[Ads-l] Antedating of "Scat Singer"

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

Some interdating:
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Possible 1932
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Good_Housekeeping/dd4ywbOzuvIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22scat+singing%22&dq=%22scat+singing%22&printsec=frontcover

Galbraith not only gave the thing all it had, he sometimes added 
exuberant
tap-steps, chortles and bursats of scat-singing in person.

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Possibly March 1932

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Northwest_Musical_Herald/hQ9Fq9C7xzMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22scat+singers%22&dq=%22scat+singers%22&printsec=frontcover

The Crooners and scat singers , who are bringing a great deal of
happiness to the working girl
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possible may 7 1932

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Broadcaster_Electrical_Wireless_Reta/86DVwaqcFJoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22scat+singing%22&dq=%22scat+singing%22&printsec=frontcover


"Just Friends" has some scat singing in it as well.

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Possibly  June 11 1934
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Letters_Supplement/vTpKGwqME_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22scat+singing%22&dq=%22scat+singing%22&printsec=frontcover

London and Scottish audiences were swept off their feet by Cab Calloway, 
responding
to his crazy "scat" singing


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possible 1933
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Metronome/2vP7UMebbhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22scat+singing%22&dq=%22scat+singing%22&printsec=frontcover

"About this time "scat" singing was heard for the first time.

------ Original Message ------
From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 04/07/2024 21:19:23
Subject Antedating of "Scat Singer"

>scat singer (OED 1936)
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>1932 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 31 Jan. E8 (ProQuest)
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>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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