Researching John Spikes
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 15 people with the Spikes surname? In that year Spikes was ranked number 3564 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Spikes on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Spikes and the Spikes Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 47 people with the Spikes surname in the UK? Spikes is now ranked number 3998 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Spikes surname in the USA? Spikes is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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John Spikes
John Curry Spikes (July 22, 1881 – June 28, 1955) was an American jazz musician and entrepreneur.
Along with his brother Reb Spikes, John ran a traveling show band in early 1900s. At one point, Jelly Roll Morton was a member of the band. The Spikes brothers were performing in San Francisco around 1915, under the name The Original So-Different Orchestra, with Reb Spikes billed as the "World's Greatest Saxophonist". Around 1919, they settled in Los Angeles, where they started a music store, a nightclub, an agency and a publishing house.
They were the first to record an all-black jazz band in 1922. In 1927, they shot a short sound film that predated The Jazz Singer, the first full-length sound film. Their most enduring musical collaborations were writing the lyrics to Morton's Wolverine Blues and their own composition, Someday Sweetheart, which has become a jazz standard.
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