Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sheik Of Araby
2. I'm Going To Write Home
3. Three Little Words
4. You're a Sap Mister Jap
5. Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel
6. Cocktails For Two
7. Mary Lou
8. He Broke My Heart In Three Places (She Broke My Heart In Three Places)
9. Salin' On The Robert E. Lee
10. Great Big Saw Came Nearer And Nearer, The
11. His Rocking Horse Ran Away
12. Oh, How She Lied To Me
13. Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Good-Bye)
14. You Always Hurt the One You Love
15. Chlo-E
16. Blue Danube, The
17. That Old Black Magic
18. Holiday For Strings
19. No, No, Nora
20. Hi Neighbor
21. Behind Those Swingin Doors
22. Clink, Clink, Another Drink
23. Barstool Cowboy
24. Moo Woo Woo
25. Fort Worth Jail
26. Pass the Biscuits Mirandy

Disc 2:

1. Over the Last Horizon
2. Don't Talk To Me About Women
3. Big Bad Bill
4. Trailer Annie
5. Slam
6. Hotcha, Corina
7. Hey, Mable
8. Boogie Woogie Cowboy
9. Dodging a Gal From Dodge City
10. Serenade To A Jerk
11. Ridin' Home With You
12. Now Laugh
13. That's What Makes the World Go Round
14. Don't Give the Chair To Buster
15. Forty Eight Reasons Why
16. De Camptown Races (With Gestures)
17. Blacksmith Song
18. Der Fuehrer's Face
19. I Wanna Go Back To West Virginia
20. Water Lou
21. St-St-St-Stella
22. I Know a Story
23. Hi-Ho My Lady
24. John Scotter Trot
25. Cheatin' On the Sandman
26. Girl I Left Behind Me
27. Camptown Races #2

Disc 3:

1. Come Josephine In My Flying Machine
2. Love For Sale
3. Moanin' Low
4. Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up
5. Yankee Doodler
6. Down In Jungle Town
7. Whittle Out a Whistle
8. By the Beautiful Sea
9. At Last I'm First With You
10. Liebestraum
11. City Slicker Polka
12. Red Grow the Roses
13. Jamboree Jones
14. Down By the O-HI-O
15. Casey Jones
16. Glow Worm, The
17. Red Wing
18. Row, Row, Row
19. Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile
20. They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me
21. Oh! By Jingo
22. It Had To Be You
23. When Buddha Smiles
24. Paddlin'Madelin' Home
25. Little Bo Beep Has Lost Her Jeep
26. Sailor With the Navy Blue Eyes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159865 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-03
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Album Description
Holiday blues comin' on? Well, put a spike in `em! Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet--79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Customer Reviews

Spike Jones sets new Standards!
I'm listening to these as I type and make no mistake, these are excellent transfers with good sound quality.
Those of us who lost any musical taste we might have had to the excellent Mr Jones and his maniacal musicians years ago will be familiar with his commercial recordings issued on Victor and HMV. Indeed there are many CD reissues of them; and some might say that there is no need for yet another "Cocktails for Two" or "Chloe". NOT SO! For there was a time when American bands stopped making records...commercial ones anyway. In 1942 The American Federation of Musicians instigated a ban on recording ("You cannot expect musicians to keep playing at their own funeral") and from that point until the ban was lifted a couple of years later the only recordings made were the Standard Transcriptions for radio use and the V Discs made for Forces' use.
This compilation draws together the Standard recordings made by Spike and the City Slickers from '42 until the end of the war. Marvel at "Der Fuhrer's Face" with a trombone fonk replacing the Bronx cheer of the commercial disc...These recordings are slighly more decorous than the usual (although the similarities demonstrate the sheer discipline of the Jones band - it takes a good musician to play that badly so consistently!)
Disc quality and music rarity/quality make this set a MUST BUY.
So why 4 stars? These discs are packaged in a CARDBOARD triple sleeve like newspaper CD giveaways! I'm going to rebox mine as soon as I can get a 3CD jewelbox; I'm not keen on cardboard sleeves as I reckon that scratches on the CDs are more likely.
And at the published price that simply isn't good enough. Not when Proper Records can knock out a 4 CD set in jewelcases and a box at slightly less if I recall correctly.
But what's the use of beefing? You will want them. I wanted them. And thanks to Amazon Marketing, I've GOT them!

Rare Spike!
I can totally agree with everything R.A.Caton wrote in his review, though it's worth pointing out that a good proportion of the tracks are 'straight' numbers without the Slicker whackyness, proving yet again what a superb diciplined and versatile group this unique band was.Thank you Music Lovers.