Re: Paul Simon's music--and Cab Calloway's

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

The Louis Armstrong angle is new to me, and glad to have, but I'm not sure I 
said, or implied, that Cab Calloway originated scat singing!--rlc


>From: BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Paul Simon's music--and Cab Calloway's
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:09:23 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 11/2/99 12:53:09 PM, rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:
>
> >Is this (1st paragraph) statement about Paul Simon's "The Boxer" actually
> >
> >factual--i.e., known--or offered tongue-in-cheek?  Because, 
>interestingly,
> >
> >Cab Calloway's scat singing  started when he forgot the words (as opposed
> >
> >to, but surely parallel to, not coming up w/ new ones) to a song he was
> >
> >singing on live radio; the (live, radio) audience loved his improvisatory
> >
> >filling in (apparently somewhat inspired by the cantorial singing he 
>heard
> >
> >in his childhood Baltimore),
>
>Dear Robert and Listers,
>Not wanting to get into the Lie-Die debate, I do wish to offer a possible
>correction Robert's statement about scat singing above. Usually (in the 
>jazz
>histories that I'm aware of) Louis Armstrong is credited for coming up with
>the idea of scatting for the same reason that Robert notes above. Although
>Cab was noted for his "hi-de-ho'ing", I don't think that he was the 
>earliest
>jazz singer to use nonsense syllables.
>
>Best wishes,
>Steve
>
>Steve Barnett
>Composer/Arranger/Producer
>Barnett Music Productions
>BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com
>
>
>

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