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usonian

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10. What a story. What a song.

Reply to spike jones (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:00 AM

Jul 31

I hadn’t heard that. My previous favorite opera send-up was/is A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers. Love that spoof on (mostly) Il Trovatore. Of course, they had the visuals and the physical schtick.

Start with the best. My most memorable Spike Jones tunes are the Derby Race, and of course, The Fuhrer’s Face.

My uncle worked at a radio station and had a stash of records in his basement, so my Dad latched onto a bunch of them.