1933 - Universal Newsreel - Farmer Makes "Music" With Hands

Farmer Cecil Dill, of Traverse City, Michigan, an aspiring radio artist, demostrates his ability to render popular melodies by pressing his hands together, creating a juvenile sound. Dill modestly tells how he discovered his amazing talent.

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• camp
• campy
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• music
• 1930s
• fart
• kitsch

[americandiscocrash]

he chooses to look you straight in the eye. no looking at the audiences' heads for this poor deluded soul, he has the power of belief to guide him through the dark corridors of performing live. i like that.

[LyleLincoln]

Trail of the Lonesome Pine? NO Way? Mezmerizing

[Upritebass]

The two greatest talents to ever come out of Chicago: Barack Obama and Cecil Dill, not necessrilly in that order.

[Upritebass]

Shame he let this great talent go for 6 years. But Chicago is a great place to be if you have musical aspirations. Thelonius Monk jazz college is located there too I think.

[Upritebass]

@Doyubi Not everyone has the same talent.  Try your armpits.

[BlitzoftheReich]

@GizmoJunk :S no sadly. :(

[GizmoJunk]

@BlitzoftheReich

It is indeed... but have you heard the song I'm talking about?

I can't find it on youtube, but its the one with the whimpering singer (whose voice sounds quite a lot like the man's hand noises, while the piano tune sounds very similar as well). ~Its a coincidence.

[BlitzoftheReich]

@GizmoJunk its yankee doodle -.-

[GizmoJunk]

Am I the only one that thinks this song sound a hell of a lot like the one played in the game Redneck Rampage; I mean its just an amazing similarity ~though not exact.