Slim & Slam was a 1930s musical partnership formed by Bulee "Slim" Gaillard

Slim Gaillard

Bulee "Slim" Gaillard was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout"...

 (vocals, guitar and piano) and Leroy Elliott "Slam" Stewart

Slam Stewart

Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart was an African American jazz bass player whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher. He was originally a violin player before switching to bass at the age of 20.-Biography:Stewart was born in Englewood, New...

 (bass and vocals). They produced novelty jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 numbers featuring Slim's distinctive vocal style with 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...

 and scat

Scat

-Education:* School and College Ability Test* Somerset College of Arts and Technology, a community college in Somerset, England* Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, a community college in Shropshire, England-Games:* Thirty-one , a card game...

s, hipster argot

Argot

An Argot is a secret language used by various groups—including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals—to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job,...

 and nonce

Nonce word

A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Murray Gell-Mann then adopted it to name a new class of subatomic particle...

 words. Sam Allen

Sam Allen (musician)

Sam Allen was an American jazz pianist.Allen accompanied silent films in movie palaces from age ten. In 1928 he moved to New York City where he joined Herbert Cowans's band at the Rockland Palace. Soon after he moved back to Ohio, where he played with Alex Jackson in 1930. Soon after this he...

 also played piano on many of their recordings.

Their biggest hits were "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)

Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)

"Flat Foot Floogie " was a 1938 jazz song, originally written and performed by Slim Gaillard.The original song was called "Flat Foot Floozie", with the 'floy-floy' being slang for a venereal disease...

", "Cement Mixer (Puti Puti)" and "The Groove Juice Special (Opera in Vout)".

Trivia

The song "Tutti Frutti

Tutti Frutti (song)

"Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record. With its opening cry of "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the...

" by Little Richard

Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...

is loosely based on a Slim & Slam's "Tutti Booty".