Word: kazoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN KAZOO (246 pp.)-John G. Schneider-Rinehart...
...playmakers are Hamilton, of Kala Kazoo Mich., Schreiber, of Wooster, Ohio and Dick Hurley, of nearby Belmont. They are all good competitors and hustlers, according to Wilson...
...playing musical chairs. The percussion man ran back & forth between kettle drums, cymbal and a toy drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them up again, the second...
Tooting the Kazoo. "The Groaner," as ; he sometimes calls himself, was born in 1904, and grew up in Spokane, Wash. with his father, a fun-loving bookkeeper who played the mandolin, his Irish mother, a somewhat sterner type who often took a disciplinary switch to her children, and six other little Crosbys. He had, he says, a youth notable for dozens of odd jobs, a night in jail (for belting a police car with cinnamon buns), a day when he hurled the leg of lamb on the family board at his brother Everett, an intense hatred of mathematics, a propensity...
After high school, Bing went on to Gonzaga University, but when he found out as a pre-law student that he could make as much as any beginning lawyer in town by singing and tooting a kazoo, he quit school and headed for Los Angeles to break into full-time show business. There, two years later, "Pops" Whiteman auditioned his act, and signed Bing and his partner Al Rinker into the big time...