[Dixielandjazz] Tony Spargo Kazoo master
JimDBB@aol.com
JimDBB@aol.com
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:30:35 EST
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there has been considerable hilarity at the expense of the kazoo and I wold
like to point out a true master of the kazoo, Tony Spargo. Tony Spargo
)Sparbaro) was the drummer with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and in the
late 40s and early 50s he was with Phil Napoleon's greayt band at Jimmy
Ryan's. Spargo had a huge kazoo which he had on a stand next to the drums.
On certain tunes Tony would launch into some really swinging solos on that
kazoo. I was in high school in Wisconsin and would pick up their broadcasts
in Wisconsin...in those dear departed days of AM radio when you could jpcik
up stations around the country. I had no idea that he was playang a kazoo
and I thought that Napoleon was playing with some kind of mute. At times
Napoleon would let Tony start off with a kazoo solo and one by one the horns
would come in and build some powerfully swinging ensembles with the kazoo
wailing away through it. Napoleon made a couple of 10" LPs, one on Decca
and one on Columbia, and there is at least one good kazoo solo on them.
* I just thought it was time for a modicum of respect for the kazoo.
Jim Beebe
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>there has been considerable hilarity at the expense of the kazoo and I wold like to point out a true master of the kazoo, Tony Spargo. Tony Spargo )Sparbaro) was the drummer with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and in the late 40s and early 50s he was with Phil Napoleon's greayt band at Jimmy Ryan's. Spargo had a huge kazoo which he had on a stand next to the drums. On certain tunes Tony would launch into some really swinging solos on that kazoo. I was in high school in Wisconsin and would pick up their broadcasts in Wisconsin...in those dear departed days of AM radio when you could jpcik up stations around the country. I had no idea that he was playang a kazoo and I thought that Napoleon was playing with some kind of mute. At times Napoleon would let Tony start off with a kazoo solo and one by one the horns would come in and build some powerfully swinging ensembles with the kazoo wailing away through it. Napoleon made a couple of 10" LPs, one on Decca and one on Columbia, and there is at least one good kazoo solo on them.<BR>
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* I just thought it was time for a modicum of respect for the kazoo.<BR>
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Jim Beebe</FONT></HTML>
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