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...Band. He was persuasive as a busker too. Starting out with just a guitar, he gained attention by becoming a one-man band, simultaneously playing a kazoo, tambourine and drum, in addition to the guitar. "He really busked in style," says one admirer. "He used to arrive in a taxi and go home afterward the same way." At his peak, Partridge made $300 a week...
...still decks himself out with kazoo, tambourine and drum for his concert dates, and operates with all the style that nearly $4,000 a week allows. Next week Partridge will take all his gear along to the U.S. to promote the new Tom Courtenay film Otley, in which he sings the song Homeless Bones on the sound track. Unless his fortunes ebb, his busking days are over. "It became too embarrassing," he says. After the success of Rosie, people started recognizing him as a celebrity. But instead of dropping less in his hat, they gave more. He still does...
Like many variety shows, Laugh-In features new talent-except that the talent is deliberately askew: a virtuoso on the kazoo, a birdcall impressionist, or an all-thumbs juggler. It was in one such segment, for example, that the show inflicted on a helpless nation that hitherto unknown dingaling, Tiny...
...Acid Commercial" mocks the use of drugs. With background accompaniment of an acosutic guitar and a kazoo--certainly not psychedelic--David sings...
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...