Scatman

In memory of Scatman John: John Paul Larkin (Scatman) died of lung cancer. He was born in 1942, and died in 1999. So he was 57 years old when he died.In december 3rd, 1999,6:30pm, thats when we lost this great man! His last song that he ever made was,"Scatman's World"(which is one of the annotations that you can see his last video.) This video is dedicated to him. Enjoy. Plz comment and rate plz! I wanna see how i did in my first video! Songs he wrote: Scatman's World Scatman (Ski-Ba-Be...) Everybody Jam Su Su Su Super Kirle and many more. P.S: If you click on a annotation box, and it send you to a channel titled,"watch", then there's 2 things to do. 1.Report it to the Youtube service immediatly! 2.Keep replaying my video until the annotations take you where it should go to! This goes to annotations that are missed up (like the words are tiny or the words are out of the bubble, etc.)too. Dont forget to rate+comment please! Some information of Scatman: Scatman's world: Born in El Monte, California, he suffered from a severe stutter "since [he] started talking", which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he "hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times". At age 12 he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at 14 through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others. The piano provided him with a means of artistic expression to compensate for his speech difficulties. He remarked in a 1996 interview that "playing piano gave me a way to speak... I hid behind the piano because I was scared of talking." John Paul Larkin, (March 13, 1942 — December 3, 1999), better known as Scatman John, was a famous stuttering jazz musician who created a unique fusion of scat singing and techno, best known for his 1994 hit "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)". As he liked to say, this was a process of "turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset." He received 14 golds and 18 platinums for his albums and singles. He died of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 57. "Hi everybody...Scatman John here. I want to thank all of you for joining me in Scatman's World. I need to tell you something... We all have a choice. We can either be part of the problem, or part of the solution. I invite ALL of you to come and join me, and be part of Scatman's World, and be part of the solution. And how do we be part of the solution? By learning to love and accept ourselves - exactly as we are." John Larkin He became a professional jazz pianist in the 1970s and '80s, playing many gigs in jazz clubs around Los Angeles. In 1986, he released the self-titled album John Larkin on the Transition label, copies of which are now extremely scarce. He claimed to have "hundreds of them lying around in [his] closet at home". Around this time alcoholism and drug addiction were also beginning to take a hold of his life. When fellow musician and friend Joe Farrell, who also had a drug problem, died in 1986, Larkin decided to beat his habits. He eventually did so, largely with the help of his new wife Judy, also a recovering alcoholic. "You have talent", she told him. "I'm going to make something out of you".

Added 6 May 2026