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Spike Jones
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Spike Jones

Broadcast · 1945 · Twice weekly

NBC / CBS

NBC / CBS · 1945–1952

Broadcasts

54

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1945

The run

Network
NBC / CBS
Years active
1945–1952
Surviving broadcasts
54
Genre
variety

Spike Jones and his City Slickers broadcast for Chase and Sanborn, Coca-Cola's Spotlight Revue and other sponsors through the 1940s and early 1950s, performing the destructive novelty arrangements that made the band famous. These airchecks stream from the Internet Archive.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: SpikeJones

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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