When The Cure were on MTV Unplugged, they did the synthesizer parts of “The Walk” with kazoos. Hilarious.
I believe that “Oh, Babe What Would You Say?” by Norman “Hurricane” Smith featured a kazoo. Played by Paul McCartney.
There’s the instrumental interlude in this one, if you can get past those sickening lyrics:
Old Crow Medicine Show, Cocaine Habit.
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!)
Also known as a song in which a young lady begs to be hit for her infractions. :eek:
The original recording of Just an old-fashioned love Song - 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.
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Julian Perretta- Wonder Why. Just the beginning and towards the end, I believe. Adds a sweet little charm to the song.
(Johnny Get Angry)
It’s an odd song, with the happy-sounding kazoo ensemble sandwiched by those “brutalize me” lyrics.
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Yep, that’s the one.
There’s a web page out there which lists the use of the kazoo in popular music.
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.
“Lazy Sunday” by the Small Faces (1968), which was a big hit in Britain.
Does ‘Bear Necessities’ from The Jungle Book feature a kazoo?
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
Not a hit song, necessarily, but the sexiest kazooing I’ve ever seen is in the Carolina Chocolate Drops’s version of “Shakedown.”
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 :).
Thanks Lefty, that was a lot of fun. And you ain’t kiddin’ about some sexy kazooing!
“Lather” by Jefferson Airplane.
There is a list of songs about the kazoo at [my website which I am not going to spam you with]