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Cliff Edwards
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Cliff Edwards got his start in show business as a teenager in St. Louis where he sang in movie theatres and saloons. While singing in the saloons he began to accompany himself on the ukulele and developed a style of improvised singing, which he called "effin". "Effin" sounds a lot like the human voice imitating a hot trumpet or kazoo solo. Edwards had a wonderful voice with at least a three octave range and he would inject his "effin" solos into his songs in the same way that a Jazz musician would take a solo. A good argument can be made that Edwards 1922 recordings with Ladds Black Aces and Bailey's Lucky Seven are the first recorded examples of scat singing, but some Jazz critics would disagee and point back to Gene Greene's 1911 Victor recording "King of the Bungaloos"
I Can't Give You Anything But Love / That's My Weakness Now
Label: Passport Jazz
Released: 1928
Nobody Knows What A Red Head Mama Can Do / Who Takes Care Of The Caretaker's Daughter
Label: Passport Jazz
Released: 1925
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