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Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and outlandish vocals. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.
Jones' father was a Southern Pacific railroad agent. Young Lindley got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike. At the age of 11 he got his first set of drums. As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself. A railroad restaurant chef taught him how to use pots and pans, forks, knives and spoons as musical instruments. He frequently played in theater pit orchestras. In the 1930s he joined the Victor Young orchestra and thereby got many offers to appear on radio shows, including Al Jolson's Lifebuoy Program, Burns and Allen, and Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall.
SPIKE JONES:Tchaikovsky Medley
SPIKE JONES & CITY SLICKERS - COCKTAILS FOR TWO - 1945
The Best Of Spike Jones - Spike Jones and his City Slickers
SPIKE JONES: Hits Medley
Spike Jones Documentary
Spike Jones William Tell Overture
SPIKE JONES: Poet and Peasant Overture
The Spike Jones Show (1952)
Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face
SPIKE JONES - COCKTAILS FOR TWO
SPIKE JONES: ALL GIRL BAND MEDLEY.mov
The Spike Jones Story - Part 1
DER FUEHRER'S FACE
Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Note: Each "heil heil" is accompanied by what is variously
called "the bird", "the raspberry", or "the Bronx cheer"
CHORUS
When der fuehrer says we is de master race
We heil heil right in der fueher's face
Not to love der fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we heil heil right in der fuehrer's face
When Herr Goebbels says we own the world and space
We heil heil right in Herr Goebbels' face
When Herr Goring says they'll never bomb dis place
We heil heil right in Herr Goring's face
Are we not he supermen Aryan pure supermen
Ja we are the supermen (super duper supermen)
Is this Nutsy land so good
Would you leave it if you could
Ja this Nutsy land is good
We would leave it if we could
We bring the world to order
Heil Hitler's world to order
Everyone of foreign race
Will love der fuehrer's face
When we bring to the world dis order
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE
CHORUS (slows down like a dying tape cassette on the last line)