[Spridgets] What went wrong - GM culture

[David Lieb]

>> Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor
> That was Lonnie Donegan. How can you guys not know Spike Jones?
> Cocktails for Two was my favorite, but anything with Doodles Weaver was 
> cool
> too. BTW, I did a few shows with Doodles.

I have quite a few Spike Jones things. I think my favorite CD of his music 
was the album named "Spiked!" which was bold enough NOT to simply collect 
the same old standards as everybody else. Instead, they sought out some of 
the good stuff that most of us never heard. My favorite was his unfinished 
work called "Frantic Freeway". It never got any lyrics, but the music is 
great fun. The album ends with Spike's rendition of "The Nutcracker Suite". 
I had been looking for it unsuccessfully for years. Growing up I used to 
listen to it on the reel-to-reel tapes that my parents had pirated from a 
relative's two disk set on 78rpm (the flip side of the tape was the pirating 
of Burl Ives' great children's album of 1958 entitled "Captain Burl Ives' 
Ark"; just TRY to find that one!). It was nice to get it on CD and find out 
what all the broken tapes were missing ;-)
David Lieb