Classic Video: ‘Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)’ – Scatman John

Admit it. The first time you heard the ‘Scatman’ song you stuttered your way through school the next week and your friends thought you were retarded but then they too got into the game and were like “Hey, this is cool, so let’s give the fat kid our tiffin boxes and irritate the fuck out of his self-deprecating ass pretending to be frogs while he feasted on our… wait, WTF!”

No?

Scatman John captured a young mind like only the Debonair on the shady newsstand could. His verbal gift (scat singing, not to be confused with shitty singing) allowed him to throw multiple syllables into melodies. He did this really fast like and really melodic like. The result was the happy smile super challenge family wish hit ‘Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)’.

Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop! I mean, awesome.

RIP John Paul Larkin.