Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, bandleader, songwriter, dancer and actor who came to fame as a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he blended jazz and vaudeville to establish a niche that stood him in good stead as an entertainer across seven decades, with one of his most famous roles in later years coming in the 1980 "Blues Brothers" movie. He developed a personal style of scat singing, and was able to deliver novelty-flavoured material with swinging jazz credibility, assembling a band that over the years included jazz luminaries like Ben Webster, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Chu Berry, Cozy Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and others. This excellent-value 48-track 2-CD set features the releases from this era on the Brunswick, Victor, Variety, Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia and ABC-Paramount labels which were credited with chart positions, plus a few bonus tracks. Those 45 hits include the No. 1 "Minnie The Moocher" and the Top 5 hits "Kickin' The Gong Around", "St. James Infirmary", "Tickeration", "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day", "Chinese Rhythm", "Moonglow", "Angels With Dirty Faces", "The Jumpin' Jive", "Blues In The Night" and "The Honey Dripper". He was a unique personality, and these recordings underline his skill and versatility in performing fine swinging jazz while giving it a highly individual comedic twist, and we hope this collection of his best sellers from the era provides an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talents.
6 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Cab Calloway & His O
7 Kickin' the Gong Around
8 Trickeration
9 You Rascal, You
10 There's a Cabin in the Cotton
11 Strictly Cullud Affair
12 Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
13 Reefer Man
14 Hot Toddy
15 I've Got the World on a String
16 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
17 Jitterbug
18 Moon Glow Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orch
19 Chinese Rhythm
20 Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul
21 You're the Cure for What Ails Me
22 Copper Colored Gal
23 Wake Up and Live
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1 Congo
2 Peckin'
3 She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific
4 Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm
5 Moon at Sea
6 Every Day's a Holiday
7 Mister Paganini, Swing for Minnie
8 At the Clam-Bake Carnival
9 Angels with Dirty Faces
10 F.D.R. Jones
11 The Ghost of Smokey Joe
12 (Hep-Hep) the Jumpin' Jive
13 Fifteen Minute Intermission
14 Come on with the 'Come On'
15 Bye Bye Blues
16 Geechy Joe
17 Take the "A" Train
18 I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
19 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
20 The Moment I Laid Eyes on You
21 Ogeechee River Lullaby
22 Let's Take the Long Way Home
23 The Honeydripper
24 The Calloway Boogie
25 Little Child
Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, bandleader, songwriter, dancer and actor who came to fame as a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he blended jazz and vaudeville to establish a niche that stood him in good stead as an entertainer across seven decades, with one of his most famous roles in later years coming in the 1980 "Blues Brothers" movie. He developed a personal style of scat singing, and was able to deliver novelty-flavoured material with swinging jazz credibility, assembling a band that over the years included jazz luminaries like Ben Webster, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Chu Berry, Cozy Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and others. This excellent-value 48-track 2-CD set features the releases from this era on the Brunswick, Victor, Variety, Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia and ABC-Paramount labels which were credited with chart positions, plus a few bonus tracks. Those 45 hits include the No. 1 "Minnie The Moocher" and the Top 5 hits "Kickin' The Gong Around", "St. James Infirmary", "Tickeration", "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day", "Chinese Rhythm", "Moonglow", "Angels With Dirty Faces", "The Jumpin' Jive", "Blues In The Night" and "The Honey Dripper". He was a unique personality, and these recordings underline his skill and versatility in performing fine swinging jazz while giving it a highly individual comedic twist, and we hope this collection of his best sellers from the era provides an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talents.
