What was the name of Spike Jones' comedy band
Spike Jones City Slickers mayhem, replaced by a more straightforward big-band sound, with tongue-in-cheek comic moments. The new band was known as Spike Jones and the Band that Plays for Fun.The last City Slickers record was the LP "Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry". The whole field of comedy records changed from musical satires to spoken-word comedy (Bob Newhart, Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg). Spike Jones adapted to this, too; most of his later albums are spoken-word comedy, including the horror-genre sendup "Spike Jones in Stereo" (1959) and the send-up of television programs of the period in "Omnibust" (1960). Jones remained
Spike Jones scene in the romantic comedy "I.Q." shows a man demonstrating the sound of his new stereo to Meg Ryan's character by playing a record of Jones' music. In 1974, Tony Levin (future bass player for King Crimson), recording under the name, The Clams, released a Spike Jones tribute of him giving the songs, "Close To You", by The Carpenters, and, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", by Roberta Flack, the Jones treatment. http://www.45cat.com/record/thb404f In 1986, the Belgian synthpop group Telex paid homage to Spike Jones in their album "Looney Tunes", with a song named after him. The intro