Spike Jones featuring Mickey Katz (1947)

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This clip gives us a rare and wonderful look at Spike Jones hilarity, with the added delight of seeing Mickey Katz (the short, bald guy playing clarinet) goofing around with the band and even doing his trademark "glugg-glugg". Mickey went on from there to write his Yiddish parodies and the rest is history,

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 2, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Author: voxpopulai

Length: 0:03:38
Rating: 4.74
Views: 36,567

Tags: Spike Jones Mickey Katz

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zinkamilanov (Sunday 16th of November 2008 10:38:56 PM)
Someone once on a radio show about Spike Jones remembered that in his stage show for a while he would have a girl come out and sit on one side of the stage and knit all through the craziness. People would wonder what she was doing there and what she was ever going to do, and all she did was knit. I think I saw her once in a Spike video knitting, but haven't seen her on Tube yet.
OKDDAY (Sunday 12th of October 2008 11:20:45 AM)
At 2:48, Spike can use the force! Spike Jones is pure brilliance. Cheers.
mrebelm (Tuesday 5th of August 2008 06:33:29 AM)
very good -none of you mentioned his being the uncle of sigourney weaver...she was still in the deep end of the gene pool then.
heoko (Friday 25th of July 2008 10:16:41 PM)
FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE
LFD254 (Monday 28th of July 2008 09:57:13 AM)
Now, now. Was that really necessary ?
Parvati78100 (Sunday 10th of August 2008 01:12:41 AM)
Your answer is really light. What wouldn't we read if someone had written "Fucking black people"! But hush, I'm already subversive and politically incorrect.
fromthesidelines (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 03:00:02 PM)
The man on Mary's right at 1:36 (who also delivers the seal's bark) is Winstead "Doodles" Weaver, who became famous in Spike's band for his interprtations of the "William Tell Overture" and "Dance Of the Hours", and appearing on his Coca-Cola radio show as "Professor Feetlebaum". At 1:53 is A. Purves Pullen, who was a professional bird impressionist and was known in Spike's outfit as "Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath".
LFD254 (Monday 23rd of June 2008 11:36:45 AM)
Doodles Weaver also had a series of "shorts" on early TV called "A Day with Doodles"
Juliaflo (Thursday 4th of September 2008 02:24:03 PM)
Don't be an alien--name Doodles Weaver's famous niece. Good luck.
asswhole455 (Friday 13th of June 2008 11:18:41 PM)
I thought that was Deforest Kelly in the beginning, and once I read the comments here it confirmed that. Useless trivia: he was friends with George Reeves (Superman). Back to topic, Spike was fantastic as were the members of his troupe.