Spike Jones Big Band Satire Concert Handbill Flyer Oklahoma City 1947

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An original concert handbill flyer for Spike Jones and his big band orchestra variety satire humor show at the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma City on Sunday, June 1st, 1947.Wikipedia history : " Lindley Armstrong " Spike " Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing 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. From the early 1940s to the mid 1950s, his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.Jones' father was a Southern Pacific railroad agent. Young Lindley Jones got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike . [ citation needed ] At age 11 he got his first set of drums . As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself; Jones' first band was called Spike Jones and his Five Tacks. A railroad restaurant chef taught him how to use pots and pans, forks, knives and spoons as musical instruments. [ 1 ] Jones frequently played in theater pit orchestras . In the 1930s he joined the Victor Young orchestra and got many offers to appear on radio shows, including Al Jolson 's Lifebuoy Program , Burns and Allen , and Bing Crosby 's Kraft Music Hall . Jones became bored with playing the same music each night he performed with the orchestras; he found other like-minded musicians and together they began playing parodies of standard songs for their own entertainment. The musicians wanted their wives to share in their enjoyment, so they recorded their weekly performances. One of the recordings somehow made its way into the hands of an RCA Victor executive, who offered the musicians a recording contract. The first record made by the City Slickers was Der Fuehrer's Face . Because of the success of the record, Jones turned from being the group's drummer to being its bandleader. He initially thought the popularity he and the City Slickers enjoyed as a result of the record would fade. Audiences kept wanting to hear more from Jones and his band, so he began working at more comic arrangements for the group. From 1937 to 1942, he was the percussionist for the John Scott Trotter Orchestra , which played on Bing Crosby 's first recording of " White Christmas ." Spike Jones was part of a backing band for songwriter Cindy Walker during her early recording career with Decca Records and Standard Transcriptions. Her song "We're Gonna Stomp Them City Slickers Down" provided the inspiration for the name of Jones's future band, the City Slickers. The City Slickers developed from the Feather Merchants, a band led by vocalist-clarinetist Del Porter , who took a back seat to Jones during the embryonic years of the group. [ citation needed ] They made experimental records for the Cinematone Corporation and performed publicly in Los Angeles , gaining a small following. The original members included vocalist-violinist Carl Grayson, banjoist Perry Botkin, trombonist King Jackson and pianist Stan Wrightsman. The band signed a recording contract with RCA Victor in 1941 and recorded extensively for the company until 1955. They also starred in various radio programs (1945-1949) and television shows (1954-1961) on both NBC and CBS ." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_JonesOn thin almost onion skin paper and in good condition for its age with folds, edge/corner wear and some general wear/handling --- p lease see pictures for condition and ask questions in advance if helpful and it will be mailed well-packed with insurance. read more

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