97 tracks making up nearly 5 hours worth of musical destruction from the comic genius, who with baton in one hand and revolver in the other, led his gang of City Slickers down a merry path for a number of years. A typical Spike Jones record initially dazzles one by the wide variety of strange noises he uses. Closer listening reveals that screams blend with strings to produce the desired line of melody and cuckoos and klaxon horns somehow gel with trumpets.

Compiled and produced for release by Joop Visser.

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