Saturday Flashback: Scatman John – Scatman’s World

“Damn right there was a follow-up track.”

Tom: Damn right there was a follow-up track.

Tim: Naturally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWBAy3bATI

Tom: Yes, everyone remembers him as a one-hit wonder, but it turns out that Scatman John was big in Japan — and this was the title track from his album. We’ve got 90s dance beats, a video filled with stock footage, and some of his trademark actual scat-singing.

Tim: Hahaha – this won’t come across as a compliment, but you know what I was put immediately in mind of when the music started proper? The glorious Mellow, by the Daz Sampson side project Space Kats. I LOVE it.

Tom: Oh my stars, I can see the connection there. JAMIE. SHINE THE MAGIC TORCH. Those two should work together. Well, they should if Scatman John was still alive. Could it stand to be shorter? Sure. But then we’d be denied that absolutely glorious key change. And the world would be much poorer for it.

Tim: Much, much poorer.