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Cab Calloway (25 Dec 1907 - 18 Nov 1994)

Male Person - United States

Releases (80)

Official

Album - Compilation

  1. Cab Calloway 1956
  2. Hi De Ho Man 1974
  3. “Mr. Hi‐De‐Ho” (1930‐1931) 1977
  4. The Cab Calloway Story 1989
  5. Best of the Big Bands 1989
  6. The Most Important Recordings of Cab Calloway 1989
  7. Jumpin’ Jive 1938/1946 1990
  8. His Hi-De-Ho Highness of Jive 1991
  9. Are You Hep to the Jive? 09 Aug 1994
  10. Cab Calloway & Co: The Complete 1933–1934 Cotton Club Orchestra Sessions, the 1949 Sides Plus Rare Items by Blanche Calloway (1931) and Billy Banks (1932) 1994
  11. The Hi-De-Ho Man 1994
  12. An Introduction to Cab Calloway: His Best Recordings 1929‐1940 1994
  13. Minnie the Moocher 01 Aug 1995
  14. His Best Side 1995
  15. Jazz Greats, Volume 12: Cab Calloway: Minnie the Moocher 1996
  16. Cab Calloway, Volume 1: 1929 – 1930 1996
  17. Jiveformation Please 1938‐1941 1997
  18. Jumpin’ Jive 23 Mar 1998
  19. A Portrait of Cab Calloway 26 Dec 1998
  20. Cab Calloway - Greatest Hits (Planet Jazz) 1998
  21. Minnie the Moocher 1998
  22. King of Hi-De-Ho: 1934-1947 26 Jan 1999
  23. Forever Gold 1999
  24. Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul: 1933-1937 1999
  25. Minnie the Moocher 2000
  26. Cab Calloway, Volume 2: 1930 ‐ 1931 2000
  27. The American Jazz Entertainer - Wah Dee Dah (1930-42) 2001
  28. Big Band Legends: Cab Calloway 2001
  29. Hi-De-Hi 2001
  30. Cab Calloway 2002
  31. Jitterbug 2002
  32. The Alternative Takes in Chronological Order 1930‐1944 2003
  33. Zaz Zuh Zaz 2003
  34. The Chu and Dizzy Years 2003
  35. The Hi-De-Ho Man: 1930-1933 2003
  36. The Man from Harlem 2003
  37. A Proper Introduction to Cab Calloway: Zah, Zuh, Zaz 13 Apr 2004
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Album

  1. Cotton Club Revue 1958 1958
  2. Blues Make Me Happy 1962
  3. Cab Calloway ’68 1968
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Album - Compilation / Soundtrack

  1. On Film 1934‐1950 1984
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Album - Live

  1. The Cab Calloway Show: Live in Freiburg, 21. Juni 1989 1989
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Relationships (12)

Conductor For

  1. The Hi Di Ho Orchestra
  2. Cab Calloway and His Cabaliers
  3. Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
  4. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
  5. Cab Calloway and His Cab Jivers

Member Of

  1. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra original, eponymous
  2. Cab Calloway and His Cabaliers original, eponymous
  3. Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra original, eponymous
  4. Cab Calloway and His Cab Jivers original, eponymous
  5. The Missourians (1929 - 1930)

Siblings

  1. Blanche Calloway

Children

  1. Chris Calloway

Recordings by (146)

  1. Learnin’ the Blues 2:35 (1955) 1955, mx. 5179
  2. Unchained Melody 2:48 (1955) 1955, mx. 5178
  3. The Voice 3:01 (1956) 1956, mx. 198
  4. Blues Came Home to Dinner 2:36 (Dec 1957) 1957, mx. G-81-45-1
  5. Tomorrow Night 2:38 (Dec 1957) 1957, mx. G-82-45-1
  6. Born to Be Happy 2:23 (1958) 1958
  7. Tzotskele (My Darling) 3:33 (1958) 1958
  8. Sinful 2:00 (1958) 1958
  9. Beginnin’ of Sinnin’ 2:22 (1958) 1958
  10. Sweeter Than Sweet 4:43 (1958) 1958
  11. Never Had It So Good 2:26 (1958) 1958
  12. Minnie The Moocher 4:29 (1958) 1958
  13. Copper Colored Gal 2:08 (1958) 1958
  14. I’ve Got the World on a String 3:32 (1958) 1958
  15. She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific 1:56 (1958) 1958
  16. Don’t Worry ’bout Me 3:02 (1958) 1958
  17. St. James Infirmary 2:22 (1958) 1958
  18. Lost Weekend 2:08 (1961) 1960-10, mx. 109,760
  19. Just Wait 2:26 (1961) 1960-10, mx. 109,763
  20. Dancing Man 1:56 (1961) 1960-10, mx. 109,761-3
  21. I’ll Follow You 2:46 (1961) 1960-10, mx. 109,762-3
  22. Blues In The Night 3:44 (1962) 1961-12
  23. Basin Street Blues 3:19 (1962) 1961-12
  24. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 2:57 (1962) 1961-12
  25. St. Louis Blues 2:38 (1962) 1961-12
  26. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 4:15 (1962) 1961-12
  27. The Birth of the Blues 2:38 (1962) 1961-12
  28. Blue Prelude 4:21 (1962) 1961-12
  29. I Get the Blues When It Rains 2:58 (1962) 1961-12
  30. Cry Me a River 2:50 (1962) 1961-12
  31. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me 2:17 (1962) 1961-12
  32. History Repeats Itself 2:27 (1966) 1966
  33. After Taxes 2:26 (1966) 1966
  34. The Heavenly Ever After 3:33 (1969)
  35. Minnie the Moocher ?:?? (1974) 1932: “The Big Broadcast” movie
  36. St. James’ Infirmary ?:?? (1974) 1933: “Snow-White” Betty Boop cartoon
  37. So Long ?:?? (1975) live, 1939-06-20: probaby radio broadcast
  38. Geechy Joe 2:30 (1975) unverified source, 1943: “Stormy Weather”
  39. (Hep‐Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive ?:?? (1976) 1943: “Stormy Weather” movie, Could be the pre-recording
  40. Sunday in Savannah ?:?? (1976) 1943: “Stormy Weather” movie, Could be the pre-recording
  41. Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ but a Bird 2:58 (1978) 1978, disco version
  42. September Song 2:39 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  43. Good Time Charlie 5:08 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  44. You’re Nobody (’til Somebody Loves You) 2:40 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  45. It Ain’t Necessarily So 4:26 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  46. Stormy Weather 3:43 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  47. Old Man River 1:36 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  48. Intermission Riff 0:54 (1989) live, 1989-06-21: Freiburg, Germany
  49. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York 2:47 (26 May 1992) live: The Ed Sullivan Show
  50. Alfred the Moocher 2:48 (1993) 1943: “Stormy Weather” movie
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On Recordings (50)

Vocals

  1. St. Louis Blues 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1930)
  2. Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein’ Good) 3:12 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1930)
  3. Sweet Jenny Lee 3:07 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1930)
  4. Bugle Call Rag 2:31 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Oct 1931)
  5. You Rascal You 3:15 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Oct 1931)
  6. Nobody’s Sweetheart 3:20 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  7. So Sweet 2:57 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  8. My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms 3:03 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  9. Six or Seven Times 3:23 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  10. Creole Love Call 2:56 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  11. Basin Street Blues 2:57 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  12. Down Hearted Blues 2:53 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  13. Black Rhythm 3:14 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  14. Mood Indigo 2:28 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  15. Kickin’ the Gong Around 3:12 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931) lead vocals
  16. Sweet Georgia Brown 2:35 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  17. Is That Religion? 2:55 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  18. St. James’ Infirmary 3:05 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  19. It Looks Like Susie 2:55 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  20. Stardust 3:28 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  21. Some of These Days 2:57 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  22. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 3:02 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  23. Dixie Vagabond 3:01 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  24. Yaller 3:27 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  25. You Can’t Stop Me From Lovin’ You 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  26. Farewell Blues 2:41 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  27. I’m Crazy ’bout My Baby (And My Baby’s Crazy ’bout Me) 2:36 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  28. Blues in My Heart 2:55 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  29. Corrine Corrina 3:04 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  30. The Viper’s Drag 3:21 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  31. The Nightmare 2:49 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  32. Minnie the Moocher 3:12 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931) lead vocals
  33. Doin’ the Rumba 2:58 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  34. The Levee Low‐Down 2:57 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1931)
  35. Hot Toddy 2:41 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Oct 1932)
  36. Old Yazoo 2:55 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Oct 1932)
  37. Strange as It Seems 3:17 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  38. Trickeration 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  39. Without Rhythm 2:45 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  40. The Skat Song 3:07 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  41. Angeline 2:53 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  42. Harlem Holiday 2:52 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  43. Reefer Man 2:59 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  44. How Come You Do Me Like You Do 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  45. Beale Street Mamma 3:10 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  46. Old Man of the Mountain 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  47. Git Along 2:41 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  48. There’s a Cabin in the Cotton 4:03 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  49. Aw, You Dawg! 2:49 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)
  50. I’m Now Prepared to Tell the World It’s You 2:53 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1932)

Credited as (76)

  1. Cab Calloway
  2. Dorothy Loudon & Cab Calloway
  3. Jonah Jones with Cab Calloway
  4. Chu Berry & Cab Calloway
  5. Cab Calloway & Scatman Crothers
  6. Blues Brothers feat. Cab Calloway
  7. Al Jolson & Cab Calloway
  8. Ol’ Dirty Bastard feat. Cab Calloway
  9. Louis Armstrong, Baby Cox, George W. Thomas, Jelly Roll Morton, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby & Ivy Anderson
  10. Woody Herman & His Orchestra feat. Cab Calloway
  11. Louis Armstrong / Cab Calloway
  12. Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Clarence Gaskill
  13. Cincinnati Pops "Big Band" Orchestra; Cab Calloway
  14. Lempo & Japwow feat. Cab Calloway
  15. Dizzy Gillespie, Calloway, Palmer & Gibson
  16. Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne
  17. Cab Calloway & Duke Ellington
  18. Cab Calloway & The Hi Di Ho Orchestra
  19. Pisk feat. Cab Calloway
  20. Harry James & His Music Makers with Cab Calloway
  21. Cab Calloway with Jimmy Carrol and His Orchestra
  22. Nat “King” Cole, Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson
  23. Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway with Don Redman and His Orchestra
  24. Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway with Don Redman and His Orchestra
  25. George Gershwin, Gregg Baker, Harolyn Blackwell, Angela Brown, Marquita Lister, Thomas Young & Cab Calloway, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
  26. Cab Calloway featuring Chu Berry
  27. Chu Berry with Cab Calloway
  28. Cab Calloway with Chu Berry
  29. Erskine Hawkins / Cab Calloway
  30. Cab Calloway and The Missourians
  31. Boswell Sisters, Cab Calloway, Mills Bros, Burns & Allen
  32. Betty Boop, Koko, Bimbo, Cab Calloway, The Bouncing Ball, Fat‐Bertha & Max Fleischer
  33. Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Stuff Smith, Louis Armstrong
  34. Leon “Chu” Berry with Cab Calloway
  35. Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Fats Waller
  36. Lena Horne & Cab Calloway
  37. Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Fats Waller
  38. Lena Horne, Cab Calloway
  39. Cab Calloway with The Gayles
  40. Lael & Cab Calloway
  41. Lael Calloway assisted by daddy Cab Calloway
  42. Cab Calloway with Don Costa and His Orchestra
  43. Cab Calloway, Sy Oliver and His Orchestra
  44. Cab Calloway with The Four Bells, Jimmy Carroll and Orchestra
  45. Cab Calloway and Eugenie Baird with Cab Calloway & His Cab Jivers
  46. Cab Calloway with The “Bugs” Bower Orchestra
  47. Cab Calloway with Lael Calloway
  48. Lael Calloway with Cab Calloway
  49. Cab Calloway and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Lena Horne
  50. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway and Lena Horne
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Works (40)

Wrote

  1. Mighty “O”
  2. (Hep‐Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive
  3. Are You Hep to the Jive! (Yas, Yas)
  4. Chinese Rhythm
  5. Do I Care. No, No
  6. Foo a Little Ballyhoo
  7. Geechy Joe
  8. Are You All Reet?
  9. Are You in Love With Me Again?
  10. Bao Bao de Hua
  11. Conchita (Cares Nothing About Love)
  12. Cy From Chi
  13. Don’t Falter at the Alter
  14. Fiesta in Brass
  15. Frantic on the Atlantic
  16. Hot Air
  17. Oh Grandpa
  18. I Ain’t Gettin’ Nowhere Fast
  19. Jonah Joins the Cab
  20. Lady With the Fan
  21. Levee Lullaby
  22. Nain Nain (No No)
  23. Come On With the “Come On”
  24. The Calloway Boogie
  25. Hey Now, Hey Now
  26. How Big Can You Get?
  27. Hi De Ho
  28. Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan (From China)
  29. Virginia, Georgia and Caroline
  30. Zaz Zuh Zaz
  31. Hi‐De‐Ho Man (That’s Me)
  32. Boog It
  33. Geechee Joe
  34. We the Cats Shall Hep Ya
  35. The Great Lie
  36. Lamar's Boogie

Composed

  1. Minnie the Moocher
  2. Squeezit the Moocher (Minnie the Moocher)

Lyrics

  1. Minnie the Moocher
  2. Jitter Bug

Links (25)

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82020542
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82020542
  3. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w66h50vz
  4. http://soundtrackcollector.com/composer/4872/
  5. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138920845
  6. https://ibdb.com/person.php?id=34283
  7. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103488
  8. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/cab_calloway
  9. https://d-nb.info/gnd/131202529

Lyrics Page

  1. http://muzikum.eu/en/122-4100/cab-calloway/lyrics.html

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Cab+Calloway

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/529468

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/253474

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000532957

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130572/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/114594703

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273079

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/2591
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/03cwCzIWQ8BRmXjGPDAL04

Purchase Music For Download

  1. https://music.apple.com/us/artist/897481
  2. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/id897481

Streaming Page

  1. https://music.apple.com/us/artist/897481
  2. https://tidal.com/artist/598

Fan Pages

  1. http://www.thehidehoblog.com/

BBC Music

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/315bd083-892b-4e76-a9f0-91a7408168fc