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Cab Calloway

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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.


— Cab Calloway


#country #course #dancer #dancers #good

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.


— Cab Calloway


#going #happiness #hear #interested #nobody

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.


— Cab Calloway


#change #cut #different #different things #entirely

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.


— Cab Calloway


#segregated #some #theatres #times #us

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.


— Cab Calloway


#could #did #entertaining #everybody #fun

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.


— Cab Calloway


#came #club #cotton #could #down

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.


— Cab Calloway


#guy #his #other #out #silly

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.


— Cab Calloway


#did #how #i #life #my life

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.


— Cab Calloway


#ago #awhile #change #company #course

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.


— Cab Calloway


#club #cotton #free #open #segregation






About Cab Calloway

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Did you know about Cab Calloway?

Calloway helped establish the Cab Calloway Museum at Coppin State College (Baltimore Maryland) in the 1980s and Bill Cosby helped establish a scholarship in Calloway's name at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Calloway attended Lincoln University (a historically black university) in Pennsylvania but left in 1930 before graduation. He was back on Brunswick in late 1934 through 1936 when he signed with manager Irving Mills's short-lived Variety in 1937 and stayed with Mills when the label collapsed and the sessions were continued on Vocalion through 1939 and then OKeh Records through 1942.

Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem New York City where he was a regular performer.

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