Heebie_jeebies

"Heebie Jeebies" is the name of more than one melody.

The first "Heebie Jeebies" was a banjo specialty written and recorded by Harry Reser in early 1925.

The second "Heebie Jeebies" was written by Boyd Atkins and achieved fame when it was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1926. The recording on Okeh Records by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five includes a famous chorus of scat singing. As popular legend goes, Louis Armstrong dropped his lyric sheet while recording the song and thus, for lack of words to sing, began to improvise and thus created the sub-genre and technique of scat. While "Heebie Jeebies" may be one of the first fine recorded examples of scat, this story has been proven untrue, as scat was already in rampant use as early as the 1910s, being developed along with ragtime music. Armstrong did, however, confirm in his memoirs that he indeed dropped the lyric sheet.

Heebie jeebies is also a term used to describe depression or anxiety. This can be as an after-effect of excessive alcohol intake (see Delirium tremens) or to describe a particular type of anxiety usually related to a particular person or place. For example \'He gives me the heebie jeebies\' meaning \'He makes me uncomfortably nervous\'.

See also

• Billy De Beck

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