Discover 8 Cab Calloway songs that highlight his groundbreaking role in jazz and swing. From “Minnie the Moocher” to “Blues in the Night,” explore the music that defined his legacy and influenced ...

A reefer is a marijuana cigarette. Reefer Madness is a 1936 propaganda film that labels pot as a ghastly menace. This prologue for Reefer Growing Madness explores marijuana’s foothold in the U.S. — ...

[SONG PLAYS: "REEFER MAN" BY CAB CALLOWAY, INSTRUMENTAL] CASEY: Next time on Reefer Growing Madness, a production of KJZZ's Hear Arizona, we'll make our first visit to Alien Labs to meet the clones.

There’s a school of thought, indeed I’m one of the graduates, that maintains that the day you leave school is the day you begin to learn, and this release – 32 tracks, spanning a tad over 20 years – ...

Of course, anyone who’s ever listened to Fats Waller’s “You’re a Viper (the Reefer Song)” or watched Cab Calloway’s riotous rendition of “Reefer Man” on YouTube knows how that only ...

The first is the most obvious: Cab Calloway and ‘The Reefer Man’, written in 1932. Whenever an old song has a title that uses a modern term, there is always the risk that it might be interpreted as a ...

Cab Calloway, “Reefer Man” Most Smokin’ Lyric: “If he trades you dimes for nickels/ And calls watermelon’s pickles/ Then you know/ You’re talkin’ to that reefer man” Potency: SEVEN.

James Wailin and Bobby East will host an all-star 30th anniversary reunion concert by their band, the Reefermen, on Friday, Feb. 10 at the Magic Bag.

Cab Calloway is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz music during the 1930s and 1940s. His unique style of singing, showmanship, and pioneering musical innovations ...

Cab Calloway would go on to star in two more Betty Boop cartoons. The 1933 short “The Old Man of the Mountain” also begins with live footage of Calloway and the Cotton Club Orchestra.

Cab’s exuberantly self-confident, hustling and astute personality drove him on an upwards spiral through the 1920s clubland world of Baltimore and Chicago as an extrovert singer, drummer and MC. By ...