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Joe Carroll
Joe Carroll: Man With a Happy Sound
by Joel Roberts
Singer Joe Carroll is best known for his contributions to Dizzy Gillespie's bands of the late '40s and early '50s. His bebop vocals and scatting can be heard on many of Dizzy's classic nonsense (not meant at all in a derogatory way) numbers like Oo-shoo-be-doo-be" and The Land of Oo-bla-dee," and on well-known versions of School Days" and Lady Be Good."
Not blessed with much range or a particularly powerful voice, Carroll got by with humor, exuberance and great bebop ...
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