This wacky bandleader had a band full of (talented) oddballs like him.
by Rich Watson
Spike Jones (not to be confused with Spike Jonze) was a bandleader and musician from the forties and fifties whose public persona was, in a word… odd. He wore the loudest suits, performed the weirdest songs, and led a band that was different from others of the era.
To put it mildly.
