Spike Jones - Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound! *Pre-Order

TRACK LISTING
1. I Only Have Eyes For You / 2. Poisen To Poisen / 3. Teenage Brain Surgeon / 4. (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings / 5.
Everything Happens To Me / 6. Monster Movie Ball / 7. Tammy / 8. My Old Flame / 9. This Is Your Death/Two Heads Are
Better Than One / 10. Spooktacular Finale

The revolutionary 1959 stereo extravaganza returns on slime-green Vinyl and CD. • Features vocals by Paul Frees
(Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion's unseen ghost, Pillsbury Doughboy), Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony The Tiger, “You’re
A Mean One Mr. Grinch”), George Rock (“All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”), and Lulie Jean Norman
(singer on the theme from Star Trek). • Detailed liner notes from Joe Marchese (thesedoncdisc.com) feature new interviews with Spike's children: multiple Grammy-winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones, Emmy-winning producer-director
Spike Jones Jr., and Linda Lee Jones. Since the early 1940s, Spike Jones’ endlessly inventive recordings had made an
art out of honking car horns, gunshots, burps, sneezes, hiccups, and all other manner of musical insanity. But, in 1959,
monsters were big Hollywood business. Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound! appeared on
Warner Bros. Records later that year.

Spike’s longtime arranger, Carl Brandt, commented “The Spooktacular was a complicated album. We finally broke it down
and ended up scoring it like a movie, because it had to be done in bits and pieces.” And, the results were astounding.
Taking advantage of the new format of stereo (just beginning to take hold across the country), In Stereo pushed the audio
separation to its limits. Credited to Spike Jones And The Band That Plays For Fun, vocals were handled by then and
future superstars. Paul Frees was not only the “voice” of Boris Badenov and the Pillsbury Doughboy, but thrilled and
chilled the millions who rode Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion as its unseen ghost and tour guide. Thurl Ravenscroft
was grrreat as Tony The Tiger, and became beloved after singing the iconic “You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch” from 1966’s
How The Grinch Stole Christmas. George Rock helped propel Jones to #1 in both 1948 and 1949 singing “All I Want For
Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” and Lulie Jean Norman, who sang in Disney's Alice In Wonderland (1951) and Peter
Pan (1955), later “sang” the wordless theme for the 1966–69 television series Star Trek. Spike Jones In Stereo became a
classic, even appearing in horror magazine advertisements through the mid-’70s. Its stature only grew with appreciation
from Dr. Demento and “Weird Al” Yankovic, who said “If I've got any kind of goal, it's to aspire to be in this generation
what Spike was in his.” So, prepare yourself to (re)discover Spike Jones In Stereo––newly remastered, available on LP
for the first time in nearly 50 years, and on CD. (Plus the LP comes pressed on slime-green vinyl! Spooky!) “I think this
album will make you laugh. It’s never not funny,” Leslie Ann Jones shares in the new liners from Joe Marchese
(theseconddisc.com)—which also feature new interviews with Spike’s other children, Linda Lee Jones and Spike Jones,
Jr. “His music was always multi-generational. I think he would be very pleased now that it’s still reaching new audiences.”
Fangs for the memories, Mr. Jones.