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...1940s bandleader with a Dead End Kid's mug and a wardrobe of cacophonous checks and plaids. Jones had fun with music. He took a sedate standard like Laura or Chloe, played it straight for a minute and then revved it up double-time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Spike Up the Band | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...skits are an exception. The Winter Dinner is Kirkland spirit at its zenith. The dining hall, lit by candles, is the scene of a fife and drum procession. Students carry a fake boar's head while accompanying the corps...on kazoo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...section marked "Music From Around the World," customers can find a musical spoon, a jaw harp or even a kazoo...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Store Is Also Playground | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

...world's most famous boardwalk. By her right side is a pair of stuffed raccoons; by her left, an airport luggage cart that holds her worldly possessions. Frank Sinatra croons to her from inside a boom box, and she accompanies him from time to time on a kazoo. "I like it here," she says. "It's better than Philadelphia, that's for sure. You can't make no money there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...John Kerry was nevertheless able to push the resolution through. In the House, New York Democrat James Scheuer has blasted the Justice Department's praise for Panama's antidrug efforts as "disingenuous and intellectually dishonest," charging, "Noriega is involved in drug trafficking and money laundering right up to his kazoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backing Away from a Latin Dictator | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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