Calloway,Cab & His Orchestra Hits Collection 1930-56 CD

Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, bandleader, songwriter, dancer and actor who came to fame as a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he blended jazz and vaudeville to establish a niche that stood him in good stead as an entertainer across seven decades, with one of his most famous roles in later years coming in the 1980 "Blues Brothers" movie. He developed a personal style of scat singing, and was able to deliver novelty-flavoured material with swinging jazz credibility, assembling a band that over the years included jazz luminaries like Ben Webster, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Chu Berry, Cozy Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and others. This excellent-value 48-track 2-CD set features the releases from this era on the Brunswick, Victor, Variety, Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia and ABC-Paramount labels which were credited with chart positions, plus a few bonus tracks. Those 45 hits include the No. 1 "Minnie The Moocher" and the Top 5 hits "Kickin' The Gong Around", "St. James Infirmary", "Tickeration", "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day", "Chinese Rhythm", "Moonglow", "Angels With Dirty Faces", "The Jumpin' Jive", "Blues In The Night" and "The Honey Dripper". He was a unique personality, and these recordings underline his skill and versatility in performing fine swinging jazz while giving it a highly individual comedic twist, and we hope this collection of his best sellers from the era provides an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talents.

1. St. Louis Blues 2. Minnie the Moocher 3. Nobody's Sweetheart 4. St. James Infirmary 5. Six or Seven Times 6. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Cab Calloway ; His O 7. Kickin' the Gong Around 8. Trickeration 9. You Rascal, You 10. There's a Cabin in the Cotton 11. Strictly Cullud Affair 12. Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day 13. Reefer Man 14. Hot Toddy 15. I've Got the World on a String 16. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 17. Jitterbug 18. Moon Glow Cab Calloway ; His Cotton Club Orch 19. Chinese Rhythm 20. Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul 21. You're the Cure for What Ails Me 22. Copper Colored Gal 23. Wake Up and Live 24. Congo 25. Peckin' 26. She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific 27. Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm 28. Moon at Sea 29. Every Day's a Holiday 30. Mister Paganini, Swing for Minnie 31. At the Clam-Bake Carnival 32. Angels with Dirty Faces 33. F.D.R. Jones 34. The Ghost of Smokey Joe 35. (Hep-Hep) the Jumpin' Jive 36. Fifteen Minute Intermission 37. Come on with the 'Come On' 38. Bye Bye Blues 39. Geechy Joe 40. Take the "A" Train 41. I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You) 42. Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) 43. The Moment I Laid Eyes on You 44. Ogeechee River Lullaby 45. Let's Take the Long Way Home 46. The Honeydripper 47. The Calloway Boogie 48. Little Child