Title: Cab Calloway - Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
Description: While traveling to New York City, Cab "instantly" creates an all-new number for his opening at the Cotton Club; touts a console radio to a porter on the train; rattles the CC's rafters with "Zah Zuh Zaz" and "The Lady With the Fan"; has a torrid time with the porter's wife, till her pistol packin' papa walks in - and discovers the Mrs. has been stashing Cab *and his entire band* in her bedchamber! The Hi-De-Ho Romeo rides again!

Title: Classic Sesame Street - Cab Calloway sings "Hi De Ho Man"
Description: Sesame Street has had guest stars from nearly all eras of the 20th century. It's extremely hard these days to find an entertainer with the impact and talent of someone like "Cabby" Calloway.

Title: Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway & Betty Boop
Description: Starting with a phenomenal live moment where Cab Calloway free-form dances to his orchestra swinging slow & sweet to St. James Infirmary. Then things get rolling. Home life is tough for Betty, so she hits the road with her friend Bimbo. They venture into a haunted forest and seek refuge in a dark cave. Within, they encounter the alter-ego of Cab and his band, the ghost of walrus backed by a symphony of skeletons, monsters, and condemned ghouls. The ending is quite spectacular. See more lost treasures at: http://www.weirdovideo.com

Title: Cab Calloway Sings "The Man From Harlem"
Description: Cab Calloway Sings A Song That Was Outrageous In Its Time Titled "The Man From Harlem"

Title: Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary
Description: Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary, live on US tv in 1964

Title: Calloway Boogie
Description: Cab Calloway and backup group. Honestly, I don't care for the singing/dancing... that trumpet player is burning.

Title: Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
Description: Here's a clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive". After awhile they let the Nicholas Brothers jump in and lend their feet to the action. ==================== Note that must moderate the comments here now because of some bad apples. Sorry...

Title: Saint Louis Blues - Roman N. Orleans Few Stars - Cotton Club
Description: Live at the Cotton Club - Rome, Italy. Michael Supnick - cornet, trombone Gianni Sanjust - clarinet Michele Pavese - trombone, leader "Peter" Ricci - banjo Gianluca Galvani - Sousaphone http://www.michaelsupnick.com/michelepavese.html http://www.cambiamusica.it Realization and editing by Antonio Parisi adservice@tiscali.it "St. Louis Blues" is an American popular song composed by William Christopher Handy in the blues style. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song; it has been performed by numerous musicians of all styles from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith to Glenn Miller and the Boston Pops Orchestra. It has been called "the jazzman's Hamlet". Published in September of 1914 by Handy's own company, it later gained such popularity that it inspired the dance step the "Foxtrot". The version with Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong on cornet was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Henry "Red" Allen) was inducted there in 2008. Though the name of the song may imply that it is about events in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, it instead refers to a sophisticated woman from that city who has stolen the affection of the singer's lover. The opening line, "I hate to see that evenin' sun go down" may be one of the more recognizable lyrics in pop music, and set the tone for many subsequent blues songs. Handy said he had been inspired by a chance meeting with a black woman on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri distraught over her husband's absence, who lamented: "Ma man's got a heart like a rock cast in de sea", a key line of the song. Details of the story vary but agree on the meeting and the phrase. The form is unusual in that the verses are the 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, popularly called the "Spanish Tinge". While many other old blues are simple and repetitive in form, the St. Louis Blues has multiple complementary and contrasting strains, similar to classic ragtime compositions. Handy said in writing "St. Louis Blues" his objective was "to combine ragtime syncopation with a real melody in the spiritual tradition." Since the 1910s, the number has enjoyed great popularity not only as a song but also as an instrumental. Many of jazz's most well known artists in history have given renowned performances of the tune. The following is an incomplete list of the hundreds of musicians of renown who recorded "St. Louis Blues", chosen as examples that are early in their careers and in the era of its greatest popularity. * 1920 Marion Harris * 1921 Original Dixieland Jass Band * 1922 W. C. Handy * 1925 Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong * 1927 Sylvester Weaver * 1929 Louis Armstrong & "Red" Allen * 1930 Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway, the Mills Brothers, the Boswell Sisters * 1935 Bob Wills * 1939 Benny Goodman * 1940 Earl Hines * 1943 Glenn Miller * 1949 Art Tatum * 1954 Louis Armstrong * 1957 Louis Prima * 1970 Jula de Palma "beat version" * 1976 The Flamin' Groovies * 1985 Doc Watson * 2001 Dexter Romweber Other recordings include Artie Shaw, The Esquire Boys, and "The Merri Men" (a spin-off group from Bill Haley & His Comets). It was also recorded on piano rolls. It also has been used in the Malcolm McLaren song "About Her" from the soundtrack of the motion picture Kill Bill Vol II. The song covers both "St. Louis Blues" and a Zombies song "She's Not There". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Blues_%28song%29

Title: Black Stereotypes
Description: Every race, ethnicity, creed, gender, lifestyle, etc has it's stereotypes. Gay interior decorators, Chinese laundry, Hispanic gardeners, Irish cops, Italian gangsters, etc... This film merely provides a brief look at how blacks have been portrayed in the past. These images are just a small sampling of how black people have been portrayed on a daily basis for many, many years. All of the clips used in this film were shown on television up until the 1980's. Many episodes of the Little Rascals have been "ethnically cleansed" over the years. Some 20 minute episodes were edited down to a mere 8 after removing all racial images/slurs. Several episodes were removed completely from the series. All of the major studios, produced both live-action films and cartoons portraying blacks in this manner. Stereotypes thrived on film as comic relief. These films are a product of their times and while certainly not suitable for children, they are important historical documents. They represent a period of American history where views were very different than they are now. It is also important to remember that they were intended to be funny, not hurtful. One does not have to look far to find many other examples of racial stereotyping in popular media in the first half of the 20th century. Radio shows, movies, and comic strips were filled with caricatures of Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and every other minority. It is to our great credit that we have evolved as far as we have since then, but we should preserve our history and not try to rewrite it in some Orwellian attempt to excise those parts of it that we now find abhorrent. As for the music, it is a modified version of Cab Calloway singing "Some of These Days" from the film soundtrack, "Forbidden Zone" Comments are unmoderated in order that the ignorance that still exists can be seen by all.

Title: Raspy loves to Swinga ,Cab Calloway,Al Jolson
Description: Rasy Lady Bird,s sister on her daily swing session to Cab Calloway (with Al Jolson) - I Love To Singa http://desmond-dye.spaces.live.com desmond_dye@hotmail.com http://www.myspace.com/desmonddye

Title: The Old Man of the Mountain
Description: A precursor to music videos, this 1933 cartoon short features Cab Calloway and his band performing "Minnie the Moocher", "The Old Man of the Mountain", "You've Got to Hi-De-Hi", and "The Scat Song".

Title: Kicking The Gong Around - Chris Calloway (Cab's Daughter)
Description: This was filmed at the Scottish Rite Temple in Santa Fe, NM. It is a Stars Never Fade Production. Jazz music this is cab calloway's daughter cab calloway skat music cool ass jazz here ya go world get ready protools recording enjoy skanky ass song slutty song smooth song nice rhythm soul music nice beat slezzy bass guitar solo piano drum drums solo

Title: Cats of the Jungle
Description: Montage of my two deranged cats (in order of appearance, Sinuhe and Quasar) set to Chant of the Jungle by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra.

Title: 1937 Jitterbug: Benny Goodman & His Orch. - "Peckin' "
Description: Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Peckin' (H.James /B.Pollack), Victor 1937 --------------------------------------- The term "jitterbug" comes from an early 20th century slang used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the "jitters" (delirium tremens). During the early 1900s, the term became associated with dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. In the Swing era, the term was adopted by band leader Cab Calloway to describe the swing dancers who, as he put it „look like a bunch of jitterbugs out there on the floor", due to their fast often bouncy movements. Calloway's 1935 recording of "Call of the Jitter Bug" and the film "Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party" popularized use of the word "jitterbug". Lyrics to "Call of the Jitter Jug" clearly demonstrate the association between the word jitterbug, and the consumption of alcohol. "If you'd like to be a jitter bug, First thing you must do is get a jug, Put whiskey, wine and gin within, And shake it all up and then begin. Grab a cup and start to toss, You are drinking jitter sauce! Don't you worry, you just mug, And then you'll be a jitter bug!" World War II facilitated the spread of jitterbug to Europe. For instance, by May 1944 in preparation for D-Day, there were nearly 2 million American troops stationed throughout Britain. Time Magazine reported that American troops stationed in France in 1945 „jitterbugged", and by 1946 jitterbug had become a craze in England.

Title: No Buts, No Maybes Professor Longhair Uptown Rhythm KINGS
Description: Just after this the taping for this show, we had the good fortune of doing the NPR show that Ruth Brown hosted ...not that was a gas!There is another full hour of the show on tape, floating around somewhere, Swing dance, jitterbug, hand dance fans might look for ..no jive. A world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration ...David "Panama" Francis - tymjar