Thank You Music Lovers: A Bio-Discography of Spike Jones and His City Slickers, 1941-1965

(Hardback)

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With Thank You Music Lovers, Greenwood Press continues to expand its excellent series of discographies. Meticulously researched and exhaustively detailed, this volume chronicles the career of Spike Jones and his City Slickers from 1941 to 1965. Although subtitled a biodiscography, Mirtle's book is primarily a chronology of recordings, playdates, and radio and television shows. . . . Mirtle's book has a selective bibliography, indexes to the band's personnel, tunes played and recorded, and LP issues. Three appendixes contain further miscellaneous information. . . . Choice

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For the Spike Jones collector and fanatic, this is, one who wants to know everything about what the orchestra did on any given day, this a book you will want . . . it is loaded with information not published in other sources. For readers wanting to initiate or complete a Spike Jones collection, this title is worth looking into.-Radio in Review
"For the Spike Jones collector and fanatic, this is, one who wants to know everything about what the orchestra did on any given day, this a book you will want . . . it is loaded with information not published in other sources. For readers wanting to initiate or complete a Spike Jones collection, this title is worth looking into."-Radio in Review

Author Bio

JACK MIRTLE is a musician and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the University of Calgary, Alberta. He belongs to the American Federation of Musicians, the International Trumpet Guild, and the Big Band Academy of America, and is the author of Thank You Music Lovers: A Bio-Discography of Spike Jones and His City Slickers, 1941-1965 (Greenwood, 1986).