Fresh Air
How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star
Terry Gross
Well, I want to play a song that made him a star, and that's Heebie Jeebies from 1926. It's a Hot Five recording. And it's considered the first example of scat, at least the first time it was called scat. So the story that's always told is that Armstrong started singing syllables, scat, instead of words because he dropped the sheet music and didn't remember the words.
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