The Jones Laughing Record [Avid]

Personnel includes: Spike Jones & His City Slickers; Doodles Weaver, Sir Frederick Gas, Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath (vocals).
Recorded between 1946 and 1949.
Personnel: Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath (vocals, whistling); George Rock, Dick Morgan, Boys in the Backroom, Paul Judson, Barefooted Pennsylvanians, Jimmy Cassidy, Aileen Carlisle, Sir Frederick Gas, Tailwaggers, Del Porter, King Jackson, Paul Frees, Red Ingle, Carl Grayson (vocals); Dick Gardner (violin); Tommy Pederson (trombone).
Audio Remasterer: Dave Bennett .
Liner Note Author: Pat Hawes.
Recording information: Chicago, IL (08/08/1941-12/30/1947); Los Angeles, CA (08/08/1941-12/30/1947).
Ensemble: City Slickers (Spike Jones).
Unknown Contributor Roles: George Rock; Willie Spicer; Frank Leithner; Red Ingle.
Arrangers: Del Porter; Spike Jones.
Compiling music from the immediate postwar years of the late '40s, The Jones Laughing Record skips "Der Fuehrer's Face," the biggest '40s hit from Spike Jones & His City Slickers, but does include several of the orchestra's best song parodies of the era. Beginning with the "William Tell Overture," Jones and his talented orchestra indulge in hilarious send-ups of crossover hits -- "The Glow Worm," "Laura," "Love in Bloom," "Ghost Riders in the Sky," and the decidedly unsentimental "I'm Getting Sentimental over You." Ending the collection is the band's most lasting hit: the Christmas perennial "(All I Want for Christmas Is) My Two Front Teeth." ~ John Bush