I haven't had a Spike Jones clip here for a while. For those of you who came in late, Spike Jones was a brilliant musician in Hollywood who turned his gaze from playing on serious hit records to making silly, raucous ones. This number is from his TV show in 1957 and it's a spoof on Perry Como, who was one of the top singing stars on television. Gil Bernal, who played saxophone in Spike's band, does a decent impression of Mr. Como.
The little guy on the left who stole Moe Howard's hair-do is Freddy Morgan, a comic and banjo player who was with Spike for a long time. The little guy on the right is Mousie Garner who — speaking of Moe Howard — was kind of an auxiliary stand-by member of The Three Stooges. I wrote about him here when he left us. Here they all are, decimating a song that was made famous by the great Fats Waller…