The School for Scat

Ever at a loss for words? Can’t remember the lyrics of your favorite songs? It’s time to enroll in the School for Scat, where you’ll master how to Hi-De-Hi-De-Ho, you’ll be the first of your friends to become tee-legged-toe-legged-bow-legged, and in more advanced coursework, you’ll learn to ting-tang-didley-wang boo-wop shabamm.

Hour One has 2 20-second pauses (with music) at 21:23 and 40:13 for local station ID:

Here is Hour One divided into 3 segments to facilitate local station ID:

1 - Candy Lips - Louis Armstrong's Original Washboard Beaters – 1938

2 - The Scat Singers - Harry Roy and his Orchestra – 1936

3 - The Scat Song - Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra – 1933

4 - Popity Pop - Tiny Brown with the Slim Gaillard Orchestra - 1946

5 - Wa-Da-Da - Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys – 1928

Sami of Northern Norway

6 - Presto Con Stomp (With a Floy Floy) - Slim Gaillard and Bam Brown - 1945

7 - How Am I Doin'? - Waring's Pennsylvanians - 1932

8 - You Gotta Ho-De-Ho - Cab Calloway and his Orchestra – 1932

9 - I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana with the Prairie Ramblers – 1935

10 - If You Can't Sing, Whistle - The Two Gilberts (Australia)

11 - Some of These Days - Bing Crosby - 1932

12 - Farewell Blues - Nat Gonella and his Georgians – 1936

13 - You'll Have to Swing It - Ella Fitzgerald - 1936

14 - Tight and Gay - Leo Watson with the Vic Dickenson Quintet – 1945

15 - Honeysuckle Rose - Teddy Bunn and Leo Watson with The Spirits of Rhythm - 1945

A good place to practice scat-singing is in the shower

16 - The New Low Down - Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers with Don Redman and his Orchestra – 1932

Hour Two:

17 – The Singing Critic – Richard Diamond, Private Detective – 1949 (radio drama)

18 – Musician Union Troubles – Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show – 1951 (radio comedy)

19 - Tarzan - Scat Powell with Willie Farmer and his Orchestra – 1938