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Scatman - February 24, 2025

When Scatman Crothers smiled, it lit up the room. The Terre Haute native started his musical career playing in local speakeasies entertaining gangsters, having taught himself to play the guitar and drums, forming his own band and playing in Chicago where he tinkered with the new jazz style of bebop. The guitarist, comedian, singer, composer, actor, and songwriter could sing anything and make it his with his distinctive voice and “scat” style he infused into songs. He performed in nightclubs, movies, and television, even playing himself, so to speak, as Scat Cat in the Disney animated production of The Aristocats. On February 24, 2025, Lyles Station Historic School and Museum honors Benjamin Sherman Crothers. No stranger to television, Scatman was the first African American to appear regularly on a television show based in Los Angeles, Dixie Showboat, in 1948. In the 1940s, Crothers was a regular on the Phil-Harris-Alice Faye Show on radio, frequently collaborating with Harris on records and in films. The multi-talented Hoosier’s nickname came from the way he sang “scat,” a bebop jazz involving nonsense syllables sung in a complex yet musical way. His scratchy, jazzy voice and clean-shaven head made him easily recognized in the many television shows and movies he appeared in as a guest star, including Taxi, Magnum P.I., Benson, Laverne & Shirley, The Incredible Hulk, The Love Boat, Charlie’s Angels, Bewitched, Bonanza and Sanford and Son when he and Redd Foxx performed “All of Me.” He also acted in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Bewitched, McMillan & Wife, Adam-12, Kojak, Ironside, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Starsky & Hutch. He was a regular on Chico and the Man, playing Louie the Garbage Man. The man was busy. Crothers was friends with Jack Nicholson, appearing with him in four movies, but his film debut went back to 1953 with Meet Me at the Fair. He appeared in the 1969 musical film Hello Dolly!, The Great White Hope, The Aristocats, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Fortune, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shining, Coonskin, Silverstreak, The Shootist, Roots, The Cheap Detective, Bronco Billy, Zapped!, Two of a Kind, and Twilight Zone: The Movie. Scatman Crothers was awarded his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1981. It was well-deserved. He also received the NAACP Image Award and was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame after his death. In the mid 1980s, doctors diagnosed him with lung cancer after finding a malignant tumor. The cancer spread to his esophagus, and he passed away at the age of 76 at his home in California. Scatman Crothers stands out as a man of remarkable talent.