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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.
Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907 and lived there until 1918, on Sycamore Street. He was later raised in Baltimore, Maryland. 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 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 emcee.
At the Sunset Cafe he met and performed with Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the "scat" style.
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.[citation needed]
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.
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.[9] 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.

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SHOWS LIST

Bill Stern- with Cab Calloway 460823
Black Sabbath
Cab Calloway-Meadowbrook 40-07-27
Cab Calloway And Billie Holiday-TheseFoolishThings
Cab Calloway And Louis Armstrong-St. James Infirmary
Cab Calloway And Nicholas Brothers Bill Robinson-Stormy Weather
Cab Calloway And Orch Roy Smeck Chick Bullock-Git Along 1932
Cab Calloway And The Palmer Brothers-Blues In The Night 1942
Cab Calloway And The Palmer Brothers-Ill Be Around 1941
Cab Calloway -A Quarter To Three
Cab Calloway -A Strictly Cullud Affair
Cab Calloway -Ad De Dey
Cab Calloway -Aint Got No Gal In This Town
Cab Calloway -Are You All Reet
Cab Calloway -Are You Hep To The Jive
Cab Calloway -Beale Street Mama
Cab Calloway -Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 1931
Cab Calloway -Blues In My Heart
Cab Calloway -Blues InThe Night
Cab Calloway -Boo Wah Boo Wah
Cab Calloway -Bugle Call Rag
Cab Calloway -Bye Bye Blues
Cab Calloway -Cabin In The Cotton
Cab Calloway -Call Of The Jitterbug
Cab Calloway -Calloway Boogie
Cab Calloway -Chinese Rhythm 1932
Cab Calloway -Coming Home
Cab Calloway -Corinne Corinna
Cab Calloway -Cotton Club
Cab Calloway -Dinah
Cab Calloway -Dixie Vagabond
Cab Calloway -Do It Again
Cab Calloway -Doin The Rhumba
Cab Calloway -Eddie Was A Lady
Cab Calloway -Emaline
Cab Calloway -Evenin
Cab Calloway -Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
Cab Calloway -Farewell Blues
Cab Calloway -Fathers Got His Glasses On
Cab Calloway -Foo A Little Ballyhoo
Cab Calloway -Girdle Jazz
Cab Calloway -Go South Young Man
Cab Calloway -Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)
Cab Calloway -Gotta Go Places And Do Things
Cab Calloway -Happy Feet 1930
Cab Calloway -Harlem Camp Meeting
Cab Calloway -Harlem Hospitality
Cab Calloway -He Can Conga
Cab Calloway -Hey Doc
Cab Calloway -Hey Now Hey Now
Cab Calloway -Hi De Ho
Cab Calloway -Hot Toddy with Noise
Cab Calloway -Hot Toddy
Cab Calloway -Hot Water
Cab Calloway -How Come You Do Me Like You Do
Cab Calloway -I Aint Got Nobody
Cab Calloway -I am Now Prepared To Tell The World Its You
Cab Calloway -I Get The Neck Of The Chicken
Cab Calloway -I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
Cab Calloway -I Gotta Swing
Cab Calloway -Ill Get By
Cab Calloway -Is That Religion
Cab Calloway -It Looks Like Susie
Cab Calloway -Ive Got The Worls On A String
Cab Calloway -Jazz
Cab Calloway -Jitter Bug
Cab Calloway -Jump Jive
Cab Calloway -Kickin The Gong Arround
Cab Calloway -Lady With The Fan
Cab Calloway -Lets Go Joe
Cab Calloway -Long About Midnight
Cab Calloway -Manhattan Jam
Cab Calloway -Margie 1932
Cab Calloway -Minnie The Moocher 1960s Version
Cab Calloway -Minnie The Moocher Old Version
Cab Calloway -Minnie The Mooker
Cab Calloway -Moon At Sea 1937
Cab Calloway -Moon Glow
Cab Calloway -Moonglow
Cab Calloway -Moonlight Rhapsody
Cab Calloway -Mr Bill
Cab Calloway -Mr Hipster
Cab Calloway -My Sunday Girl
Cab Calloway -Nobodys Sweetheart
Cab Calloway -Ogeechee River Lullaby
Cab Calloway -Old Yazoo
Cab Calloway -OnATrain
Cab Calloway -Paradiddle
Cab Calloway -Peckin 1937
Cab Calloway -Reefer Man
Cab Calloway -Shes Tall Shes Tan Shes Terrific
Cab Calloway -Shes The Lady
Cab Calloway -Skunk Song
Cab Calloway -Smokey Joes
Cab Calloway -SmokinReefers
Cab Calloway -Some Of These Days
Cab Calloway -St. James Infirmary
Cab Calloway -Stack OLee Blues
Cab Calloway -Sweet Georgia Brown
Cab Calloway -Sweet Jennie Lee
Cab Calloway -Thats What I Hate About Love
Cab Calloway -The Best Things In Life Are Free
Cab Calloway -The Cats Gonna Help You
Cab Calloway -The Chicken Aint Nothin But A Bird
Cab Calloway -The Garbage Man
Cab Calloway -The lady With The Fan
Cab Calloway -The Man From Harlem
Cab Calloway -The Reefer Man
Cab Calloway -The Scat Song 1932
Cab Calloway -The Vipers Drag
Cab Calloway -Theres A Cabin In The Cotton
Cab Calloway -This Time Its Love
Cab Calloway -Twee-twee-tweet
Cab Calloway -Two Blocks Down Turn Left
Cab Calloway -Wah-Dee-Dah
Cab Calloway -Whats Buzzin Cousin
Cab Calloway -You Cant Stop Me From Lovin You
Cab Calloway -You Dog
Cab Calloway -You Gotta Ho-De-Ho
Cab Calloway -You Rascal You
Cab Calloway -YouAintDoneADoggoneThing
Cab Calloway -Zaz Zuh Zaz
Farewell Blues-Cab Calloway
Fats Waller Art Tatum-Alligator Crawl
Fats Waller Cab Calloway-Walkin The Dog
Fats Waller Hoagy Carmichael-Two Sleepy People
Fats Waller Jelly Roll Morton V james P. Johnson-Carolina Shout
Fats Waller Louis Armstrong Jack Teagarden-Tiger Rag
Fats Waller LouisArmstrong-Muskrat Ramble 1938
Fats Waller Valberta Hunter-Beale Street Blues
Fats Waller Valberta Hunter-I Cant Give You Anything But Love
Fats Waller Valberta Hunter-The Joint Is Jumpin
Goathoven Minnie the Moocher Rehearsal 23.8.05
Insight 050812
Jon Hammond Show Podcast 31
Jubilee guest Cab Calloway - Nat King Cole
Mood Indigo Cab Calloway
PN Unscripted-Talking About Cab Calloway With Alyn Shipton
Pn131-Hi-de-hoByAlynShipton
The Blues Brothers Cab Calloway IrvingMills-MinnieTheMoocher
The Man From Harlem
The Reefer Manoriginal