Uke, washboard, and kazoo music from 1928

Amy Crehore found this video of Eddie Thomas and Carl Scott playing "My Ohio Home." Hokum Music on YouTube

• [jeshii]

  Wow, it is stuff like this that remind me there is culture in America.

• [pizzaboxbeercan]

  The Guy playing the Washboard looks like Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis

• [danwarning]

  Here’s a link to the whole thing, complete with a great bit of acting in the introduction:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtbhE6s4wHE

  “Someone been usin’ my instrument to wash on!”

  Classic.

• [Justin Ried]

  As an aspiring, semi-professional kazoo man myself, I have to say his technique is pitch perfect. Wonderful video.

• [JimXugle]

  I think you just found the world’s oldest music video.

• [stuckie27]

  Randomly enough I was watching a film last night that used this exact same clip to talk about new influences in the music made by while people in North Carolina.

  The film was High Lonesome and is the story of Bill Monroe and Bluegrass music and how it has come to be.

  Might enjoy it..

• [assumetehposition]

  That’s keepin’ it real. But is it really Hokum?

• [David Guerrero]

  I dunno…I’d be interested to see more details about the recording. If it is fake, nice job.

• [Cory Doctorow]

  They’re fantastic.

• [Russell Letson]

  No, it’s not hokum, but the footage is genuine–unless the Yazoo video compilation that must be the source (“Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be”) is a put-on, too.

• [TOMTOM]

  My dad plays the washboard and I wanted to send him this clip. But I can hear a lot more instruments than just the ukulele and the washboard ( and I can hardly hear the washboard). Is the soundtrack genuine?

• [texasroute66]

  Thanks for the uke!