Sunday - Cab Calloway


Minnie the Moocher


Jumpin' Jive w/ The Nicholas Brothers


St James Infirmary


- L.M. 11-07-2010 4:29 am

most awesome
- mister anchovy (guest) 11-07-2010 2:59 pm


We are so damn lucky that there is so much film footage of Calloway's performances.
- L.M. 11-07-2010 4:12 pm


A very elderly and still handsome Cab Calloway shows up at the end of this 1990 Janet Jackson video:


- L.M. 11-07-2010 4:26 pm


He did a nice little sequence in the Blues Brothers movie which I liked, but I don't see it on Y-Tube. There is also a sequence from the movie The Cotton Club featuring Larry Williams as Cab.

But here is the Betty Boop version (with some swell live Cab dancing stuff in the intro):

- VB 11-10-2010 12:48 am


Abandon hope all ye who enter here: Squeezit the Moocher:

- VB 11-10-2010 1:02 am





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