1. - Scatman Crothers, The AristoCats, 1970. Paris jazzcat,  Scat Cat was obviously designed for Satchmo - copying his  weight, the toothy gap and   his   way with the   trumpet. For reasons never divulged, Armstrong quit (he died a year later) and director Wolfgang Reitherman told Crothers: “Pretend you’re Satchmo.”