One was a hymn writer, William Cowper, who wrote "There is a Fountain" in 1771. There are at least four examples of people who stutter who have written about their stuttering in their songs. Perhaps it was because they were fluent when they sang that several people who stutter have made singing a career including Mel Tellis, Robert Merrill, Gareth Gates, and Carly Simon. The effects of singing, even in a monotone or off key, made them more fluent. 1976 Sep 19(3):475-80) that for the people in their study, sung lyrics were always more fluent than spoken lyrics and it didn't even matter if the person could carry a tune or not. Healey and Mallard discovered (Healey EC, Mallard AR 3rd, Adams MR., Factors contributing to the reduction of stuttering during singing, J Speech Hear Res. (posted to a stuttering mailing list by Pierre B, October 15, 2001). The first person in recorded history who is said to have noted the fact that stutterers are fluent when they sing is the English composer William Byrd (1543-1623), master of music of the Chapel Royal of Queen Elizabeth I. That means, when they sing, many (but not all) people who stutter become totally fluent. It is rather strange when stuttering becomes part of a song since music is usually considered a "fluency enhancer" for people who stutter. Many modern day song writers do the same thing, for example The Reflex by Duran Duran, My Generation by The Who, Barbra Ann by The Beach Boys, Foolin' by Def Leppard, and many others. Katie Richardson didn't stutter and probably the stuttering in the song it was simply a device to make the words fit the music. The finished version of the song was first played at a garden party fund-raiser for the Red Cross at a cottage in Collins Bay on Lake Ontario just west of Kingston. She was called "Kate." It was composed spontaneously at a party in 1917. He wrote that the Katy in the song was his grandmother, Katerine Gertrude Craig Richardson of Kingston, Ontario. W.F.Rannie who teaches geography at the University of Winnepeg wrote to me in 1998, and shared some of the story about this song. It was composed by Geoffrey O'Hara who composed many other songs, mostly hymns and died in 1967 at the age of 84.ĭr. Probably the best known song about stuttering is "K-K-K-Katy.". Introduced by Judy Kuster (Minnesota, USA) This paper will feature background information about stuttering in singing and a slightly edited version of John "Scatman" Larkin's section of the paper as well as a copyrighted version of "I'm the Scatman", from Judy Larkin, John's wife. The entire online conference paper is available in another section of the Stuttering Home Page. This is part of a paper written for the 2004 ISAD Online conference featuring background information and songs by three people who live(d) with stuttering and wrote songs about their experience, Jason Gray, Frankie Johnes, and John Larkin.
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