Leo Watson was an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 vocalese

Vocalese

Vocalese is a style or genre of jazz singing wherein lyrics are written for melodies that were originally part of an all-instrumental composition or improvisation. Whereas scat singing uses improvised nonsense syllables, such as "bap ba dee dot bwee dee" in solos, vocalese uses lyrics, either...

 singer, drummer

Drummer

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, trombonist and tiple

Tiple

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 player born in Kansas City, Missouri

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, perhaps best known as a band member of The Spirits of Rhythm which included guitarist

Guitarist

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 Teddy Bunn

Teddy Bunn

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. Watson also worked shortly with a variety of big band

Big band

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s, including those of Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa

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, Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings....

 and Jimmy Mundy

Jimmy Mundy

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.

Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven

Censored Eleven

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cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

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(dir. Bob Clampett

Bob Clampett

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, 1943). However, he went uncredited in that cartoon because of primary voice artist Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

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's contract agreement for solo credit. In a 1969 Funnyworld interview conducted by Michael Barrier

Michael Barrier (historian)

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 and Milton Gray, Bob Clampett recalled Watson's name erroneously as Zoot Watson; thus, Leo Watson himself went uncredited for his work in the cartoon for almost forty more years. Finally, Australian voice artist and animation

Animation

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 historian

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 Keith Scott

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 discovered his name correctly in the Warner Bros.

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