RCA's upgraded 1999 Greatest Hits CD offers most of the same tunes in higher fidelity and Rhino's Musical Depreciation Review: The Spike Jones Anthology is a closetodefinitive career overview, for many years, The Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 was the best Jones compilation extant, and anyone wanting a portable set of Spike Jones classics will find that it still fills the bill nicely. Now back to Doodles Weaver in the press box... Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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