St. James Infirmary - Cab Calloway (1947)

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • Here is my favorite performance of Cab Calloway doing St. James Infirmary. The other uploads of this performance on youtube are either cut or don't have the same quality.
    This is from his movie "Hi Di Ho"
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  • @eddiewinters7184
    @eddiewinters7184 10 місяців тому +50

    Cab Calloway was way ahead of his time. It's no wonder he fit into the 80's and 90's so well.

    • @AdriansCreatures
      @AdriansCreatures 7 місяців тому

      not really lol in todays world he would look like the circle k junkie, leave him in his era he did his thing for his time

    • @corwinorr
      @corwinorr 5 місяців тому +2

      @@AdriansCreatures He's intentionally playing a junkie in this performance.

    • @AzxDGK
      @AzxDGK 5 місяців тому

      very well rounded... bandleader, singer, and all-around entertainer

  • @henryjohnfacey8213
    @henryjohnfacey8213 7 місяців тому +30

    Absolutely Genius. Why have we not got a full scale Film/Movie of this man's life.

    • @British_Barbarian
      @British_Barbarian 5 місяців тому +4

      Because no one can play him and get his whole being right

    • @WolfgangAmadeusMozart1761
      @WolfgangAmadeusMozart1761 Місяць тому

      ​@EyelessZack I could be him I look like him and can dance like him irl

  • @jeanhartely
    @jeanhartely Рік тому +30

    Cab Calloway was undoubtedly one of the sexiest voices of all time. He could have talked /sung you into anything.

  • @homzymusic
    @homzymusic 5 років тому +78

    I just saw this version for the first time. Cab filmed at least two others - all of them are unique/bizarre/compelling - one in a Betty Boop cartoon, the other with Cozy Cole's quartet with Jonah Jones. The trumpet soloist in this version is Paul Webster who was a high-note specialist with some of the best bands from the 20s to the 60s.

    • @moladhdodhia164
      @moladhdodhia164 Рік тому +1

      I seen him on a episode of the game
      Show Beat the Clock,he was good.

    • @marjoryrainey73
      @marjoryrainey73 6 місяців тому

      My cat jumped out of the window when he heard the trumpet.
      Not out the window but off the window sill.

  • @fahrmboy
    @fahrmboy 6 років тому +148

    That glitch in the video at 2:29 is perfect!

    • @usmcplu
      @usmcplu 6 років тому +29

      The glitch at 3:07 is great too.

    • @johnkemp9835
      @johnkemp9835 5 років тому +18

      The one thing in this life I like better than bitches is glitches

    • @dorothyjosefina
      @dorothyjosefina 4 роки тому +3

      It felt like I was watching a YTP for a second.

  • @Missjunebugfreak
    @Missjunebugfreak 6 років тому +100

    I love his voice so much!

  • @grandlotus1
    @grandlotus1 Рік тому +48

    He was amazing - I am only coming to appreciate his talent. He was way ahead of his time. The straight faces of the audience is a mystery.

    • @pbcityis-witty6268
      @pbcityis-witty6268 Рік тому +3

      To be watching this back then.. probably trying to process the beauty before them

    • @eddiewinters7184
      @eddiewinters7184 10 місяців тому +3

      They had never seen anything like it. It's like when I first saw Star Wars back in the 77. I had never seen anything like it, that is why i went to see it five times.

  • @lizziesangi1602
    @lizziesangi1602 3 роки тому +24

    This is from a movie that contains all of the black nightclub performers as they traveled what was called the "Circuit". The performers were black and they played high class nightclubs across the country.
    CAB CALLOWAY was a genius! CAB CALLOWAYS' music is behind almost every BETTY BOOP cartoon and the movements of the cartoon characters are taken from CAB CALLOWAYS' own dance moves.
    Believe it or not, MAE WEST was a part of the black scene. She only hired the black musicians of her day for the music in her movies. The movie producers wanted MAE WEST to change her music to white musicians and she refused. Her movies made so much money for the studio that they backed down. MAE WEST had total control over all her material - she wrote the scripts, actors, music, musicians, total control of her productions. MAE WEST performed in Las Vegas until her death. All her background dancers were black men. MAE WESTS' Las Vegas show WAS an upload on this media. MAE WESTS' own digs, her own apartment, was used in her movies, also. It was all white with mirrors on the ceiling and she never changed a thing up until the day she passed away. They say, JEAN HARLOW and MARILYN MONROE were the two blonde bombshells and there was never a third. How wrong they are as MAE WEST WAS the blonde bombshell. It was only her considered extravagance, her personal associations with and her using black performers, that they did not reveal to the public, that kept her from being known
    publically, as the blonde bombshell of her day. C'mon! Anybody that looked at MAE WEST knows she was THE blonde bombshell.

    • @christinerandenberg4076
      @christinerandenberg4076 Рік тому +1

      PBS had a program on Mae West life. Well worth the watch. I think it was "American Experience." She was WAY before her time. Fortunately I taped all of her stuff on VCR tape before they put it in mothballs. Quick with the wit! Original blonde but not dumb blonde by any means.

  • @DishiontheRoll
    @DishiontheRoll 8 місяців тому +11

    A profound astonishment is the reaction Cab Calloway receives after every performance, because wow wow wow 🤩

  • @BitesTheDusto
    @BitesTheDusto 2 роки тому +25

    This version is even more amazing. I don’t know how this is possible

  • @JustJazzuki
    @JustJazzuki 5 років тому +16

    No wonder MDHR took Calloway as a base for King dice he looks like it and is Jazzy like it. Love it! 👌
    *claps 👏👏👏*

  • @michelebrown124
    @michelebrown124 5 років тому +55

    The audience's reaction is just so realistic I mean seeing him walking like a cartoon character is
    Audience : What is he doing someone call the coco

    • @lordshardik
      @lordshardik 4 роки тому +7

      Michele Brown they probably told people afterwards “seeing Cab Calloway sing has changed my life... no, you don’t understand, it was disturbing. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a happy moment again after that, I lost a part of myself that night. The man has ground me to dust and ruin with his voice.”

  • @mobthegamer5391
    @mobthegamer5391 3 роки тому +27

    2:58 wow, that pitch is way too perfect.

  • @lauriealongi5676
    @lauriealongi5676 2 роки тому +6

    I love Cab Calloway. Yrs ago in the Bijou theater in Manhattan, they showed stuff like Flash Gordon &cartoons like Betty Boop singing Hells Bells b4 the movie.
    Wn I was young it cost 25 cents to see a cartoon & a double feature & 10 cents 4 candy & it wasn't near our house. We had 2 b driven there & call to get a ride back so 1 of us had an xtra dime 4 the call.

  • @maskedlocal2462
    @maskedlocal2462 4 роки тому +18

    1:42 true talent lmao

  • @cecillucindo7743
    @cecillucindo7743 5 років тому +24

    well ,now we know who influence'd on tom waits in the best way possible.

  • @WM_Nonsense
    @WM_Nonsense Рік тому +9

    2:29 he’s so good at dancing he stoped time to match the song

  • @soultylive
    @soultylive Рік тому +20

    Art at its finest. We can see in that performance, Charlie Chaplin's influence, Michael Jackson's influencer. Paradoxically, so fresh...

  • @peterbland7227
    @peterbland7227 Рік тому +6

    Wow! What a singer, dancer and overall performer!

  • @kaylynkorir1108
    @kaylynkorir1108 4 роки тому +6

    I love cab calloway he is the prince of hi de ho you will always be remember ❤️🌹

  • @sire-1213
    @sire-1213 8 місяців тому +10

    2024 and we still holding it down Cab!

  • @dr.winstonoboogie7302
    @dr.winstonoboogie7302 5 місяців тому +2

    Cab Calloway was the entertainment himself! Terrific vocalist, terrific dancer and even good at drama!

  • @Oi325
    @Oi325 4 роки тому +8

    The glitches are hilarious

  • @rosemarielopez-cy8vn
    @rosemarielopez-cy8vn 7 місяців тому +2

    Love 😍 his "Minnie the Moocher" too...iconic music & acting from a "Jazz Age" master...the down n out costume adds to the story he's telling...genius

  • @Sharunhh
    @Sharunhh 3 роки тому +22

    Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary
    See my baby there;
    She's stretched out on a long, white table
    She's so sweet, so cold, so fair
    Let it go, let it go, god bless her
    Wherever she may be
    She will search this wide world over
    But she'll never find another sweet man like me
    When I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches
    Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat
    Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
    So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat
    An' give me six crap shooting pall bearers
    Let a chorus girl sing me a song
    Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head
    So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along
    Folks, now that you have heard my story
    Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze;
    If anyone should ask you
    You just tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues

  • @jermecialindsey796
    @jermecialindsey796 5 років тому +22

    The black Charlie chaplin

    • @benphillips3693
      @benphillips3693 4 роки тому

      Jermecia Lindsey I guess he is a racist now, so sad. What talent!

    • @jermecialindsey796
      @jermecialindsey796 3 роки тому

      @@benphillips3693 u talking about the real charlie chaplin?

    • @thesquareroute6650
      @thesquareroute6650 Рік тому +1

      Chaplin couldn't sing like Cab.

  • @JustJazzuki
    @JustJazzuki 5 років тому +137

    For some strange reason I like this... is it just me or other peeps like this too?

    • @jonahsmith2543
      @jonahsmith2543 4 роки тому +32

      It's called having a good taste in music.

    • @dbohnenberger
      @dbohnenberger Рік тому +2

      Anyone who doesn't like this is an idiot

    • @pumpkin_the_snek
      @pumpkin_the_snek Рік тому +13

      one of my favorite songs tbh. Cab is one of the best performers of all time

    • @wnyduchess
      @wnyduchess Рік тому +8

      Why would you not

    • @prometheus5405
      @prometheus5405 Рік тому +9

      I'm not even 20 yet I'm literally obsessed with this 😅

  • @thamillyeichylla1741
    @thamillyeichylla1741 5 років тому +15

    Maravilhoso!

  • @rocckrown153
    @rocckrown153 7 місяців тому

    Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary
    See my baby there
    She's stretched out on a long, white table
    So sweet, so cold, so fair
    Let her go, let her go, God bless her ohh!
    Wherever she may be
    She can search this wide world over
    She'll never find another sweet man like me
    When I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches
    Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat
    Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
    So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat
    Then give me six, crap shooting pallbearers
    Let a chorus girl, sing me a song
    Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head
    So we can raise hallelujah, as we go along
    Folks, now that you have heard my story
    Say, man, hand me over another shot of that booze
    And if anyone should ask you
    You tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary, blues!

  • @brucebostick2521
    @brucebostick2521 Рік тому +1

    Cab Callowy was cool b/f the concept existed!

  • @cintilanteasmr2884
    @cintilanteasmr2884 2 роки тому +5

    I love everything about it

  • @johnp1721
    @johnp1721 7 місяців тому +3

    An outstanding showman and jazz musician

  • @igorrootsgamer1685
    @igorrootsgamer1685 Рік тому +1

    I am a musician and I can say that Amy Winehouse had the identical personality

  • @sabrinapetersen5358
    @sabrinapetersen5358 7 місяців тому +2

    I like listening to cab he's great to listen to!😂❤

  • @stev838
    @stev838 8 місяців тому +2

    This song will resurge

  • @LawndaleLancaster
    @LawndaleLancaster 5 років тому +4

    Saw this movie this morning!!! Great 👍 to find this!!!😃😃😃

  • @TheProject-ij2pq
    @TheProject-ij2pq 4 роки тому +4

    Cada vez ke escucho esta cancion... es como si lo ubiese vivivo en aquella epoca. Soy del 83 pero me atrae tanto esta era no se del porque.

    • @jkplays7485
      @jkplays7485 Рік тому +1

      I can’t help but have the biggest gosh damn smile when this guy sings, an I’m only from 2012 and I’m obsessed with this era.

  • @aarongranda7825
    @aarongranda7825 2 роки тому +2

    Years before James brown.

  • @lesliespann6420
    @lesliespann6420 7 місяців тому +2

    Superb! What an entertainer! 💚

  • @daelandrade2658
    @daelandrade2658 7 років тому +11

    El amo completo

  • @matthewwach7693
    @matthewwach7693 3 місяці тому

    Somebody AI this please!!

  • @MauricioSerra-oe7oc
    @MauricioSerra-oe7oc 24 дні тому

    how they liked a horrible cough like this

  • @NynaRamirez60
    @NynaRamirez60 6 місяців тому

    Increrable

  • @hyjbjjhukl9686
    @hyjbjjhukl9686 5 років тому +5

    what wondreful sound

  • @benphillips3693
    @benphillips3693 4 роки тому +5

    What a band!

  • @derrikdavid
    @derrikdavid 5 років тому +5

    I love this.

  • @juanvicenterubianobenavide8800

    Fantástico!!!

  • @lindagurrera685
    @lindagurrera685 4 місяці тому

    I mean his voice never aged ❤

  • @hamoudazipie
    @hamoudazipie 5 років тому +3

    Sweet man like my 😋🤭👏

  • @Sally-i6w
    @Sally-i6w 6 місяців тому

    I can dig it

  • @henrypatriciosanmartinfaja9285
    @henrypatriciosanmartinfaja9285 7 місяців тому

    Nice!!!

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey 4 роки тому +1

    Great...

  • @instantlunch12
    @instantlunch12 4 місяці тому

    1:39

  • @captainmidnightus
    @captainmidnightus 9 місяців тому

    💜🙏💜🎄

  • @bluewendigo672
    @bluewendigo672 9 місяців тому

    Raw talent from the 40s....than transcends until nowadays.
    The way of expression and Almost burlesque just hook all the people attention.
    In the weirdest way possible.

  • @Alexander_Zemsky
    @Alexander_Zemsky 7 місяців тому

    Cab - non plus ultra !

  • @ljuvinao5
    @ljuvinao5 7 місяців тому

    Soy el único Latino aqui?

  • @HarumiAida
    @HarumiAida Рік тому

    Classic

  • @thedistinguished5255
    @thedistinguished5255 Рік тому

    is the ending like a reference to snake charming?

  • @gladiadorfantasma9126
    @gladiadorfantasma9126 6 місяців тому

    gracias a estos afroamericanos la música norteamericana surgió a flote

  • @mrpzpdx
    @mrpzpdx 5 років тому +2

    💕👌🏻

  • @marcoslanderos382
    @marcoslanderos382 4 роки тому +2

    Every one dead.

  • @normanlefkowitz5197
    @normanlefkowitz5197 Рік тому

    Subtly at its most delicate.

  • @EyesDropBrowies
    @EyesDropBrowies Рік тому +1

    1:42 when your friends joke was little to racist

  • @yvettesanchez4691
    @yvettesanchez4691 3 роки тому

    American Icon.

  • @ZovixYT
    @ZovixYT 3 роки тому

    was he high?

  • @bellmayview2395
    @bellmayview2395 Рік тому

    Thrasher font

  • @claudiafreitaslorre1095
    @claudiafreitaslorre1095 Рік тому

    20 anos depois a banda inglesa the animals regravaria

  • @jean-paulchollet2234
    @jean-paulchollet2234 3 роки тому

    ENCORE 6-ENCORE

  • @francoisecurzi9353
    @francoisecurzi9353 3 роки тому

    magnifique

  • @keiranbradley3238
    @keiranbradley3238 Рік тому

    Wow, from this genius art to the dross served up today as "entertainment" is so sad!.

  • @Willesden_Rab1_TV
    @Willesden_Rab1_TV 7 місяців тому

    THE BIG . 75 YEARS ANNIVERSARY - SOON COME
    THEN ITS ALMOST 100 YEARS OLD = LONG LIVE THISHERE

  • @edgaralvarez9258
    @edgaralvarez9258 6 місяців тому

    esos vientos son deliciosos
    🎷🎺🎷🎺

  • @MyGianthead
    @MyGianthead 5 місяців тому

    The man, and his band!

  • @edgaralvarez9258
    @edgaralvarez9258 6 місяців тому

    cómo pasamos de ésto a regeton ? 🥺😭