Are You Hep to the Jive? (Yas, Yas)
#CabCalloway
https://youtu.be/4ZJIZCmJ2u8
Cab Calloway, Betty Boop.
As per what I read, a bedtime lullaby about disease, death and alcoholism. Love the animation with that.
#AprilAcrossAmerica concludes in #Delaware.
#CabCalloway mixed jazz and vaudeville like no others in the 1930s. A leading exponent of scat singing, inspiration for the current hip-hop scene, and one of the greatest bandleaders of any era. He died in Delaware in 1994.
Here's "The man from Harlem", a tale of a mystery man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5uABQpH12c
And so we finish where we started, with a song about New York. If you have been, thank you for listening.
#cabcalloway #delaware #aprilacrossamerica
Snow White with Betty Boop.
This one is special. Cab Calloway sings Saint James Infirmary. He's also rotoscoped to provide the movements of Koko the Clown when he sings.
#music #animation #bettyboop #cabcalloway #rotoscope
91 years ago:
Minnie the Moocher (US)
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
1932-03-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85051
#MinnietheMoocher #DaveFleischer #CabCalloway #Horror #Animation #PreCode #ClassicFilm
#minniethemoocher #davefleischer #cabcalloway #horror #animation #precode #classicfilm
“Minnie The Moocher” by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (https://youtu.be/8mq4UT4VnbE)… and of course, Betty Boop style (https://youtu.be/N7VUU_VPI1E)
#MusComEnt #CabCalloway #MinnieTheMoocher #BettyBoop
#muscoment #cabcalloway #minniethemoocher #bettyboop
Cab Calloway in “Stormy Weather” (also pictured is Bill “Bojangles” Robinson)
#MusComEnt #StormyWeather #CabCalloway #BlackHistoryMonth
#muscoment #stormyweather #cabcalloway #blackhistorymonth
Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers - "Jumpin' Jive"
#music #jumpblues #cabcalloway
Famous bandleader, composer and entertainer Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess” (c. 1953)
#RetroView #PorgyAndBess #CabCalloway
#retroview #porgyandbess #cabcalloway
Just because I saw this shared elsewhere and yes, I've seen it before, and you've possibly seen it before too, but why wouldn't you take five minutes to watch the truly unbelievable levels of dancing skills of the Nicholas Brothers with the great musical accompaniment from Cab Calloway and his band any time you get a chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
#Dance #Music #JumpinJive #CabCalloway #NicholasBrothers #Jazz #YouTube
#YouTube #Jazz #nicholasbrothers #cabcalloway #jumpinjive #Music #dance
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933. - more in thread #CabCalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
#cabcalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933. - more in thread #CabCalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
#cabcalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933. - more in thread #CabCalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
#cabcalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933. - more in thread #CabCalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
#cabcalloway #portrait #artdeco #music #hideyhideyho #jazz
And a big ol' song about eating (which involves food, right?) –
Cab Calloway, "Everybody Eats When They Come To My House" (1948)
#JukeboxFridayNight #songsaboutfoodanddrink #cabcalloway
More songs about chicken!
Cab Calloway, "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird" (1940)
#JukeboxFridayNight #songsaboutfoodanddrink #cabcalloway