Collector's Choice
1959
Spike Jones In Stereo, A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound
About This Album
Spike Jones in Hi-Fi (Spike Jones in Stereo) (1959) is among the musical satirist's most effuse efforts during his post-City Slickers era. Unlike contemporaries such as Stan Freeberg, Jones' seeming dismissal of rock & roll -- or perhaps inability to embrace change -- would ultimately result in the decline of his career. However, the artist's ear for the unusual as well as his quick wit and practically flamboyant sense of the macabre are central to the unmitigated success of this long-player. It certainly didn't hurt that Jones surrounded himself with the all-star support of the legendary and instantly recognizable vocalists Paul Frees, Loulie Jean Norman, Thurl Ravenscroft, Ken Stevens, and George Rock -- each of whom is prominently featured throughout. Thematically, the platter works well as a sort of kiddie Halloween-type offering. The real payoff is for those old enough to get the inferences and parodies of pop standards "I Only Have Eyes for You," "My Old Flame," and "Everything Happens to Me," which are uniformly brilliant. The primarily dialogue-driven "Poison to Poison" is a spoof of the Person to Person interview program hosted by news journalist Edward R.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,4,5 and 6)

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