Cab Calloway grows up in Baltimore ... Calloway manages to make an impression at the Savoy Ballroom despite his orchestra’s failure (his band is kicked out, while he is hired to lead the ...

By mid-1930, the Missourians were recording as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, and within months were regulars at the Cotton Club in Harlem. It was in 1931 that Mr. Calloway made his biggest ...

FISHKO: Cab Calloway knew the secret ... few whites in the late-'30s and '40s to include black musicians in his orchestra. Goodman was asked about that and told the newspaper: If a guy's got ...

By mid-1930, the Missourians were recording as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, and within months were regulars at the Cotton Club in Harlem. It was in 1931 that Mr. Calloway made his biggest ...

And so it came to pass that in 1977, Cab Calloway reformed an orchestra with several of his former musicians, playing noteworthy concerts in France, Germany and elsewhere. From then on ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

Consistently ranked among the top bands of the 1930s and 1940s, Calloway's orchestra entertained millions during its heyday, and the bandleader himself continued thrilling audiences up until the time ...

Cab Calloway, Negro band leader ... but to visit Lionel Hampton, another Negro orchestra leader, whose band was playing there. Hampton had invited him to hear his orchestra, according to Calloway.