Spike Jones Spotlight Revue - 1947 - Part 3

Spike Jones Spotlight Revue radio show with his City Slickers and The Park Avenue Hillbilly, Dorothy Shay from Nov. 1947. Their special guest was singer and songwriter Jack Owens, the Cruising Crooner.

The show aired on CBS radio with a young Mike Wallace as show announcer and Coca-Cola ad spokesman.

On the show Jack Owens sang the original How Soon as well as a new recording at the time, Im All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart. In addition, he sang the Hut Sut Song, followed by a rendition of By-U, By-O (Lousiana Lullaby) sung by The Park Avenue Hillbilly, Dorothy Shay, followed by an instrumental version of Hi, Neighbor by Spike Jones and His City Slickers, to round out the Owens medley as Spike called it.

In addition to Owens songs, Spike Jones also featured the song Alabama Bound in their typical whimsical fashion, a ballad You Do by Dorothy Shay, a comical interaction with show announcer and Coca Cola spokesman of the show, a young Mike Wallace, the same Mike Wallace of CBS 60 Minutes, and a wacky version of Im Getting Sentimental Over You by George Rock, Horatio Q. Birdbath, Sir Frederick Gass, and the Barefooted Pennsylvanians. Also featured with Owens part in the show is Dorothy Shays huge song of 1947, Feudin And Fightin.

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• spike jones
• spotlight revue
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• by-u by-o
• fuedin and fightin