Any Cab Calloway fans?

[Archae]

I confess I had never heard of him until seeing him in "The Blues Brothers."

But I'm slowly finding more of his work, like the stuff he did for the "Betty Boop" 1930's cartoons.

And didn't he appear on "The Love Boat" before he died?

[GOPisEvil]

1. hidey hidey hidey ho....

...sadly I don't know much about him. But he seemed like one cool dude.

[UrbScotty]

3. No, it's he-de-he-de-he-de-he.

Skippidy-doo, Skippidy-doo, Skippidy-doo-de-doo-de-doo.

Yeah, he sure was cool.

[Rocinante]

2. Hey

Don't forget the W.C. Fields movie International House where he sang "Reefer Man".

[NightTrain]

4. I'm a fan!

One of the first records I ever owned was Cab Calloway's "JUmping Jive." I also have his "best" of CD from the Okeh/Columbia archives series, which I like a lot.

[Kat45]

5. I enjoyed his music in Betty Boop cartoons

If I remember correctly, he even appeared in one.

[Archae]

9. Calloway appeared in several Betty Boop cartoons.

But not as himself.

Rather, the Fleischers animated several characters using Calloways's moves, with that character singing in Calloway's voice as well.

A great example of this is "Koko The Clown" in their version of Betty Boop as Snow White, doing "St James Infirmary Blues."
It's great.

[starroute]

6. Yeah, Cab was cool

As I recall, he was also in a Janet Jackson video shortly before he died, wearing a replica of his classic yellow zoot suit.

You might also look into Louis Jordan's stuff from the 40's. Wonderful, wonderful feel-good music.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Beat me to it....

Louis Jordan is really worth looking into.

[JackSwift]

7. How can anyone dislike Calloway?

He also was in the movie Cotton Club playing himself.