Word: oodla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oodla-Oodlee." Far from paling at the effrontery of it all, most Bach men like the gently swinging translation. And some, like Pianist Glenn Gould, are downright ecstatic: "They're just fabulously good! When I first heard them, I felt like lying on the floor and kicking my heels, that's how good I thought they were...
...Swingle Singers' musical idiom is onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
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