Word: scatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Membe of the Royalty." He was an irritatingly vain man whose boastful talk lost friends almost as fast as his piano-playing won them. He yielded no quarter of fame to any of his now-famous contemporaries. "People believe Louis Armstrong originated scat [singing]," he said. "I must take that credit away from him." His blast at W. C. (St. Louis Blues) Handy as "a liar" who "cannot prove anything in music that he has created" endeared him to no one. His own flamboyant claim was that "I personally originated jazz in New Orleans...
...Scat Mother Goose. Almost every year Ella manages to get back to the Apollo. Last week, Ella, now a strapping 31, gave the fans a hearty sampling of sweet ballads with a Fitzgerald edge, a few bopped-up old favorites, her latest raid on Mother Goose (a scat version of Old Mother Hubbard), and a couple of friendly imitations of her old pals Louis Armstrong and Rose ("Chichi") Murphy. As always, her gently rasping voice, halfway between jungle wail and jukebox jangle, brought the house down...
Keenan Wynn hired them to play at a Christmas party. Bing Crosby heard them, stepped up and ripped off a little scat singing with them. He thought they were so good that last week he put them in the guest spot on his CBS radio program...
...shifted in their seats and looked around. But it took a moment for the realization to spread that the tappings were coming from those left outside, knocking hopefully on one of the exit-doors at the rear of the balcony--hoping that there might be one more scat inside. The man who had charge of such things would pull back the curtain on the door and tell them to go away. But later there would come another tapping on another door--always a rather pathetic sound in the filled hall as the tappings resounded between the pauses in Mrs. Roosevelt...