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Topic: Cab Calloway

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Laurel & Hardy,  Ingrid Bergman
Favorite author(s):F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite TV show(s):Here's Lucy
Favorite era(s):1930s,  1940s,  1920s
Favorite actor(s):Spencer Tracy,  Clark Gable,  Cary Grant
Favorite great leader(s):Dolfuss,  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Favorite composer(s):Rachmaninoff
Listens to:Jazz,  Louis Armstrong,  Frank Sinatra
Favorite type of dance(s):Swing
Favorite quote(s):"Disco is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art."
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
 
 
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer

The audience is urged to echo Cab Calloway's refrain of Hidi Hidi Hidi Ho!
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Using the Calloway band's original vintage orchestrations as a starting point, coupled with the awesome musicians who have played with this big band for decades, The Cab Calloway Orchestra creates the authentic, unforgettable sensation of a Modern Jazz Orchestra in full flight.
The sound montage included here begins with an interruption of a big band remote - Cab Calloway and his Orchestra appearing at the New Zanzibar in New York City.
King, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, John Lee Hooker , etc… He also traveled a lot, playing in the band the 4 Aces.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

Cab Calloway's "Jittering Jitterbugs" musical short has this form of shim sham routine.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Cab Calloway: Are You Hep to the Jive?
This was previously something that only famous men like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington could do.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Excerpted in Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, 1935-1947 which can be ordered through SavoyStyle.
Jordan Jones,
Rapper

Other tracks are by non-Jewish performers who jumped on the bandwagon like Cab Calloway of Minnie the Moocher fame and Slim Galliard with a song called Matzo Balls.
I believe the music is "Minnie the Moocher" or something Cab Calloway like (if anyone but me remembers him!
 
 
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