Artist.......: Cab Calloway
Album........: Hep Cats And Cool Jive
Label........: Fuel 2000
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: 061496
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-16-2006
str.date.....: Aug-23,-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.cabcalloway.cc
track title time
01. Minnie the Moocher 02:41
02. Hard Times 03:09
03. Boog It 03:43
04. Jumping Jive 03:41
05. Everybody Eats When They Come to My House 02:33
06. Limehouse Blues 02:18
07. 15 Minute Intermission 02:46
08. Stormy Weather 03:50
09. That Old Black Magic 03:09
10. Scat Song 02:43
11. Get with It 03:31
12. Cruisin' with Cab 04:09
13. This Is Always 03:55
14. Exactly Like You 03:14
15. We the Cats Shall Hep You 02:35
Runtime 47:57 min
Size 56,1 MB
Release Notes:
One of the great entertainers, Cab Calloway was a
household name by 1932, and never really declined
in fame. A talented jazz singer and a superior
scatter, Calloway's gyrations and showmanship
on-stage at the Cotton Club sometimes overshadowed
the quality of his always excellent bands. The
younger brother of singer Blanche Calloway (who
made some fine records before retiring in the
mid-'30s), Cab grew up in Baltimore, attended law
school briefly, and then quit to try to make it as
a singer and a dancer. For a time, he headed the
Alabamians, but the band was not strong enough to
make it in New York. The Missourians, an excellent
group that had previously recorded heated
instrumentals but had fallen upon hard times,
worked out much better. Calloway worked in the 1929
revue Hot Chocolates, started recording in 1930,
and in 1931 hit it big with both "Minnie the
Moocher" and his regular engagement at the Cotton
Club. Calloway was soon (along with Bill Robinson,
Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington)
the best-known black entertainer of the era. He
appeared in quite a few movies (including 1943's
Stormy Weather), and "Minnie the Moocher" was
followed by such recordings as "Kicking the Gong
Around," "Reefer Man," "Minnie the Moocher's
Wedding Day," "You Gotta Hi-De-Ho," "The Hi-De-Ho
Miracle Man," and even "Mister Paganini, Swing for
Minnie." Among Calloway's sidemen through the years
(who received among the highest salaries in the
business) were Walter "Foots" Thomas, Bennie Payne,
Doc Cheatham, Eddie Barefield, Shad Collins, Cozy
Cole, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton, Mario Bauza, Chu
Berry, Dizzy Gillespie, Jonah Jones, Tyree Glenn,
Panama Francis, and Ike Quebec. His 1942 recording
of "Blues in the Night" was a big hit.
With the end of the big band era, Calloway had to
reluctantly break up his orchestra in 1948,
although he continued to perform with his Cab
Jivers. Since George Gershwin had originally
modeled the character Sportin' Life in Porgy and
Bess after Calloway, it was fitting that Cab got to
play him in a 1950s version. Throughout the rest of
his career, Calloway made special appearances for
fans who never tired of hearing him sing "Minnie
the Moocher."