Word: kazoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the songs, especially the opener, "Row, Row, Row," needed another day of rehearsal: there was enough random foot-wriggling and arm-moving to be bothersome. The three piece orchestra (two pianos and a drum--kazoo and whistle from time to time) was by itself smoothly professional. It's worth going to hear them if only to convince yourself that honkey-tonk and marches are closer art froms than you realized...
...lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells. For a finale, he punctured six balloons with an ice pick and a rifle...
...McKenzie of the Mound City Blue Blowers was the Benny Goodman of the kazoo and the Harry James of the musical comb, the man who made it a beautiful thing to be a comb player. The sound of McKenzie's melodic bzzz drifted off in the '30s, but his name is now revered in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard students crowd into the Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music...
...yang principle, and they talk about their instruments with great seriousness. "It's very important that you use a 10? comb," Kweskin says. "The expensive ones are too thick to vibrate well. A lifetime supply of wax paper costs 29?." Geoff Muldaur, 20, plays mandolin, guitar, kazoo and, most rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give it a fatter sound." Mouth-Harpist Mel Lyman, 25, distinguishes between his instrument and the harmonica...
...This transmission touched off a disagreement among listeners. Some insisted that the word was "bazoo," some thought it was "gazola," and some heard it as "kazoo." The dispute was not likely to hold up the U.S. space program...