Aberrant singing

There seems to be a demand for all sorts of aberrant singing, and one Skeeter Skoot pours a lot of it into an Okeh record (41549). For his demonstration he uses "All Of Me" and "You Rascal You," and I'll certainly be glad when that rascal is dead! If you care for something amusingly splintered, listen to a few revolutions of the Skeeter.
--Pop, "Popular Records," The New Yorker, March 19, 1932

"Popular Records" was the name of a recurring column attributed to a person called Pop. That passage is nothing extraordinary, though I like the intentionally misleading tone that "aberrant" sets up in the first clause. I was looking hurriedly at a couple of the columns while getting ready to leave the Denver Public Library yesterday, checking if my memory had been right when I'd told Mark on some comment thread several months ago that one of the New Yorker's two pop critics in the early '30s was called "Pop." (The other was called Ring Lardner; he had the radio column.)

Google comes up with a 30-second clip from approximately 1922 of Leona Williams' "Uncle Bud (Bugle Blues)" "Intro: Skeeter Skoot." The clip is an opening trumpet (or cornet or bugle) solo, so either Skeeter is the trumpeter or the clip ends before he starts.

I'd categorize it jazz-blues, I guess.