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I grew up listening to my dad's old 78's with these guys. They were world class musicians who only did musical satire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-FfAsK7M0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8ZtFGTHmo

I had rubber pants on last time I heard these.. ..People use to actually laugh at this stuff.No F*** S*** D*** unreal!!! No wonder I turned out so well adjusted....... Thanks for postin !

John

That brings back some memories.

Is this from the Grand Ole Opry? I watched that show on PBS back in the day but I don't remember them. Funny, but I loved their musicianship. These were some serious jazzers especially the one on mandolin. Music is the best world to live in...the best. Thanks for sharing.

Thats the way its Done.Very nice i alot of talent there!

I think the Smother Brothers should pay royaltis to these guys, watching the guitar player made relize how many jazz chords are still unknown to me.

Mary, you should hear their rendition of the opera classic "Greeeeeeeasy Pastraaaaaami, don't want ham or salaaaaaami" OMG it's too funny. Yeah, BOTH of them were totally awesome musicians on their respective instruments. They were almost god-like to my dad. He had a lot of their recordings.

Fret, I have no idea how they managed to fit those chords into basic country stuff. I've worked with a lot of bluegrass players in this area, & every single time you get a "jazzy" guitar player involved, it sounds just awful! He was so frikken tasty with them, though. I guess it's a style that's been lost, cuz there used to be a lot of country guitarists who were top-notch in this style until '50's & 60's rock ruined the entire genre, imho, by dumbing it all down for the less accomplished players.

I love the Peter Lorre vocal on "My Old Flame," too. It's one of my earliest memories of music. (I remember scaring my lil sister by imitating that voice...it still works on little kids...heh heh heh) Spike Jones was a master at his craft, but a jerk to work for, I've read. He had a whole orchestra of ppl playing trash cans & slide whistles & weird stuff with traditional synphony instruments. Check out more of his stuff - it's out there - & it's all good.

Philby It's no surprice to me I've always being aware of the musicianship of country/southern musicians, I said so in an other post these guys can play anything if they put their mind to it. The first Rock & Rollers were country artists, if I wanted to learn some Jazz chords I only had to listen to some country ballad as in Willle Nelson just to mention one.

These two guys are a good example.