Feb 27 2008
Cab Calloway: Mini the Moocher
At the height of his career, Cab Calloway’s big band alternated with Duke Ellington’s as the house band at New York’s Cotton Club. One group would be out touring the country while the other held down the Cotton Club and it’s weekly radio broadcast. Calloway had taken voice lessons as a child, although his parents had hoped he would become a lawyer like his father. He was famous for his scat singing, which he claimed to have learned from Louis Armstrong. This song, “Minnie the Moocher” is his best known work. A short film starring Betty Boop was built around the song. In 1980 Calloway appeared, singing “Minnie the Moocher” in the film “The Blues Brothers.”
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Wooh! My wretched laptop overheated again.
Didja, like, rip off a list of all the music I like? Cos you sure seem to be posting snippets of my favourite stuff.
Of course, the Smothers Brothers clip reminds me of a Tom Waits song …
Karnak is sensing something.