Salt Peanuts
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This is a popular Bebop tune composed by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942. It is unique in that it has a small sung part in which the singer sings "Salt peanuts, salt peanuts." Most bebop songs have no singing (aside from Scat singing.) It's by now considered a bop jazz standard by many. Perhaps one of the most famous recordings of this tune is the one on the album "Live at the Massey Hall, Toronto, 1953", where Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker play with one of their most successful line-ups, which included Max Roach on drums, Bud Powell on piano and Charles Mingus on bass.
Several musicians and bands around the world have been influenced by this specific tune and homonymous concert, among them, the Brazilian rock and roll band from São Paulo also named "Salt Peanuts".
