Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry - Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi was the first long-playing release by comedic bandleader Spike Jones. 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... For the music video and film director, see Spike Jonze. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Verve Records was an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogs of his earlier Norgran Records and Clef (founded 1953) labels. ... Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... For the music video and film director, see Spike Jonze. ... For the music video and film director, see Spike Jonze. ...

Released in 1956 by Verve Records under catalog number MG V-4005, the album is an unusual mix of Jones' ongoing (and offbeat) commentary on the relatively new technology of high fidelity audio combined with then-new recordings of some of his classic comedy numbers, again in a high fidelity format. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... Verve Records was an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogs of his earlier Norgran Records and Clef (founded 1953) labels. ... High Fidelity is also the title of a book by Nick Hornby and a film directed by Stephen Frears, based upon Hornbys book. ...

"Dinner Music" came about because of Jones' fascination with the possibilities high fidelity recording presented, almost at the exclusion of music for commentary and the presentation of sound effects. As such, it can be argued that the album has not aged well given the technological leaps in audio reproduction over the last five decades, including subsequent leaps in the technology of phonograph record production. It remains, however, a highly collectable record and a top-notch showcase of the high caliber of musicianship necessary to create the Spike Jones brand of novelty songs.

The liner notes, written by noted composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin, speak of the the aforementioned virtuosity of Jones' musicians. They also list the rather broad range of "instruments" heard on the album in their order of appearance. Among them were a "burpaphone," "assorted belches," "garbage disposal grinding up violin" and, in a rather daring move for the mid 1950's, a sexually charged reference to something called a "poontangaphone." He quotes an article from the Chicago Daily News of August 30, 1956: "Spike Jones got into the Michigan Boulevard repair act Wednesday. Turned up on a curbstone at 7:00 A.M. with Bill Putnam of Universal Recording, plus one tape recorder; gravely recorded the noise of a pneumatic drill to be added to a Spike Jones Dinner Music Album." Dimitri Zinovich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894–November 11, 1979) was a film composer and conductor. ... The process of burping, also known as a belching or eructation, is an often audible release through the mouth of gas that has accumulated in the stomach or esophagus. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois which published between 1876 and 1978. ... In general, a tape recorder, tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is any device that records a fluctuating signal by moving a strip of magnetic tape across a tape head, which is a strong electromagnet. ... The word jackhammer is also used in the name of the type of combat shotgun called the Pancor Jackhammer. ...

Tiomkin was also bold enough to make the claim that one of the tracks was "one of the greatest examples of musicianship ever recorded." That track was "The Sneezin' Bee," based on "Flight of the Bumblebee." Considered possible only on flute, violin or piano, the number was recorded a tempo and in real time on trombone by longtime Spike Jones sideman Tommy Pedersen, who even paused at times to "sneeze" for effect. Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov is considered a sign of mastery of the violin. ... This article pertains to the musical instrument. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ...

The album was released on compact disc October 25, 1990 on Rhino Records. Size of CD compared to pencil. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. ...

Track listing

Side A

• Space Ship Landing - credited as being from the motion picture "The Mole People Versus MCA."

• Ramona

• Duet for Violin and Garbage Disposal

• Black & Blue Danube Waltz

• The Old Sow Song (vocals: George Rock)

• Pal-Yat-Chee (vocals: Betsy Gay)

• Cocktails For Two (lead vocal: Carl Grays)

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• Wyatt Earp Makes Me Burp - with Mousie Garner, Sir Frederic Gas and The Sons of the Pioneers.

• Memories Are Made Of This? - with Gil Bernal and The Canine 9

• The Sneezin' Bee (trombone solo: Tommy Pedersen; bass: Frank Lightner)

• Little Child (vocals: George Rock)

• Brahm's Alibi (vocals: Lou Singer and Spike Jones)

• Chloe (vocals: Red Ingle)