spike jones love in bloom & that old black magic

SPIKE JONES SONGS
1:love in bloom
2:that old black magic

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Music

Tags:

• love
• in
• bloom
• that
• old
• black
• magic
• spike
• jones

[Jostanos]

Spike Jones: A musical Comedic genius.

May his music live on here on Youtube!

[Chesed1]

Nobody has ever matched Spike Jones for madcap musical comedy. It required real music and top musicians. Imagine what he could do with today's recording technology?

[CaptainOvide]

To Skip to That old Black Magic, go to 3:50

[badgerbeth2]

I like how straight the singers are with all that mayhem going on behind them. Too funny

[DantheMan28821]

yackty yactky

[adoreslaurel]

When somebody sneezes they say "Ignition", just another "spark" of genius.

[Heisrisin3]

He could do it today with half the talent. Back in those days each musician had to be able to play his part perfectly in the studio. There were no multiple tracks or over dubbing to fix mistakes. You can bet if they could get that right their public performances were on par with their studio recordings unlike most artists today.

[petitequinte]

1:39-1:43: the point where I can't take it anymore and collapse onto the floor snorting.

[petitequinte]

@SirWinstonBeech "barking dog getting hit with a pie." That's perfect; I never could figure out how to describe that noise, but you hit the nail on the head. LMAO! :D

[petitequinte]

@Chesed1 Absolutely! I love the fact that everything he did, all the musical slapstick with absurd noises, was done long before sampling technology made it tidy and simple. I think that makes it much more compelling, the fact that actual co-ordination and physical effort was involved; it would be easy to sit down at the computer and string together some funny noises, but who cares?!

Music is undervalued these days; most people my age wouldn't "get" this at all. Their loss... ;D

[SirWinstonBeech]

That old black magic was the very first Spike I ever heard, with the deteriorating trombone cadenza, and the rip roaring horns that followed, I knew I had found "my" music. There were soooo many novelty acts back then and so many people lump them all together. Spike was not like the others. He was actually a fabulous musician and he hired fabulous musicians. Trumpeter George Rock was one of a kind. Many imitators, no equal.

[SirWinstonBeech]

When I was a kid we had this record and a handful of other Spike Jones songs. Today I have everything I could find available on CD, and Love In Bloom still stands out as his masterpiece of surreal insanity. The noise barrage beginning at 1:50 is almost unbelievable. I don't know which is funnier, the "barking dog getting hit with a pie" or the pulled sharp trombone blat ahead of it that makes my teeth hurt. I've been miming the bang/arg/bang/arg outro since I was a kid.