So wikipedia mentioned that this record (or a part on this record) is an example of a "hokum coda". Can anyone explain that to me and tell me when it occurs in this song (if it is, indeed, referring to a specific part of the song)?
@briandillon120 Hokum was a popular novelty blues style around during '20s & '30s, known for its upbeat, light-hearted--and sometimes salacious--lyrics (see Tampa Red and Georga Tom: the Hokum Brothers). A coda is an ending to a song that is added on to the overall form. Notice in "Heebie Jeebies" how after what sounds like the last tag (2:32), the piano and vocals keep doing a thing. . . then the final horn lick. That is typical of the hokum style.
Its true there is bullshit rap and there is intellectual relevant rap that carries true emotion imagination and often metaphorical meaning. I will not blame those that believe all rap is the same. That's because much of the radio plays garbage. Look up BLUE SCHOLARS, Lupe fiasco, Zion I and the grouch, living legends, projekt seer, most def, common.
@ElComadreja777 your absolutely correct!! Wow! i am convinced. i am sooo apologetic. i did not mean to insult your intelligence..yes! generalizations do go a long way!
@BeatsMusicMan I'm not "generalizing", I'm stating a fact. Rap is absolute shit that takes no talent to perform and appeals to sub-human vermin. I wouldn't even classify it as music. It's not even a step above a tribe of chimpanzees ooking and screeing while they bang on a tree trunk with rocks. In fact the chimps probably have more talent than your average braindead rap "artist". You're a perfect example of a rap fan and your attempts at sarcasm are both laughable and pitiful.
@ElComadreja777 And that is completely fine ElComadreja777, your points in your argument, that you feel your not "generalizing" but you state a solid "fact." i respect that no problem...so tell me what would you say quality, substantial type of music would then be, Jazz? Swing? Classical? Opera?
@gabrielejazz not true but close. there was evidence of scat before this song, but this song made scat more mainstreamed in jazz... but check out, "My papa doesn't two-time no time" by fletcher henderson, which was recorded five months earlier. Also Tony Jackson was noted to have scatted in 1907.
Man...Miles Davis said if Bird had've been born decades later he'd probably be a rapper...just like jazz, there's rap and then there's rap...when I first heard De La Soul IN (?) '89 it was as revelatory as hearin Bird for the first time...a feeling of wow...you can do THAT??...yeah, you can do THAT!!!
I'm reading a book titled Pops about Louis' life and indeed he dropped the lyric sheet in the middle of recording. In those days they used wax to make the master disk, feeling the take was good and not waste costly wax, he started scatting to continue the recording. He was amazed when they came out of the booth and said, it's great leave it in. New Orleans bands had been scatting for years before that and Armstrong was adept at that practice, though in this case it was entirely by accident.
I read somewhere that he dropped his music sheets while singing halfway so he started to scat to keep up with the music and that's how scat started! My source might be wrong though.
@jessicolombis because we make it all spoken word rap listen to something made by bahamadia or blackstar or common you will see jazz's influence. queen latifah sings jazz.. all these these things are interchangeable. my great grandmother used to say it doesnt matter its all the blues. she was a holy roller and im an atheist but that one thing is definitely agreed upon.
its funny how whites want to lay claim on black music and reverse racism. armstrong said it himself white keep making up names for our music. in order to categorize it. @chris. racism only makes the gain of the ones in power meaning i receive no favor or privilege by hating white people just a headache. the crap you speak is coming from some one with lil wayne on his page. pls. spare me the bs
@yittidy99 Blacks, whites and Creoles all contributed equally to the development of jazz. Spare me Your bullshit and read some musical history unclouded by Afrocentrust lies, racist.
This is the recording that started "scatting." The music score fell to the floor and Satchmo started "scatting." The record became extremely popular in Chicago.
Louis was one of the first to use improvised vocal jazz using non-sensical words and was among the first to record it, on "Heebie Jeebies" in 1926.
So popular was the recording the group became the most famous jazz band in USA even though they as yet had not performed live to any great degree. Young musicians across the country, black and white, were turned on by Armstrong’s new type of jazz.
Louis - Mr Pop and the Satchi - without him = no popular music EVER. What a musician yeah...
Why you guys are even mentioning rap music is totally irrelevant. Louis Armstrong was a musical genius. Pushing buttons in a studio like Puffy is a joke compared to innovators like Louis. Please post somewhere else. I took a Roots Man. Cd out of the library once. You're kidding right.
@DRAGUNOFF It is purported to be the first time Satchmo recroded scat in a song. The Boswell Sisters did it very differently about five years later. They were in New Orleans when Armstrong recorded this song and it has his influence.
@theinvisiblelight The "young lady" is Lil Hardin, Louis Armstrong's first wife and the person who wrote several of the numbers played by the Hot Five, of which she was one...piano and sometimes vocals.
@NosHabebitHumus Actually, Lil was Louis' second wife, the first being Daisy Parker ( a very short-lived union ). True that Lil was a talented composer. Check out the New Orleans Wanderers and New Orleans Bootblacks recordings which mostly featured her tunes.
there's no point completely disregarding an entire genre just because there are a few artists you don't like... sure there are some shit rap artists like lil wayne but theres also great ones like roots manuva.. same goes for jazz
According to Armstrong, he dropped the sheet music halfway through the song. Rather than stop the take, he just scat-sang the second verse. To his surprise, the producers said "Leave that in!"
Thanks for posting the legendary first scat by Satchmo! Like ALL modern music with a beat that isn't purely Latin or African, this came out of New Orleans, the only spot in North America where African drums were played from their arrival till now.
New Orleans' French law and geography made it all possible! Thanks, Big Easy! No jazz , rap, pop, rock and roll, would have been possible without New Orleans and its lack of the puritan ethic!
Read Terry Teachout's new biography of Louis Armstrong, for a fun anecdote about this song. "Bix Beiderbecke's reaction to hearing 'Heebie Jeebies' for the time: Ha! Ha! Ha! Bix kept chuckling as the record played over and over, adn his long bony arms beat out the breaks, flailing through the air like the blades of a threshing machine."
sooo...my grandkids more musically enlightened than me-says from louis armstrong-scat singing in 1926-to a tribe called quest-modern day--well; they know...as for me; i am a country music fan-from hank williams to the oak ridge boys--well; we shall see; hmmm?
That's Louis' second wife, Lil Hardin who pushed him to assert himself as a soloist. She went so far as to demand that the relatively little known Armstrong be billed as "The Greatest Trumpet Player in the World."
@Marteloman Actually no one knows if it was really an accident. That's the story Louis most frequently told, but as some observed, he seemed to laugh at it a little, and others also kind of told it with a wink and a smile.
@claptonfan I am not saying what the song is about, I honestly do not know. One thing I do know for a fact is that Louis Armstrong did claim to smoke marijuana every day of his adult life. So, I am just correcting those who say that people didn't get "stoned" or "high" in the 20's Louis Armstrong certainly did and Charlie Parker was into even heavier drugs.
People didn't get stoned in 1926? You sure don't know your history. The federal law banning marijuana wasn't passed until 1937. Jazz musicians in the '20's called marijuana smokers "vipers."
How can anybody associate Satchmo with those common thugs that call themselves "Rap Artists"? His music isn't derogatory, he has no intention of insulting anybody. He's just an all around good guy and genius.
how can anyone associate common thugs with rap?ho can anyone label rap simply and solely as derogatory, and how can anyone associate rap solely with intentions of insulting people?
there are also many real rap artists who are real geniuses and real good guys.
99.999999 percent of all rap is completely ridiculous shite these days. Rap is dead. Hip hop was destroyed by "hip pop" trash like soulja boy, fiddy cent, and lil wayne. Rap used to be great and actually meant something back in the day.
@Bullets4Brains6 we can say that now... but is the innovation and improvisation in Rap not derived from Jazz? Let's not forget that back in the day Jazz was considered Sinful Music. (not a lot different than how Rap and Hip Hop is generalized to be derogatory or non-musical).
Satchomo is a genius and I would never associate him with "Rap singers" but just as a fact he was in jail. He had done a lot of trouble as a youngster so he's not really a good guy. The brilliance of his music also came from his non-conformity and not fitting anywhere and growing up poor and finding relief and beauty in music.
@verysexy92 wow he got into a little trouble as a boy but that does not make him a bad person. he reformed himself and got to play an instrument to his best abilities. He is a very inspirational person especially for what he was put through when he was younger. He had the least amount of chance to be what he is now a legend.
All I wanted to add was that he was not a conformist, and the hard times he had gone through helped him create the great, exceptional music we just listened to.
Interestingly, this breakthrough song was the "rap" of its day. Jazz, and scatting in particular, was as counter-cultural as you could get back then. Yet, it piqued the interest of the mainstream -- and the rest is history.
Yeah, that is true actually. Lil Hardin, Louis's 2nd wife (I think that's her at the piano) was beat by her religious mama for playing "the Saint Louis Blues." She crept out of the house to play with the Joe King Oliver Band, (which was the precursor to the hot 5 & 7). Her rebellion was later accepted when her mom saw how much money she was making in the band.
@Theodore117 what about queen latifa talib kweli and the roots . and what you are saying is bullshit becuz this music was associated with night clubs alcohol and loose women and drugs idiot. there was crap jazz too like the horrid whites who tried to play this sound no different from todays eminem
@yittidy99 Your comment makes you sound very ignorant and immature, and pretty racist too if I'm understanding you correctly. Theodore117 didn't say anything about the values that modern-day rap preaches, you're the one that filled in the blanks on that. I'd say (based on your comment) you don't have a good grasp of jazz either, as there were many influential white AND black musicians on early jazz, and still even today. How about Coltrane, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson?
@yittidy99 & your opinion of Eminem is pretty harsh as well. He's THE highest selling hip-hop artist of all time. He oversaw an entire post-mortem Tupac album. Nas, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, DR. DRE all praise him as a lyricist and artist. He might have some crazy off the wall songs that most "real rap fans" don't want to hear, but when he's talking about real stuff he is unparalleled lyrically. Bottom line, the man has more skills than your favorite rapper, whether he's on his game or not.
@Theodore117 here's the thing though....first of all, this is amazing and it makes me happy. Only problem: if you're criticizing the music of today (more than half of the over 2,000 songs on my ipod are hip-hop) then you're part of the problem.
@Theodore117 there's a good link between jazz and the more modern hiphop music - i agree that some of the artists/listeners neglect their music's earlier jazz roots, but if you listen to the right stuff, some of it reminds of the postive lyricism, innovative instrumentation (nowadays much innovative sampling) and feelgood vibes of music from the new orleans days onwards...including this very piece! theres a LOT of good music around today besides the shit stuff haha have a look around
@jazzlearner1992 Oh dude i know that, but rap just doesn't really make me feel like I'm listening to music it makes me feel like a guy is talking over music that might or might not be good because he's talking over it >.>
@Theodore117 When Louis started out, jazz wasn't accepted as "real music" by the self appointed musical establishment. It was widely regarded as "degenerate" and "primitive". As was rap in the 80's. People probably used phrases like "now all people listen to is jazz and that crap". Eventually, both forms of music overcame prejudice and crossed into the mainstream. Which is great because I appreciate them both.
Rap is not music... end of story. It is something else. Rap has no melody, no harmony and the same rhythm every time. It is a kind of repetitive poetry to a drum beat (which is always the same and unfortunately is "made" by a COMPUTER). The only chance for rap to be music would be if bits of it were juxtaposed in some way so as to make some esoteric music, like a piece of "modern art". Rap is just that, rap ie talk. It is not made (by the writer) like music is made either.
thats a pretty ignorant view of rap...there are plenty of artists who produce there own music using their own creations or samples from other songs and present it in a new and unique way....while it might not contain a textbook harmony or melody it still is music
Regardless, this is a Louis Armstrong video so whats your point besides trying to start an arguement with someone else's opinion?
@CaniacMatt it sucks, that's his point. rap is the bane of music, it started us into this musical "canyon" we have been in for the last 15 years or so.
@brutussmithicus Rap is not music... end of story. It is something else. Rap has no melody, no harmony and the same rhythm every time. It is a kind of repetitive poetry to a drum beat (which is always the same and unfortunately is "made" by a COMPUTER). The only chance for rap to be music would be if bits of it were juxtaposed in some way so as to make some esoteric music, like a piece of "modern art". Rap is just that, rap ie talk. It is not made (by the writer) like music is made either.
@brutussmithicus I studied with Joe Morello of Dave Brubeck and he said it was considered "whore house" music." Eventually it gained respect and has become a staple of American music
@rudeboyjohn lol, all the best types of music are considered "whore house music" by the narrow minded bigots of the day - music critics in the 1910's and people on u-tube who hate rap in the 2010's :-D
@brutussmithicus yeah, except that 1st part is completely wrong. Jazz was highly regarded due to its free form improvisation, and was was copied and learned by anybody who wanted to be anybody in music at the time. Everybody wanted it in their clubs and such, and that's why old jazz musicians covered their hands with handkerchiefs, so no one could watch their finger movement, steal their song, then preform it better.
@brutussmithicus How the hell can you even compare Jazz and crap "music". One takes talent, the other is moronic doggerel recited over music stolen from actual musicians (sampling) and used unimaginatively. If crap was any more primitive it would be made by monkeys screeching as they banged on logs and grabbed their dicks. Oh, wait................
@Theodore117 nooo!!!! not crap! haha Rap is different, but dont diss it. ever read a poem? try reading it in time to a good beat. voila. dont diss it. ever.
@misssecretlovechild I have read some great poems, but those poems don't start flinging F-Bombs and other swear words, and poems don't usually talk about gangs, crime, etc.
Actually "people" say that he invented scat singing. This isn't so but he was the most talented and well known scat singer. There also wasn't very many scat singers around in the 1920's.
That's completely wrong. What "people" say this? He wasn't the first scat singer, he was just the most talented/popular at the time. It's really funny to hear the part where he drops the lyric sheet and starts improvising though.
This music always gets me up and happy in the morning. Thank God there are the blues and jazz. :)
Diego1999ist 6 hours ago in playlist Diego's best
Thanks to you Louis, without you there wouldn't be a scatman
gtazockerable 1 month ago
I can almost taste the gumbo and the garlic bread and beer, when I hear this song. The joy in the music is contagious.
mikedonn71 1 month ago
dubstep is better
ISteeZI 1 month ago
So wikipedia mentioned that this record (or a part on this record) is an example of a "hokum coda". Can anyone explain that to me and tell me when it occurs in this song (if it is, indeed, referring to a specific part of the song)?
briandillon120 1 month ago
@briandillon120 Hokum was a popular novelty blues style around during '20s & '30s, known for its upbeat, light-hearted--and sometimes salacious--lyrics (see Tampa Red and Georga Tom: the Hokum Brothers). A coda is an ending to a song that is added on to the overall form. Notice in "Heebie Jeebies" how after what sounds like the last tag (2:32), the piano and vocals keep doing a thing. . . then the final horn lick. That is typical of the hokum style.
keeblerbass 3 weeks ago
Muchas gracias por compartirlo.
sirjuandabicho 1 month ago
Why does everyone keep talking about rap in swing and dixieland tracks??
MrJoeManghan 2 months ago
@MrJoeManghan Cause some have nothing better to do but argue about differences or personal point of views. It part of being human Im sorry to say.
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Its true there is bullshit rap and there is intellectual relevant rap that carries true emotion imagination and often metaphorical meaning. I will not blame those that believe all rap is the same. That's because much of the radio plays garbage. Look up BLUE SCHOLARS, Lupe fiasco, Zion I and the grouch, living legends, projekt seer, most def, common.
BeatsMusicMan 3 months ago 5
@BeatsMusicMan All rap is bullshit. Don't pretend otherwise and insult everyone's intelligence.
ElComadreja777 3 months ago
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BeatsMusicMan 3 months ago
@ElComadreja777 your absolutely correct!! Wow! i am convinced. i am sooo apologetic. i did not mean to insult your intelligence..yes! generalizations do go a long way!
BeatsMusicMan 3 months ago
@BeatsMusicMan I'm not "generalizing", I'm stating a fact. Rap is absolute shit that takes no talent to perform and appeals to sub-human vermin. I wouldn't even classify it as music. It's not even a step above a tribe of chimpanzees ooking and screeing while they bang on a tree trunk with rocks. In fact the chimps probably have more talent than your average braindead rap "artist". You're a perfect example of a rap fan and your attempts at sarcasm are both laughable and pitiful.
ElComadreja777 3 months ago
@ElComadreja777 And that is completely fine ElComadreja777, your points in your argument, that you feel your not "generalizing" but you state a solid "fact." i respect that no problem...so tell me what would you say quality, substantial type of music would then be, Jazz? Swing? Classical? Opera?
BeatsMusicMan 3 months ago
@BeatsMusicMan what you're talking about is biased, uneducated political rap.
liljoe4195 4 weeks ago
@BeatsMusicMan Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco and Common are awesome! I agree with you. :D
motunrolarulz 1 week ago
Is that Satchmo singing?
Pandaonfire5 3 months ago
THE FIRST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF SCAT SING OF THE HISTORY
gabrielejazz 4 months ago
@gabrielejazz not true but close. there was evidence of scat before this song, but this song made scat more mainstreamed in jazz... but check out, "My papa doesn't two-time no time" by fletcher henderson, which was recorded five months earlier. Also Tony Jackson was noted to have scatted in 1907.
backtothebeat4 3 months ago
Man...Miles Davis said if Bird had've been born decades later he'd probably be a rapper...just like jazz, there's rap and then there's rap...when I first heard De La Soul IN (?) '89 it was as revelatory as hearin Bird for the first time...a feeling of wow...you can do THAT??...yeah, you can do THAT!!!
marshallstak 5 months ago
rap and jazz at the same comment? creepy
MrPianoguitar 6 months ago
favolso "scat" di Louis...
pinux3 6 months ago
Don't know if Louis intended to scat through that half chorus or not. But the record sold a heck of a lot of copies.
everybodylovesmybaby 6 months ago
@everybodylovesmybaby Supposedly the lyric sheet fell on the floor, so he improvised.
SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 5 months ago
its like rap
poteze 7 months ago
@poteze no, this is music.
Jmoretti8 4 months ago
Louis Armstrong Dropped his music and forgot the words than improvised therefore creating scat.
Instacool94 8 months ago
scat was happening well over a decade before this, and there are even numerous recordings of scat that predate this one
Lualaba 10 months ago
1:20 - 2:13 Pure joy filled epicness. Thank you Mr Armstrong :)
AUSROTTENY2K 10 months ago
This is so much much to listen to :3
michio 10 months ago
The song that started scat, a very important song in history
trainboy94 10 months ago
someone has a very narrow understanding of music
imusicnet 11 months ago 3
another classic of Satchmo's,
kirkconway 1 year ago
Scatting is a part of the English music tradition as is New Orleans funeral music.
skimdit 1 year ago
1 people is Justin Bieber fan.
Diekashi 1 year ago
@Diekashi Bieber is dead so let's move on!
societyforrealmusic 11 months ago
dis is shpooky
JohnnyLovely2 1 year ago
I'm reading a book titled Pops about Louis' life and indeed he dropped the lyric sheet in the middle of recording. In those days they used wax to make the master disk, feeling the take was good and not waste costly wax, he started scatting to continue the recording. He was amazed when they came out of the booth and said, it's great leave it in. New Orleans bands had been scatting for years before that and Armstrong was adept at that practice, though in this case it was entirely by accident.
JohnajMullins 1 year ago
I read somewhere that he dropped his music sheets while singing halfway so he started to scat to keep up with the music and that's how scat started! My source might be wrong though.
MrLuigiable 1 year ago
Why is rap being involved with such song? Its amazing so forget rap, lets respect REAL music.
jessicolombis 1 year ago
@jessicolombis because we make it all spoken word rap listen to something made by bahamadia or blackstar or common you will see jazz's influence. queen latifah sings jazz.. all these these things are interchangeable. my great grandmother used to say it doesnt matter its all the blues. she was a holy roller and im an atheist but that one thing is definitely agreed upon.
yittidy99 1 year ago
Heebie Jeebies AWESOME!!
labruixamaduixa 1 year ago 3
its funny how whites want to lay claim on black music and reverse racism. armstrong said it himself white keep making up names for our music. in order to categorize it. @chris. racism only makes the gain of the ones in power meaning i receive no favor or privilege by hating white people just a headache. the crap you speak is coming from some one with lil wayne on his page. pls. spare me the bs
yittidy99 1 year ago
@yittidy99 Blacks, whites and Creoles all contributed equally to the development of jazz. Spare me Your bullshit and read some musical history unclouded by Afrocentrust lies, racist.
ElComadreja777 3 months ago
Yeah. no. This song is fantastic.
LoveIguna 1 year ago
This is the recording that started "scatting." The music score fell to the floor and Satchmo started "scatting." The record became extremely popular in Chicago.
keyboardmaniac55 1 year ago
scat singing.
hendrix91726 1 year ago
reminds me of fallout 3
redo123456789 1 year ago
fave
markstar777 1 year ago
Louis was one of the first to use improvised vocal jazz using non-sensical words and was among the first to record it, on "Heebie Jeebies" in 1926.
So popular was the recording the group became the most famous jazz band in USA even though they as yet had not performed live to any great degree. Young musicians across the country, black and white, were turned on by Armstrong’s new type of jazz.
Louis - Mr Pop and the Satchi - without him = no popular music EVER. What a musician yeah...
ILiveOnMyBoat 1 year ago
this is the first recording of scat. great man to do it
fairwayandgreen 1 year ago
As a singer Louis Armstrong was a good trumpet player.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago
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what a good looking youngster.
josiah566 1 year ago
one of sachmo's best,
kirkconway 1 year ago
Why you guys are even mentioning rap music is totally irrelevant. Louis Armstrong was a musical genius. Pushing buttons in a studio like Puffy is a joke compared to innovators like Louis. Please post somewhere else. I took a Roots Man. Cd out of the library once. You're kidding right.
raa1231 1 year ago 2
ok everyone. the song is actually been recorded in 1926. silly me! ;))
DRAGUNOFF 1 year ago 10
@DRAGUNOFF It is purported to be the first time Satchmo recroded scat in a song. The Boswell Sisters did it very differently about five years later. They were in New Orleans when Armstrong recorded this song and it has his influence.
youtube.com/watch?v=jld2Z0TmaXo
hoopjnky 1 year ago
@DRAGUNOFF is that a bad thing?
coldshoulder14 10 months ago
@DRAGUNOFF DRAGUNOFF...you need not apologize, we thank you!!!
rudeboyjohn 8 months ago
Who is that young lady there?
theinvisiblelight 1 year ago
@theinvisiblelight The "young lady" is Lil Hardin, Louis Armstrong's first wife and the person who wrote several of the numbers played by the Hot Five, of which she was one...piano and sometimes vocals.
NosHabebitHumus 1 year ago
@NosHabebitHumus Actually, Lil was Louis' second wife, the first being Daisy Parker ( a very short-lived union ). True that Lil was a talented composer. Check out the New Orleans Wanderers and New Orleans Bootblacks recordings which mostly featured her tunes.
orson15 1 year ago
@orson15 Thanks for the correction! I forgot about Daisy. And thanks for the references too.
NosHabebitHumus 1 year ago
@theinvisiblelight I believe that is lil' armstrong louis' first wife
Alekari91 1 year ago
@Alekari91
Second wife, actually. He had four in all.
ChrisAlbertson 1 year ago
there's no point completely disregarding an entire genre just because there are a few artists you don't like... sure there are some shit rap artists like lil wayne but theres also great ones like roots manuva.. same goes for jazz
strikedead 1 year ago
I played this with my high school jazz band!
vampirehippie 1 year ago
good ole Louis, I am old enough to remember him being around and performing, really miss him. What a joy he was.
maceain 1 year ago
1926
ewaetge 1 year ago
According to Armstrong, he dropped the sheet music halfway through the song. Rather than stop the take, he just scat-sang the second verse. To his surprise, the producers said "Leave that in!"
TheSanityInspector 1 year ago
Thanks for posting the legendary first scat by Satchmo! Like ALL modern music with a beat that isn't purely Latin or African, this came out of New Orleans, the only spot in North America where African drums were played from their arrival till now.
New Orleans' French law and geography made it all possible! Thanks, Big Easy! No jazz , rap, pop, rock and roll, would have been possible without New Orleans and its lack of the puritan ethic!
Holleybe 1 year ago
Read Terry Teachout's new biography of Louis Armstrong, for a fun anecdote about this song. "Bix Beiderbecke's reaction to hearing 'Heebie Jeebies' for the time: Ha! Ha! Ha! Bix kept chuckling as the record played over and over, adn his long bony arms beat out the breaks, flailing through the air like the blades of a threshing machine."
TheSanityInspector 1 year ago
Scatting del bueno :D
juandel18 1 year ago
Bellisimo, muchisimas gracias.
sirjuandabicho 1 year ago
sooo...my grandkids more musically enlightened than me-says from louis armstrong-scat singing in 1926-to a tribe called quest-modern day--well; they know...as for me; i am a country music fan-from hank williams to the oak ridge boys--well; we shall see; hmmm?
melollylolly 1 year ago
the frontrunner of "rap" music-i was told louis armstrong and "scat" lyrics
melollylolly 1 year ago
these guys smoked their muta in their muggles.
Satchmo dropped the lyrics and improvised with the first scat ever.
New Orleans was the Amsterdam of the time and both their tea and music were products of New Orleans.
iskandhar 1 year ago
that woman on the piano looks like Estelle!
june9girl 2 years ago
That's Louis' second wife, Lil Hardin who pushed him to assert himself as a soloist. She went so far as to demand that the relatively little known Armstrong be billed as "The Greatest Trumpet Player in the World."
Cramnella 1 year ago
that tv show "jersey shore" needs to be on animal planet. i just thought of that when i was listening to this song high.
switters3 2 years ago 3
The scatting recording happened by accident but ended up being a milestone
Marteloman 2 years ago 18
@Marteloman rap SUCKS end of story
realjimboleeman 1 year ago
@Marteloman Actually no one knows if it was really an accident. That's the story Louis most frequently told, but as some observed, he seemed to laugh at it a little, and others also kind of told it with a wink and a smile.
jgrab1 7 months ago
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Heebie jeebies? That's crab lice!
4120Wade 2 years ago
I never heard that, but "cooties" are lice.
Cramnella 1 year ago
one of the first to record scatting at 0:53, gotta love it, classic!
clutchac 2 years ago 2
@claptonfan I am not saying what the song is about, I honestly do not know. One thing I do know for a fact is that Louis Armstrong did claim to smoke marijuana every day of his adult life. So, I am just correcting those who say that people didn't get "stoned" or "high" in the 20's Louis Armstrong certainly did and Charlie Parker was into even heavier drugs.
jessickofya 2 years ago
Aw man this song high is to much to handle HAHAHA FUCKIN LOVE IT!
BoneSoldier101 2 years ago
Actually.. Louis Armstrong smoked marijuana practically every day of his life.. so it very well could be about being stoned.
jessickofya 2 years ago
@jessickofya I don't think so, I think it's about a joy-virus.
claptonfan1000000 2 years ago
Muggles was the name for grass back then.
millsbrothers 2 years ago 3
foreal? hahahahaha no wonder i love him
questionful 2 years ago
Did you ever hear a Shiite Muslim do rap...or breakdance...hey, that would be cultural terrorism!
Watchthetube2140 2 years ago
i got the heebie jeebies now! this is a metaphor for being stoned right?
mwells219 2 years ago 2
It couldn't be because my father used that term decades ago...
Watchthetube2140 2 years ago
LOL
amerik556 2 years ago
@mwells219 people didn't just go out and "get stoned" in 1926.....
gamma180 2 years ago
can't a man make a joke on youtube anymore.
mwells219 2 years ago
i didn't read it as a joke...
gamma180 2 years ago
People didn't get stoned in 1926? You sure don't know your history. The federal law banning marijuana wasn't passed until 1937. Jazz musicians in the '20's called marijuana smokers "vipers."
TuberOnTheLoose 1 year ago
Genial, muchisimas gracias.
sirjuandabicho 2 years ago
How can anybody associate Satchmo with those common thugs that call themselves "Rap Artists"? His music isn't derogatory, he has no intention of insulting anybody. He's just an all around good guy and genius.
Bullets4Brains6 2 years ago 11
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Sounds like someone is getting a little too old...
samboni10 2 years ago
I completely agree!
ARMYMan92 2 years ago
I also completely agree.
cw1310 2 years ago
how can anyone associate common thugs with rap?ho can anyone label rap simply and solely as derogatory, and how can anyone associate rap solely with intentions of insulting people?
there are also many real rap artists who are real geniuses and real good guys.
DaRealLodiDodi 2 years ago
99.999999 percent of all rap is completely ridiculous shite these days. Rap is dead. Hip hop was destroyed by "hip pop" trash like soulja boy, fiddy cent, and lil wayne. Rap used to be great and actually meant something back in the day.
markuscc 2 years ago 2
you rite
DaRealLodiDodi 2 years ago
@Bullets4Brains6 we can say that now... but is the innovation and improvisation in Rap not derived from Jazz? Let's not forget that back in the day Jazz was considered Sinful Music. (not a lot different than how Rap and Hip Hop is generalized to be derogatory or non-musical).
Honorwithintruth 1 year ago
@Bullets4Brains6 Like Duke Ellington said, he was born poor, he died rich, and he never hurt anyone on the way.
TheSanityInspector 1 year ago
@Bullets4Brains6
Satchomo is a genius and I would never associate him with "Rap singers" but just as a fact he was in jail. He had done a lot of trouble as a youngster so he's not really a good guy. The brilliance of his music also came from his non-conformity and not fitting anywhere and growing up poor and finding relief and beauty in music.
verysexy92 1 year ago
@verysexy92 wow he got into a little trouble as a boy but that does not make him a bad person. he reformed himself and got to play an instrument to his best abilities. He is a very inspirational person especially for what he was put through when he was younger. He had the least amount of chance to be what he is now a legend.
babey6189 1 year ago
@babey6189
I totally agree.
All I wanted to add was that he was not a conformist, and the hard times he had gone through helped him create the great, exceptional music we just listened to.
verysexy92 1 year ago
@Bullets4Brains6 mmhmm, and the lyrics are... ispirational!! i mean heebie daba daba ? like thats friggin oxford sh*t right there
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misssecretlovechild 1 year ago
agreed, eventually, lots of modern music will never live as long as the music from back then, if not forever
Tycoon3009 2 years ago
if one thinks about it, this was the first freestyle rap
Jazzyteach65 2 years ago
When i listen to this, I wonder what happened to the good music, now all people listen to is Rap and that crap...
Theodore117 2 years ago 11
Interestingly, this breakthrough song was the "rap" of its day. Jazz, and scatting in particular, was as counter-cultural as you could get back then. Yet, it piqued the interest of the mainstream -- and the rest is history.
speechrighter 2 years ago 2
Yeah, that is true actually. Lil Hardin, Louis's 2nd wife (I think that's her at the piano) was beat by her religious mama for playing "the Saint Louis Blues." She crept out of the house to play with the Joe King Oliver Band, (which was the precursor to the hot 5 & 7). Her rebellion was later accepted when her mom saw how much money she was making in the band.
TheHizzyOnTheL 2 years ago
You're correct, speechrighter. We'll see if people are listening to rap in 80 years or more. They'll be listening to this, I think.
msjazzmeblues 2 years ago
listen to some vocal trance :D
devistationvll 2 years ago
@Theodore117 what about queen latifa talib kweli and the roots . and what you are saying is bullshit becuz this music was associated with night clubs alcohol and loose women and drugs idiot. there was crap jazz too like the horrid whites who tried to play this sound no different from todays eminem
yittidy99 1 year ago
@yittidy99 Your comment makes you sound very ignorant and immature, and pretty racist too if I'm understanding you correctly. Theodore117 didn't say anything about the values that modern-day rap preaches, you're the one that filled in the blanks on that. I'd say (based on your comment) you don't have a good grasp of jazz either, as there were many influential white AND black musicians on early jazz, and still even today. How about Coltrane, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson?
chrisdavis4 1 year ago 2
@yittidy99 & your opinion of Eminem is pretty harsh as well. He's THE highest selling hip-hop artist of all time. He oversaw an entire post-mortem Tupac album. Nas, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, DR. DRE all praise him as a lyricist and artist. He might have some crazy off the wall songs that most "real rap fans" don't want to hear, but when he's talking about real stuff he is unparalleled lyrically. Bottom line, the man has more skills than your favorite rapper, whether he's on his game or not.
chrisdavis4 1 year ago
@chrisdavis4 I'll take your word for it, since I need sensitive electronic testing equipment to tell one rap recording from another.
TheSanityInspector 1 year ago
@Theodore117 here's the thing though....first of all, this is amazing and it makes me happy. Only problem: if you're criticizing the music of today (more than half of the over 2,000 songs on my ipod are hip-hop) then you're part of the problem.
MisterYankou 1 year ago
@Theodore117 there's a good link between jazz and the more modern hiphop music - i agree that some of the artists/listeners neglect their music's earlier jazz roots, but if you listen to the right stuff, some of it reminds of the postive lyricism, innovative instrumentation (nowadays much innovative sampling) and feelgood vibes of music from the new orleans days onwards...including this very piece! theres a LOT of good music around today besides the shit stuff haha have a look around
jazzlearner1992 1 year ago
@jazzlearner1992 Oh dude i know that, but rap just doesn't really make me feel like I'm listening to music it makes me feel like a guy is talking over music that might or might not be good because he's talking over it >.>
Theodore117 1 year ago
@Theodore117 I happen to enjoy listening to hip-hop. Hope that's all right with you, some people different tastes...
FromFlushingtoMarcy 1 year ago
@Theodore117 When Louis started out, jazz wasn't accepted as "real music" by the self appointed musical establishment. It was widely regarded as "degenerate" and "primitive". As was rap in the 80's. People probably used phrases like "now all people listen to is jazz and that crap". Eventually, both forms of music overcame prejudice and crossed into the mainstream. Which is great because I appreciate them both.
Have a nice day :-)
brutussmithicus 1 year ago 35
@brutussmithicus
I name you the ambassador of music.
Lyingaboutmyage 1 year ago 2
@Lyingaboutmyage Thanks. Most people just name me "that argumentative bloke" :-D
brutussmithicus 1 year ago
@brutussmithicus Nice comment. But welcome to 2010, when rap sucks again :)
thangQanime 1 year ago
@thangQanime I agree with you on mainstream rap, but most of that has always sucked. There's still good stuff out there to be found though :-)
Now does anyone want to start an argument on how much better this kinda jazz is compared to Louis's later stuff such as Wonderful World?
brutussmithicus 1 year ago
@brutussmithicus Hang on....Jazz progressed and is in fact the longest lasting of any of the popular music genres.
Rap on the other hand was crap in the 80's and is even more crap now
jutescrim 1 year ago
@brutussmithicus rap sucks go die
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
RAP SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! end of story
realjimboleeman 1 year ago
Rap is not music... end of story. It is something else. Rap has no melody, no harmony and the same rhythm every time. It is a kind of repetitive poetry to a drum beat (which is always the same and unfortunately is "made" by a COMPUTER). The only chance for rap to be music would be if bits of it were juxtaposed in some way so as to make some esoteric music, like a piece of "modern art". Rap is just that, rap ie talk. It is not made (by the writer) like music is made either.
societyforrealmusic 11 months ago
@societyforrealmusic
thats a pretty ignorant view of rap...there are plenty of artists who produce there own music using their own creations or samples from other songs and present it in a new and unique way....while it might not contain a textbook harmony or melody it still is music
Regardless, this is a Louis Armstrong video so whats your point besides trying to start an arguement with someone else's opinion?
CaniacMatt 11 months ago 7
@CaniacMatt it sucks, that's his point. rap is the bane of music, it started us into this musical "canyon" we have been in for the last 15 years or so.
liljoe4195 4 weeks ago
@CaniacMatt This isn't Rap... It's Scat Singing.
Noisyjones1 3 weeks ago
@brutussmithicus Rap is not music... end of story. It is something else. Rap has no melody, no harmony and the same rhythm every time. It is a kind of repetitive poetry to a drum beat (which is always the same and unfortunately is "made" by a COMPUTER). The only chance for rap to be music would be if bits of it were juxtaposed in some way so as to make some esoteric music, like a piece of "modern art". Rap is just that, rap ie talk. It is not made (by the writer) like music is made either.
societyforrealmusic 11 months ago
@societyforrealmusic
Thats kinda sad, cant imagine snobbs where considering this music either back in the day.
nickfetchina 10 months ago
@brutussmithicus I studied with Joe Morello of Dave Brubeck and he said it was considered "whore house" music." Eventually it gained respect and has become a staple of American music
rudeboyjohn 8 months ago
@rudeboyjohn lol, all the best types of music are considered "whore house music" by the narrow minded bigots of the day - music critics in the 1910's and people on u-tube who hate rap in the 2010's :-D
brutussmithicus 4 months ago
@brutussmithicus rap is the degenerates music of choice though so you are wrong retard
jiggaboo904 4 months ago
@brutussmithicus yeah, except that 1st part is completely wrong. Jazz was highly regarded due to its free form improvisation, and was was copied and learned by anybody who wanted to be anybody in music at the time. Everybody wanted it in their clubs and such, and that's why old jazz musicians covered their hands with handkerchiefs, so no one could watch their finger movement, steal their song, then preform it better.
Jmoretti8 4 months ago
@brutussmithicus How the hell can you even compare Jazz and crap "music". One takes talent, the other is moronic doggerel recited over music stolen from actual musicians (sampling) and used unimaginatively. If crap was any more primitive it would be made by monkeys screeching as they banged on logs and grabbed their dicks. Oh, wait................
ElComadreja777 3 months ago
@ElComadreja777 I hope that you continue to enjoy the limited range of music you deem worthy of your precious ears. Have a nice day.
brutussmithicus 3 months ago
@Theodore117 OH DEARIE, WHERE HAVE THE GOOD TIMES GONE. ILL CRACK OPEN A PRUNE PUDDING WITH YOU ANYTIME!
spacecommander12 1 year ago
@Theodore117 nooo!!!! not crap! haha Rap is different, but dont diss it. ever read a poem? try reading it in time to a good beat. voila. dont diss it. ever.
misssecretlovechild 1 year ago
@misssecretlovechild I have read some great poems, but those poems don't start flinging F-Bombs and other swear words, and poems don't usually talk about gangs, crime, etc.
Theodore117 1 year ago
@misssecretlovechild there's a reason rap rhymes with crap!!!!
natkingfrog 1 year ago
@natkingfrog cuz ur too dumb to think of anything else that rhymes??
misssecretlovechild 5 months ago
@Theodore117 haha then i gues that SOMEONE needs some veriety in thier poetry n'est- pas? aaand, not all rap has swear words in it, thnx
misssecretlovechild 1 year ago
First beatbox:):)
darthpops 2 years ago
They sure as heck don't make em like this anymore. Five stars.
Bearfoot 2 years ago 3
so simple but so good
Nnefit 2 years ago 3
So is Fred Flintstone a Scatman as well :D? Yaba-daba-doo :D?
kermitek91 2 years ago
Oh MAN XD you dont know how much i laugh now when i read this XD
XxxDominikaHugaixxX 2 years ago
lol..
DRAGUNOFF 2 years ago
Pure magic. However, I understand why he left LH. I always thought it would have been great to hear Louis and Bix together.
Thanks for the posting.
joomuck 2 years ago
who is that fine young wench on the keys!
BobBurnnquist 2 years ago 5
Her name is fine young wench
keelan111 2 years ago
What a life he must have led! We couldn't even begin to imagine it now.
fsergi01 2 years ago 5
I think it's not that he was the first to scat... he was not. But I do believe he was the first to do a recording of it...
jahleerancher 2 years ago 3
what beautiful music
rudeboyjohn 2 years ago
Actually "people" say that he invented scat singing. This isn't so but he was the most talented and well known scat singer. There also wasn't very many scat singers around in the 1920's.
mccarthyclaire93 2 years ago 2
That's completely wrong. What "people" say this? He wasn't the first scat singer, he was just the most talented/popular at the time. It's really funny to hear the part where he drops the lyric sheet and starts improvising though.
deo0613 2 years ago 5
people say that louis amstrong sang the first scat-song or he were the first scat-singer
ALbOzz07 2 years ago 2
Louie had a great voice! Get hot, Louie!
skarvika 2 years ago 3
this should be on a horror movie the begining part it would be like jeepers creepers
opoiik 2 years ago
tks DRAGUNOFF!!!
this sound is a legend...
fdwin 2 years ago 3
What year is this?
erinmain145 2 years ago
1922..
DRAGUNOFF 2 years ago
I think it's 1926.
everybodylovesmybaby 2 years ago 3