Holy smokes! You remember Two Ton Baker? ... You must be from Chicago or the near area. Remember Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers?
BTW, Dick Baker (no relation to Two Ton) began the site because of the similarity in names. I remember e-mailing him (nice guy) awhile back before the twotonbaker.com got off the ground and he was good-natured about the whole thing. The Two Ton part was first part of his (Dick Baker's) home page, and then he got the domain name.
Anyhoo, both of 'em, Two Ton and the Cap'n, have CD compilations .. easy to Google, etc. The Cap'n just passed away last year, but from what I hear, until a a few months or so before he died, he was still active in small music venues in Indiana, and he also answered e-mails! 'Tis a pity I never took the opportunity to tell him how he entertained me when I was a kid.
Now, Spike Jones ...
Anyway, 'nuff of this .... I'm going to practice my gitarlet. ;)
Now if I could find reruns of Chuck Bill's Adventure Theater ...
I'm from Southern California, not Chicago, but during the late 1950's, the Mitchell Marionettes, a troupe of local puppeteers, used the song Petunia in one of their shows. Over the years, I couldn't forget the lyrics, probably because they sounded so weird.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that there is a website devoted to Two Ton Baker.