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<blockquote data-quote="Lee Brenkman" data-source="post: 41243" data-attributes="member: 154">Re: Report from our research staff, there is a Spike Jones connectionIt appears that the man in the picture behind that big bass drum is, in fact Joe Siracusa, the longest termed drummer with Spike Jones City Slickers.&nbsp; He was also quite the inventive prop designer&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOaf_3AaQE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOaf_3AaQE</a>And it gets better, here&#039;s some stuff compiled from a couple of on line bios:Joe Siracusa was a drummer with novelty bandleader Spike Jones and his City Slickers from 1947 to 1953. In the 1960s, after Jones&#039; death, he and several other ex-Slickers put together a comedy band called &quot;The New Society Band,&quot; which later became &quot;The Phunharmonic Orchestra.&quot;After tiring of touring, and wanting to settle down with his wife and four children, Joe was invited by his old childhood friend, “Herbie” Klynn to join the sound department at UPA Pictures animation studio. Joe was thrilled because at UPA he not only was able to let loose with his wacky effects collection, but was encouraged to participate in all levels of the creative process, the only studio that allowed such a practice, at the time. From UPA he went to Format Films, where he was part of the Chipmunks crew, and even did the voice of Alvin for a while.He also did music and sound effects for the Pink Panther, Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Dr. Seuss special “The Cat in the Hat”. Joe had met Ted “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, at UPA, during the production of Gerald McBoing Boing, a Seuss creation, of a little boy who only spoke in sound effects … guess who was the “voice” of Gerald … right!And as of 2010 he&#039;s still at it!<a href="http://www.jha.org/volunteer/vol-profiles.asp?mode=detail&amp;pid=352" target="_blank">http://www.jha.org/volunteer/vol-profiles.asp?mode=detail&amp;pid=352</a>Sorry for the long post but as &quot;Grampa&quot; around here I&#039;m inspired by active people who are older than I am.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lee Brenkman, post: 41243, member: 154"] Re: Report from our research staff, there is a Spike Jones connection It appears that the man in the picture behind that big bass drum is, in fact Joe Siracusa, the longest termed drummer with Spike Jones City Slickers. He was also quite the inventive prop designer [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOaf_3AaQE[/url] And it gets better, here's some stuff compiled from a couple of on line bios: Joe Siracusa was a drummer with novelty bandleader Spike Jones and his City Slickers from 1947 to 1953. In the 1960s, after Jones' death, he and several other ex-Slickers put together a comedy band called "The New Society Band," which later became "The Phunharmonic Orchestra." After tiring of touring, and wanting to settle down with his wife and four children, Joe was invited by his old childhood friend, “Herbie” Klynn to join the sound department at UPA Pictures animation studio. Joe was thrilled because at UPA he not only was able to let loose with his wacky effects collection, but was encouraged to participate in all levels of the creative process, the only studio that allowed such a practice, at the time. From UPA he went to Format Films, where he was part of the Chipmunks crew, and even did the voice of Alvin for a while. He also did music and sound effects for the Pink Panther, Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Dr. Seuss special “The Cat in the Hat”. [B]Joe had met Ted “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, at UPA, during the production of Gerald McBoing Boing, a Seuss creation, of a little boy who only spoke in sound effects … guess who was the “voice” of Gerald … right![/B] And as of 2010 he's still at it! [url]http://www.jha.org/volunteer/vol-profiles.asp?mode=detail&pid=352[/url] Sorry for the long post but as "Grampa" around here I'm inspired by active people who are older than I am. [/QUOTE]

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