Word: kazoos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth voice out amongst the customers, singing in a style like a kazoo. In four other cities, new-style nightclubs had opened, with a no-dancing policy, and with bleachers for serious listening...
...piece begins with a wolf call, and ends with all the instruments thrown into a corner. It is scored for ukulele, kazoo, hogan-twanger (wooden box and hacksaw blades), cardboard box, seal barks and an Indian elephant bell. It has words like this...
...Kazoo" finals it came in handy against Southpaw Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, runner-up to Falkenburg last year. Tut learned to play the game by going up against a bangboard daily in the little Texas town of San Angelo, where competition was nonexistent, so he was used to seeing his best efforts returned. Flam's disconcerting returns earned him the title...
Buzz tone strictly kazoo, says Dick Stabile...
People who never bought an original picture in their lives now throng a Manhattan gallery called the Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...