"KING OF THE BUNGALOOS" Gene Greene Victor 18266 EE- 1917 Early Scat
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‘GENE GREENE just may have been the hippest white man alive in 1911. His singing was slippery and syncopated, even more so than Al Jolson’s, and as far as anyone can tell, Greene invented Scat singing – or at least, was the first to use it on records.
Which he copiously did on the 1911 original of “THE KING OF THE BUNGALOOS” (and again in 1917). This was fifteen years before Louis Armstrong’s “Heebie Jeebies” hit people’s eardrums! Greene obviously was in the hot speartip vanguard of rhythmical singing. He shows more of his versatility on the flip side, “RUFF JOHNSON’S HARMONY BAND.”
This original 1917 “Bat Wing” Victor 18266 is in about E condition.
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