Cab Calloway

31 years ago today we lost the King of Hi-De-Ho. 

Rest in Power to one of the hepest cats of all-time! 👑

 December 25, 1907 - November 18, 1994 

With every passing year, we learn more and more about the legend and life of Cab Calloway.

Cab had a step or two!

@HazbinHotelier 💫Hi de ho thanks for the 🖤

I remember coping SO HARD over Alastor having a moustache. Like "It's okay, it's okay, he's like Vivziepop Cab Calloway. I'll get used to it"... but for real I am SO SO happy they got rid of it 🙏

Iykyk 🙌🏽

@SVG__Collection 💫🖤💪🏽 one day you might consider tagging us showing more love, jitterbug!!

“People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.” — Cab Calloway

@sl4plund You got your boots on!

i love cab calloway a lot dude

@simplemellie Tag us next time, esp if it’s MTM 💫🖤💪🏽

5 songs (I have no one to tag) Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway Thunder kiss ‘65 - Rob Zombie M.E. - Gary Numan The Crowd - Roy Orbison Let there be love - oasis

@charlesdhmmr @Patriota_81 @oldmedia Cab was the singer… not the writer…. Follow the trail for who the “writer” was…

@Patriota_81 @oldmedia Yep, I got curious. Its "St James Infirmary" and the singer writer is Cab Calloway.

This Rotoscope Animation from 1933

@WordcelsPuzzle Thanks thehepstersdictionary.com

Phrase of the Day: jive talking Ever wondered how "jive talking" got its groove? This phrase was originally defined as 'Harlemese speech' by jazz musician Cab Calloway in his 1938 'Hepster's Dictionary.' Concurrently, 'jive' was also used to denote deceptive speech, a genre of music (jazz), or dancing to jazz music. The late '70s and early '80s saw a resurgence of 'jive talk' in pop culture. The Bee Gees recorded 'Jive Talkin' for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Following this, the 1980 film Airplane featured a memorable scene of Barbara Billingsley, the quintessential American housewife from her role as June Cleaver, hilariously speaking jive. Our daily puzzles at Wordcels.com offer a chance to chain together phrases like 'jive talking' into a grid of 16 two-word phrases. Will you take on the challenge? #Wordcels

@sorrowfowl Thanks for the love 💫🖤💪🏽

I know i'm rambling but also I've kinda fallen in love with this instrument, if I keep it up i'mma sit on my front porch and jam unashamedly. I desperately want to learn St. James Infirmary bc of animation history and MY ABSOLUTE GOAT Cab Calloway

so bendypilled I can't decide to continue drawing Sammy or continue to practice banjo today. for Sammy reasons

@FABNEWYORK @VanityFair Fab, pls check you IG DMs for connection points. Congrats on your book, excited to learn more.

Shout out to @VanityFair for this online only excerpt from my memoir, “Everybody’s Fly” —-> dropping 3/10!! vanityfair.com/culture/story/…

IYKYK!

@PSavelon 🔥🔥🔥

1934 - Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club Orchestra - London Palladium #jazz #CabCalloway

However many flowers Cab Calloway got while he was alive wasn’t enough

@oldmedia for forgot to mention the reason why this animation was so cool, Cab Calloway. @fleischertoons

@RevolutionNak That’s one way of saying it… Cab was thee OG!

He fuckin it up lmfao

@CandyCaine26 @myhumangetsme @miles_commodore Sure she was, go with that AI summary.

@myhumangetsme @miles_commodore And she was the daughter of Cab Calloway!!

DID YOU KNOW??? The iconic theme song for "The Jeffersons" called "Movin on Up" was written and sung by Ja'net DuBois who played the nosey neighbor Willona Woods on Good Times.

84 years old and absolutely slaying!

@ADA_bow We are working on some options with curator Dr. Robyn P. Any ideas or contacts would be super appreciated!

@TheRealJed Good synopsis while keeping it open to interpretation.

Incidentally, it wasn't Gillespie who launched the spitball, but a bandmate who confessed decades later.

1941: how an augmented ninth nearly got a jazz legend killed - and still went on to change history. In one of those real changing-of-the-guard arrangements, Dizzy Gillespie played trumpet in Cab Calloway's band. #BlackHistoryMonth

@ADA_bow Ahhh turns out there’s no budget to bring the Imprinted show, would have been great.