UPDATE 2/2/12: I removed the "Turkey In The Straw" video and replaced it with "Colonel Corn" because it's not only better, it's really just totally great.*
Freddie Fisher & The Schnickelfritz Band were a fun, nutty novelty band from the 1930s, pre-dating Spike Jone's debut in 1942, and if their music has a familiar sound to readers of this blog, they should - most of the members left band leader Fisher and formed the Korn Kobblers. A nice person has posted an album of Fisher & Co. songs of wildly-varying sound quality, but hey, it's free, so who can complain? Gonna have to find an album by these guys. For further study...
Freddie Fisher & The Schnickelfritz Band
Colonel Corn-Freddie Fisher by redhotjazz
*"really just totally great" - how's that for good writing? Pulitzer Prize, here I come!
Monday, January 30, 2012
"America's Most Unsophisticated Band!"
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