Bandleader Spike Jones had a string of hits during the 1940s and early '50s with his hilarious send-ups of current popular songs and classical pieces. All manner of artists and material got the merciless Jones treatment, always with Jones' wild percussion and bizarre sound effects to the fore, and often satirising the artists by name. The title track was one of his first big hits, using Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, in a raucous and incongruous rendering of the romantic ballad "Cocktails For Two". This collection includes most of his best-known spoofs and makes for hilarious listening, the humour still ringing true 60 years or more after they were made.
 

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Disc 1
Track	Title	Artist
1	Clink Clink Another Drink	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
2	By The Beautiful Sea	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
3	I Wanna Go Back To West Virginia	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
4	The Sheik Of Araby	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
5	Liebestraum	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
6	The Blue Danube	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
7	Chloe	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
8	The Glow Worm	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
9	Oh By Jingo	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
10	Der Fuehrer's Face	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
11	Little Bo Peep Lost Her Jeep	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
12	That Old Black Magic	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
13	Hotcha Cornya	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
14	Drip Drip Drip	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
15	Pass The Biscuits Mirandy	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
16	And The Great Big Saw Came Nearer And Nearer	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
17	You Always Hurt The One You Love	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
18	Cocktails For Two	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
19	Down In The Jungle	Spike Jones & His City Slickers
20	Holiday For Strings	Spike Jones & His City Slickers

 

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Disc 1
Track	Title	Artist
1	A Soldiers Last Letter	Merle Haggard
2	Big City	Merle Haggard
3	Faded Love	Merle Haggard
4	Folsom Prison Blues	Merle Haggard
5	Ida Red	Merle Haggard
6	If You Want To Be My Woman	Merle Haggard
7	Medley-Brain Cloudy Blues/Milk Cow Blues	Merle Haggard
8	Okie From Muskogee	Merle Haggard
9	Ramblin' Fever	Merle Haggard
10	San Antonio Rose	Merle Haggard
11	T.B. Blues	Merle Haggard
12	Take Me Back To Tulsa	Merle Haggard
13	Fightin' Side Of Me	Merle Haggard
14	Fightin' Side Of Me	Merle Haggard
15	Today I Started Loving You Again	Merle Haggard
16	Workin' Man Blues	Merle Haggard
17	The Bottle Let Me Down	Merle Haggard
18	What Am I Gonna Do (With The Rest Of My Life)	Merle Haggard
19	Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star	Merle Haggard
20	Mama Tried	Merle Haggard