valentine's day Happy Holidays: Fun at Work Day & National Kazoo Day (Top Ten Songs That Feature A Kazoo)

valentine's day Today, January 28th, is both Fun at Work Day and National Kazoo Day. What a perfect combo, right? Just bring your kazoo to work with you and it's guaranteed to be a fun day for the entire office! And what's more fun than playing the kazoo for (and with) your coworkers...? Why, making a list of top songs that feature a kazoo, of course. Below you can find EAR FARM's picks for best usage of a kazoo in popular music.

National Kazoo Day: Top Ten Eleven Songs That Feature A Kazoo

10. "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic - while there is indeed a distinct kazoo moment in this song, we expect a bit more in the way of kazoo blasting from Weird Al. This song barely made it into the Top 10 ahead of "Jugband Blues" by Pink Floyd.
9a. "Lovely Rita" by The Beatles - one of two songs to show up here from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Lovely Rita" hits us with a kazoo briefly, but pointedly right at 0:49. Apparently as a way to drive home just how much Rita does in fact look like a military man.
9b. "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles - though this is a favorite, it rates low on the kazoo-meter because of how buried the kazoo is in the mix. Really, for a circus song, this could've used a lot more kazoo.
8. "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix - Jimi used a kazoo made of comb and paper to accentuate the blown-out speaker sound he was going for. Bravo.
7. "Skinned" by Blind Melon - you really have to give it up for Shannon Hoon's fine kazooery in this one.
6. "Steal My Body Home" by Beck - the kazoo solo at the end of this dirge'll put a smile on your face. It's some wickedy kick ass kazoo playing, my friend.
5. "Return to the Nursery" by Carter Burwell - this classic tune from Raising Arizona is full of all kinds of yodeling and kazoo. Glorious yodeling and kazoo.
4. "I Ain't Got Nobody" by Red McKenzie - the godfather of kazoo stretches it out in this live footage of a Dixieland classic.
3. "The Walk" by The Cure - there aren't kazoos in the regular version of this song, but as the band arranged and performed it for MTV Unplugged there are... kazoos GALORE. Get it? Galore?
2. "Seaside Rendezvous" by Queen - there's so much goofy kazoo variety in this song it's as if Queen summoned a kazoo orchestra to the studio. Kazoochestra. EDIT: Word that the "kazoo" in this song is in fact Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor imitating various instruments using only their voices does nothing to diminish the overall kazoo factor of "Seaside Rendezvous". In fact, it may even increase it.
1. "Corporal Clegg" by Pink Floyd - I don't march... EXCEPT when I hear the kazoo part come in during "Corporal Clegg" by Pink Floyd. It's autonomic. And ten times more march-inducing than anything Sousa ever penned. It's damn near perfect kazooing.

What great kazoo songs did we miss?

*image from HERE.