Then, after intermission, the stage went black and all these sirens and gun shots started going off.But even Presley's gyrations and Little Richard's screams seemed like pretty tame stuff compared to these kind of monkey shines.Lindley Armstrong Jones was a musical genius.Not merely content to do cornball renderings of standard material or trite novelty tunes for comedic effect, Jones' musical vision encompassed utilizing whistles, bells, gargling, broken glass, and gunshots perfectly timed and wedded to the most musical and unmusical of source points.His stage show was no less mind boggling, needing a full railroad car just to carry the props alone, all presented without electronic gimmickry of any kind, with visuals that would make your eyes pop out of your head.Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, among others.For years, the rumor persisted that Spike had a guy on the payroll who did nothing but gargle, I swear.The City Slickers did it better than anyone before or since.Guns being fired, bicycle horns honking like crazy, midgets and people with no heads running all over the place, while the bandleader nonchalantly chewed gum seemingly quite content with all this dementia going on around him.His stage show was no less mind boggling, needing a full railroad car just to carry the props alone, all presented without electronic gimmickry of any kind, with visuals that would make your eyes pop out of your head.Although these additions made him unique in a field loaded with anonymous sidemen, Spike had bigger and crazier ideas.Cub Koda, All Music Guide', 'My father saw them at the Michigan Theater in Detroit back in 1943.Write a ReviewYour TakeTell the world what you think about Spike Jones!Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals.Biography Jones's father was a Southern Pacific railroad agent.In the 1930s he joined the...