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New page: '''Cab Calloway''' was a noted bandleader and singer of the Swing era, famous for his song Minnie the Moocher. He shared a residency at the Cotton Club in Harlem with [[Du...
'''Cab Calloway''' was a noted bandleader and singer of the [[Swing]] era, famous for his song [[Minnie the Moocher]].
He shared a residency at the [[Cotton Club]] in [[Harlem]] with [[Duke Ellington]]. In the early 1930s he led one of the most popular [[Big Band]]s in the [[USA]]. He was noted for an imaginative and flamboyant interpretation of the [[scat]] singing made famous by [[Louis Armstrong]].
His career extended well beyond the Swing era - in the mid 1940s he published the ''New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive'', which documented the slang terms which had permeated his songs for the benefit of interested squares.
In 1980 he appeared in the [[Blues Brothers]] movie singing Minnie The Moocher.
Regarded with great affection as a kind and generous man by anyone who worked with him, he died in 1994.
He shared a residency at the [[Cotton Club]] in [[Harlem]] with [[Duke Ellington]]. In the early 1930s he led one of the most popular [[Big Band]]s in the [[USA]]. He was noted for an imaginative and flamboyant interpretation of the [[scat]] singing made famous by [[Louis Armstrong]].
His career extended well beyond the Swing era - in the mid 1940s he published the ''New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive'', which documented the slang terms which had permeated his songs for the benefit of interested squares.
In 1980 he appeared in the [[Blues Brothers]] movie singing Minnie The Moocher.
Regarded with great affection as a kind and generous man by anyone who worked with him, he died in 1994.