It is four decades today since the fantastically weird Spike Jones died.
Spike was a true innovator in music, single-handedly inventing a style of chaotic improvisation and sound effects that has been widely imitated ever since by such bizarre acts as The Goons, Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, and even some of the more avant-garde modern dance producers - he was an early pioneer of what house music called "sampling".
To illustrate what I mean, here's a favourite of mine:
Spike Jones on Wikipedia
Spike Jones website
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