LoginMusical Depreciation Revue Anthology
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If timing is everything, then it was doubly so in the music of Spike Jones. Whoopee-cushion horns, gunshots, belches, malapropisms--each element of Jones's parodies fell just right, which is amazing considering that his peak came before the advent of tape allowed for careful editing. Jones and his City Slickers--a group that included the likes of Doodles Weaver and Sir Frederic Gas--engaged themselves in at least as much rebellion against "good" music as did the rock & rollers who followed. In the post-Prohibition love song "Cocktails for Two," for instance, the band is the bunch of drunken revelers a tab
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Release date: 22 February 1994
EAN: 0081227157425 UPC: 081227157425
Release date: 22 February 1994
EAN: 0081227157425 UPC: 081227157425
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