Editing Scat singing (section)

=== Widespread adoption ===
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Following the success of Armstrong's "Heebie Jeebies," a number of popular songs featured scat singing. In June 1927, [[Harry Barris]] and [[Bing Crosby]] of bandleader [[Paul Whiteman]]'s "[[The Rhythm Boys]]" scatted on several songs including "[[Mississippi Mud]]," which Barris had composed.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hendricks|2003|p=66}}</ref>

On October 26, 1927, [[Duke Ellington]]'s Orchestra recorded "[[Creole Love Call]]" featuring [[Adelaide Hall]] singing wordlessly.<ref name="Williams 2003">{{Harvnb|Williams|2003|p=113}}</ref> Hall's wordless vocals and "evocative growls" were hailed as serving as "another instrument."<ref>{{Harvnb|Hentoff|2001}}</ref> Although creativity must be shared between Ellington and Hall as he knew the style of performance he wanted, Hall was the one who was able to produce the sound.<ref name="Williams 2003"/> A year later, in October 1928, Ellington repeated the experiment in one of his versions of "[[The Mooche]]," with Getrude "Baby" Cox singing scat after a muted similar trombone solo by [[Tricky Sam Nanton|Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lawrence|2001|p=136}}</ref>
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During the [[Great Depression]], acts such as [[The Boswell Sisters]] regularly employed scatting on their records, including the high complexity of scatting at the same time, in harmony.<ref name="Wilson 1981">{{Harvnb|Wilson|1981|p=4}}</ref> An example is their version of "[[It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)]]."<ref name="Wilson 1981"/> The Boswell Sisters' "inventive use of scat singing was a source for [[Ella Fitzgerald]]."<ref name="Wilson 1981"/> As a young girl, Fitzgerald often practiced imitating Connee Boswell's scatting for hours.{{sfn|Nicholson|1993|pp=10–12}} 

Fitzgerald herself would become a talented scat singer and later claimed to be the "best vocal improviser jazz has ever had," and critics since then have been in almost universal agreement with her.<ref name=f282>{{Harvnb|Friedwald|1990|p=282}}</ref> During this 1930s era, other famous scat singers included [[Scatman Crothers]]<ref name="Scatman Crothers">{{Harvnb|New York Times|1986}}</ref>—who would go on to movie and television fame<ref name="Scatman Crothers"/>—and [[British dance band]] trumpeter and vocalist [[Nat Gonella]]<ref name="Scott 2017"/> whose scat-singing recordings were banned{{efn|name=Gonella|{{Harvnb|Scott|2017|p=302}}: In 1930s "[[Nazi Germany]], the records of British trumpeter and bandleader [[Nat Gonella]] were banned there and scat singing was a criminal offence."<ref name="Scott 2017"/>}} in [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Scott 2017">{{Harvnb|Scott|2017|p=302}}</ref>