![]() In the 1930s, he joined the Victor Young orchestra and got many offers to appear on radio shows, including Al Jolson's Lifebuoy Program, Burns and Allen, and Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall. Jones frequently played in theater pit orchestras. A railroad restaurant chef taught him how to use pots and pans, forks, knives and spoons as musical instruments. ![]() As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself Jones' first band was called Spike Jones and his Five Tacks. At the age of 11 he got his first set of drums. Young Lindley Jones was given the nickname 'Spike' for being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike. ![]() ![]() Lindley Armstrong Jones was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Ada (Armstrong) and Lindley Murray Jones, a Southern Pacific railroad agent. Jones as a senior at Long Beach Poly high school, 1929 ![]()
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