The "Perry" impersonator is tenor sax player Gil Bernal (1931-2011), who was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician. Over the years, he worked with such musicians as: Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ry Cooder and Duane Eddy.
Gil Bernal, singer and sax player does the singing here, he worked with Spike Jones 1955-1957. He died at 80 years old in 2011. Left is Freddy Morgan, right is Mousy Garner.
I was looking here for that info. Thanks. That Freddy Morgan was a NUT! And he could contort his face in so many ways, I bet the police couldn't even identify him. He could have gotten away with anything!!!
Glenn Johnson I`d like to pay tribute to my late father,who got me into Spike`s music in the 50`s and to top that,his favourite male vocalist was Perry Como!Thankyou for this wonderful footage.
A tribute to your father...it was my father that got me listening to Spike Jones also in the 50's and I find him just as hilarious today as I did when I was 6
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Glenn Johnson Thankyou Elaine.It`s great that there is all this TV footage kept in the USA archives.Not the case here in the UK but there you go.All the best.Take care.Stay safe
@@glennjohnson8170 at least you can come here to TH-cam and still enjoy a lot of old archived material that otherwise would be long forgotten....You take care also and please stay safe over there across the pond
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Ah,thanks for getting back,Elaine.Tonight when i put my feet up,i shall watch some of Spike before retiring to bed.You take care.All the best.Stay safe and keep well.
Gil Bernal's career as an L.A. session saxophonist ranged from "Rebel Rouser" by Duane Eddy to recording with Ry Cooder not long before his death. One of the great.
So suttle, full of emotion, enough to change faces in such a romantic expression. Oh love send me more of these arrows, Soul singers eat your heart out.
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
I would like to be able to find "the Fanny song". They used to play it on my country music station every once in awhile. Sure would love it if you would come up with it!
Besides being an ace banjo player, Freddie Morgan really helped to fill in the gaps with Spike Jones' orchestra after Doodles Weaver and Red Ingle had moved on. Meanwhile, Gil Bernal's name may ring a bell: he was a saxophonist who worked in both big bands and bridged the gap into '50s rock'n'roll, doing sax solos on records for Duane Eddy, among others.
The guy on the left who looks like the love child of Alfred E. Neuman and Moe Howard is banjo player Freddie Morgan. He was with Jones for almost his entire career, and was probably considered the "3rd banana" after Jones himself and George Rock, who did a much funnier version of this song, BTW.
From Spike Jones to McCarthy, from Zappa to Westmoreland, whatever you think from America but there´s hardly any other country with such a span wide of variety.
I feel genuine sorrow for Ameria atm The quiet, dignified engineers I have had the honour and privilege of working for, and with, in the UK in the '70s, bear no relation to the appalling image put out by MSM. I'm frankly disgusted. Americans are not just being lied to, but they are being lied ABOUT :/
I think the joke is that even a cool crooner like Como would have been singing in Elvis's "hot" style in the summer of 1957, because Elvis had released three consecutive #1 pop singles during the first half of the year. That's what Spike's spoken introduction seems to be getting at.
I'd say it's Vic Damone. Whoever it is, it's a perfect parody of a suave, pretentiously cool has been swing singer, trying to make like Elvis. How to make money in the pop music business is what this skit is portraying (including the present music environment). We lovers of jazz and swing laugh at a parody, but aren't impressed with anything but talent honed with lots of practice, singer or otherwise. Spike Jones and his boys were great, including talented!
+DickWhittington1000 It was an old jazz song but this was sending up Billy Williams' 1957 version which in 1998 was the last song in "You've Got Mail."
Rock N Roll was so smug and stupid that Spike had a hard time parodying it. Had he not gotten sick in the 60s and died before Nam and "art rock" took over, he'd have blown the genre out of the water. When rock got pompous and self righteous, that is the exact moment where Spike could wreck it like he did the more conservative and stuffy music of his own time.
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The "Perry" impersonator is tenor sax player Gil Bernal (1931-2011), who was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician. Over the years, he worked with such musicians as: Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ry Cooder and Duane Eddy.
Thanks! Have wondered for a long time!!
I thought it was Eugene Levy, for a Second(CTV)
The funniest show with the funniest musicians. Gil Bernal crooning a sendup of Perry Como, with the great Fred Morgan and Mousy Garner. Bless 'em!
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !
Hilarious !! Great comedy without vulgarity or profanity ! They really knew how to make us laugh back in the day !! 🤣
wow, no vulgarity in 1957!!! Imagine that.
Nothing like a Spike Jones number to lift your spirits!
I agree 100 per cent !!
Anyone that hasn't heard a Spike Jones masterpiece, you'll pull your hair out as you fall outta your chair in laughter and fidget around on the floor.
Gil Bernal, singer and sax player does the singing here, he worked with Spike Jones 1955-1957. He died at 80 years old in 2011. Left is Freddy Morgan, right is Mousy Garner.
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Thx for the names of those 2 clowns....Very cool stuff.....
Gil was a marvelous jazz tenor man as well, I once heard him "battle" Pete Christlieb.
I was looking here for that info. Thanks. That Freddy Morgan was a NUT! And he could contort his face in so many ways, I bet the police couldn't even identify him. He could have gotten away with anything!!!
@@hudsonsteele1674 -- He was a great banjo player as well.
I think America needs another Spike Jones now in 2019 so we can laugh again instead of growling at each other!
HOW true!!!!
Why wait? I don't growl at anyone.
Goodness this is extraordinary.
Indubitably !! :-)
Great stuff! They don't make comedy like this anymore!
mnosl brass does
Loved Freddy Morgan. Adorable. That grin!
Glenn Johnson I`d like to pay tribute to my late father,who got me into Spike`s music in the 50`s and to top that,his favourite male vocalist was Perry Como!Thankyou for this wonderful footage.
A tribute to your father...it was my father that got me listening to Spike Jones also in the 50's and I find him just as hilarious today as I did when I was 6
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Glenn Johnson Thankyou Elaine.It`s great that there is all this TV footage kept in the USA archives.Not the case here in the UK but there you go.All the best.Take care.Stay safe
@@glennjohnson8170 at least you can come here to TH-cam and still enjoy a lot of old archived material that otherwise would be long forgotten....You take care also and please stay safe over there across the pond
@@elaineduffyluedtke482 Ah,thanks for getting back,Elaine.Tonight when i put my feet up,i shall watch some of Spike before retiring to bed.You take care.All the best.Stay safe and keep well.
Gil Bernal's career as an L.A. session saxophonist ranged from "Rebel Rouser" by Duane Eddy to recording with Ry Cooder not long before his death. One of the great.
Seconded!
So suttle, full of emotion, enough to change faces in such a romantic expression. Oh love send me more of these arrows, Soul singers eat your heart out.
That's a pretty damned good bunch of musical impressions, in addition to all the funny stuff.
I heartily concur !!
Best stringless guitarist I never heard! Brilliant!
Remembering Spike Jones born on December 14, 1911. He was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title from the early 1940's to the mid-1950's, and toured the United States and Canada as . - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
a masterful performance. SNL eat your heart out.
Well said!!
You know it !!
Completely 'ROUND THE BEND this Spike Jones! Crazy genius indeed...
Genuinely funny and no one got hurt
+David Pennock: But the guy on the left got his foot stomped. :-D
Beautiful tune and an amazing voice.
Pretty silly! But a whole lot of pure talent in Spike's band! Good break fro thus crazy world.
I can’t take the way he sings but I sure love to hear him talk...
The band
That just gave my heart a throb
Spike Jones on the box up on Cripple Creek always does that!
My favorite music!
A bit different from the way that Billy Williams envisioned it. But the Perry Como inspired interpretation more than makes up for it. Brilliant!
Mister Relaxation! (Perry Como was noted for laughing riotously at the many comedians who tried to imitate him).
This Mr.Bernal was dead on Perry in the serious bits--- I was and still am amazed!
I would like to be able to find "the Fanny song". They used to play it on my country music station every once in awhile. Sure would love it if you would come up with it!
I love this!
Besides being an ace banjo player, Freddie Morgan really helped to fill in the gaps with Spike Jones' orchestra after Doodles Weaver and Red Ingle had moved on.
Meanwhile, Gil Bernal's name may ring a bell: he was a saxophonist who worked in both big bands and bridged the gap into '50s rock'n'roll, doing sax solos on records for Duane Eddy, among others.
Great stuff 🎼📧
He tried a little Johnny Ray there, too. :-D
Some great double tonguing
The craziest, most bonkers lot ever. Way ahead of anyone since in sheer, unadulterated bonkers-ness!
My mom used to love Perry Como. I was a fan of Spike Jones. Neither of us could understand what the other saw in each.
The 0ther ?? 🤔
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 73yo Aussie fan.
I agree 100%
Pure MAGIC!
Bravo Gil! 👏
That's entertainment, folks!
I swear that guy on the left of the middle guy looks like Alfred E. Newman's twin. So cool.
+John Socoloski Or Eric Burdon's twin. :)
The guy on the left who looks like the love child of Alfred E. Neuman and Moe Howard is banjo player Freddie Morgan. He was with Jones for almost his entire career, and was probably considered the "3rd banana" after Jones himself and George Rock, who did a much funnier version of this song, BTW.
This just shows you how different The Beatles' hairstyles were, Moe Howard being the only famous person to have one before the 1960s.
Freddie Morgan is one of my humbling heroes! A genius with comedy, and a scintillating musician on a very demanding and unforgiving instrument
Looks like Moe on the left and Curly on the right. Larry is missing.
So that's how Elvis got his inspiration
It's making fun of elvis
No, he’s imitating Perry Como and Billy Williams.
From Spike Jones to McCarthy, from Zappa to Westmoreland, whatever you think from America but there´s hardly any other country with such a span wide of variety.
I feel genuine sorrow for Ameria atm The quiet, dignified engineers I have had the honour and privilege of working for, and with, in the UK in the '70s, bear no relation to the appalling image put out by MSM. I'm frankly disgusted. Americans are not just being lied to, but they are being lied ABOUT :/
That was awesome!!!😄
The Perry Como Show was a staple in our house when I was 12 yrs old! It was my Mom's very favorite show!
This is really funny!
so silly
thankyou ever so much 🙂
That is so funny!
This is a terrific imitation of Como. But he surely is doing elvis at the end.
Or Johnny Ray.
Yes, I thought Elvis, too :)
I think the joke is that even a cool crooner like Como would have been singing in Elvis's "hot" style in the summer of 1957, because Elvis had released three consecutive #1 pop singles during the first half of the year. That's what Spike's spoken introduction seems to be getting at.
No, he’s imitating Billy Williams who had a recent hit with the song.
Elvis must have seen this video
Awesome
Hilarious!
"A lot of kisses on the bottom; I'll be glad I got 'em." Pretty suggestive for 1957, eh?
And in 1935, when it was first popularized by Fats Waller, it was probably banned in Boston.
🎵letters we get letters 🎵
...ma perchè questa musica mi fa salire e scendere le scale...quelle musicali ...non quelle vere...
for my Bro Ernie!
Ha ha now I can see them often wondered years ago
Handsom Gil Bernal vocals
And not one cuss word anywhere to be found! they need to have a channel for variety shows.
Indeed !!
At first I thought that was Sal Mineo Beautiful what Happened to Society ??
No audio!
Perry Coma.
No strings on the guitar
VERYM VERY FUNNY .
Listen Bill Haley's version
1:05 did he just do Ed Sullivan?
NOPE!! THAT'S PERRY COMO ALRIGHT
I'd say it's Vic Damone. Whoever it is, it's a perfect parody of a suave, pretentiously cool has been swing singer, trying to make like Elvis. How to make money in the pop music business is what this skit is portraying (including the present music environment). We lovers of jazz and swing laugh at a parody, but aren't impressed with anything but talent honed with lots of practice, singer or otherwise. Spike Jones and his boys were great, including talented!
+DickWhittington1000
It was an old jazz song but this was sending up Billy Williams' 1957 version which in 1998 was the last song in "You've Got Mail."
Gil starts out parodying Perry Como, then with Freddy and Mousey starts sending up Billy Williams's version of the song.
Rock N Roll was so smug and stupid that Spike had a hard time parodying it. Had he not gotten sick in the 60s and died before Nam and "art rock" took over, he'd have blown the genre out of the water. When rock got pompous and self righteous, that is the exact moment where Spike could wreck it like he did the more conservative and stuffy music of his own time.
Stan Freberg did that instead.
Excellent point
Perry is smacked out
Elvis y Fats Waller lo aprobarían…
who is the singer?
I think they said Perry. so perhaps it is supposed to be Perry Como. But it may be a comedic simulation by someone else.
ta Richard..
Richard Curry It's a Perry Como parody. And no one would enjoy it more than he would.
brill.
+john sturdy Singer is Gil Bernal - parody of Perry Como.= is so good!
The original stoners.
was everyone this cartoony back then?