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"San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. [1] Fuller first recorded the song in 1954, which was released by the World Song label in 1955. A "one-man band" rendition of the song featuring a kazoo solo was recorded by
"Little Diane" is a song written and performed by Dion featuring The Del-Satins. The song reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. [1] It was featured on his 1962 album, Lovers Who Wander. [2] The song was arranged by Glen Stuart. [3] The song was ranked number 86 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1962. [4]
A metal kazoo Other examples of kazoos. The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of mirliton (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics.
The last two Stones songs featuring Watts arrive about halfway through Hackney Diamonds, and faithful Stones fans might get a little choked up at the sound of that first familiar rat-a-tat snare ...
The other jug band song on The Country Blues was Gus Cannon's "Walk Right In", which was a hit for the Rooftop Singers in 1962. Capitalizing on the success of that recording, the Memphis label Stax Records invited Cannon, then 79 years old, to record a full-length album the following year.
An incredibly awkward and weird, yet mesmerizing 1989 video took the Internet by storm in January featuring a young boy playing the kazoo and playing with his friends in the woods.
"Mah Nà Mah Nà" is a popular song by Italian composer Piero Umiliani. It originally appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Svezia, inferno e paradiso).On its own it was a minor radio hit in the United States and in Britain, but became better known internationally after it was used by The Muppets and on The Benny Hill Show.
The band played good-time swinging music, featuring spirited vocals, horns, a washboard player and occasionally kazoo, and were popular around the time of the Great Depression. They mostly covered current hits from other artists. Their personnel varied considerably between sessions, with guitarist Teddy Bunn a regular member from 1930 to 1931.