Spike Jones - The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection

3 CDs full of musical mayhem from the comic genius, who with baton in one hand and revolver in the other, led his gang of City Slickers down a merry path for a few wonderful years. A typical Spike Jones record initially dazzles us by the wide variety of strange noises he uses. Closer listening reveals that screams somehow blend with strings to produce the desired line of melody while cuckoos and klaxon horns astonishingly gel with trumpets.