Diminutive, silver-haired bandleader Spike Jones didn't intend to gain fame as "the man who murdered music" (as he was described by one biographer); it just turned out that way. During the first 12 years or so of his professional career, Jones, the son of a Long Beach railway station agent, worked as a drummer for radio orchestra leaders Victor Young, Henry King, Cookie Fairchild, John Scott...
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