Email us for help
Loading...
Premium support
Log Out
Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy have changed. We think you'll like them better this way.
Forgotten Music on 78 RPM Records S3productions started 6-17-2017
Spike Jones and His City Slickers – William Tell Overture / The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Permalink: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/s3production/2017/06/20/spike-jones-city-slickers-william-tell-overture-the-man-flying-trapeze
Shortlink: http://tobtr.com/10090365
For information on the background of the songs, Requests or contacting Curt Hahn, write to www.Facebook.com/s3productions2 or Forgotten Music on 78 records or curthahn74@yahoo.com
Label: RCA Victor – 20-2861
Record Company – Radio Corporation of America
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: 1948
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Novelty
A: William Tell Overture
Arranged By – Doodles Weaver, Spike Jones
Other [Commentary] – Doodles Weaver
Written-By – Rossini
B: The Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Vocals [Refrain] – Doodles Weaver
Spike Jones and His City Slickers
Profile:
Orchestra / band, active from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, which specialized 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.