Scat solos on non-jazz songs?

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The only one I can think of is the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes." But that song sucks.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Scatman's World" - Scatman John - or is that jazz?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Surfin' Bird - the Trashmen.
not a solo so much as a verse or two.

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm terrible with remembering titles, but there's this great piece on side 1 of Amon Duul II's "Phallus Dei" where everything stops except for a solo voice scatting a melodic line -- the full band then crashes back in and plays the same line again. Fucking phenomenal.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger Miller! Best country scatter ever. Especially on "In the Summertime." Ka-razy.

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Does "Black Water" by the Doobie Brothers count as "scat"? (I guess it does if you use the other meaning of scat)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Louis Prima/David Lee Roth - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Circle Jerks, "When the Shit Hits the Fan." Sorta counts

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

robert wyatt maybe

― phil turnbull (philT), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim Buckley maybe

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Focus - "Hocus Pocus" if yodelling counts.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

He may not have done it intentionally, but some of Burton Cummings' lyrics sound that way to me.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Uhh... Ragdoll by Aerosmith, geez guys you are LOSING IT

― caspar (caspar), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleurety has dabbled.

JM Slone

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Mickey Dolenz in some Monkees song, possibly "Randy Scouse Git"
Damo Suzuki, Can's "Aumgn" (or maybe it's "Peking O")
Christian Vander, the complete works of Magma?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

um, mxpx - chick magnet

― , Tuesday, 30 March 2004 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Nilsson totally and completely owns this thread. See also Scott Walker's totally inappropriate scatting on "The Old Man's Back Again".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The fade-out of Cee-Lo's "The Art of Noise"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was going to say Rag Doll. Heard it on the radio the other day and thought, "hmmm, that scatting is definitely not atrocious."

Also Basement Jaxx's 'Do Your Thing', even if it is jazz-sampling dance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, doesn't he actually say "think I'll scat a little" or something, or am I imagining that?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

monkees - as well as RSG, there's "Goin' Down"
france gall - several 60s songs written by her Dad, including "Jazz a Go Go"

(but these are all, if not jazz, vaguely jazzy)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Mould doing solo acoustic shows was prone to filling out the missing instrumental parts by scatting. Ugh.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The David Lee Roth subject has been breached, yet you do not mention VH's "I'M THE ONE"? Good lord people, it is thee original and best Diamond Dave shabba-doo-wop performance!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

That David Lee Roth "shooby-doo-wah" stuff isn't scatting, Nate. Scatting = jazz = improvised, and that a cappella break was clearly written, arranged, rehearsed and recorded, with no improvisation at all. But yeah, no question Roth has always had a "thing" for scatting. Just listen to the last minute or so of "Fools" for a good example.

As for "I'm The One" and its unsurpassed-ness, you are right (or close enough)! Just don't call it scat.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - "If Dogs Run Free" has a nice scat solo on it (not by Bob)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

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