I won’t reprint too much here…everything you need to know is well documented at shooby.com. Suffice it to say that Shooby Taylor was a gem–a unique individual with confidence a mile wide, and I love him. Probably the worst scat singer ever to pay to have a demo tape made, his art is so delightfully awful that I can listen to it over and over again (and have, since I first heard this stuff over 20 years ago).
I really like the two cuts he recorded with the organist. The others on his tapes were voiced over recordings of other artists, and they’re not nearly as entertaining.
Anyway, we got a lot of requests for the .mp3 file for Shooby’s version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, so here it is.
