June 25, 2003 — Son of comedic songwriter Spike Jones joined a cable networks’s legal battle with director Spike Lee to call itself “Spike TV” by filing an affidavit Monday claiming the Jones family ...

Lawyers for television network TNN filed court papers Monday by Spike Jones Jr., son of the legendary music satirist, saying it is "frightening" that filmmaker Spike Lee is trying to claim exclusive ...

New Orleans percussionist and museum owner Carl Mack performs as 1950s bandleader Spike Jones. The KSO 'murders the classics' with Carl Mack's cowbells, car horns, fire alarms, belches, hiccups and ...

A staid, steady seller at Christmas time is Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. This Christmas, buyers had better beware. Victor last week marketed a new recording of Nutcracker—done by Spike Jones and ...

Humor and music aren’t always strange bedfellows, but they sometimes make for an uneasy fit. From Gilbert and Sullivan’s “My Object All Sublime” to Rupert Holmes’s “Escape (The Piña Colada Song),” ...

Earl Bennett, 87, who performed with the Spike Jones novelty band as Sir Frederick Gas, died Oct. 4 of complications from old age at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in ...

With Jake Camarda being named to the Associated Press pre-season All-America team, there was an immediate flashback to Georgia’s most accomplished punters of the past. There are many storied kickers ...

Joe Siracusa is alive and well on the eve of his 98th birthday. That’s important to note, Siracusa says. Because when you get to be his age, and you’ve had fame enough to show up on celebrity birthday ...