Today is the birthday of Spike Jones (see full bio here). Now, here’s Spike’s band performing that television variety perennial “The Sabre Dance” To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AM on December 14, 2011