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  I’d always seen it blown on the large end, but farting around watching videos on YouTube I came across this TV theme medley wherein the artist (Fredde Gredde* - I’m not trying to trick you, heh) plays it from the skinny end.  I did a :smack: when I...
   
  
    
    
  
  
 
Have their ever been any hit songs, (and I know that’s a relative term) or any other songs that have featured a kazoo?
I can’t recall any, but I’m pretty tone deaf. I may be hearing a kazoo and not know it.
I guess it doesn’t have to be a kazoo solo but one where the kazoo can be clearly heard
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
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                    January 11, 2012,  4:57pm
                   
                   
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              I’m pretty sure I’ve heard one in a song by Beck on Mellow Gold, Steal My Body Home perhaps?
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                Zeldar  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:00pm
                   
                   
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                DCnDC  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:05pm
                   
                   
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              San Francisco Bay Blues  from Eric Clapton’s Unplugged .
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                Wheelz  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:07pm
                   
                   
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              The Beat Farmers’ Happy Boy  features both a kazoo break and a gargling solo.
I certainly wouldn’t call it a “hit song” though… maybe a cult classic.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Jewish Princess  by Frank Zappa
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Love Rollercoaster  by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The kazoo chorus is most noticeable coming in around 1.20 minutes.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              You’re 16  (right title?) Ringo Starrs version.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                AndyLee  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:23pm
                   
                   
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              Thanks, and how could I have missed Ringo Starr’s, You’re Sixteen.
Keep 'em coming 
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Hit song:
Country Joe & the Fish, “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag”
Not so hit songs:
Pink Floyd, “Corporal Clegg” 
Mothers of Invention, “Hungry Freaks, Daddy” and “Who Are the Brain Police” (the latter featuring the most chilling kazoo solo ever)
Not an actual kazoo, but the Beatles’ “Lovely Rita” features comb and paper.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                bleach  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:35pm
                   
                   
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              “I’m the Urban Spaceman” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band reached #5  on the UK charts.
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Just about everything Weird Al did in his early days
Also this  list is pretty good
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                campp  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  5:40pm
                   
                   
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              Jimi Hendrix Crosstown Traffic 
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              How about one of my all time favourites?
Runaway by Del Shannon . Wait a minute; that is a kazoo, isn’t it?
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              
The solo? That’s a Clavioline .
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Thank you! Live and learn . . . (well, live).
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              Hit:
“Johnny Get Angry”     Joanie Sommers, 1962
Non-Hit:
“You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here”  Zappa/Mothers
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
              
                njtt  
                
               
              
                  
                    January 11, 2012,  7:08pm
                   
                   
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              Don’t forget the ineffable Temple City Kazoo Orchestra .
             
            
               
               
               
            
            
           
          
            
            
              A thread  from some years ago…