SPIKE JONES SHOW "Lassie"

 

 

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and outlandish vocals. After appearing as the house band on The Bob Burns Show, Spike got his own radio show on NBC, The Chase and Sanborn Program, as Edgar Bergen's summer replacement in 1945. Frances Langford was co-host

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Diana Lynn"

 

SPIKE JONES SHOW guest Diana Lynn.. Episode 25 June 18, 1949. Coca-Cola sponsored the new Spike Jones Show on the prime slot on CBS - 6:30 Sunday nights beginning January 2, 1949, the same night Jack Benny debuted on the network at 7:00. Guest is Diana Marie Lynn (born Dolores Eartha Loehr, July 5, 1926 – December 18, 1971) She was an American actress and accomplished pianist. Her mother, Martha Loehr, was a concert pianist. Lynn was considered a child prodigy. She began taking piano lessons at age 4, and by the age of 12 was playing with the Los Angeles Junior Symphony Orchestra. She also had an extensive acting career in motion pictures.

 

SPIKE JONES "Vera Vague"

 

July 8, 1945 from the Army Air force convalescence Hospital in Santa Ana California the makers of Chase and Sanborn coffee bring you the Chase and Sanborn program starring Frances Langford with Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Tony Romano and special guest Vera Vague. The announcer is Ken Carpenter. Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!"

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Adolph Menjou"

 

Episode 5 aired August 1, 1945 on the NBC Radio Network. Motion picture actor Adolph Menjou is the guest.

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Don Ameche"

 

Episode 26 aired June 25, 1949 on CBS Radio. Tonight they are talking about the opera with Don Ameche. The City Slickers perform a comic opera mystery about a murder and how the G Men solve the case. It is called This is your F. B. Aida.

SPIKE JONES "Garry Moore"

 

Episode 3 aired June 17, 1945. A rather lack luster and apparently unrehearsed episode of The Chase and Sanborn Program with guest Garry Moore, singer Francis Langford, host Ken Carpenter and Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Garry Moore (born Thomas Garrison Morfit; January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993) was an American entertainer, comedic personality, game show host, and humorist. Here is a photo with Spike Jones on one of Moore's television game shows.

SPIKE JONES "Groucho Marx"

June 10, 1945 on NBC Radio's The Chase and Sanborn Program, as Edgar Bergen's summer replacement in 1945. Frances Langford was co-host and Groucho Marx was among the guests.

SPIKE JONES SHOW "Charlie Ruggles"

 

The Spike Jones Show is the name of several separate American comedy and variety series that aired on NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s. Spike Jones, son of a railroad agent, was born Lindley Armstrong Jones, getting his nickname from a telegraph operator who thought that Jones was skinny as a railroad spike. Madcap musician Spike Jones and his band, the City Slickers, perform spoof versions of well-known songs in this entertaining and hilarious half-hour show. Episode 1 on NBC June 3, 1945 included guest Charlie Ruggles. Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970) was a comic American character actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films.