1947Nominee
Best Performance
Variety Girl
Spike Jones
Actor
Long Beach, California, USA
December 14, 1911
Biography
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue". Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1945Nominee
Best Performance
Bring on the Girls
1944Nominee
Best Performance
Meet the People
Career Highlights
1943Highlight
Best Performance
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1984Highlight
Best Performance
DTV: Golden Oldies
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Variety Girl
Fireman Save My Child