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`Features Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Complete with the Park Avenue Hillbilly Dorothy Shea, and guest tonight, Burl Ives.
Spike opens with, Row Row Row. The show is being performed for folks at General Motors. One of the City Slickers teases Spike about some gambling losses, before Dorothy Shea is introduced. She and Spike talk about opening a nightclub together. Maybe they could use military surplus to open a floating casino and showboat from a battleship.
Dorothy sings, Making Love Mountain Style.
Myron “Mike” Wallace plugs the nights’s sponsor, General Motors and Coca Cola.
Spike and the City Slickers perform, There’s No Business Like Show Business. The barbershop style singing showcases the various tallent in the city Slickers in vaudeville style comedy. Impressions, whistling, dogs, and games.
The extravaganza leads back to Dorothy and Spike talking about outfitting their nightclub with silverware. Burl Ives is offered a stake in the nightclub, but gets nervous over the offer. Hey, what a transition to sing Burl’s hit, It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song.
After Myron Wallace delivers another commercial, Spike is interupted by an excited Georgie Rock to tell about his new toy.
Dorothy sings, Got a Saturday Date. Doodles Weaver, as Professor Feetlebaum is in his usual fine voice as he ttries to sing, Chicago My Kind of Town. Somehow he always manages to break out in a horse race, amazing.
The medley is about marriage. Burl Ives sings, I Wish I Were Single Again. Dorothy and Burl sing a duet, I Want to Be Married. Spike wraps up by playing,Marriage is Breaking up the Old Gang of Mine.
