Cab Calloway is vastly underrated and unknown to many people because other black musicians got more attention. He often performed to replace Duke Ellington's band. Because of racism, only a few blacks could achieve wide success and popularity back then. And he's black and was always treated as a black man by white America. Damn, he was great!
Cab Calloway was never underrated. He was one of the greats, and his Cotton Club was legend. And then he appeared in a Janet Jackson video, and neo-swing and electro swing have garnered him new fans each generation.
Cab combined soul, jazz, blues and rock and roll....the man is BEYOND legendary !!! He should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor for The Blues Brothers. Cab is the Original OG, man !!!
the more i see this video the more I think Cab was the greatest entertainer that ever lived, there is not a talent these days that comes close to this man
Damn it Minnie, first she kicks the gong around, then she goes for the prince, now Mickey. Bet Mickey doesn't know about her history with Smokey Joe...
Apart from the fantastic vocals and the fabulous musicians , Cab’s footwork including Doing the splits in that immaculate tailored suit is itself a feat of amazing skill. A visual and audio feast. 😁🌹Absolutely fantastic 🎵🎶🎺🎷
as a person who was born in 1998, playing the game cuphead introduced me to King Dice and King Dice introduced me to Cab and other artists during 20s,30s,40s,50s, and 60s. Damn... music during those times is a total gem!
The King of Interpretive dance. He was always popular with everyone, especially the young folks of all races and is still one of my favorite entertainers. I knew his work in the 60s until his death. He was popular with my mom's generation though so I heard everything he recorded is seems. Everything he did was absolute gold. He was so good looking, he could sing and dance. He was one of the favorite of the Jitterbug crowd.
The character "Smokey" is described as "cokey", meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase "kick the gong around" was a slang reference to smoking opium. Minnie the Moocher - Wikipedia
It's really not a subtle song. Smokey Joe shows up at the drug house broke and sick from withdrawls. Minnie either owes him a fix or is slang for heroin which I suspect is more likely. Smokey's broke and a chump, everyone acts like they don't know where Minnie is, they give him the brush off until he leaves then everyone gets loaded again.
He's talking about both things, opium ("kicking the gong around", as they already said, and by saying that smokey was a "cokey", which is the same as saying "cokehead" today.
It would be dishonest to say MJ stole from Cab Calloway since MJ never claimed to invent the Moonwalk. He always attributed it to street dancers and several famous dancers before him. Not to mention MJ had many other dances other than the Moonwalk, which you would know if you've seen him in anything other than Billie Jean. Anyways, Cab Calloway also remains one of my favorite musicians of all time. This was groundbreaking for him to actually act out the drug addiction while singing about it!
I mean I’m speechless this man was amazing for that time period he looks really young here and I can’t stop watching this and he performed Minnie the moocher in 1980 at age 73 in the blues brothers amazing
The bassist is Al Morgan, from New Orleans like most top-shelf early jazz upright players. My friend (who's info I'm passing on) once heard and had a nice and informative chat with his tenor sax and clarinet-playing older brother, Andrew. The tune is by Harold Arlen and his usual lyricist writing partner, Ted Koehler.
That's not Barker, who was in the band later, from 1939 to '46. The guitarist in the clip is probably Morris White, who was with Cab's band through most of the '30s. This guy was darker than Barker (...he said poetically). The bassist is probably Al Morgan, a great player from New Orleans. He was the youngest of four musical brothers. Never saw him in person, but years ago I heard, met and had a nice chat with the third brother, Andrew, who played tenor sax and clarinet. The two oldest, Sam and Isaiah, were both cornet or trumpet players. Al Morgan was featured exercising his considerable chops to the fullest on "That Funny Reefer Man" in the movie "International House" in 1933, the year after "The Big Broadcast." Oddly enough, there don't seem to any full-length clips of "Reefer Man" online, just excerpted fragments unfortunately.
They really don't make em like this anymore, that's for sure. I always get a little laugh when I see older folks ranting about drug references in music today but you ask em if they're Cab Calloway fans and they'll say "OH COURSE!" like his tunes aren't chock full of drug references. And we won't even get into the sexual references 😂😂 He really was an innovator of the genre!
This man is bad ass talented handsome and a great dancer I wish I could have seen him live back then just a few years before my ⏲ time since I didn't come around till 1972
wow, I love this song. I had no idea there was actual footage of Cab singing it. and how bout the little coke-sniffing gesture he stuck in there. Just shows you nothing's new, lol. Thanks for posting this, its freaking amazing.
When users went to the opium, or Chinatown drug dens, they'd get high, stretch out, and lie down and 'zone'. When they wanted more drugs, there was a little gong they'd hit. For more drugs...Hence the expression...
Albums were most certainly around in the 30s and 40s. Several 78 rpm discs packaged together in a bound volume that looked like a photo album first hit the market around 1910. They kept calling them albums when Columbia Records introduced the first microgroove LP disc in 1948.
I'm not sure if the songs were ever in an album, but the characters in this song do recur in other songs in the repertoire. Wikipedia has this: Minnie herself is mentioned in a number of other Cab Calloway songs, including "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Ghost of Smoky Joe", "Kickin' the Gong Around", "Minnie's a Hepcat Now", "Mr. Paganini - Swing for Minnie", "We Go Well Together", and "Zah Zuh Zaz". Some of these songs indicate that Minnie's boyfriend Smoky was named Smoky Joe as well. A number of Cab Calloway albums are called Minnie the Moocher. In 1932, the Boswell Sisters did their own jazz version of "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" as did Fletcher Henderson. In the 1935 Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera, Groucho Marx famously quipped, "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie." *** I guess the songs with Minnie and Smoky Joe were drugs-related, but I couldn't say whether that was the sole theme of the albums.
As mentioned above, this is from the "The Big Broadcast", a full-length movie. Its story is built around exhibiting many popular radio acts. This scene was probably filmed at the Astoria Studios in New York. The movie intro shows Cab singing "Minnie the Moocher " for a few seconds. The other acts aren't drug-themed.
Cab is fabulous. I have an interesting association with Cab via his music. My partner took his late great daughter Chris's singer showcases. My partner is a great singer partially to what he learned from Chris--and Cab!!!! REAL singing.
Cab for me as a child thought his music was so f'n cool...he's one cool ass cat...being a hop skip and a jump from the o'l Maxwell street market in Chicago..listening to blues has always been a part of me...oooh and bye the way...I was right then..and I right now..that's one smooth ass cat 🐈😎✌
I grew up with the blues brothers movie but forgot how this music was. Now im 16 years old and love hip-hop/rap since i was 8. But i found him and i started to love it again. This man is a real G. i mean, his way to dance, move and Look is fire.
@Arthur Anderson Undoubtedly, there was a line of transmission that goes back at least as far as Cab, through Damiels and to Jackson. Who knows where Cab got it from, or if he invented it.
Cab also did Punk about 50 years before the more recent Punk Music. Early footage of Cab’s performances (I think in the Cotton Club?) show he was way ahead of his time. A truly remarkable artist, and I wish a record company would do a comprehensive collection of his performances for posterity while original sources might still be available.
Man, this guy must have faced so many obstacles in the 1920s and 30s. You have Americans today who still think slavery was a good thing. I can’t imagine what it was like for these guys then. Bad-asses. Absolutely superhuman. With so much talent.
When addicts become lovers, sooner or later one or the other will choose the drug over their partner. The scenario in this song happens every day, in one way or another, to this day. (From "Minnie the Moocher," "She messed around with a bloke named Smokey, she loved him though he was cokey. He took her down to China Town, taught her how to kick the gong around...." Thought he was recruiting a new partner in drugs, but ended up being replaced by the drug entirely.
I had no idea there was another song about Cokey Smokey and Minnie the Moocher. And although it was filmed when my mother was a small child, a blues song about a couple of crackheads is still just as relevant.
what GREAT GIFTS Africans have brought to our country , they are endless, talents in all areas of life they should be completely admired and respected and loved, What a boring world without them .
Kye Wilson Maybe you need to look a bit deeper ? There is PLENTY of GREAT New Music coming out,in America & other countries too,But You gotta seek it out,,not just think what "they" offer is the best there is to be heard,, If it won't make major Corporations $$$ they don't bother,,which IS why most of what is "pushed" SUCKS !
Interesting thought and true, when the Germans thought of world conquring by a master race in @ or before, WW 2..they should have had a look at these videos, no other country, even with our bits of racism, had cooler people and more or better talent anywhere. We are not perfect- but our mix is what makes us strong..
There was nothing like Harlem on a sat,.nite back then he’s on a pbs special American masters I watched it over and over again fascinating gee cab was a cool fox.
eyes just love entertaining;and hearing the picture just turns me out,you can tell he and his ensemble gave one fantastic show,i love music that moves you,and it"s few and far that you get entertaining today!!!!!!!!!!!!!CAB........like it's HEP
Just to set everyone straight. Michael Jackson learned the moonwalk (originally called the backslide) from dancer Jeffery Daniel. 1/3 of the r&b group Shalamar. These rhythms and movements are gifts from our forefathers alive in our blood and similarities manifest themselves in different talented people over time. The same way b-boys in New York city were mirroring the movements of capoeira without ever seeing or even knowing it existed. All are just following that same internal beat from the motherland!
When there weren't too many druggies around, those few that were there could be seen as eccentric, colorful characters, as you see in Cab's song. After the war, when the drug plague hit full blast, with drug addicts committing street crimes and drug gangs trying to kill each other, it was a different story.
Recuerdo de niño vi un dibujo animado y muster cab era una rana o un insecto no recuerdo bien, y dirigia una orquesta, y tambien bailava, eso es lo que recuerdo
The first time I saw Cab Calloway was watching this movie. I was amazed. My first thought was "How come people think rock and roll began in the 80s, when this guy is so obviously doing Rock and Roll in the 1930s."
I mean no offense but I don't think anybody really thinks rock n roll was invented in the 80s. I mean...elvis. way before 80s. But your main point is true he is kinda like a very very early rocker
One of the best movies of all time, and this is probably the highlight. Although the attempted suicide with Arthur Tracy singing in the background is a great one, too.
Filmed 90 years ago and still kicks butt
You're right
Nono, it kicks the gong
Love it he was fo fine and so talented ❤
In my opinion, Cab was the first Rock and Roll star. This man had so much charisma. He's timeless.
I wouldn't say Rock and roll. I would say maybe Jazzy genious
LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!
You Mean Jazz That would be Chuck Berry or Little Richard Cab is the King of Jazz but I do agree.
Well he has been called the first frontman
He invented rock n roll.
Younger folks today who believe they know what cool is should get a load of Cab Calloway who set the standard.
Fr I'm 17 and I'm like wow more people need to know who this is
Swag personified
WOW! 😮😊
Cab Calloway is vastly underrated and unknown to many people because other black musicians got more attention. He often performed to replace Duke Ellington's band. Because of racism, only a few blacks could achieve wide success and popularity back then. And he's black and was always treated as a black man by white America. Damn, he was great!
Cab Calloway was never underrated. He was one of the greats, and his Cotton Club was legend. And then he appeared in a Janet Jackson video, and neo-swing and electro swing have garnered him new fans each generation.
Lord this man was so handsome in the 20’s and 30’s.
You were reading my mind 😩
@@MelanieNevaeh227nah cause he can have me
right they knew to make me a 90s baby ... cause sir 🥰
No one has ever been more flamboyant than Cab Calloway.
He was an amazing storyteller you can see the song
Cab combined soul, jazz, blues and rock and roll....the man is BEYOND legendary !!! He should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor for The Blues Brothers. Cab is the Original OG, man !!!
The Original King of COOL Cab Calloway.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Moooon walk! Amazone this Guy has inventes all the modern musique ! A genious
the more i see this video the more I think Cab was the greatest entertainer that ever lived, there is not a talent these days that comes close to this man
No bones! I love when he dances like he's suspended by wires, completely defying gravity. Lucky, lucky people who got to see him live.
Dude I knowwwww you couldn’t have said it any better. I’d give anything to se him perform live just one time 😭
Uh. Didn’t see anything like that in this video. You wouldn’t be kickin the opium around would you?
🗽 well , i consider myself lucky to have seen him 8 or nine times . also was at several dedications to him which he attended . what a gent !!
Damn it Minnie, first she kicks the gong around, then she goes for the prince, now Mickey.
Bet Mickey doesn't know about her history with Smokey Joe...
he had a dream about the prince of sweden. that was her high from the opium or "kicking the gong around
Wow that just make total sense I never thought of that
I always imagine Minnie looking like Betty Boop.
there's a whole Ha-de-ho universe
Devil Darlin'
: Love your comment ! Hilarious & witty ! : )
they don't make em like cab calloway anymore. performance legend.
PHARINDIPIDY Yes they do. They still sing about drugs, just not in a suit with a band
Mel well then it wouldn’t be like Cab then would it? That’s kinda his thing
My 8 year old sings this with me, he got it going on already, he knows music and class.
Apart from the fantastic vocals and the fabulous musicians , Cab’s footwork including Doing the splits in that immaculate tailored suit is itself a feat of amazing skill. A visual and audio feast. 😁🌹Absolutely fantastic 🎵🎶🎺🎷
Great emotive singer, enough charisma to fill a stage and acting chops and eccentric dance moves! There is no one like the Cab man!
as a person who was born in 1998, playing the game cuphead introduced me to King Dice and King Dice introduced me to Cab and other artists during 20s,30s,40s,50s, and 60s. Damn... music during those times is a total gem!
I love how Cuphead has exposed a whole new generation to 1930s culture
The King of Interpretive dance. He was always popular with everyone, especially the young folks of all races and is still one of my favorite entertainers. I knew his work in the 60s until his death. He was popular with my mom's generation though so I heard everything he recorded is seems. Everything he did was absolute gold. He was so good looking, he could sing and dance. He was one of the favorite of the Jitterbug crowd.
"Kicking the gong around" is 20's slang for opium.
And "junk" was dope.
notice the snort off the back of the hand too, coke?
I did . . . I just love Cab . . . he must have just drove them over the edge, with this subversive lyrics!
that sweet cocaine actually
Rob Nope, opium
The character "Smokey" is described as "cokey", meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase "kick the gong around" was a slang reference to smoking opium.
Minnie the Moocher - Wikipedia
Thanks Karl Marx, very cool
Do you think Cab was a socialist?
It's really not a subtle song. Smokey Joe shows up at the drug house broke and sick from withdrawls. Minnie either owes him a fix or is slang for heroin which I suspect is more likely. Smokey's broke and a chump, everyone acts like they don't know where Minnie is, they give him the brush off until he leaves then everyone gets loaded again.
yup, at 1:40
He's talking about both things, opium ("kicking the gong around", as they already said, and by saying that smokey was a "cokey", which is the same as saying "cokehead" today.
As a yout I kicked the gong overseas. One can not stand while doing the act. You collapse.
Outstanding performance! Cab Calloway is the definition of charisma and stage presence
Classic! Michael Jackson emulated his moves! Can't beat the original folks!
You won't see those moves anymore folks. Enjoy!!!!
It would be dishonest to say MJ stole from Cab Calloway since MJ never claimed to invent the Moonwalk. He always attributed it to street dancers and several famous dancers before him. Not to mention MJ had many other dances other than the Moonwalk, which you would know if you've seen him in anything other than Billie Jean.
Anyways, Cab Calloway also remains one of my favorite musicians of all time. This was groundbreaking for him to actually act out the drug addiction while singing about it!
Cab Calloway
The Master Of Cool.
I mean I’m speechless this man was amazing for that time period he looks really young here and I can’t stop watching this and he performed Minnie the moocher in 1980 at age 73 in the blues brothers amazing
We wont find another sweet man like him. What I wouldn't give to meet Cab Calloway...he is a The only Hi-de-ho man.
he is so cool
Beyond cool..... SUPER COOL!
The master of cool.
1:34 oh that kinda pleasure! Thanks Cab Calloway.
I noticed it too hahahahaha
The bassist is Al Morgan, from New Orleans like most top-shelf early jazz upright players. My friend (who's info I'm passing on) once heard and had a nice and informative chat with his tenor sax and clarinet-playing older brother, Andrew.
The tune is by Harold Arlen and his usual lyricist writing partner, Ted Koehler.
Wondering if that might be New Orleans' Danny Barker on guitar?
That's not Barker, who was in the band later, from 1939 to '46. The guitarist in the clip is probably Morris White, who was with Cab's band through most of the '30s. This guy was darker than Barker (...he said poetically).
The bassist is probably Al Morgan, a great player from New Orleans. He was the youngest of four musical brothers. Never saw him in person, but years ago I heard, met and had a nice chat with the third brother, Andrew, who played tenor sax and clarinet. The two oldest, Sam and Isaiah, were both cornet or trumpet players.
Al Morgan was featured exercising his considerable chops to the fullest on "That Funny Reefer Man" in the movie "International House" in 1933, the year after "The Big Broadcast." Oddly enough, there don't seem to any full-length clips of "Reefer Man" online, just excerpted fragments unfortunately.
@@nasus4848 It's actually banjo in this clip!
They really don't make em like this anymore, that's for sure. I always get a little laugh when I see older folks ranting about drug references in music today but you ask em if they're Cab Calloway fans and they'll say "OH COURSE!" like his tunes aren't chock full of drug references. And we won't even get into the sexual references 😂😂 He really was an innovator of the genre!
Oh yeah absolutely
this guy was one bad ass and talented blackfella!
@P'tit Paysan China White?
This man is bad ass talented handsome and a great dancer I wish I could have seen him live back then just a few years before my ⏲ time since I didn't come around till 1972
This is great. What a talent. Cab Calloway is one of my favorites.
wow, I love this song. I had no idea there was actual footage of Cab singing it. and how bout the little coke-sniffing gesture he stuck in there. Just shows you nothing's new, lol. Thanks for posting this, its freaking amazing.
pick me up "bump" he was Wilona from GoodTimes illegitimate father too supposedly ,I love it when she called Buffalo Butt - Booger
One of the very best band leaders and entertainers Wish there were more of his caliber around today
The greatest of all time. That is my opinion. Cab Calloway the best there ever was.
Watch him snort his wrist...Ha Ha...a Master of cool!!!
Yeah I just noticed that
I bet he was doing a fair bit of that before he went on stage
What I wouldnt give to see one on his original Cotton Club shows..Such a great talent. Thsnks to UA-cam, we can see an American Icon
Cab Calloway The greatest of all time.
A consumate entertainer, and one of the pioneers of Big Band Jazz in the 1930's.
ahead of his time, talent overload, he had it all, total package
The scatting is wonderful... I listened to the same two parts a million times.
This never, ever gets tired ❤️❤️👍🏾👍🏾
When users went to the opium, or Chinatown drug dens, they'd get high, stretch out, and lie down and 'zone'. When they wanted more drugs, there was a little gong they'd hit. For more drugs...Hence the expression...
That gong intro went on to inspire MJs BEAT IT!! ❤️ 🙏🏾 👑
he was so slim then...omg
Cab was only 24 here, very young! He was already leading the hottest band around and doing Hollywood films!
Dope Song Litteraly
So was this a complete drug-themed album or what??
+Lovelymiz Harlem wasn't that much different than it is today. drug issues and all. except know there's a starbucks
Whoa, don't believe that Harlem residents would agree with that statement...
Albums were most certainly around in the 30s and 40s. Several 78 rpm discs packaged together in a bound volume that looked like a photo album first hit the market around 1910. They kept calling them albums when Columbia Records introduced the first microgroove LP disc in 1948.
I'm not sure if the songs were ever in an album, but the characters in this song do recur in other songs in the repertoire. Wikipedia has this:
Minnie herself is mentioned in a number of other Cab Calloway songs, including "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Ghost of Smoky Joe", "Kickin' the Gong Around", "Minnie's a Hepcat Now", "Mr. Paganini - Swing for Minnie", "We Go Well Together", and "Zah Zuh Zaz". Some of these songs indicate that Minnie's boyfriend Smoky was named Smoky Joe as well.
A number of Cab Calloway albums are called Minnie the Moocher. In 1932, the Boswell Sisters did their own jazz version of "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" as did Fletcher Henderson.
In the 1935 Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera, Groucho Marx famously quipped, "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
***
I guess the songs with Minnie and Smoky Joe were drugs-related, but I couldn't say whether that was the sole theme of the albums.
As mentioned above, this is from the "The Big Broadcast", a full-length movie. Its story is built around exhibiting many popular radio acts. This scene was probably filmed at the Astoria Studios in New York. The movie intro shows Cab singing "Minnie the Moocher " for a few seconds. The other acts aren't drug-themed.
Bloomin’ superb 🎷🎺🎶🎵
Cab is fabulous. I have an interesting association with Cab via his music. My partner took his late great daughter Chris's singer showcases. My partner is a great singer partially to what he learned from Chris--and Cab!!!! REAL singing.
You know if I lived back then I would've wanted to meet this man more than anything...🤣 And ask him how does he come up with this random lyrics.
His songs were so up tempo but most of them were about death and the tragedies of drug abuse.
Cab for me as a child thought his music was so f'n cool...he's one cool ass cat...being a hop skip and a jump from the o'l Maxwell street market in Chicago..listening to blues has always been a part of me...oooh and bye the way...I was right then..and I right now..that's one smooth ass cat 🐈😎✌
"Music back then wasnt all about drugs and sex"
Music back then:
i listen to his music since im 3. Im 22 now and for God's sake this is beyond incredible
Cab Calloway....a one of a kind, simply amazing and still entertaining after all these years
Cab...perhaps the greatest musical pioneer of the 20th Century...
Did he.....did he just snort up some cocaine
It's easy to imagine roots going back hundreds of thousands of years. Like most great entertainers.
Love the spin cab did that was amazing
The original bad ass. Really, people think Johnny Rotten is the epitome of punk, but this is just 100% bad ass.
I love this classic!
Cap is pure music!
I grew up with the blues brothers movie but forgot how this music was. Now im 16 years old and love hip-hop/rap since i was 8. But i found him and i started to love it again. This man is a real G. i mean, his way to dance, move and Look is fire.
une époque avec des chanteurs qui avaient de la voix , biens habillés,etc ... merci de cette video
Yeah at St James infirmary
im going down there. to see my baby
Now we know where Michael Jackson learned his moon walking dance.
Yes! There was also a move like James Brown jumping into a stance on the ground.
@Arthur Anderson u really showed him!! with your extensive knowledge on serial pedophiles lmfaooo "moondance" fkn clown
He learnt it from Soul Train. Be truthful it was out before this black people do everything with their feet I do.
@Arthur Anderson Undoubtedly, there was a line of transmission that goes back at least as far as Cab, through Damiels and to Jackson. Who knows where Cab got it from, or if he invented it.
Cab also did Punk about 50 years before the more recent Punk Music. Early footage of Cab’s performances (I think in the Cotton Club?) show he was way ahead of his time. A truly remarkable artist, and I wish a record company would do a comprehensive collection of his performances for posterity while original sources might still be available.
happy birthday cab calloway
I'm in love with cab's songs
Wow, what a song...and what a performance!!
Man what an incredible performance! The man was a born choreographic genius
Man he was wonderful! ❤
24 years old and killin' it !!!!!!
Man, this guy must have faced so many obstacles in the 1920s and 30s. You have Americans today who still think slavery was a good thing. I can’t imagine what it was like for these guys then. Bad-asses. Absolutely superhuman. With so much talent.
Amazing truly ❤
Love Cab the Best in his days.
When addicts become lovers, sooner or later one or the other will choose the drug over their partner. The scenario in this song happens every day, in one way or another, to this day. (From "Minnie the Moocher," "She messed around with a bloke named Smokey, she loved him though he was cokey. He took her down to China Town, taught her how to kick the gong around...." Thought he was recruiting a new partner in drugs, but ended up being replaced by the drug entirely.
Thanks SbrPL. Came for Cab. then discovered great music I'd never heard before.
Para mi es una súper estrella , magistral artistya y los cartoons hechos con su música geniales ! Los disfrute delo niño y ahora de viejo .
One of my favourite songs - classic!
What an artist!
1:40 ha, he's showing how to do blow :D
Cab's my hero he represents all that is important in life.
The inventor of swag, Cab Calloway!
I had no idea there was another song about Cokey Smokey and Minnie the Moocher. And although it was filmed when my mother was a small child, a blues song about a couple of crackheads is still just as relevant.
what GREAT GIFTS Africans have brought to our country , they are endless, talents in all areas of life they should be completely admired and respected and loved, What a boring world without them .
Sandra Maurer but look at what America and other places have now, complete and utter shit I wish music like this was more main stream
They really did introduce all the best musical genres to the country. We wouldn’t have jazz, rock n roll, or the blues without them
Kye Wilson Maybe you need to look a bit deeper ? There is PLENTY of GREAT New Music coming out,in America & other countries too,But You gotta seek it out,,not just think what "they" offer is the best there is to be heard,, If it won't make major Corporations $$$ they don't bother,,which IS why most of what is "pushed" SUCKS !
U.S. SAM but as I was saying most of it is utter shit and the good stuff is basically featured for a nano second
Interesting thought and true, when the Germans thought of world conquring by a master race in @ or before, WW 2..they should have had a look at these videos, no other country, even with our bits of racism, had cooler people and more or better talent anywhere. We are not perfect- but our mix is what makes us strong..
Cab is THE MAN!!!!
There was nothing like Harlem on a sat,.nite back then he’s on a pbs special American masters I watched it over and over again fascinating gee cab was a cool fox.
eyes just love entertaining;and hearing the picture just turns me out,you can tell he and his ensemble gave one fantastic show,i love music that moves you,and it"s few and far that you get entertaining today!!!!!!!!!!!!!CAB........like it's HEP
Just to set everyone straight. Michael Jackson learned the moonwalk (originally called the backslide) from dancer Jeffery Daniel. 1/3 of the r&b group Shalamar. These rhythms and movements are gifts from our forefathers alive in our blood and similarities manifest themselves in different talented people over time. The same way b-boys in New York city were mirroring the movements of capoeira without ever seeing or even knowing it existed. All are just following that same internal beat from the motherland!
africarib what about bill Bailey in 1955
What about him? All I'm saying is who Michael Jackson learned it from, not who may or may not have done the move first.
africarib mhmm i agree..
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It's so obvious that the great late Prince was inspired by Cab Calloway.
Lol My mans on one! takes a bump of H at 1:40 and "skiddy waddi diddy biddy"!!!
When there weren't too many druggies around, those few that were there could be seen as eccentric, colorful characters, as you see in Cab's song. After the war, when the drug plague hit full blast, with drug addicts committing street crimes and drug gangs trying to kill each other, it was a different story.
Recuerdo de niño vi un dibujo animado y muster cab era una rana o un insecto no recuerdo bien, y dirigia una orquesta, y tambien bailava, eso es lo que recuerdo
The first time I saw Cab Calloway was watching this movie. I was amazed. My first thought was "How come people think rock and roll began in the 80s, when this guy is so obviously doing Rock and Roll in the 1930s."
I mean no offense but I don't think anybody really thinks rock n roll was invented in the 80s. I mean...elvis. way before 80s. But your main point is true he is kinda like a very very early rocker
One of the best movies of all time, and this is probably the highlight. Although the attempted suicide with Arthur Tracy singing in the background is a great one, too.
carshagify what wha?
My favorite song about opium addiction. There's a narrow genre!
fantastic!