There are many collections of songs out there, this is one of them. Thank you Captain Obvious.

Funny songs, spoofs on songs, and even using guns, blocks of wood and anything else he could get his hands on as instruments, Spike Jones and his City Slickers could play just about anything. The band itself was made up of top notch musicians who just loved to have fun.

One of the most well known Spike Jones songs is “Der Fuehrer’s Face.” For those who don’t know who the Fuehrer is, it was Hitler. This song made fun of Hitler and the Nazis by yelling “Heil, thpthpthp, right in der Fuehrer’s face.” That was a razzberry. Here it is for you in MP3;

Yes, I know there are people out there who will say, “Thats so old, it’s stupid.” Of course, maybe I’m just being cynical. But Spike Jones was doing something that just wasn’t being done at this level. Sure there was Vaudeville and other funny songs, but they weren’t reaching the level of popularity that Spike Jones did. Plus, if you can’t enjoy music that is over 10 years old, then this site isn’t for you anyway.

I love this stuff. I love musicians who are so good at what they do, they can have fun and make people laugh. People like Weird Al, and one of the greatest musician/comedians, Victor Borge.

One of my favorite songs is “Yes, We Have No Bananas” and of course, here is an MP3:

If you would like some Spike Jones, you can get it at Musicstack.

You can find this and more Blues Brothers at Musicstack.

Ye, if you look closely, you’ll see that the pianist is Paul Schaffer from Late Night with David Letterman. Just about everyone from the movie is from the Saturday Night Live Band.

What most people don’t know is that the Blues Brothers put out an album before the movie. It was called Briefcase Full of Blues. Here is one of the best songs on the album, Rubber Biscuit.

The following is the very first incarnation of the Blues Brothers, and is included for no other reason except that I was in Chicago last week and saw a guy sing this song. He was a great singer, but was a real spaz.

A quick history comes from Wikipedia;

The genesis of the Blues Brothers was a January 17, 1976 Saturday Night Live skit. In it, “Howard Shore and his All-Bee Band” play the Slim Harpo song “I’m a King Bee,” with Belushi singing and Aykroyd playing harmonica, dressed in the bee costumes they wore for the “Killer Bees” sketch.

Following tapings of SNL, it was popular among cast members and the weekly hosts to attend Aykroyd’s Holland Tunnel Blues bar, which he had rented not long after joining the cast mainly for the purpose of parking his Harley Davidson motorcycle. The bar cost less than a parking spot.[citation needed] Dan and John filled a jukebox with songs from many different artists such as Sam and Dave and punk band The Viletones. John bought an amplifier and they kept some musical instruments there for anyone who wanted to jam. It was here that Dan wrote a lot of the initial story draft of the Blues Brothers movie, better known as the “tome” because it contained so many pages.

It was also at the bar that Aykroyd introduced Belushi to the blues. Even though Belushi was from Chicago he was not familiar with such music. An interest soon became a fascination and it wasn’t long before the two began singing with local blues bands. Jokingly, SNL band leader Howard Shore suggested they call themselves “The Blues Brothers.”

Belushi’s budding interest in the blues solidified in October 1977 when he was in Eugene, Oregon, filming National Lampoon’s Animal House. He went to a local hotel to hear 25-year-old blues singer/harmonica player Curtis Salgado. After the show, Belushi and Salgado talked about the blues for hours. Belushi found Salgado’s enthusiasm infectious. In an interview at the time with the Eugene Register-Guard he said:

I was growing sick of rock and roll, it was starting to bore me…and I hated disco, so I needed some place to go. I hadn’t heard much blues before. It felt good.

Salgado lent him some albums by Floyd Dixon, Charles Brown, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and others. Belushi was hooked.