Spike Jones - Bizet's Carmen- Rare Studio Version Page

It was famously issued on a 10-inch LP titled Spike Jones Murders Carmen and Kids the Classics in 1953 by RCA Victor . Key Personnel: Narrator: Spike Jones.

Eileen Gallagher (as "Messy-Soprano" Carmen) and Sir Frederick Gas (as "Base" vocals). Arrangers: Eddie Brandt and Jay Sommers. What Makes This Version "Rare" or Unique SPIKE JONES - Bizet's Carmen- RARE studio version

Eileen Gallagher’s performance satirizes the "pretentiousness" of operatic singing, shifting between legitimate skill and hilariously screeching or off-key delivery. It was famously issued on a 10-inch LP

Spike Jones provides a deadpan narration that frames the opera as a gritty crime story, turning the classic tale of Don José and Carmen into a slapstick tragedy. Arrangers: Eddie Brandt and Jay Sommers

The recording ends with a bizarre, fourth-wall-breaking gag where the characters stop to chew bubble gum as they "chew their way off into the distance". Availability