Happy Birthday to Cab Calloway One hundred years ago, on Christmas Day, ... Mr. FRIEDWALD: A cotton picker's slave hat on the top with a really wide brim.

Book Review Hi-De-Ho: The Life Of Cab Calloway. by David Rickert February 3, 2011. Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab CallowayAlyn ShiptonHardcover; 288 pagesISBN 9780195141535Oxford University Press2010 ...

Calloway, of course, was the baton-waving bandleader with the tuxedo suits and tails, wide-brim hats, oversized mouth, ... JazzWax notes: Gail Levin's documentary, Cab Calloway: Sketches, airs on ...

Cab Calloway, the swing-era singer, actor and bandleader who soared to national popularity in the ’30s and ’40s on the strength of such hits as “Minnie the Moocher” and “It Ain’t ...

Cab Calloway is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz music during the 1930s and 1940s. ... He often performed in colorful suits with a top hat, white gloves, ...

Cab Calloway grows up in Baltimore, a predominantly black city. During this time Cab works as a paper boy, walks horses at the racetrack, and sings all while going to school. Calloway attracts ...

Cab Calloway: 'A Hi De Ho Centennial' An energetic showman, a gifted singer, a talented actor and a fashion plate, Calloway was a legendary figure in American pop culture.

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 Calloway was first. Before Sammy Davis Jr. proved that a black entertainer could reign as a headliner in Las Vegas, before Marian Anderson demonstrated that a black diva could triumph in the ...