I was on my bicycle going to Athens, suddenly next to me stops a car. Not any car though, one of these dark glassed ones with the music playing so loud that you actually thing that time and space travell is possible and you are suddenly tranfered into a club. The proud owner of the car was so happy to listening to his music, he was around 20, having taken his dad car and ready to go at the clubs on the sea to show off. It’s true only by the volume of the music you would turn around to see what was going on.

But despite his will to show his car, I think that the actuall reason that anyone over 25 would turn around would be because of the song he desided to have in his cd player. The late John Scatman’s Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)…

It was such a shock to hear this tune in 2008 by a twnety something’s stereo. I found it so strange that anyone would remmeber this tune from 1995, a hit that I was wondering for its success back then. It’s true that it was a big hit and it was unique how a guy with a stuttering problem was actually producing a huge hit (read his story here) , still i never thought that the song could survive beyond this euro-pop area. I just wonder how things turn cassic like that…

I'm the Scatman
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman
(Scatting by Scatman John)
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo I'm the Scatman.
Where's the Scatman ? I'm the Scatman.
Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions
And it only makes me crazy and my heart like wood.
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.
I'm the Scatman.
I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat.
Well I'm the professor and all I can tell you is
While you're still sleepin' the saints are still weepin' cause
Things you call dead haven't yet had the chance to be born.
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
(Scatting by Scatman John)