About This Song
About "The Blue Danube" by Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Spike Jones torpedoes Strauss's waltz into a clattering barroom brawl. The Blue Danube becomes a tipsy river of kazoos and cowbells, its elegance shattered by slapstick percussion. The tension between imperial grandeur and drunken irreverence is the joke—and the joy—of this clink-clink masterpiece.
