I, as most, didn’t know a single thing about scatting until The Scatman taught us about it in 1995. He bipitty bopittied his way through two world wide top ten hit lists in the mid nineties. While the music charts were filled with ultra cool rappers and post grungey angry teens, this middle aged guy in a suit came along and climbed to the top of the list scatting about what it’s like to stutter.
John Larkin started out a serious jazz musician, but then his manager had the idea to mix his scatting with nineties pop and techno sounds and he became the novelty pop phenomenon known as Scatman John at the age of 53. His first single “Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)” was supposed to inspire kids who stutter, instead the whole world wanted to stutter along with him. Ok, so this song may not make your best of the nineties list, but don’t even try to pretend like you didn’t try to scat along back then.
Scatman John – Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
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