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My dad was a huge Spike Jones fan. He had this song on 78 and 45. I played it to death when I was little. Perhaps that's where I developed my bizarre macabre sense of humor...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2A32KUTq0

Der Fuhrer's Face is still my fave from him. Did you know Billy Barty was in his band?

Which one - the City Slickers, or the Country Cousins? He had a cpl others, too, I think.

philbymon wrote:Which one - the City Slickers, or the Country Cousins? He had a cpl others, too, I think.

City Slickers, 1950's era.

http://www.walterplant.com/

This guy showed me that even my cheap keyboard (OLD Yamaha PSR-6) could make music and inspired me to do more than school band when i was 12. He used the first drum machine i ever saw and as a one man band played all the other parts on keys and pedal bass while singing. Streets of Bakers Field and Pretty Woman always stuck with me as well as Marty Robbin's El Paso back then. He was a rock star as far as I was concerned. (Ok, so i lived in a town smaller than 5000 people.)

Hell, I did not even know he had a web site or was even still playing. I have not seen him in over 20 years.