Since I’ve done the Nicholas Brothers and Busby Berkeley, it’s time for Cab Calloway, another old movie favorite of mine. I think the first time I ever came across anything related to Calloway was in the late 1960s when I was watching That Girl on TV – Ann’s father (Lew Parker) sang Minnie the Moocher …
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Feb 04
Cab Calloway
- By MaryO in Interesting stuff, Movies
- bandleader, Betty Boop, Busby Berkeley, Cab Calloway, call and response, cartoon, Cotton Club, Gunther Schuller, Hi De-Ho, Hugh Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Lew Parker, Minnie the Moocher, scat singing, singer, Stephen Fry, That Girl, The Blues Brothers, The Nicholas Brothers, The Old Man of the Mountain, Three Mo' Tenors, video
Feb 04
Cab Calloway
- By MaryO in Interesting stuff, Movies
Since I’ve done the Nicholas Brothers and Busby Berkeley, it’s time for Cab Calloway, another old movie favorite of mine. I think the first time I ever came across anything related to Calloway was in the late 1960s when I was watching That Girl on TV – Ann’s father (Lew Parker) sang Minnie the Moocher …
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