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In 1938, Calloway released Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A "Hepster's" Dictionary, the first dictionary published by an African American. It became the official jive language reference book of the New York Public Library. [31] A revised version of the book was released with Professor Cab Calloway's Swingformation Bureau in 1939.
The form is unusual in that the verses are the now-familiar standard twelve-bar blues in common time with three lines of lyrics, the first two lines repeated, but it also has a 16-bar bridge written in the habanera rhythm, which Jelly Roll Morton called the "Spanish tinge" and characterized by Handy as tango.
Cab Calloway, an up and coming jazz musician is putting together a band; he is looking forward to making it big as the bandleader.His girlfriend Minnie, however, was upset that Cab has retained the services of a female band manager, Nettie, to help him promote his band and get his first big break.
Wilder said, in an interview with music critic Jay Nordlinger, [3] that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore. Just the title. "I spotted [the title] as I was crumpling up the envelope some days later. Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody. I remember it only took about 20 minutes.
It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his orchestra, [3] with versions by others over the years, including by Harlan Lattimore, Murphy's Law and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. [4] The song as performed by Calloway appears in the 1933 film International House. [5]
St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy.It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee.
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is an American musical short film directed by Fred Waller and released by Paramount Pictures in 1934. [1] The film stars jazz bandleader Cab Calloway and actress Fredi Washington. [2] In 2001, the film was reissued by Kino International in the DVD collection Hollywood Rhythm: Vol. 1-The Best Of ...
The first Cab Calloway Orchestra comprised Earres Prince on piano; Walter "Foots" Thomas and Thornton Blue on alto saxes; Andrew Brown on tenor sax; Morris White on banjo; Jimmy Smith on tuba; and DePriest Wheeler on trombone; Leroy Maxey on drums; R.Q. Dickerson and Lammar Wright on trumpets.