John Paul Larkin, aka John Scatman, developed his unique style of scatting by working through his severe stutter, turning his greatest struggle into his greatest success
John Paul Larkin, aka John Scatman, developed his unique style of scatting by working through his severe stutter, turning his greatest struggle into his greatest success
OMG. I did not expect him to look like this. I’m 37 years old. For 30 years I’ve known this song and enjoyed it. I have never seen him until today and my mind is BLOWN
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19 year old video, I’ve never known what this song was 😆
Now I see this is the singer? 🤯
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This goes very hard
From stuttering to scat singing dude turned his biggest challenge into a global groove. Absolute legend.
Yea, I hit replay on that several times.
So a scatman is not a shitman!
Dude looks like he does taxes when not scat slangin
This song is used in one of my all time favorite movies scenes. It’s easily one of the funniest scenes of all time!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB3X3j79XPA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB3X3j79XPA)
These comments are really aging me, because it’s clear people don’t know the Scatman
The lyrics to some of his later songs are bonkers
Temazo 😎
will not search PH again for scatting after this. new year’s resolution.
Genius
Aka Scatman John, right?
It’s such a shame that he passed away so soon after his huge success.
This was one of the first albums I have memories of my mom playing.
YOURE TELLING ME THE SCATMAN DEFEATED HIS GREATEST FOE TO BECOME WHO HE IS TODAY?!?! WHAT A LEGEND
There is a summer we all know that this song ruled the land. I miss it.
Amazing to think the amount of ass this guy crushed as a result of overcoming his stutter
Rowan Atkinson also had a stutter and ascribes his wonderfully elastic enunciation to learning how to combat it.
“Bob.”
MY. FUCKING. HERO.
i had a stutter as a kid, though it was nowhere near as intense as john’s. but his music was so incredible for someone who got made fun of for it.
My nephew finds this little animation the funniest thing the sound makes it
[Zoomies](https://www.deviantart.com/tc-96/art/Huey-Zoomies-1027195715)
That’s a fucking mustache right there.
OMG. I did not expect him to look like this. I’m 37 years old. For 30 years I’ve known this song and enjoyed it. I have never seen him until today and my mind is BLOWN
19 year old video, I’ve never known what this song was 😆
Now I see this is the singer? 🤯
https://youtu.be/KQtR2dx61Y0?si=mgo77K8z7-Xz22R5
I always thought it was scatman John lol
Example of someone turning a lemon into lemonade.
I bet my parents were miffed when they realized they could have named me Scatman but didn’t.
This is my accountant
this is so fucking awesome
This video uses the recorded song.
In the original he actually sings it live with band. Pretty cool [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSY7vYbXkk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSY7vYbXkk)
Ned Flanders in his prime
It’s actually hilarious how good this is!