Spike Jones: The Legend
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Movie Reviews of Spike Jones: The Legend
Movie Review: Highly Recommended!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great collection of 4 TV variety show episodes from the master of musical depreciation! The kinescope transfers on all but the first episode are spectacular. Footage of Jones is hard to come by so any time it appears for purchase it's a cause for celebration. If you're a fan you won't be disappointed and should support this release so that a 2nd set can be made.Movie Review: Great Gift For Grampy
Summary: 5 Stars
Gave the set to my elderly father. He's been rockin' out to it ever since. I remember hearing his LPs when I was a little kid and laughing my silly head off. Great for grampa. Great for little kids. I'm so glad this made it to a modern data format.Movie Review: Good Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
Spike Jones The Legend is great mad cap fun. You will laugh untill it hurts. Spike and his band were great musicians and crazy wild comedians. Seems pretty clear that the Monty Python crew must have taken some inspiration from these guys. EnjoyMovie Review: Fans of Really Old Television will love this
Summary: 4 Stars
Anyone old enough to remember the Colgate Comedy Hour will appreciate this collection of kinescopes from that show. The Colgate Comedy Hour featured a variety of stars from the 40s and 50s. Spike Jones was a band leader, famous for his outrageous ripoff satires of popular songs of the era. Probably most famous for an anti-Hitler song "Der Fuhrer's Face", featured in a Walt Disney Cartoon, and a hit number "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth". These DVDs feature several full length Colgate Comedy Hour shows that he did, complete. They are silly, stupid, and hilarious!
As one would expect from kinescopes (the only means of saving live TV in those days--recording on film directly from a TV monitor), the quality of the video is not terribly great, but it's good enough to enjoy shows that would otherwise be gone forever. We're lucky to have these..the kinescopes of many of the great shows of the era were not preserved, and these are certainly watchable. Enjoy! I do.
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