Percy France Memorial Website

[Dan Gould]

Three subscribers off of this one upload ... pleasing.

[Dan Gould]

A true rarity here, not sure if it will get many hits or not but worth putting out there ... many years ago in the research that preceded the website, I heard from a female vocalist that Percy sang as well as playing tenor sax.  I wondered if any recording would ever show up, and a small handful did between the Gaskin Papers and the Schaap archive. 

Here though, Percy scats with Dickey Myers, who Allen Lowe recorded with Joe Albany backing him, on Oop Bop Sh'Bam or what Allen called "Who Parked The Car".  

 

Be interested to know what people think (I say Dickey gets the best of him but both guys are having fun).

 

[Big Beat Steve]

Contrary to what the announcer says, somehow the vocals and "lyrics" sound more like "Oop-Pop-A-Da" and not so much like "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" to me. 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said:

Contrary to what the announcer says, somehow the vocals and "lyrics" sound more like "Oop-Pop-A-Da" and not so much like "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" to me. 

This is correct imo.

[Dan Gould]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

This is correct imo.

but isn't the tune recognized as Oop Bop Sh'Bam?

Is there a different tune?

[Big Beat Steve]

7 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:

but isn't the tune recognized as Oop Bop Sh'Bam?

Is there a different tune?

Yes, definitely. 

Oop Bop Sh'Bam was first recorded by the Dizzy Gillespie sextet on 15 May 1946 and released on Musicraft.

 

Oop-Pop-A-Da was recorded by the Gillespie orchestra on 22 August 1947 and released on RCA. 

 

Edited 25 minutes ago by Big Beat Steve

[Dan Gould]

Fixed everywhere but the original post which seems to lack an edit option.