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Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway, III
Dec. 25, 1907 - Nov. 18, 1994
Rochester, New York
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway -- the legendary "Hi De Ho" man -- was a energetic showman, gifted singer, talented actor and trendsetting fashion plate. A truly "larger than life" figure in American pop culture, immortalized in cartoons and caricatures, Calloway also led one of the greatest bands of the Swing Era.
Cab's scat singing, dancing, comedic personality and flashy elegance had made him a star and a million-selling recording artist. He continued to perform right up until his death in 1994 at the age of 88.
The artist records "Minnie the Moocher". The record was the first jazz album to sell a million copies. [3 March 1931]
Cab Calloway School of the Arts opened in 1992 in Wilmington Delaware, was named after him.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway
And so, in Dallas, like I said before, after I'd been there before - and people in Dallas loved me, that thought I was great, cause I had played in the Majestic theater there people in Dallas loved me, they... . And it was fabulous.
Cab Calloway
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Cab Calloway
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
Cab Calloway
Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good.
Cab Calloway
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
Cab Calloway
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Cab Calloway
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Cab Calloway
I get to the Cotton Club about nine o'clock. We played dance music up until about eleven or twelve. Then we put on a show.
Cab Calloway
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Rita Moreno is the first and only entertainer to have received all 4 of America's top entertainment industry awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy.
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