Biography
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements and satire of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with various sound effects, including gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, sneezes, animal sounds and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded for RCA Victor under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and they toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue".
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
436 releases · 93 albums · active 1950–2025
- Performance · 1,051
- Other credits · 173
- Production · 19
- Engineering · 8
Studios: 13 (2) · Scrapyard Studio · Studio Four, Seattle, WA · CBS Studios, New York
Frequent collaborators
- Spike Jones And His City Slickers
- Spike Jones & His City Slickers
- Spike Jones And The Band That Plays For Fun
- Various
- Spike Jones And The City Slickers
- The Polka Dots (7)
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Gorillaz