Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Spike Jones kept a frenetic pace in the late 1930s as a freelance studio musician for motion pictures, records and radio shows. The busy young drummer commuted to Hollywood studios in a station wagon that was a veritable junkyard on wheels. But he had little opportunity to employ cowbells, sirens and automobile horns in his work at the time. He felt so frustrated he decided to form his own band ...more