Editing Scat singing (section)

=== Heebie Jeebies ===
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It was Armstrong's February 1926 performance of "Heebie Jeebies," however, that is considered the turning point for the medium.<ref name="Crowther Pinfold 1997">{{Harvnb|Crowther|Pinfold|1997|p=32}}</ref>  From the 1926 recording of "Heebie Jeebies" arose the techniques that would form the foundation of modern scat.<ref name="Crowther Pinfold 1997"/> In a possibly [[apocryphal]] story,<ref>{{Harvnb|Giddins|2000|p=161}}</ref> Armstrong claimed that, when he was recording "Heebie Jeebies" with his band [[Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five|The Hot Five]], his sheet music fell off the stand and onto the ground.<ref name="Edwards 2002 618-619"/> Not knowing the lyrics to the song, he invented a gibberish melody to fill time, expecting the cut to be thrown out in the end, but that take of the song was the one released:<ref name="Edwards 2002 618-619"/> 

{{Quote|"I dropped the paper with the lyrics—right in the middle of the tune. . . And I did not want to stop and spoil the record which was moving along so wonderfully . . . So when I dropped the paper, I immediately turned back into the horn and started to scatting . . . Just as nothing had happened . . . When I finished the record I just knew the recording people would throw it out . . . And to my surprise they all came running out of the controlling booth and said—'Leave That In.'"<ref name="Edwards 2002 618-619">{{Harvnb|Edwards|2002|pp=618–619}}</ref>}}

Armstrong's "Heebie Jeebies" became a national bestseller and, consequently, the practice of scatting "became closely associated with Armstrong."<ref name="Gioia"/> The song would serve as a model for [[Cab Calloway]], whose 1930s scat solos inspired [[George Gershwin]]'s use of the medium in his 1935 [[opera]] ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''.<ref name="grove"/>