Dinner Music... for People Who Aren't Very Hungry!

Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry - Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi was the first long-playing release by comedic bandleader Spike Jones. Released in 1956 by Verve Records under catalog number MG V-4005, the album is an unusual mix of Jones' ongoing (and offbeat) commentary on the relatively new technology of high fidelity audio combined with then-new recordings of some of his classic comedy numbers, again in a high fidelity format. ("Cocktails for Two" and "Chloe" were dubbed from 1940s' Standard Transcriptions and re-equalized for hi-fi, according to Jones' archviist Ted Hering). Dinner Music came about because of Jones' fascination with the possibilities high-fidelity recording presented, almost at the exclusion of...