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Did you know? Louis Armstrong popularised scat singing (improvising with nonsense syllables) by accident in 1926 when he dropped his sheet music during the recording of "Heebie Jeebies". Instead of stopping, he sang on with "skat-skiddle-de-bop" sounds. The record became a hit and scat became a jazz standard.

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Louis Armstrong popularised scat singing (improvising with nonsense syllables) by accident in 1926 when he dropped his sheet music during the recording of "Heebie Jeebies". Instead of stopping, he sang on with "skat-skiddle-de-bop" sounds. The record became a hit and scat became a jazz standard.

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