Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and they toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue".
Jones, c. 1945–46
September 14, 1949 appearance of Spike Dyke, modeled on Spike Jones, in Chester Gould's Dick Tracy
Jones with some of his musical instruments – empty tin cans – in the background
Spike Jones Jr and Senior with Howdy Doody
The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, which aired first on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949.
Joe Sinnott's caricature of the Kraft Music Hall (l to r): Orchestra leader John Scott Trotter, Marilyn Maxwell, Bing Crosby and announcer Ken Carpenter. Veteran Marvel Comics artist Sinnott also illustrated the covers of several Crosby albums.
Nelson Eddy marks the end of the radio program on September 22, 1949.
