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Spike Jones and His City Slickers ‎– William Tell Overture / The Man on the Flying Trapeze

 

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Spike Jones and His City Slickers ‎– William Tell Overture / The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Label: RCA Victor ‎– 20-2861

Record Company – Radio Corporation of America

Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM 

Released: 1948

Genre: Jazz, Pop

Style: Novelty

A: William Tell Overture

Arranged By – Doodles Weaver, Spike Jones

Other [Commentary] – Doodles Weaver

Written-By – Rossini

 

B: The Man on the Flying Trapeze



The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Arranged By – Doodles Weaver, Spike Jones

Vocals [Refrain] – Doodles Weaver

Spike Jones and His City Slickers

Profile:

Orchestra / band, active from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, which specialized in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. 

Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and outlandish vocals.