Scatman John - I'm A Scatman...
....aside from having one of the oddest names in music (scat-man???) playground law depicted that a rumour of Scatman John's death would travel around every month or so after its release.

Scatman John was a stutterer and his lyrics generally revolved around being happy, world peace and lots of Ski-bap-bop-ba-dop-bop.

It was awful!

As a little epilogue to this tail of sadness... (sounding like Deep Deep Trouble by Bart Simpson now - another truly bad record)
musician, John "Scatman" Larkin passed away on the 3rd of December , 1999, at his home in California. This one isn't a playground rumour
( beefandcheese, Tue 2 Dec 2003, 22:19, Reply)