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Cab Calloway

Stage Name

Birth Name

Cab Calloway

Cabell Calloway III

   Was one of the Swing "Greats" of the swing era. Conducted his own band and was the main source for making the term "Jitterbug" a household name.

  His famous "Minnie The Moocher" song would lead him to fame and fortune when he forgot the words when performing the song and started add ad-libbing (Scat singing) Hi-De-Hi-de Ho. Frequent wearer of the Zoot Suit... "Heres a clip. of Cab Calloway Singing "Geechee Joe" in in the film Stormy Weather.
Cab Calloway Autograph

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring
Rochester, NY 12/25/1907 - 11/18/1994 n/a n/a
 

Dance Types

Calloway Posters

Music Titles
Boogaloo Cab Calloway $ Doin The Rumba
Jazz Stage dancing Various Harlem Posters $ Floogie Walk
Shim Sham       $ Happy Feet
Jitterbug       $ I Want to Rock
The Duck Trot (1950s)       $ Jitterbug
        Jitterbug Party
        $ Jive
        $ Jumpin Jive
        $ Jungle Swing
        $ Minnie The Moocher
        $ Refeer Man
        $ Rhapsody in Rhumba
        $ St. James Infirmary
        $ St. Louis Blues
        $ Swing, Swing, Swing
        $ Vipers Drag
        $ Are You Hep to the Jive
        Cab Calloway: Are You Hep To That Jive
       
       
       
       
       
       
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage
Cotton Club Apollo Theater many Cotton Club Parades
Savoy Ballroom           1968 - Hello Dolly

Films

Television

Publications
$ 1932 - Minnie The Moocher Janet Jackson Video 3/1944 - Metronome Magazine
1932 - Big Broadcast of 1932 1974 - Betty Boop Scandals 6/1954 - Ebony Magazine
$ 1933 - International House     $ Of Minnie the Moocher and Me
1933 - Old Man On The Mountain          
1933 - Snow White (koko voice)          
1934 - HI-DE-HO          
1935 - Jitterbug Party          
1936 - The Singing Kid          
1937 - HI-DE-HO          
1937 - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round    

Links
$ 1943 - Stormy Weather     cab calloway
1944 - Sensations of 1945          
1947 - HI-DE-HO          
1947 - Ebony Parade          
1955 - Beale St. Revue          
1955 - Rhythm & Blues Revue          
1955 - Jazz Festival          
1956 - Basin St. Revue          
1958 - St. Louis Blues          
$ 1965 - Cincinnati Kid          
1980 - The Blues Brothers          
$ 1989 - Minnie the Moocher & Many Many More (1930)    
$ 1991 - Music Classics Vol1    
$ 1999 - Music Classics - Vol. 4 (1940)    
$ 1999 - Music Classics - Vol. 7 (1940)    
$ 1997 - Hollywood Rhythm: The Paramount Musical Shorts, Vol. 3 - Blue Melodies    
$ 1997 - That's Black Entertainment: African-American Contributions in Film and Music 1903-1944
$ 1997? - That's Black Entertainment: The Missing Link Of American Cinema History    
2001 - Hollywood Rhythm: Vol. 01 - The Best of Jazz & Blues [DVD]    
$ 2003 - DVD - Swing Era: Cab Calloway - Hi Di Ho and Other Movies    
2004 - Hi-De-Ho and other movies [DVD]    
     
? - I Cant Give You Anything But Love (short)      
NOTE: Blanche Calloway was Cab's Sister.
December 9, 2012
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