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| - Augustus "Spike" Jones is a monster from Monsters, Inc., and an employee at Monsters, Inc. He is a red slug-like monster with an orange face and numerous purple spikes along his back. He can retract the spikes at will. He is ranked seventh on the Scarer's Leaderboard. His assistant is Waxford (seen in the picture). Although Spike does not physically appear in the prequel, his picture can be seen on a Scare Card during the credits. It is also revealed in Monsters University that he graduated from Fear Tech and formerly worked at Fear Co.
- Spike Jones was an American Professional wrestler.
- Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing 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. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.
- Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was a popular American musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs.
- Technically, most of his music isn't so much parody as it is travesty (in the technical definition of the word, without the modern connotation of meanness or butchery). He would play the tune with the correct notes and the original lyrics, but in such an out-of-left-field musical style that the music itself was the joke, much like Weird Al's polkas. Parody, by contrast, involves changing the lyrics of an exising song, which is what Weird Al is most famous for. Spike Jones engaged in some parody, but it was in his travesties where his style really soared.
- Spike Jones (1911-1965) was an American bandleader, drummer and comedian. He was famous for his novelty songs, which usually consisted of a current popular song performed in a non-humorous way, but then the band would play it again, and insert things like gunshots, screams, and other random sound effects into the music. He was also well known for his recording of the World War II song "Der Fuehrer's Face" (originally written for the Donald Duck short of the same title), which made fun of Adolf Hitler.
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| - Technically, most of his music isn't so much parody as it is travesty (in the technical definition of the word, without the modern connotation of meanness or butchery). He would play the tune with the correct notes and the original lyrics, but in such an out-of-left-field musical style that the music itself was the joke, much like Weird Al's polkas. Parody, by contrast, involves changing the lyrics of an exising song, which is what Weird Al is most famous for. Spike Jones engaged in some parody, but it was in his travesties where his style really soared. His band, the City Slickers, were a corporate example of Hollywood Tone Deaf. They were all top-notch players -- you had to be to pull off the scripted cacophony of his scores, mastering the split-second timing and making the proceedings funny rather than totally anarchic. Their musicianship is evident on those rare occasions when they played a passage or (even rarer) an entire number "straight." In the modern day, he is perhaps best known for performing Der Fuehrer's Face in the Disney Wartime Cartoon of the same name, though the song was originally written by Oliver Wallace. Another famous routine is "William Tell Overture", featuring a horse race commentary stacked with jokes about the horses' names and ending in a surprise win for The Alleged Steed Feetlebaum. And around Christmas, you've probably heard "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". Spike, over his long career, did live performances, radio, a bit of film work, and appeared on TV for several years. A live performance was a sight to behold, with Spike both conducting and also handling many of the oddball percussion instruments, madly racing around the stage in his trademark loud-patterned Zoot Suit (which he continued to wear long after the Zoot had passed its 15 minutes of fashion fame). In 1997, performer/composer Artie Schroeck and his wife Linda November briefly revived the City Slickers as the "New City Slickers" as a tribute to Spike. Not to be confused with the director, producer, screenwriter and actor of the identically-sounding but differently-spelled name.
* The Alleged Steed: Feetlebaum in "William Tell Overture"
* American Accents: Spike was very fond of putting exaggerated Jewish accents in places where they wouldn't normally be found, such as "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "The Tennessee Waltz".
* And Starring:
* On "Clink, Clink, Another Drink" Mel Blanc is guest vocalist.
* On "Patricia and the Hollywood Wolf" Basil Rathbone is guest narrator.
* Paul Frees is an ersatz Peter Lorre in "My Old Flame".
* At the Opera Tonight: The song "Pal-Yat-Chee" is a summary of the plot of the opera Pagliacci as told from the perspective of a country-and-western fan trapped in the theatre.
* Banister Slide: The City Slickers' version of "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" has a spoken lead-in explaining that the loss of the teeth was due to one of these gone wrong.
* Breaking the Fourth Wall:
* In Spike's parody of "Ghost Riders In The Sky" one of the vocalists asks: "When do I come in, partner?", whereupon the other replies: "In this song it don't matter, partner, go ahead!"
* In "The Funnies" Dick Tracy is tortured by listening to a Spike Jones record.
* The singer asks "Can one of you guys transpose?" after having trouble hitting a high note in "Chinese Mule Train".
* And then there's "The Sound Effects Man", which is a celebration of the performer behind radio SFX and is as much about the sound effects as the man performing them.
* Comedic Sociopathy: Verging on pure sociopathy in "My Old Flame".
* A Day in the Limelight: "The Sound Effects Man"
* Electronic Speech Impediment: Sped up voices are regularly used for comedic effect.
* Hurricane of Puns: The race commentary in "William Tell Overture".
* Lyrical Dissonance: The lyrics of the original song are usually sung seriously with the sound effects and extra added jokes as contrast.
* Mondegreen: So many listeners mistook "Feetlebaum" for "Beedlebaum" that Doodles Weaver eventually gave up and began pronouncing it that way.
* Obnoxious In-Laws: "William Tell Overture" includes a joke about a racehorse named Mother-in-Law. Who is nagging in the rear.
* The Parody
* Reference Overdosed
* "The Sound Effects Man" is packed with references to then-famous radio shows.
* Spoken Word in Music
* Tangled Family Tree: "None But the Lonely Heart"
* Unintentional Period Piece: Very 1940s and 1950s.
* Values Dissonance: No one would dare record "Chinese Mule Train" today.
* World of Chaos: It all sounds hectic and noisy.
- Augustus "Spike" Jones is a monster from Monsters, Inc., and an employee at Monsters, Inc. He is a red slug-like monster with an orange face and numerous purple spikes along his back. He can retract the spikes at will. He is ranked seventh on the Scarer's Leaderboard. His assistant is Waxford (seen in the picture). Although Spike does not physically appear in the prequel, his picture can be seen on a Scare Card during the credits. It is also revealed in Monsters University that he graduated from Fear Tech and formerly worked at Fear Co.
- Spike Jones was an American Professional wrestler.
- Spike Jones (1911-1965) was an American bandleader, drummer and comedian. He was famous for his novelty songs, which usually consisted of a current popular song performed in a non-humorous way, but then the band would play it again, and insert things like gunshots, screams, and other random sound effects into the music. He was also well known for his recording of the World War II song "Der Fuehrer's Face" (originally written for the Donald Duck short of the same title), which made fun of Adolf Hitler. In addition to his recording career (and significant work as a "straight" musician), Jones' Musical Depreciation Revue and other stage shows toured for years, he had his own radio show, and several short-lived TV attempts. Jones' zaniness and style was a major influence on Stan Freberg, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and P.D.Q. Bach, among others.
- Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing 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. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.
- Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was a popular American musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs.
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