[Ads-l] Antedating of "Scat Singer"

[Shapiro, Fred]

scat singer (OED 1936)

1932 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 31 Jan. E8 (ProQuest)

The scat singer is a creature unto himself.  He came from way down south, but nobody paid any attention to him until Harlem, New York's great Negro city, took him in and began wholesale scat singing.

Fred Shapiro


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