Spike Jones

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This is Bill Stern bringing you the 378th edition of the Colgate-Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. Our guest tonight in Hollywood, California is one of the most famous orchestra leaders in the world, Spike Jones. But before we bring you Spike Jones in person, may I say that, tonight we're going to change our method of narration slightly.

Instead of hitting each story very hard for dramatic emphasis as we have done, we're going to underplay rather than overplay the dramatics. Let's see what you think. Real one, portrait of a dead man. Is it all right or a dead man to speak?

They said I was vicious, brutal and greedy. Sure I was, but when I died last week, The paper carried stories of my death. However, I know strange that a dead man should speak, and yet his story is even stranger.

For when that man died, nobody, nobody had a good word to say about him, and yet before he died, one man, one man, did have a good thing to say about him. And that one man was the most famous prize fight manager of all time, Jimmy Johnston.

But supposing we begin the story. The story of Jimmy Johnston, and what happened to Jimmy when he met a man who was no good our story begins in the year of nineteen twenty three jimmy johnson had already managed several world champion prize fighters in fact that very here jimmy with the manager of johnny dandy who is a