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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

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Sunday, February 25, 2024 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

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Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Zaz Zuh Zaz (instrumental)	Cab Calloway' Hi-De-Ho	Paramount Pictures	rec 1934,this was a short film featuring Calloway, this number had Calloway and the entire band performing in silk pajamas!
				today's show is a tribute to Cab Calloway! Source: Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway by Alyn Shipton
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	St. Louis Blues	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	rec 1930 Calloway's first recording. Note the way he plays with the language, drawing out the first "blues" far longer than any other singer had done
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	St. James Infirmary	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	rec 1930 this was Calloway's first hit recording
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Some Of These Days	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	rec 1930 another early hit that Calloway performed and recorded countless times throughout his career
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Nobody's Sweetheart	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	rec 1930 Calloway's first two years of recording were incredibly productive, yielding many influential recordings
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Minnie The Moocher	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	rec 3/3/1931 this is the song Calloway was most known for throughout his career.He recorded it many many times, this first recording was the most successful

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Kickin' The Gong Around	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1931 written by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler, staff songwriters at the Cotton Club, for a revue at the club "Rythmania" which starred Calloway. Like "Minnie the Moocher" this is a sad song about heroin addiction
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1931 also written by Arlen/Koehler for Calloway & premiered in Rhythmania
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Trickeration	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1931 also written by Arlen/Koehler for Calloway & premiered in Rhythmania
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	I've Got the World On a String	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1932 written by Arlen/Koehler for Calloway. Calloway and Louis Armstrong were the first to record this song which is now a standard
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Harlem Hospitality	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1933 written by Arlen/Koehler for Calloway
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Harlem Camp Meeting	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1933 the only song in this set not written by Arlen/Koehler, this is an example of the "revival" style (like the earlier ("Is That Religion?") which Calloway experimented with from time to time
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Zaz Zuh Zaz	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1933 this song inspired Swiss singer Johnny Hess several years later to record "Je Suis Swing" which included the lyric "za-zou, za-zou", which in turn inspired les zazous, a French youth movement who wore exaggerated zoot suits like Calloway, lovedswing music and dancing, and opposed (and were opposed by) the Vichy government
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	The Scat Song	The Early Years 1930-1934	JSP	1933 cowritten by Calloway, Mitchell Parrish and Frank Perkins, who I believe had taken over for Arlen/Koehler at the Cotton Club
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Hotcha Razz Ma-Tazz	Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party	Paramount Pictures	1934 from a short film starring Calloway, has a wonderful example of Calloway's double-time scat singing
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Jitter Bug	Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party	Paramount Pictures	1934 from the same film. This song was the origin of the term "jitterbug." Irving Mills created the "Jitter Bug Society" for dancers to promote the song, and the jitterbug was born. In the movie, a very young Lena Horne is visible among the dancers,standing next to Cab!
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Keep That Hi-De-Hi In Your Soul	Shell Chateau Jan 25 1936	otr-cat.com	1936 radio appearance to promote the film THE SINGING KID which Calloway appeared in with Jolson.Jolson hosted Shell Chateau

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Cab Calloway's Quizzicale	Quizzicale Feb 25 1942		1942 radio broadcast. Quizzicale was an attempt to capitalize on Calloway's heavy use of slang. The show is extremely rare, I was only able to find this clip of the introduction to one episode
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Jive (Page One Of The Hepster's Dictionary)	1930-1939	Classics	1938 Calloway published a document called The Hepster's Dictionary, a glossary of slang terms from his songs & their meanings. You can still find copies of this document on auction sites, very expensive of course
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	(Hep-Hep) The Jumpin' Jive	1930-1939	Classics	1939 four years later Calloway would perform this song while the Nicholas Brothers' gave the greatest movie dance performance ever, in STORMY WEATHER
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Utt-Da-Zay (That's The Way)	From Avenue A To The Great White Way	Columbia	1939 this was recorded at the same sessions as "The Jumpin' Jive." Calloway's merging of a traditional Yiddish song with his scat singing earned him lifelong admiration from a whole community of Jewish music lovers
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Chili Con Conga	The Chu and Dizzy Years	Hep	1939 Mario Bauza introduced Latin sounds to the orchestra, he said he'd stay up after hours teaching drummer Cozy Cole and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie how to play Cuban rhythms
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Boo Wah, Boo Wah	The Chu and Dizzy Years	Hep	1940 in Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet solo you can hear the beginnings of the bebop sound he would develop a few years later, especially the triplet-based run
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Are You Hep To The Jive	The Chu and Dizzy Years	Hep	1940 one of Calloway's most enduring vocals
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Are You All Reet	The Chu and Dizzy Years	Hep	1941 this whole set shows the influence of Chu Berry on the band's musicality. The band at this point was no longer just backing Calloway, they were a top-notch jazz band in their own right

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Geechy Joe	Stormy Weather	20th Century Fox	1943 Calloway acted with Bill Robinson, they had been good friends since the early 1930s. For much of the 30s Calloway, Robinson and Ellington were the most famous Black entertainers in NY
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	We The Cats Shall Hep Ya	Soundie		1945 Calloway made many soundies in the 1940s. Like many soundies, the sound quality is not great
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Foo a Little Ballyhoo	Live at Cafe Zanzibar	Magnetic	radio broadcast Aug 14 1945. The Zanzibar recordings are prized examples of live performance
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Hi-De-Ho Man	1942-1947	Classics	1947 this recording was made near the end of his big band. In 1947 due to changing musical tastes he reduced the size of the band& by 1949-1950 had disbanded it
Cab Calloway	I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped	Cab Calloway & Co	RCA	1949 this was from the period when he was working with a small group, not a full orchestra. His self-deprecating humor points to a reality about new jazz styles leaving him & his music behind. After this he would have a couple of years of being largely unable to get work

Cab Calloway w/ Ed Sullivan studio orchestra	It Ain't Necessarily So	Live on the Ed Sullivan Show		1957 Calloway revived his career by appearing in a 1952 revival of Porgy & Bess as Sportin' Life. This performance was from the Ed Sullivan show a few years later
Cab Calloway and The Count	I Wanna Count	Sesame Street	Children's Television Workshop	1979 Calloway was one of many music luminaries who appeared on Sesame Street
Cab Calloway, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd	Dialogue / Minnie the Moocher	The Blues Brothers	Universal Pictures	1980 This movie introduced Calloway to a whole new generation of fans. After this Calloway had a successful career touring until his health failed in the early 90s. He died in 1994
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	Some Of These Days	Hi-De-Ho	Vitaphone	1936 short film starring Calloway