[Dixielandjazz] Spike Jones: Clink, Clink, Another Drink

Harry Callaghan meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 06:06:59 PDT 2010


Bill:

And my guess is that you've been around long enough to have heard your first
musical sounds on cylinders.

With only the deepest affection
Harry


On 9/1/10, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Marvin Ipswitch wrote [in part]:
> > This is a Soundie from 1942, not 1938. Jones did a number of them during
> > that time....
> > Don Ingle, I'm sure, could offer more info.
>
> Dear Marvin,
> I too was waiting for Don Ingle to weigh in on that one.
> However, the fish must be still biting up in outer in Michigan.
> In the meantime....
> It was indeed a 'soundie', made at the Hal Roach Studios, Culver City on 6
> July 1942 with Spike, Don Anderson (trumpet) King Jackson (trombone) Del
> Porter (clarinet) Luther Roundtree (banjo) Hank Stern (tuba) and probably
> Stan Wrightsman (piano) not shown on screen in any of the films.
> Vocalists were Mel Blanc and Del Porter + the Slickers.
> Other titles from the six-hour session were "Pass The Biscuits, Mirandy",
> "The Blacksmith Song" and "The Sheik Of Araby". All on YouTube.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
> Down under in Sydney, Australia and who has been listening to Spike Jones
> from when those first 78s came out during the big war.
>
>
>
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