Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
24
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-12-14
Day of Death
1965-05-01 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Long Beach, California, USA
Also Known As
Lindley Jones
Spike Jones and His Orchestra
Spike Jones
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.
