Spike Jones: The Legend

"Weird Al" Yankovic discusses classic TV musical satirist Spike Jones' influence on his career, comedy and music. Appears in Special Features on the new Spike Jones: The Legend DVD Box Set (2007).

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[hughreed621]

Where can you buy this DVD?

Cheers

[gweena]

Hi - It's available @ Amazon. Enjoy.

[gweena]

There ya go.

[PayoFyah]

what is the name of the song in 0:37....and 0:47???

please gweena ;D

[gweena]

There are two within those times: "Melody in F," played on the flit guns and "Pass the Biscuits Mirandy" played on the cowbells. Hope that helps.

[bdicat]

I was close to Spike, he was my mothers brothers sons friends moms aunts, friend.

[OctoBox]

I could see Jim Carrey playing Spike Jones in a movie

[tippycanoe99]

The Spike Jones suit... class.

[PayoFyah]

@gweena thanks a lot...(two years after the comment...and still havent downloaded the songs

[Jcolinsol]

It's a shame that Spike Jones always gets pigeonholed as a novelty act, when actually it's some of the best big band stuff out there.

[OofusTwillip]

@Eero59 - Ah, the "Slicker Suits"! There are several Zoot Suit companies that sell them, though not officially as "Slicker Suits".

[SimuLord]

Weird Al has a strong appreciation for the craft of parody music that could only come from listening to and really understanding what Spike Jones was all about. Nowadays a lot of musicians---in all genres---look at the tools first and then create the music around them. The end result is the Autotuned garbage that passes for modern music. True craft is left to art houses and established performers who built an audience before that stuff came along.

[EvilUncleFrank]

Spike Jones was punk rock before the "inventors" of punk rock were even born. There, I said it.

[himself801]

Van Dyke Parks, who has worked with Brian Wilson & Lowell George (of Little Feat), in an Endless Sky interview comments quite favorably about his recording techniques.

[SirPornAlot]

thats porn?

[Krygeryo]

@datfri13 Born in 1987, my dad played this for me, and I'm glad he did. The legacy goes on.

[datfri13]

I was born in 1942 and used to listen to my parents' Spike Jones records before he was ever on TV. I also liked Homer and Jethro and of course, Stan Freberg! I'm glad Wierd Al came along to take up the torch of wacky musical parody, and I could certainly hear Spike's influence in Wierd Al's recordings.