# Songs That Feature A Kazoo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176 "2012-01-11T16:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/21 "2012-01-11T19:56:36Z")
When The Cure were on MTV Unplugged, they did the synthesizer parts of “The Walk” with kazoos. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/22 "2012-01-11T20:05:51Z")
I believe that “Oh, Babe What Would You Say?” by Norman “Hurricane” Smith featured a kazoo. Played by Paul McCartney. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/23 "2012-01-12T01:22:24Z")
There’s the instrumental interlude in this one, if you can get past those sickening lyrics: [http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Johnny+Get+Angry/3h7rte?src=5](http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Johnny+Get+Angry/3h7rte?src=5) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/24 "2012-01-12T01:59:51Z")
Old Crow Medicine Show, [Cocaine Habit.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atypliEKbeY) Takes me back to my freshman year of college, when I used to listen to this band a lot, in a haze of cannabis. (NOT cocaine!) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/25 "2012-01-12T03:08:39Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Hit: > > “Johnny Get Angry” Joanie Sommers, 1962 Also known as a song in which a young lady begs to be hit for her infractions. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/26 "2012-01-12T04:21:51Z")
The original recording of _[Just an old-fashioned love Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coukydeaa_U)_ - by the songwriter, not the better-known Three Dog Night version - features a kazoo. An aside…I hadn’t thought of Paul Williams in years until I went looking for that link. Anybody else remember him? The guy wrote lots of hit songs for others, but never really was renowned for his own performances. He was actually quite good though. My younger brother was a fan back in the mid-seventies and played Paul Williams records incessantly. I guess some of it must have rubbed off on me. SS ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/27 "2012-01-12T04:38:24Z")
Here…["Weird Al" Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana (Official HD Video) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY) @ 2:23. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/28 "2012-01-12T04:56:43Z")
Julian Perretta- [Wonder Why](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUX4BSKvF0). Just the beginning and towards the end, I believe. Adds a sweet little charm to the song. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/29 "2012-01-12T05:41:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Also known as a song in which a young lady begs to be hit for her infractions. :eek: (Johnny Get Angry) It’s an odd song, with the happy-sounding kazoo ensemble sandwiched by those “brutalize me” lyrics. . ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/30 "2012-01-12T13:22:21Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’ve heard one in a song by Beck on Mellow Gold, Steal My Body Home perhaps? Yep, that’s the one. There’s a web page out there which lists [the use of the kazoo in popular music](http://www.kazoos.com/popkazoo.htm). ---
**Author:** ![statij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@statij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statij)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/31 "2012-01-12T17:16:16Z")
Skinned by Blind Melon, off the album Soup. Not a hit song by any stretch but I love it. One of my favorite and I think most underrated bands ever. The song is about the serial killer Ed Gein, and there is quite a bit of kazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/32 "2012-01-12T17:22:11Z")
“Lazy Sunday” by the Small Faces (1968), which was a big hit in Britain. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/33 "2012-01-13T11:54:31Z")
Does ‘Bear Necessities’ from The Jungle Book feature a kazoo? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Skinny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Mr.Skinny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Skinny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/34 "2012-01-13T19:45:09Z")
Little Diane by Dion (1962). Googled it to confirm and came up with this web site. “The Kazoo In Popular Music” [http://www.kazoos.com/popkazoo.htm](http://www.kazoos.com/popkazoo.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/35 "2012-01-13T19:59:51Z")
Not a hit song, necessarily, but the sexiest kazooing I’ve ever seen is in the [Carolina Chocolate Drops’s version of “Shakedown.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTU8mDmN34&feature=relmfu) ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/36 "2012-01-13T20:00:43Z")
This probably doesn’t count as a “hit,” but there is “Smells Like Nirvana” by Weird Al Yankovic. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/37 "2012-01-13T20:05:06Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > Here…[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY) @ 2:23. 😉 > [@LaurenIpsum](#): > > This probably doesn’t count as a “hit,” but there is “Smells Like Nirvana” by Weird Al Yankovic. If these two posts were combined, it would be one awesome post :). ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/38 "2012-01-13T22:21:37Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Not a hit song, necessarily, but the sexiest kazooing I’ve ever seen is in the [Carolina Chocolate Drops’s version of “Shakedown.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTU8mDmN34&feature=relmfu) Thanks **Lefty** , that was a lot of fun. And you ain’t kiddin’ about some sexy kazooing! ---
**Author:** ![pojimba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@pojimba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pojimba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/39 "2012-01-14T13:30:57Z")
“Lather” by Jefferson Airplane. ---
**Author:** ![motleyjust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@motleyjust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motleyjust)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-feature-a-kazoo/609176/40 "2012-01-26T20:38:16Z")
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