1. Minnie the Moocher . Arguably Cab Calloway’s most iconic recording, “Minnie the Moocher” is a groundbreaking piece that introduced the world to his famous “hi-de-ho” call-and-response.

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 ...

His name, of course, is Cab Calloway. Best remembered among an older generation for his band the Missourians, ... Calloway will cut loose with 10 songs from his days at the Cotton Club, ...

Mr. Calloway did his best to capitalize on the hi-de-ho craze, turning out a series of songs with titles like “Hi-De-Ho Man,” “Hi-De-Ho Romeo” and “Hi-De-Ho Serenade,” but its most ...

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab CallowayAlyn ShiptonHardcover; 288 pagesISBN 9780195141535Oxford University Press2010 During the swing revival of the 1990s it was singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, and not ...

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway Alyn Shipton Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN 9780195141535 Oxford University Press 2010 During the swing revival of the 1990s it was singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, ...

Cab Calloway is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz music during the 1930s and 1940s. ... His stage antics were so amusing that even before he became famous, ...

Lou Fleischer recalled going to Harlem’s Cotton Club to select Calloway’s best songs to be transposed to animation and Calloway’s first collaboration with Fleischer Studios was in the 1932 ...