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Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye, Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy. Her later career includes character roles in Grumpy Old Men, Any Given Sunday, , and The Break-Up. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on .
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Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973), a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls), yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. Stylistically he was indebted to alto star Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His career stretched more than half a century from 1926 until his death in 1977. Crosby's unique bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation.
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Blanche Calloway
Blanche Calloway (February 9, 1904 - December 16, 1978) was a Jazz singer, bandleader, and composer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is not as well known as her younger brother Cab Calloway, but she may have been the first woman to lead an all male orchestra. Cab Calloway often credited her with being the reason he got into show business. She made her first recordings in 1925, with Louis Armstrong as a sideman on the session.
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Chick Webb
William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905–June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
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Chu Berry
Leon Brown "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908, Wheeling, West Virginia – October 30, 1941, Conneaut, Ohio) was an American swing tenor saxophonist.
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Danny Barker
Danny Barker (January 13, 1909 – March 13, 1994), born Daniel Moses Barker, was a jazz banjoist, singer, guitarist, songwriter, ukelele player and author from New Orleans, founder of the locally famous Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band. He was a rhythm guitarist for some of the best bands of the day, including Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter throughout the 1930s.
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Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored most of his films (the exceptions being Ed Wood and ). He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman is famous for creating The Simpsons main title theme, and his role as Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also sang for the character Bonejangles in the movie Corpse Bride. He is the uncle in-law to actress Jenna Elfman.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Hal Linden
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Irving Mills
Irving Mills (January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of Joe Primrose.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.
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Milt Hinton
Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge".
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Mr. T
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud; May 21, 1952) is an American actor known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and for his appearances as a professional wrestler. Mr. T is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle, for wearing large amounts of gold jewelry, and for his tough guy image. In 2006 he starred in the reality show I Pity the Fool, shown on TV Land, the title of which comes from his catchphrase from Rocky III.
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Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
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William Warfield
William Caesar Warfield (22 January 1920 - 26 August 2002), was an American concert bass-baritone singer
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Calloway, Cab Filmography
- My Music: The Big Band Years (2009)
- Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
- The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008)
- The 50th Annual Grammy Awards (2008)
- Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
- Jazz Giants of the 20th Century (2007)
- From Shtetl to Swing (2005)
- Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005)
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
- Harlem Renaissance (2004)
- Rhapsody in Black (2002)
- Hollywood Rhythm Vol. 1: The Best of Jazz and Blues (2001)
- The Nightclub Years (2001)
- Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 (2000)
- Grass (1999)
- The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' (1998)
- Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (1996)
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
- The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995)
- Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993)
- Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection (1991)
- Sunday in Paris (1991)
- The 12th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1991)
- Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
- Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)
- That's Black Entertainment (1990)
- The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (1988)
- All Star Gala at Ford's Theatre (1987)
- WrestleMania 2 (1986)
- The 7th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1986)
- Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
- Beat This!: A Hip Hop History (1984)
- Your Choice for the Film Awards (1983)
- Seeing Red (1983)
- Eubie Blake: A Century of Music (1983)
- A Gift of Music (1981)
- A Tribute to the Jukebox Award Winners (1980)
- Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theatre (1980)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (1978)
- The Apollo Presents (1976)
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
- Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975)
- Cotton Club '75 (1974)
- The Littlest Angel (1969)
- The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
- Schlager-Raketen (1960)
- St. Louis Blues (1958)
- Basin Street Revue (1956)
- Jazz Ball (1956)
- Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955)
- Ebony Parade (1947)
- Hi-De-Ho (1947)
- Dixieland Jamboree (1946)
- Walking with My Honey (1945)
- Walking with My Honey (1945)
- Blowtop Blues (1945)
- Blowtop Blues (1945)
- I Was Here When You Left Me (1945)
- I Was Here When You Left Me (1945)
- Foo a Little Bally-Hoo (1945)
- Foo a Little Bally-Hoo (1945)
- We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945)
- Caldonia (1945)
- We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945)
- Blowtop Blues (1945)
- Sensations of 1945 (1944)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- Virginia, Georgia and Caroline (1942)
- Blues in the Night (1942)
- Virginia, Georgia and Caroline (1942)
- Minnie the Moocher (1942)
- Virginia, Georgia and Caroline (1942)
- The Skunk Song (1942)
- The Skunk Song (1942)
- The Skunk Song (1942)
- Blues in the Night (1942)
- Blues in the Night (1942)
- Meet the Maestros (1938)
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
- Hi De Ho (1937)
- The Singing Kid (1936)
- Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
- International House (1933)
- Snow-White (1933)
- The Big Broadcast (1932)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Bandleader, songwriter ("Minnie the Moocher", "Are You Hep to That Jive?"), composer, singer, actor and author, educated at Crane College. While studying law, he sang with the band The Alabamians, and took over the group in 1928. He led The Missourians orchestra, then organized and led his own orchestra, playing at hotels, theaters and nightclubs throughout the US, and making many records. He joined the cast of the touring company of "Porgy and Bess", which performed across the USA and Europe between 1952 and 1954. When that ended, he founded a quartet. Joining ASCAP in 1942, he collaborated musically with 'Jack Palmer (III)' (qv), 'Buck Ram' (qv), 'Andy Gibson (II)' (qv), 'Clarence Gaskill' (qv), 'Irving Mills' (qv) and Paul Mills. His other popular song compositions include "Lady With the Fan", "Zaz Zuh Zaz", "Chinese Rhythm", "Are You In Love With Me Again?", "That Man's Here Again", "Peck-A-Doodle-Doo", "I Like Music", "Rustle of Swing", "Three Swings and Out", "The Jumpin' Jive", "Boog It", "Come on with the Come-on", "Silly Old Moon", "Sunset", "Rhapsody in Rhumba", "Are You All Reet?", "Hi-De-Ho Man", "Levee Lullaby", "Let's Go, Joe", "Geechy Joe", and "Hot Air".
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- 15 Minute Intermission
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- This Is Always
- The Scat Song
- Hard Times
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- Boo-wah Boo-wah
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- Hey Now, Hey Now
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Are You Hep to the Jive?
- The Calloway Boogie
- Hep Cat's Love Song
- Papa's in Bed With His Britches On
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- Chant of the Jungle
- I Want to Rock
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- The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing)
- Don't Falter at the Alter
- Who's Yehoodi?
- A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
- Tarzan of Harlem
- Minnie the Moocher
- Boog It
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- Your Voice
- The Hi-De-Ho Man
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
- Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left
- Boo Wah! Boo Wah!
- One for My Baby
- Are You all Reet?
- Que pasa chica?
- The Calloway Boogie
- Ol' Joe Louis
- Frosty Morning
- Come on With the "Come on"
- The Jungle King
- The Honeydripper
- Roomin' House Boogie
- Hey Now! Hey Now!
- I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped
- I Want to Rock
- Are You Hep to the Jive
- Shot Gun Boogie
- A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
- Oh! Gram'pa
- San Francisco Fan
- Geechie Joe (from the film "Stormy Weather")
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Basin Street Blues
- It Looks Like Susie
- Bugle Call Rag
- You Rascal, You
- Stardust
- You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You
- You Dog
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Trickeration
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- Down-Hearted Blues
- Corinne Corinna
- The Scat Song
- Cabin in the Cotton
- Strictly Cullud Affair
- Aw You Dawg
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Dinah
- Minnie The Moocher
- Hard Times
- Boog It
- The Jumping Jive
- Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
- Limehouse Blues
- 15 Minute Intermission
- Stormy Weather
- That Old Black Magic
- The Scat Song
- Get With It
- Cruisin' With Cab
- This Is Always
- Exactly Like You
- We the Cats Shall Hep You
- For the Last Time I Cried Over You
- Twee Twee Tweet
- Pluckin' the Bass
- I Ain't Gettin' Nowhere Fast
- Chili Con Conga
- Tarzan of Harlem
- Jiveformation Please
- Vuelva
- A Bee Gizendt
- Give, Baby, Give
- Sincere Love
- Do It Again
- Pickin' the Cabbage
- Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan
- Paradiddle
- Boog It
- Calling All Bars
- Do I Care, No No
- The Lone Arranger
- Feelin' Tip Top
- Topsy Turvy
- Hi Di Hi Serenade
- Who's Yehoodi?
- Fiftteen Minute Intermission
- Rhapsody in Rhumba
- Come on With the 'Come on'
- Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Being Good)
- St Louis Blues
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- St James Infirmary
- Minnie the Moocher
- You Rascal, You!
- Jitterbug
- Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz
- Jive (Page One of the Hapsters' Dictionary)
- Margie
- Emaline
- The Jumpin' Jive
- Who's Yehoodi?
- Hard Times (Topsy Turvy)
- Bye Bye Blues
- Hep Cat's Love Song
- Foo a Little Ballyhoo
- A Smo-o-Oth One
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- The Hucklebuck
- That Old Black Magic
- Minnie the Moocher
- Honey Dripper
- The Hi-De-Ho Man
- St. James Infirmary
- Hey Now, Hey Now
- The Calloway Boogie
- San Francisco Fan
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing)
- Oh Grandpa
- Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left
- A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird
- Pluckin' the Bass
- Hoy-Hoy
- (Hep! Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive
- Abu Gezunt (A Bee Gezindt)
- Fifteen Minutes Intermission
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- I Want to Rock
- My Gal
- I Ain't Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me)
- I'll Be Around
- Nagasaki
- Weakness
- Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)
- St. Louis Blues
- Sweet Jennie Lee
- Happy Feet
- Yaller
- The Viper's Drag
- Is That Religion?
- Some of These Days
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- St. James' Infirmary
- Dixie Vagabond
- So Sweet
- Minnie the Moocher
- Doin' The Rumba
- Mood Indigo
- Farewell Blues
- I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
- Creole Love Song (Creole Love Call)
- The Levee Low Down
- Blues in My Heart
- My Honey's Lovin Arms
- The Nightmare
- It Looks Like Susie
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Basin Street Blues
- (Hep - Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive
- Pluckin' the Bass
- Abi Gezunt (A Bee Gezindt)
- Ghost of a Chance
- The Calloway Boogie
- San Francisco Fan
- Two Blocks Down - Turn to the Left
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Jungle King
- Tappin' Off
- Says Who? Says You, Says I
- Minnie the Moocher
- A Smo-o-o-oth One
- Willow Weep for Me
- A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird
- Special Delivery
- Go South, Young Man
- Minnie the Moocher
- The Scat Song
- Moonglow
- Jitterbug
- Weakness
- Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Nagasaki
- You're the Cure for What Ails Me
- Love Is the Reason
- When You're Smiling
- Copper Colored Girl
- The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing
- Congo
- Peckin'
- Wake Up and Live
- Moon at Sea
- She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific
- Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm
- Queen Isabella
- Every Day's a Holiday
- Minnie the Moocher
- Jumpin' Jive
- Jungle Swing
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Zaz, Zuh, Zaz
- Two Blocks Down Turn Left
- Hotcha (Razz-Ma-Tazz)
- Lady With the Fan
- The Honeydripper
- The Scat Song
- Jitter Bug
- The Calloway Boogie
- Beale Street Mama
- Old Yazoo
- Minnie the Moocher
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- 'Long About Midnight
- The Lady With the Fan
- Stormy Weather
- Jitterbug
- Moonglow
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- Margie
- Zaz Zuh Zaz
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- The Scat Song
- Little Town Girl
- Father's Got His Glasses On
- Rooming House Boogie
- It Ain't Necessarily So (From Porgy & Bess)
- Minnie The Moocher
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Kicking The Gong Around
- Trickeration
- Aw You Dawg
- Strictly Cullud Affair
- Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day
- Dinah
- Angeline
- Reefer Man
- You Gotta H-De-Ho
- Hot Toddy
- Beale Street Mamma
- The Man From Harlem
- Eadie Was A Lady
- The Scat Song
- Wake Up And Live
- Every Day's A Holiday
- Jubilee
- Scrontch
- Mr Toscanini, Swing for Minnie
- The Congo Conga
- F.D.R. Jones
- Afraid Of Love
Jazz Greats, Volume 12: Cab Calloway: Minnie the Moocher
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- Some of These Days
- Jive (Page One of the Hepster's Dictionary)
- A Ghost of a Chance
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Moon Glow
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Tarzan of Harlem
- Jitter Bug
- Pickin' the Cabbage
- I've Got the World on a String
- You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along With Me)
- Junk Man
- The Flat Feet Floogie
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- Moon Glow
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- Jitterbug
- Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz
- Margie
- Emaline
- Ol' Joe Louis
- Your Voice
- Rooming House Boogie
- I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped
- I Need Lovin'
- Just A Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi)
- It Looks Like Susie
- Growlin' Dan
- Concentratin' On You
- Last Dollar
- The Scat Song
- Oh ! You Sweet Thing
- Evenin'
- Harlem Hospitality
- The Lady With the Fan
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Zaz, Zuh, Zaz
- Father's Got His Glasses On
- Minnie the Moocher
- Minnie the Moocher
- The Scat Song
- The Scat Song
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- I Learned About Love From Her
- I Learned About Love From Her
- Little Town Gal
- 'Long About Midnight
- She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific
- Go South, Young Man
- Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm
- Queen Isabella
- Savage Rhythm
- Bugle Call Blues
- Rustle of Swing
- Foolin' With You
- Peck-A-Doodle-Do
- Hoy-Hoy
- Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
- Ad-De-Dey
- Floogie Walk
- Trylon Swing
- Utt-Da-Zay
- Cresendo in Drums
- Minnie the Moocher
- Beale Street Mama
- Angeline
- Bye Bye Blues
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Dinah
- Wake Up and Live
- Pickin' Up the Cabbage
- You Gotta Ho-Di-Ho
- Reefer Man
- The Jumpin' Jive
- Manhattan Jam
- I Gotta Go Places and Do Things
- Eadie Was a Lady
- Take the "A" Train
- F.D.R. Jones
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Bugle Call Rag
- You Rascal You
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- Downhearted Blues
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Zaz Zuh Zaz
- Jitter Bug
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home?
- (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive
- Pluckin' the Bass
- Boog It
- Ghost of a Chance
- Cupid's Nightmare
- Limehouse Blues
- St. James' Infirmary
- T'Ain't No Good
- Minnie the Moocher
- Ogeechee River Lullaby
- Cruisin' With Cab
- Nagasaki
- Hoy Hoy
- Jumpin Jive
- Fifteen Minutes Intermission
- A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird
- St. James Infirmary
- I Want to Rock
- Minnie the Moocher
- Honey Dripper
- Hey Now - Hey Now
- Hi De Ho Man
- Oh Grandpa
- Jungle King
- The Calloway Boogie
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left
- Minnie the Moocher
- Calling All Bars
- Yo Eta Cansa
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- Feelin' Tip Top
- Hi-De-Ho Serenade
- Are You Hep to the Jive?
- Who's Yehoodi?
- Bye Bye Blues
- Sunset
- Rhapsody in Rhumba
- Do I Care, No No
- Levee Lullaby
- Fifteen Minute Intermission
- Come on With the 'Come on'
- Silly Old Moon
- Limehouse Blues
- Hard Times
- 15 Minute Intermission
- I'll Pray For You
- Cupid's Nightmare
- Boog It
- Cruisin' With Cab
- Frantic on the Atlantic
- Russian Lullaby
- St. Louis Blues
- King Porter Stomp
- 9:20 Special
- Hep Cat's Love Song
- Hot Air
- Willow Weep for Me
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Special Delivery
- St. James Infirmary
- St. James Infirmary
- A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
- Make Yourself at Home
- You Are the One in My Heart
- Goin' Conga
- Lonesome Nights
- The Workers' Train
- Take the 'A' Train
- Ebony Silhouette
- Are You All Reet?
- Jonah Joins the Cab
- Run Little Rabbit
- My Gal
- We Go Well Together
- North of the Mohawk Trail
- Geechy Joe
- Virginia, Georgia and Caroline
- I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
- Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
- The Mermaid Song
- Tappin' Off
- I Get the Neck of the Chicken
- Lordy
- Conchita (Cares Nothing About Love)
- Hey Doc
- The Moment I Laid Eyes on You
- I Want to Rock
- Says Who? Says You, Says I!
- Who Calls?
- I'll Be Around
- Minnie the Moocher
- Let's Go Joe
- Nain Nain (No No)
- Tain't No Good
- Ogeechee River Lullaby
- I Get the Neck of the Chicken
- Mrs. Finnigan
- A Smo-o-o-oth One
- Some of These Days
- Saint-James Infirmary
- Minnie the Moocher
- Six or Seven Times
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Bugle Call Rag
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- Corinne Corrina
- The Scat Song
- Minnie the Moochers Wedding Day
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do
- Reefer Man
- The Man From Harlem
- Doin the New Low Down
- The Lady With the Fan
- Zaz Zuh Zaz
- St. Louis Blues
- Is That Religion
- Some of These Days
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- St. James Infirmary
- Minnie the Moocher
- Trickeration
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- Corinne Corinna
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Reefer Man
- The Old Man of the Mountain
- You Gotta Hi-De-Ho
- I've Got the World on a String
- Harlem Holiday
- Dixie Doorway
- The Man From Harlem
- Harlem Hospitality
- The Lady With the Fan
- Zaz Zuh Zaz
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Minnie the Moocher
- Hi De Ho Man
- I'll Be Around (feat. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
- Bye Bye Blues
- Cry Me a River
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- The Jumpin' Jive (Hep-Hep!) (feat. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
- Birth of the Blues
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
- Hoy Hoy
- Basin Street Blues
- Blues in the Night
- Let's Take the Long Way Home
- Margie (feat. Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra)
- F.D.R. Jones
- Learnin' The Blues
- It Ain't Necessarily So (feat. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
- St. James Infirmary
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Dinah
- Moonglow! (feat. Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra)
- St. Louis Blues
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Some of These Days
- St. James Infirmary
- Minnie the Moocher
- Bugle Call Rag
- Kickin' The Gong Around
- The Scat Song
- Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day
- Reefer Man
- The Lady With The Fan
- Zah, Zuh, Zaz
- Moonglow
- Jitter Bug
- Magasaki
- Swing, Swing, Swing
- At the Clambake Carnival
- Jive (Page One of the Hepster's Dictionary)
- Ratamacue
- (Hep-Hep) The Jumpin' Jive
- Pluckin' The Bass
- Calling All Bars
- Fifteen Minutes Intermission
- A Ghost Of A Chance
- My Gal
- I'll Be Around
- Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
- I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped
- Minnie the Moocher
- Ol' Joe Louis
- The Scat Song
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- Jitterbug
- Hey, Doc!
- Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz
- Harlem Hospitality
- Conchita Cares Nothing About Love
- Rooming House Boogie
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Blues in the Night
- Long About Midnight
- My Coo Coo Bird
- Mermaid Song
- Who Calls?
- Nain Nain (No No)
- Little Town Gal
- Tain't No Good
- Minnie the Moocher
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- Moonglow
- Jitterbug
- Harlem Hospitality
- Father's Got His Glasses On
- Long About Midnight
- Margie
- Zaz, Zuh, Zaz
- The Scat Song
- The Lady With the Fan
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Hotcha (Razz-Ma-Tazz)
- Little Town Gal
- Hot Water
- Minnie the Moocher
- The Jumping Jive
- Cruisin' with Cab
- That Old Black Magic
- Get With It
- Yesterdays
- Stormy Weather
- Airmail Stomp
- You Got It
- One O'Clock Jump
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- This Is Always
- Minnie the Moocher
- I Want to Rock
- I'll Be Around
- St. James Infirmary
- My Gal
- A Chicken Ain't Nothin but a Bird
- Fifteen Minutes Intermission
- Pluckin' the Bass
- Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan (From China)
- Do It Again
- Give, Baby, Give
- Abi Gezunt (A Bee Gezindt)
- For the Last Time I Cried Over You
- Twee-Twee-Tweet
- I Ain't Gettin' Nowhere Fast
- Tarzan of Harlem
- Jiveformation Please
- Chili Con Conga
- Hoy Hoy
- Weakness
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Nagasaki
- (Hep Hep) The Jumpin' Jive
- Pluckin' the Bass
- Abi Gezunt (A Bee Gezindt)
- Ghost of a Chance
- Fifteen Minutes Intermission
- I'll Be Around
- Hi De Ho Man
- Hey Now Hey Now
- Oh Grandpa
- The Calloway Boogie
- San Francisco Fan
- Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Jungle King
- Honey Dripper
- Minnie the Moocher
- Kicking the Gong Around
- St. James Infirmary
- The Scat Song
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Reefer Man
- The Lady With the Fan
- Zaz Zuh Zaz
- 'Long About Midnight
- Moon Glow
- Jitter Bug
- Angels With Dirty Faces
- Crescendo in Drums
- The Jumpin' Jive (Hep! Hep!)
- Pluckin' the Bass
- A Ghost of a Chance
- Bye Bye Blues
- Willow Weep for Me
- Jona Joins the Cab
- Geechy Joe
- Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
- I'll Be Around
- Hi-De-Ho Man, That's Me
- The Calloway Boogie
- Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- You've Got Your Troubles
- If I Were a Rich Man
- I Will Wait for You
- Sway
- You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
- Mame
- Hello, Dolly!
- Sunshine
- September Song
- Cabaret
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- I Got Rhythym
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
- The Gal Looks Good
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- Harlem Hospitality
- The Lady With the Fan
- Harlem Camp Meeting
- Zaz, Zuh, Zaz
- Father Got His Glasses On
- Little Town Gal
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- The Scat Song
- Minnie the Moocher
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- Long About Midnight
- Moonglow
- Margie
- Jitter Bug
- Hotcha (Razz.Ma-Tazz)
- Hot Water
- The Jumpin' Jive (Hep-Hep!)
- Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)
- The Hi De Ho Man (That's Me)
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
- St. James Infirmary
- Harlem Hospitality
- Zaz, Zuh, Zaz
- Father's Got His Glasses On
- The Scat Song
- Little Town Gal
- Summertime
- Stormy Weather
- There's a Cabin in the Cotton
- Emaline
- Ol' Joe Louis
- Rooming House Boogie
- I Beeped When I Should Have Bopped
- Just a Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi)
- It Looks Like Susie (Friend)
- Growlin' Dan
- Last Dollar
- Oh! You Sweet Thing
- I'll Be Around
- Minnie the Moocher
- The Scat Sone
- Reefer Man
- Calling All Bars
- Doin' the New Low Down
- Bugle Call Rag
- Margie
- Wedding of Mr. & Mrs. Swing
- Six or Seven Times
- Jonah Joins the Cab
- Corinne, Corrina
- Hey Doc
- Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul
- St. James Infirmary
- The Man From Harlem
- The Jumpin' Jive
- Jumpin' Jive
- Minnie the Moocher
- The Honeydripper
- Jungle Swing
- The Calloway Boogie
- Two Blocks Down Turn Left
- Stormy Weather
- This Is Always
- That Old Black Magic
- The Birth of Blues
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Cab Calloway - Reefer Man High Quality
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 24 Oct 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Cab Calloway Fastest Song, I Think.
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Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
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- Duration: 4:48
- Published: 31 Jul 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Here's a clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive". After awhile they let the Nicholas Brothers jump in and lend their feet to the action. ==================== Note that must moderate the comments here now because of some bad apples. Sorry...
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Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher
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- Duration: 2:59
- Published: 18 Mar 2008
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Minnie the Moocher
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Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
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- Duration: 2:47
- Published: 13 Nov 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
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Classic Sesame Street - Cab Calloway sings "Hi De Ho Man"
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- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 17 Jul 2007
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Sesame Street has had guest stars from nearly all eras of the 20th century. It's extremely hard these days to find an entertainer with the impact and talent of someone like "Cabby" Calloway.
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Cab Calloway
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- Duration: 3:57
- Published: 11 May 2008
- Updated: 18 May 2012
The Big Broadcast (1932) Cab Calloway singing and moon walking to "Kickin' the Gong Around"
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Cab Calloway's Hi De Ho - 1934
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- Duration: 9:56
- Published: 14 Apr 2010
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Great old Paramount short film of Cab Calloway singing many of his hits.
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Cab Calloway St. James Infirmary by Fleischer
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- Duration: 1:44
- Published: 23 Oct 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Cab Calloway sings St. James Infirmary in the guise of Koko the Clown from the Fleischer Brothers' "Snow White" Betty Boop cartoon.
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Cab Calloway-"Smoking Reefers" unreleased (banned) ?
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 09 Sep 2008
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Date unknown. If you have any information about this recording, please share in the comments section. Enjoy!
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Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 16 Feb 2008
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher"
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Cab Calloway - Zaz Zuh Zaz (1933)
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 24 May 2009
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Now, here's a very entrancing phrase, It will put you in a daze, To me it don't mean a thing, But it's got a very peculiar swing! Zaz-zuh-zaz-zuh-zaz, Zaz-zuh-zaz-zuh-zay, Zaz-zuh-zaz-zuh-zaz, Zaz-zuh-zaz-zuh-zay! Now, zaz-zuh-zaz was handed down From a bloke down in Chinatown;...
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Cab Calloway: Minnie Moocher - 1950's
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- Duration: 2:46
- Published: 31 Jan 2009
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Performing his signature number, Cab Calloway sings Minnie the Moocher in this performance from the 1950's. As ever he adds a few surprises like the sexy shadow dancer gyrating in the background and a new spin on his familiar scat singing. Born in New York State with a middle class upbringing, Calloway's parents pushed him to become an attorney like his father. Instead, he followed the path of his sister Blanche, already an established jazz performer. While filling the roles of emcee, singer and drummer during a stretch at the local Sunset Cafe in Chicago, he encountered Louis Armstrong, with who he would perform and learn the art of "scat" singing. His big break however would be as bandleader at the famed Cotton Club, filling in while Duke Ellington was touring the country.
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Cab Calloway Sings "The Man From Harlem"
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 06 Nov 2007
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Cab Calloway Sings A Song That Was Outrageous In Its Time Titled "The Man From Harlem"
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Cab Calloway, "Hi-De-Ho"
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- Duration: 9:47
- Published: 05 Oct 2008
- Updated: 12 May 2012
This short film was released in 1934.
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Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher" - ORIGINAL "VIDEO"
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- Duration: 2:19
- Published: 11 Aug 2010
- Updated: 16 May 2012
UPDATE! I have now been steered to a COMPLETE version of this classic. It's a bit fuzzy and the ratio is wrong - but if you download it and show it in 16:9 it should be right. In the public interest, I am giving my "rival" a free plug! You can find it on www.youtube.com - Enjoy!
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Cab CALLOWAY " Skunk Song " !!!
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 09 Apr 2009
- Updated: 10 May 2012
RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR CAB CALLOWAY & HIS BAND ! Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. You can watch all my rare oldies soundies on : www.msplinks.com or www.myspace.com ! Many thanks , NICKY .
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BETTY BOOP-Minnie the Moocher -(With Cab Calloway orquestra)
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- Duration: 7:46
- Published: 12 Jun 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
An Incredible and surrealistic cartoon with the cool Cab Calloway's performance of "Minnie The Moocher"
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It Ain't Necessarily So -- Cab Calloway
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- Duration: 3:55
- Published: 08 Dec 2009
- Updated: 07 May 2012
Cab Calloway performs one of his signature tunes.
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Cab Calloway-Cotton Club.mp4
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- Duration: 2:00
- Published: 15 Jun 2010
- Updated: 08 May 2012
JAZZ LEGEND of the 1930's
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Betty Boop - Snow White (Cab Calloway ~ St. James Infirmary Blues) - 1933.mpg
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- Duration: 6:59
- Published: 16 Oct 2010
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer with contributions from animator Grim Natwick among others. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit with film-goers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s to appear more demure, she became one of best known cartoon characters in the world and remains popular today. "St. James Infirmary Blues" is based on an 18th century traditional English folk song called "The Unfortunate Rake" (also known as "The Unfortunate Lad" or "The Young Man Cut Down in His Prime"). There are numerous versions of the song throughout the English-speaking world. It also evolved into other American standards such as "The Streets of Laredo". "The Unfortunate Rake" is about a sailor who uses his money on prostitutes, and then dies of a venereal disease. Different versions of the song expand on this theme, variations typically feature a narrator telling the story of a youth "cut down in his prime" (occasionally "her prime") as a result of some morally questionable actions. For example, when the song moved to America, gambling and alcohol became common causes of the youth's death. The title is derived from St. James Hospital in London, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. It was closed in <b>...</b>
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Cab Calloway - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 1931
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 21 May 2011
- Updated: 08 May 2012
10/21/31 Cab Calloway and his Orchestra 1931-1932 Classics 526. (Arlen-Koehler) Also performed by Louis Armstrong. Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 -- November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.
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Cab Calloway vs Addictive TV
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- Duration: 2:11
- Published: 25 May 2010
- Updated: 14 May 2012
Short extract from Addictive TV's remix of Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher...
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Cab Calloway Singing Minnie The Moocher (Live 1988)
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- Duration: 4:34
- Published: 01 Feb 2010
- Updated: 20 May 2012
You Only Get Old, If You Let Yourself Get Old. Cincinnati, Ohio August 1988 Riverbend Music Center. Eric Kunzel conducting The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
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16 Apr 2012
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I don’t mean to be disrespectful to this wonderful man: this lovely man is clearly not dead in the literal sense. But this is an extraordinary transformation: the music revives him from a sort of depressive coma,* barely aware or responsive, to an articulate, engaged man again. It quickens...(size: 6.8Kb)
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Hi de hi de hi de ho!” Charismatic music and dance pioneer Cab Calloway (1907 – 94) is an exceptional figure in the history of jazz. As a singer, dancer and bandleader, he charmed audiences around the world with his boundless energy, bravado and elegant showmanship. Calloway was also an...(size: 7.7Kb)
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SPOTLIGHT 'American Masters: Cab Calloway' 10 p.m. on PBS An hour called "Sketches" profiles jazz musician and showman Calloway. NEW TONIGHT 'The Bachelor'...(size: 2.8Kb)
Cab Calloway special revives glamour and style of one of 20th century’s greatest entertainers
24 Feb 2012
New York Daily News
Contrary to every lesson of modern celebrity marketing, Cab Calloway proved it was possible to overbrand yourself. He also proved that’s a double-edged career sword, as this new “American Masters” special nicely illustrates. He did become enormously successful. He was a jazz musician, bandleader,...(size: 2.9Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
Cab Calloway: Sketches: An "American Masters" presentation. 10 p.m. Mon. on PBS. Cab Calloway's grandson tells the story of how the great singer-bandleader created his signature style of bonelessly serpentine movement onstage. Back in the day, Calloway, the subject of a Black History Month...(size: 4.9Kb)
PBS to air film on Greenburgh's Cab Calloway
23 Feb 2012
Lower Hudson Online
For nearly 60 years, from the Roaring Twenties forward, when generations of even casual music listeners heard the phrase Hi-De-Ho, an image sprang instantly to their mind: a sharp-dressed man in front of a band, dancing like there was no tomorrow, with a Cheshire cat grin, his hair flopping around...(size: 2.1Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
Long before there was Black History Month, there was Cab Calloway. During the 1930s and ’40s the jazz-blues-swing-poet introduced an urban African-American lexicon to an unsuspecting white audience 365 days a year. He sang about reefer while dressing high. He wore Zoot suits accented by a...(size: 5.5Kb)
The Examiner
The good folks at WNET New York have advised us that next month,Black History Month, the American Masters series will air a special tribute to pioneering jazz legend Cab Calloway. The new music documentary Cab Calloway: Sketches will air in the New York metro-area on Sunday, February 26 at 8 p.m. on...(size: 4.9Kb)
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Energetic, charismatic musician and dance pioneer Cab Calloway is an American legend. Energetic, charismatic musician and dance pioneer Cab Calloway is an American legend. Known for his rousing "Hi de hi de hi de ho!" - Calloway is an exceptional figure in the history of jazz. As a singer,...(size: 3.6Kb)
| name | Cab Calloway |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Cabell Calloway III |
| birth date | December 25, 1907 |
| birth place | Rochester, New York, US |
| death date | November 18, 1994 |
| death place | Hockessin, Delaware, US |
| instrument | Vocals |
| genre | Jazz, blues |
| occupation | Bandleader, singer-songwriter |
| years active | 1930–1994 |
| associated acts | The Cab Calloway Orchestra |
| website | }} |
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
Biography[link]
Early years[link]
Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche, in a touring production of the popular black musical revue ''Plantation Days.'' (Blanche Calloway herself would become an accomplished bandleader before her brother, and he would often credit her as his inspiration for entering show business.) Calloway attended Lincoln University (a historically black university) in Pennsylvania, but left in 1930 without graduating.
When the tour ended in Chicago in the fall, Calloway decided to remain in Chicago with his sister, who had an established career as a jazz singer in that city. His parents had hopes of their son becoming a lawyer like his father, so Calloway enrolled in Crane College. His main interest, however, was in singing and entertaining, and he spent most of his nights at the Dreamland Ballroom, the Sunset Cafe, and the Club Berlin, performing as a drummer, singer and MC.
At the Sunset Cafe he met and performed with Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the "scat" style.
Success[link]
The Cotton Club was the premier jazz venue in the country, and Calloway and his orchestra (he had taken over a brilliant but failing band called "The Missourians" in 1930) were hired as a replacement for the Duke Ellington Orchestra while they were touring. Calloway quickly proved so popular that his band became the "co-house" band with Ellington's, and his group began touring nationwide when not playing the Cotton Club. Their popularity was greatly enhanced by the twice-weekly live national radio broadcasts on NBC at the Cotton Club. Calloway also appeared on Walter Winchell's radio program and with Bing Crosby in his show at New York's Paramount Theatre. As a result of these appearances, Calloway, together with Ellington, broke the major broadcast network color barrier.Like other bands fronted by a singing bandleader, Calloway initially gave ample soloist space to its lead members and, through the varied arrangements of Walter 'Foots' Thomas, provided much more in the way of musical interest. Many of his records were "vocal specialities" with Calloway's vocal taking up the majority of the record.
In 1931 he recorded his most famous song, "Minnie the Moocher". That song, along with "St. James Infirmary Blues" and "The Old Man Of The Mountain," were performed for the Betty Boop animated shorts ''Minnie the Moocher'', ''Snow White'' and ''The Old Man of the Mountain'', respectively. Through rotoscoping, Calloway not only gave his voice to these cartoons, but his dance steps as well. He took advantage of this and timed his concerts in some communities with the release of the films in order to make the most of the attention. As a result of the success of "Minnie the Moocher," he became identified with its chorus, gaining the nickname "The Hi De Ho Man". He also performed in a series of short films for Paramount in the 1930s. (Calloway and Ellington were featured on film more than any other jazz orchestras of the era.) In these films, Calloway can be seen performing a gliding backstep dance move, the precursor to Michael Jackson's "moonwalk"—Calloway said fifty years later, "it was called The Buzz back then." The 1933 film, International House featured Calloway performing his classic song, "Reefer Man," a tune about a man who favors marijuana cigarettes.
Calloway made his "first proper Hollywood movie appearance" opposite Al Jolson in ''The Singing Kid'' in 1936. He sang a number of duets with Jolson, and the film included Calloway's band and cast of twenty-two Cotton Club dancers from New York. According to music historian Arthur Knight, the film aimed in part "to both erase and celebrate boundaries and differences, including most emphatically the color line." He also notes that "when Calloway begins singing in his characteristic style – in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody – it becomes clear that American culture is changing around Jolson and with (and through) Calloway. . ."
Calloway's was one of the most popular American jazz bands of the 1930s, recording prolifically for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Conqueror, Perfect, Melotone, Banner, Oriole, etc.) from 1930–1932, when he signed with Victor for a year. He was back on Brunswick in late 1934 through 1936, when he signed with manager Irving Mills's short-lived Variety in 1937, and stayed with Mills when the label collapsed and the sessions were continued on Vocalion through 1939, and then OKeh through 1942. After the recording ban due to the 1942-44 musicians' strike ended, he continued to record prolifically.
Calloway's vocal style is a blend of hot scat singing and improvisation coupled with a very traditional vaudeville-like singing style. Many of his ballads are devoid of tone bending jazz styling.
In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when Calloway was hit with spitballs. He wrongly accused Gillespie, who stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife.
In 1943 Calloway appeared in the high-profile 20th Century Fox musical film, ''Stormy Weather''.
In 1944 ''The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive'' was published, an update of an earlier book in which Calloway set about translating jive for fans who might not know, for example, that "kicking the gong around" was a reference to smoking opium.
Calloway and his band starred in "Hi De Ho," an all-black full-length film directed by Josh Binney.
In the late 1940's, Calloway wrote a regular humorous pseudo gossip column called "Coastin' With Cab" for Song Hits Magazine. It was a collection of celebrity snippets such as this one, in the May 1946 issue: "Benny Goodman was dining at Ciro's steak house in New York when a very homely girl entered. 'If her face is her fortune,' Benny quipped, 'she'd be tax-free'."
Later years[link]
In the 1950s Calloway moved his family from Long Island, New York to Greenburgh, New York, to raise the three youngest of his five daughters.In his later career Calloway appeared in a number of films and stage productions that utilized both his acting and singing talents. In 1952 he played the prominent role of "Sportin' Life" in a production of the Gershwin opera ''Porgy and Bess'' with William Warfield and Leontyne Price as the title characters. Another notable role was "Yeller" in ''The Cincinnati Kid'' (1965), with Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret and Edward G. Robinson. Calloway appeared on the ''Ed Sullivan Show'' on March 19, 1967 with Chris Calloway. In 1967, Calloway co-starred opposite Pearl Bailey as Horace Vandergelder in an all-black cast change of ''Hello, Dolly!'' on Broadway during its original run. It revived flagging business for the show and RCA released a new cast recording, rare for the time. In 1973–1974, Calloway was featured in an unsuccessful Broadway revival of ''The Pajama Game'' alongside Hal Linden and Barbara McNair.
1976 saw the release of his autobiography, ''Of Minnie The Moocher And Me'' (Crowell). It included his complete ''Hepsters Dictionary'' as an appendix.
Calloway attracted renewed interest in 1980 when he appeared as a supporting character in the film ''The Blues Brothers'', performing "Minnie the Moocher", and again when he sang "The Jumpin' Jive" with the Two-Headed Monster on ''Sesame Street''. This was also the year the cult movie ''Forbidden Zone'' was released, which included rearrangements of, and homages to, Calloway songs written by Danny Elfman, a Calloway fan.
Calloway helped establish the Cab Calloway Museum at Coppin State College (Baltimore, Maryland) in the 1980s, and Bill Cosby helped establish a scholarship in Calloway's name at the New School for Social Research New York City. In 1994, a creative and performing arts school, the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, was dedicated in his name in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1986, Calloway appeared at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s ''WrestleMania 2'' as a guest judge for a boxing match between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr. T that took place at the Nassau Coliseum. Also in 1986, he headlined to great success a gala ball for 4,000 celebrating the grand opening of one of the top hotels in the US at the time, the Dallas-based Rosewood Hotel Co.'s Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, Texas. In 1990, he was the focus of Janet Jackson's 1930s-themed music video "Alright", appearing as himself at the end. In the United Kingdom, he also appeared in several commercials for the Hula Hoops snack, both as himself and as a voice for a cartoon (in one of these commercials he sang his hit "Minnie The Moocher"). He also made an appearance at the Apollo Theatre.
In May 1994, Calloway suffered a stroke. He died six months later on November 18, 1994. His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family. Upon the death of his wife Zulme "Nuffie" Calloway on October 13, 2008, his ashes were interred next to her at Ferncliffe Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
A profile of Calloway ''Cab Calloway: Sketches'' aired on the PBS program ''American Masters'' in February 2012.
Honors[link]
Selected awards and recognitions[link]
Grammy history[link]
{| class=wikitable |- ! Year ! Category ! Title ! Label ! Result ! Notes |- align=center | 2008 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | | | Honoree |- align=center | 1999 | Grammy Hall of Fame Award | Minnie the Moocher | Brunswick (1931) | Inducted | Jazz (Single) |}
Other honors[link]
{| class=wikitable |- ! Year ! Category ! Title ! Result ! Notes |- align=center | 1987 | Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame | | Inducted |- align=center | 1967 | Best Performances | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Winner | Hello, Dolly Musical |}
Discography[link]
Stage appearances[link]
Filmography[link]
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References[link]
Song Hits Magazine "A song lyrics publication" Vol 9 No. 12 p. 22 copyright May 1946 (and other issues)
External links[link]
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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
History[link]
The term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to the late 19th Century. In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel ''Naked Lunch'', and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.
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In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.
Use as praise[link]
The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.
See also[link]
Notes[link]
References[link]
Category:Slang expressions Category:Stock characters Category:English idioms Category:Pejorative terms for people Category:Military-industrial complex
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Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher" - ORIGINAL "VIDEO"
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Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher" - ORIGINAL "VIDEO"
UPDATE! I have now been steered to a COMPLETE version of this classic. It's a bit fuzzy and the ratio is wrong - but if you download it and show it in 16:9 it should be right. In the public interest, I am giving my "rival" a free plug! You can find it on www.youtube.com - Enjoy!
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Cab CALLOWAY " Skunk Song " !!!
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Cab CALLOWAY " Skunk Song " !!!
RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR CAB CALLOWAY & HIS BAND ! Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. You can watch all my rare oldies soundies on : www.msplinks.com or www.myspace.com ! Many thanks , NICKY .
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Betty Boop - Snow White (Cab Calloway ~ St. James Infirmary Blues) - 1933.mpg
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Betty Boop - Snow White (Cab Calloway ~ St. James Infirmary Blues) - 1933.mpg
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer with contributions from animator Grim Natwick among others. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit with film-goers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s to appear more demure, she became one of best known cartoon characters in the world and remains popular today. "St. James Infirmary Blues" is based on an 18th century traditional English folk song called "The Unfortunate Rake" (also known as "The Unfortunate Lad" or "The Young Man Cut Down in His Prime"). There are numerous versions of the song throughout the English-speaking world. It also evolved into other American standards such as "The Streets of Laredo". "The Unfortunate Rake" is about a sailor who uses his money on prostitutes, and then dies of a venereal disease. Different versions of the song expand on this theme, variations typically feature a narrator telling the story of a youth "cut down in his prime" (occasionally "her prime") as a result of some morally questionable actions. For example, when the song moved to America, gambling and alcohol became common causes of the youth's death. The title is derived from St. James Hospital in London, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. It was closed in <b>...</b>
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