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Cab Calloway

@TheCabCalloway

Official Twitter account of Cabell “Cab“ Calloway III - the King of Hi-De-Ho.

1930s: Harlem, New York City Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway@TheCabCalloway·
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.
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HazbinHotelier 🔞
HazbinHotelier 🔞@HazbinHotelier·
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 🙏
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway@TheCabCalloway·
@SVG__Collection 💫🖤💪🏽 one day you might consider tagging us showing more love, jitterbug!!
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Melodies & Masterpieces
Melodies & Masterpieces@SVG__Collection·
“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
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Old Media
Old Media@oldmedia·
This Rotoscope Animation from 1933
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Wordcels Puzzle
Wordcels Puzzle@WordcelsPuzzle·
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
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🌘🎶Dusk🪕🌒
🌘🎶Dusk🪕🌒@sorrowfowl·
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
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🌘🎶Dusk🪕🌒
🌘🎶Dusk🪕🌒@sorrowfowl·
so bendypilled I can't decide to continue drawing Sammy or continue to practice banjo today. for Sammy reasons
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Miles Commodore
Miles Commodore@miles_commodore·
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.
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway@TheCabCalloway·
@ADA_bow We are working on some options with curator Dr. Robyn P. Any ideas or contacts would be super appreciated!
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway@TheCabCalloway·
@TheRealJed Good synopsis while keeping it open to interpretation.
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Jed Dawson
Jed Dawson@TheRealJed·
Incidentally, it wasn't Gillespie who launched the spitball, but a bandmate who confessed decades later.
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Jed Dawson
Jed Dawson@TheRealJed·
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
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway@TheCabCalloway·
@ADA_bow Ahhh turns out there’s no budget to bring the Imprinted show, would have been great.
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