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	Cab Calloway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader.
		Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s.
		Cab Calloway was born Cabell Calloway III in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, and raised primarily in Baltimore, Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cab_Calloway (1096 words)

	Cab Calloway Orchestra, directed by C. Calloway Brooks - Official Home
		Cab Calloway Orchestra appears with famed vocal groups The Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers in Phoenix Az.
		The Cab Calloway Orchestra, directed by Cab's grandson, "The Prince of Hi De Ho", C. Calloway Brooks, comes from the Big Band Swing Jazz Orchestra tradition that came bursting out of the Cotton Club, and the Savoy Ballroom, in the Harlem Renaissance during the golden age of radio in the 1930's and 1940's.
		The Calloway magic touched many of the greatest Jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Milton Hinton, The Nicholas Brothers, Illinois Jaquet, Jonah Jones, Cozy Cole, Doc Cheatham, and Ben Webster all of whom emerged from Cab Calloway stints, and went on to redefine Jazz music with spectacular musical careers of their own.
	www.cabcalloway.cc (917 words)

	Cab Calloway \| Biography
		Cab Calloway was a legendary fireball of talent, whose infectious "hi-de-hi's," "ho-deho's," scattin', and jivin', in a baritone singing voice rich and vibrant, became the spirited cry of people wanting to be happy.
		His parents hoped young Cab would someday study law, but, by the time he graduated from high school at the age of 17, he had already made up his own mind to be an entertainer.
		Calloway's older sister, Blanche, was a singer and his idol.
	www.cabcallowayllc.com /biography/index.php (411 words)

	Cab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short for cabin, the driver/operator's compartment in a truck (lorry), crane or railway locomotive.
		In England the tractor part of an articulated lorry is often called a "cab" or "artic cab".
		C.A.B. was a 1980s British children's television show
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CAB (229 words)

	Solid! -- Cab Calloway
		Bandleader and vocalist Cab Calloway will always be remembered for his outrageous stage antics and wild lyrics.
		Cab's orchestra remained on top throughout the 1930s and into the war years, touring extensively in the United States and Canada.
		Cab Calloway died in 1994 after suffering a stroke.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_callowayc.html (718 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Cab Calloway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Calloway's oldest sister Blanche was also a professional singer, and she helped him land a stage role on the road with the "Plantation Days" revue in 1925.
		Cab's singing and showmanship captured the attention of the owner and his band was hired to replace the Ellington's band.
		By the late 1930s, Cab's band was one of the top grossing acts in jazz and had become a proving ground for such young talents as Dizzy Gillespie, Ben Webster, Cozy Cole, Chu Berry and Doc Cheatham.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/calloway.html (628 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Cab Calloway
		Calloway had amazing stage presence, and as well as a magnificent voice, he had boundless energy, leaping and cavorting around the stage as he sang.
		Calloway's biggest hits were a series of songs about the low-life and drug culture of Harlem, featuring the fictional characters Minnie the Moocher and her sidekick Smoky Joe.
		Cab Calloway and Co. (RCA Jazz Tribune Vol.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/cab_calloway.shtml (345 words)

	Cab Calloway Timeline
		Cab lands a steady gig performing with Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines at the “Sunset Café”, the Chicago equivalent of the “Cotton Club” in Harlem and becomes the “house” singer.
		Cab is featured as a guest artist on Walter Winchell’s “Lucky Strike” radio program and with Bing Crosby on his show at the “Paramount Theatre.” Cab Calloway breaks the major broadcast network color barrier and becomes a symbol of jazz throughout the country.
		Calloway records and performs with seven or eight pieces as “Cab Calloway and his Cab Jivers” or “Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers.” Cab later performs with a trio consisting of Jonah Jones on trumpet, Milt Hinton on bass, and Panama Francis on Drums.
	www.cabcalloway.cc /timeline.htm (1974 words)

	VH1.com : Cab Calloway : Biography
		Calloway's gyrations and showmanship on-stage at the Cotton Club sometimes overshadowed the quality of his always excellent bands.
		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 fl entertainer of the era.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/calloway_cab/bio.jhtml (321 words)

	African American Registry: Cab Calloway, vocalist & bandleader
		Although the world knew him as "The Hi-De-Ho Man" from his hit "Minnie The Moocher," "Cab" Calloway was a jazz talent and a timeless example of the swing era's appeal.
		Calloway's other important recordings included Pickin' the Cabbage and Sunday In Savannah, which he sang in the 1943 motion picture Stormy Weather.
		Cab Calloway died on November 18, 1994, in Cokebury Village, Delaware.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/497/Cab_Calloway_vocalist__bandleader (200 words)

	Creative Arts By Calloway, L
		In the instant case, Cab Calloway was not operating a going concern at the time of his death, precluding the transfer of a mark.
		However, Cab Calloway's activities were not organized as a business that could have been transferred to his widow.
		As there is no evidence that Cab Calloway operated a going concern at the time of his death, the Court need not reach the issue whether Brooks' use of the name "Cab Calloway " constitutes fair use.
	www.jurisnotes.com /Cases/creative.htm (614 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / In Cab Calloway's family, one intrepid woman inspires another
		NEWTON HIGHLANDS -- When Chris Calloway was growing up, as the daughter of the legendary jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, she knew her aunt Blanche as a radiant, larger-than-life figure who had a circular bed and a shawl-covered piano decorated with photos of herself with a band.
		Chris Calloway grew up in White Plains, N.Y., with her father, the bandleader and vocalist famous for his white zoot suits, Hi-De-Ho Orchestra, and manic onstage energy.
		Calloway would go to Pittsfield for radiation treatments and then rehearse all day, impressing Boyd with her steely resolve.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/11/09/in_cab_calloways_family_one_intrepid_woman_inspires_another (1202 words)

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		Using the Calloway band's original vintage orchestrations as a starting point, coupled with the awesome musicians who have played with this big band for decades, The Cab Calloway Orchestra brings Harlem jazz to life.
		Cab Calloway was born in Rochester in 1907, but the "Hi-De-Ho King" received most of his early education in Baltimore.
		Cab Calloway passed on his love of music and his beloved orchestra to his grandson.
	www.naz.edu /news/story.cfm?pressID=259 (429 words)

	Cab Calloway @ Filmbug
		Cab Calloway, born Cabell Calloway III, was a famous jazz singer and bandleader.
		Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the 1950s.
		For his part, Cab took advantage of this and timed his concerts in certain communities with the release of the films in order to make the most of the attention.
	www.filmbug.com /db/265529 (211 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Iain Ellis \| Alternative Rock Cultures \| Cab Calloway: Original Rapper
		Singing/storytelling alongside — in sync rather than around — the backbeat, Calloway innovated a vocal technique that was to later inform the beat-based singing of Bo Diddley, James Brown, and the subsequent histories of funk and rap phrasing.
		Calloway's fl pride and sense of "cool" were always demonstrative but largely pre-political in consciousness and form.
		And when he declared "I Want to Rock", Cab Calloway patented and prophesized a statement of intent that not only prefigured rock 'n' roll by 12 years, but also gave to the expression all the youthful liberation, sexuality, and fantasy possibilities that would serve to frighten and horrify adult establishments over forthcoming decades.
	www.popmatters.com /music/columns/ellis/051118.shtml (1359 words)

	Cab Calloway Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Cab, raised in Baltimore,MD. While in his teens, the family moved to Chicago where Cab studied at Crane College.
		In Chicago, 1928, Cab was the MC at the Sunset Cafe on Chicago's South Side.
		In 1932, Cab went to Hollywood, where he played in several films, among which are: "The Singing Kid" starring Al Jolson; The Big Broadcast of 1933; Stormy Weather (with a young Lena Horne, sitting in a window and singing the title song); Later he appeared in the movie Sensations of 1945, and others.
	student-www.uchicago.edu /~narusso/shack/data/caborch.htm (512 words)

	Bardavon - For Immediate Release
		Calloway Brooks & the Cab Jivers deliver both the authentic sound of a hot Jazz Orchestra and a snazzy stage style-bringing out a Jump, Blues, and Boogie experience of “Swing that is king and Jive that’s alive”.
		Cab’s career went on to include major films and musicals such as Stormy Weather, Porgy and Bess, The Cincinnati Kid, Hello Dolly!, The Blues Brothers and even a video with Janet Jackson in Design of a Decade.
		Cab Passed in 1994 and in 1995 Cab was inducted posthumously into the International Jazz Hall of Fame.
	www.bardavon.org /archive/0405/pr/pr_display.php?id=184 (346 words)

	American BigBands - Page 1 "C" Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Her father, Cabell Calloway, a graduate of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University was a practicing lawyer; mother Martha Eulaela Reed Calloway, an alumna of Morgan State College, worked as a schoolteacher in the Baltimore school system, also taught music, and was her church's organist.
		While living in Chicago, younger brother Cab, joined her when he came to attend Crane College as a pre-law student (since their dad was a lawyer), but Cab dropped out of school and Blanche groomed him to he an entertainer.
		Cab originally played the piano, but told interviewers that he switched to the drums because his hands gave out before 30 minutes was up.
	nfo.net /usa/c1.html (5063 words)

	Heptune Lorenz-Pulte Jazz and Blues Page
		We first encountered Cab in a 1932 Betty Boop cartoon called "Minnie the Moocher." Here we saw live footage of a lithesome man dancing the moonwalk to "Prohibition Blues," an old Missourians instrumental performed by the Cab Calloway Orchestra (the former Missourians).
		Cab was one of the most remarkable vocalists in the history of jazz.
		Cab and Blanche both recorded a song called "It Looks Like Susie." We heartily hope that somewhere there exists a recording of Cab and Blanche performing together, but as far as we know, nothing of the kind was ever made.
	www.heptune.com /jazzfolk.html (2842 words)

	Betty Boop Celebriducks for the Connoisseur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Cab Calloway sang about "kicking the gong" (smoking opium) in most of the cartoons that he was in.
		The cartoon begins with actual film footage of Cab Calloway dancing a slow and sensuous dance in front of his orchestra, the former Missourians, while they perform the Prohibition Blues.
		Cab was well-known for his love of good clothes and his high standards for professional dress.
	www.beckett.com /celebriducks/betty_boop/index.asp (1722 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cab Calloway (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Cab Calloway (Cabell Calloway)[kal´uwA´´] Pronunciation Key, 1907–94, jazz singer and band leader, b.
		Rochester, N.Y. Known for his inventive creativity, he hired some of the top musicians of his day for his jazz orchestra, including Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Hinton; he also promoted singers Pearl Bailey and Lena Horne.
		Cab Calloway and his band became famous as a result of radio broadcasts (1931–32) from New York City's Cotton Club and was one of the highest earning bands of the 1930s and 40s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Calloway.html (211 words)

	Amazon.com: Are You Hep to the Jive?: Music: Cab Calloway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Some critics dismiss Calloway as a mere pop artist, but it would be a mistake to underestimate his talent, influence, or the infectious joy of his high-style recordings with their superficially loose-sounding tone but musically meticulous construction.
		Calloway lyrics are always full of fun hep-cat, zoot-suit jive and performed with such vigor that you'll catch yourself saying "Solid, Man!" before you know it--and the musicians that back him can really swing and then some.
		Cab Calloway is definitely a singlular individual: unwaveringly hip and musical (absolutely one of the premier singers of "scat" vocals...non-sense syllables delivered in highly rhythmic fashion) but synthesized into a personality that pleased crowds...not too "arty" for the room.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029FN?v=glance (1258 words)

	Cab Calloway MP3 Downloads - Cab Calloway Music Downloads - Cab Calloway Music Videos
		Beyond the showmanship and humor, Calloway had an amazingly swinging big band that was home to emerging jazz stars like Jonah Jones, Chu Berry, Cozy Cole, and (briefly) Dizzy Gillespie.
		Calloway's riotous vocals and scatting are always a delight, and were...
		Calloway's riotous vocals and scatting are always a delight, and were an important precursor to bebop.
	www.mp3.com /albums/157611/summary.html (306 words)

	Cab Calloway is Back - Greenwich Village Inn
		Cab Calloway, with only a four-piece band behind him instead of the fully-stacked outfit of old, is sizzling away with all his old magic at the head of the fast-moving, neatly -staged show with pretty girls that serves to reopen the Greenwich Village Inn, a New York landmark.
		He doesn't wear the zoot suit and dangling chain for this engagement, but he shows he depends much on the costume front by wearing a white dress suit, with white tie and shoes.
		Before you come to the Cab Calloway end of the show at the Greenwich Village Inn, you are nicely entertained by the Wally Wanger girls _ prettiest I've seen in this club over the years _ in costumes originally designed by Billy Livingston and executed by Mme.
	www.bigbandsandbignames.com /CabCalloway.html (361 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Calloway's lasting influence on popular music stems from his minting and mastery of scat-jive vocals.
		Some of Calloway's most popular songs referenced the nitty-gritty of Harlem nightlife and its more fervent practitioners, such as his 1931 smash hit, "Minnie the Moocher." In this innovative song, Calloway used call-and-response technique to bat the phrase "Hi-de-ho" back and forth between stage and audience.
		Calloway and the Missourians played at the Cotton Club for 10 years.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/faces/calloway_text.html (338 words)

	Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Cotton Club, NYC 1931 Posters by Dennis Loren at AllPosters.com
		Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Cotton Club, NYC 1931 Posters by Dennis Loren at AllPosters.com
		Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Cotton Club, NYC 1931 by Dennis Loren
		Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra - Cotton Club, NYC 1931
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Cab-Calloway-His-Cotton-Club-Orchestra-Cotton-Club-NYC-1931_i388594_.htm?aid=623301 (104 words)

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