Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher (CD&DVD Set)

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(2004/UNIVERSAL/MILAN) 27 tracks 1930-33 plus DVD (Code 0, PAL, Dolby Digital, 22 Mins.) inc.7... mehr

Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher (CD&DVD Set)

(2004/UNIVERSAL/MILAN) 27 tracks 1930-33 plus DVD (Code 0, PAL, Dolby Digital, 22 Mins.) inc.7 great, rare clips from the Hot Club De France archive 1941-1950. last copies !

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Interpret: Cab Calloway
Albumtitel: Minnie The Moocher (CD&DVD Set)
Genre Jazz
Label WARNER SPECIAL
Artikelart CD
EAN: 3259130170658
Gewicht in Kg: 0.12

Calloway, Cab - Minnie The Moocher (CD&DVD Set) CD 1
01	Minnie The Moocher	Cab Calloway
02	Saint Louis Blues	Cab Calloway
03	Creole Louis Blues	Cab Calloway
04	Farewell Blues	Cab Calloway
05	Is That Religion	Cab Calloway
06	Some Of These Days	Cab Calloway
07	Nobody's Sweetheart	Cab Calloway
08	Saint James Infirmary	Cab Calloway
09	Sweet Georgia Brown	Cab Calloway
10	Basin Street Blues	Cab Calloway
11	Somebody Stole My Gal	Cab Calloway
12	Corinne, Corinna	Cab Calloway
13	The Scat Song	Cab Calloway
14	Stardust	Cab Calloway
15	Bugle Call Rag	Cab Calloway
16	You Rascal You	Cab Calloway
17	Stictly Cullud Affair	Cab Calloway
18	Aw You Dawg	Cab Calloway
19	Dinah	Cab Calloway
20	Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day	Cab Calloway

Calloway, Cab - Minnie The Moocher (CD&DVD Set) CD 2
01	Minnie The Moocher	Cab Calloway
02	Blues In The Night	Cab Calloway
03	Skunk Song	Cab Calloway
04	Foo, A Little Bally-Hoo	Cab Calloway
05	Cab Special & We The Cats Shall Hep Ya	Cab Calloway
06	Calloway Boogie	Cab Calloway
07	Saint James Infirmary	Cab Calloway

Cap Calloway Thanks to New York’s budget-priced Bell Records, veteran orchestra leader Cab... mehr

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"Cab Calloway"

Cap Calloway

Thanks to New York’s budget-priced Bell Records, veteran orchestra leader Cab Calloway wrapped his rafter-rattling pipes around some of the biggest selling songs of the mid-1950s.

The label’s business model was an intriguing one. Arthur Shimkin launched it in 1952 as an offshoot of Golden Records, which he’d established four years earlier. Both were financially backed by New York’s Simon and Schuster publishing company.

Shimkin covered the hits of the day with competent singers and musicians both famous and unknown, packaged Bell’s singles in colorful picture sleeves, priced them at 39 cents each, and sold them in grocery stores, bookstores, and other outside-the-box outlets. The concept clicked.

Calloway’s endlessly swinging orchestra had been a national sensation during the 1930s and ‘40s that obliterated racial barriers with its musical innovations and dazzling showmanship. His roaring pipes, elastic dance moves, and wild zoot-suited attire made him the epitome of pre-war hep. He appeared in mainstream movies, led his orchestra on network radio, and headlined the finest venues. But hits grew scarce for Cab by the late ‘40s. By 1954 they’d dried up.

Cabell Calloway III wasn’t the first member of his family to take the show biz plunge. That honor went to older sister Blanche, a pianist who recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1925 (much later, she managed singer Ruth Brown). Cab was born Christmas Day of 1907 in Rochester, N.Y. and was raised in Baltimore from age six. His middle-class family had high hopes of him becoming a lawyer, but Calloway had other plans. He met up with Blanche in Chicago in 1927 and began singing professionally. Cab led an 11-piece orchestra, the Alabamians, but when they lost a 1929 battle of the bands at New York’s Savoy Ballroom, he quit.

Broadway manager Irving Mills teamed Cab with another outfit, the Missourians. Mills snagged the band an engagement at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club, and Calloway was on his way. He settled into the swinging nightclub in 1930 for an extended engagement that lasted for years. Performing for well-heeled Caucasians, Cab unleashed his huge voice and wielded a mean baton, whirling, dancing, singing, and mugging his way to stardom. He made his recording debut that year and scored a hit with an outrageous rendition of W.C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues.

In 1931, Calloway and his band skyrocketed with the number that would become his lifelong theme. Minnie The Moocher featured a surreal storyline, a slinky groove, and a "hi-de-ho" singalong chorus (his penchant for scatting had commenced when he forgot some lyrics during a show and had to improvise). Cab’s treatment of the minor-key moaner St. James Infirmary was also popular, his ebullient vocal delivery ensuring the mood didn’t grow too morose.

Calloway’s vibrancy was tailor-made for the silver screen. He performed Minnie The Moocher in the 1932 romantic comedy ‘The Big Broadcast’ and led his outfit through a torrid Reefer Man the next year in ‘International House.’ Cab even turned up in a handful of early ‘30s Betty Boop cartoons. In 1937 Calloway and his orchestra were featured in their own nine-minute short ‘Hi-De-Ho.’ He co-starred as a hepster in the 1943 big-budget musical ‘Stormy Weather’ and headlined his own full-length ‘47 film, also titled ‘Hi De Ho.’ Working all the angles, Cab penned ‘The Hepster’s Dictionary’ in 1938 (updated in several later editions), providing a handy glossary of cool cat lingo for his legion of followers.

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