Spike Jones - I wanna go back to West Virginia 78 rpm

[enterthemadscene]

check out Thank Your Lucky Stars my favorite ww2 musical

[pfefferrucken]

I wanna go back to the time of Spike Jones and the comedy.

Thanx.

[bluskytrvlr]

I think Spike was the Frank Zappa of his day in alot of ways.........

[JoeHinky]

my old next door neighbour who past away a few years back used to play this when he was gardening, this song reminds me of him alot :)

[dancebandleader]

Nice HMV pressing, not familiar with

that catalog number, in what country

was this pressed? Many HMV pressings

were better than their American counterparts.

[78rpmblog]

@dancebandleader I think it's a Norwegian pressing.

[Gothicanime20]

I wish that spike was still around, then perhaps we could have good comedy nowadays!

[CoyoteBuddy]

I'll second that! Spike will be missed forever.

[Plans4Nobody]

I heard a radio interview with his widow in the 1980's - not only was he very talented, she claimed his philosphy was to surround himself with the best talent he could hire, unlike a number of his contemporary band leaders who wanted to be the star of the show. It shows in the recordings he and the "all stars" made!

[hywel777]

wonderful

spike will allways be loved

[billmills]

Awesomely clean for an old 78 vinyl record. Beautiful dub to digital! Thanks for posting this, as well as for sharing all of your wonderful treasures with a world of audiophiles (like me).

[1947Desoto]

I bought the same record on eBay, but the post office pulverized it.

[tx644]

Very nice transcrition! Spike is one of my long time idols. A true genious, all of them! Thanks! Adam

[fromthesidelines]

This was originally recorded in July 1942, and featured on the flip side of "Der Fuehrer's Face". It was one of the last commercial recordings Jones and his aggregation made before the American recording ban went into effect (they wouldn't record again for Victor/HMV until November 1944). "Willie Spicer" is a pseudonym for Jones' "special audio effects".