This will be a fun post. This Thursday, the 26th, we’re celebrating National Kazoo Day! Come into either store to claim your free Kazoo and make some Kazooic! (Is that a dumb word? We made it up). But speaking of Kazooic (kazoo-music), here’s an example of some professional musicians using the kazoo–well. The National Kazoo Day website has an mp3 of the Dexter Street Stompers playing their ode to the history of the Kazoo, “Down South Submarine”. Listen here.
“Down South Submarine” refers to the name the kazoo was initially marketed as, due to its shape. The modern day kazoo that we think of was designed in Georgia in the early 1840s by two gentlemen called Alabama Vest and Thaddeus Von Clegg, and then exhibited at the Georgia State Fair in 1852. But kazoos have been traced far back in time, particularly on the African continent. Check out this wacky variation on the kazoo, from oddmusic.com! (below)
