I just tried to do what I heard the horns in the band doing.
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- 45% sureLots of sources credit Ella Fitzgerald with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Wikipedia-footnoted quote on developing her scat singing alongside Dizzy Gillespie's band.
- biographical account (Wikipedia-footnoted)
- 1940s · USA · describing how she developed scat singing by mimicking band instruments
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