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Re: Do you know scatman john?

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TehPugster is not online. TehPugster
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13 Jun 2014 07:27 PM
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John Paul Larkin (13 March 1942 – 3 December 1999), better known by his stage name Scatman John, was an American musician who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best known for his 1995 hits "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)" and "Scatman's World".

A stutterer, Larkin stated that scatting was "turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset". Scatman John sold millions of recordings worldwide and was named "Best New Artist" in the Echo Awards in both Japan and Germany. He was a recipient of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Annie Glenn Award for outstanding service to the stuttering community and National Stuttering Association Hall of Fame.

Born in El Monte, California, Larkin suffered from a severe stutter from the time he learned to speak, which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he "hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times." At age twelve he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at the age of fourteen through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others. The piano provided him with a means of artistic expression to compensate for his speech difficulties. He remarked in a 1996 interview that “playing piano gave me a way to speak ... I hid behind the piano when I was performing because I was scared of talking.”

Larkin became a professional jazz pianist in the 1970s and 1980s, playing many engagements in jazz clubs around Los Angeles. In 1986, he released the self-titled album John Larkin on the Transition label. This album was Produced by Philip Cacayorin at the Hollywood Central Studios. While copies of it are now extremely rare, he claimed to have "hundreds of them lying around in [his] closet at home." Around this time, alcoholism and drug addiction were also beginning to take a hold of his life. When fellow musician and friend Joe Farrell, who also had a drug problem, died of bone cancer in 1986, Larkin decided to beat his habits. He eventually did so, largely with the help of his old friend Wilson McCutchan and his new wife Judy, also a recovering alcoholic. “You have talent,” she told him. “I’m going to make something out of you.”

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SomePunk is online. SomePunk
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13 Jun 2014 07:28 PM
Ski bi di bi di do bap do Do bam do Bada bwi ba ba bada boBaba ba da bo Bwi ba ba ba do

it coulda' used more cowbell
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weridlol1234 is not online. weridlol1234
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13 Jun 2014 07:34 PM
im a scatman
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Crash6351 is not online. Crash6351
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13 Jun 2014 07:40 PM
a lot of people know him


it's a question of how well people know him




but i do seriously like him and have listened to some of his deeper cuts
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13 Jun 2014 07:57 PM
Beep boop beep boop
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TehPugster is not online. TehPugster
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14 Jun 2014 05:17 PM
His music is really good.
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