American singer and bandleader (died 1965)

Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones 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".

Born

1911

December 14

Died

1965

Era

1910s

Country

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Spike, in brief

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Key dates

1911 Born
1965 Died

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872 Pope John VIII is elected following the death of Hadrian II.
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The world in 1911

When Spike arrived

april 2 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
april 27 The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.
april 29 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
april 6 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).

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