[Music] Scatman's World

This is an interesting song by Scatman John (1942-1999). First time that I heard the song was at 1994 World Cup games Ending theme song braodcasted by NHK. I didn't know what that song was then. Just felt it's a perfect match to those exciting ''goal'' clips.


You know how cheerful it was to see those world first-class soccer players having every fantastic and unbelievable way to score on the football court, especially going with this ''fast beat smash hit''. The song entered #14 of its first week in the UK Singles chart, and then peaked at #10. This song was based on Canon in D Major.

Oh! It just brought me back to 1994 and the passionate me on soccer and WC. Loved the 1994 World Cup games man! For me, it's the best among these years' WC. Okay, enough histories here. Here you go, listen to one of my favorite - ''Scatman's World''.



Scatman John (1942-1999)簡介：他的成名，就是一連串樂觀進取的奮鬥歷程。一生飽受口吃的困擾的 John Paul Larkin，一直將自己隱「聲」於鋼琴樂音之後，認命地當一個爵士鋼琴家。直到1987 年，他忽然發現其實唱歌沒有說話那麼困難，於是他在90年代挾著濃厚的爵士音樂底子，為自己爭取到第一張唱片合約《SCATMAN'S WORLD》，自1994年52歲時正式出道以來，便開始了演唱生涯。在他的努力下，他不但唱，而且還唱Hip-Hop、RAP，直到1999年過世(享 年57歲，died of lung cancer)時，他的專輯與單曲共獲得了14張金唱片與18張白金唱片的殊榮，風靡整個歐洲！