Cab Calloway
The highbrows are swingin' with the lowbrows....
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Album:Are You Hep To The Jive?: 22 Sensational Tracks
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Clearly an episode of kismet. (Should that be capitalized, or am I just thinking of the musical?) Just before Christmas, my fine friend and fellow Pennsylvanian dharmachris posted one of my favorite Cab Calloway songs, "Everybody Eats When They Come To My House." Later that day, while scouring the CD racks at a local books 'n' music chain in our local consumer district in a vain attempt to find...
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Saddest Song Ever
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Album:Jukebox Hits: Cab Calloway 1930-1950
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Track:Saint James Infirmary
"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folksong of anonymous origin. One of Louis Armstrong's several recordings of the song credits it to "Joe Primrose," but this was a pseudonym for Irving Mills, a musical agent and songwriter who is unlikely to have contributed lyrically, though he may have published an original arrangement. The song seems to have also been known early on as "The Gambler...
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Before There Were Music Videos...
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There were Betty Boop and Mighty Mouse:
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Everybody (Should) Eat When They Come to My House
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Local story that I have seen nationally, and it seems so wrong that there is even a need for food banks here, let alone a spike in need for the holidays. The local story, "Hungry Times for Area Food Banks":http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20071221_Hungry_for_Help.html, citing a couple of reasons why there is less food available for food banks now, including the rise of dollar stores. ...
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Cab Calloway Tribute
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Album:How Big Can You Get
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BIG BAD VOODOO DADDYHow Big Can You GetA Tribute to Cab CallowayIn Stores Today!Listen to the whole album now:http://www.vanguardrecords.com/winmedia/BBVD_HowBig.waxAmerica's favorite contemporary little big band, the award winning jumpin' jazz / retro swing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, has released a new album entitled How Big Can You Get (Big Bad/Vanguard Records). The 11 song CD, their eighth album...
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Fayard and Harold Nicholas
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My first exposure to music was tap lessons when I was three years old. When you're that young, you really just try to learn your right foot from left to music. I stuck with it for about 13 years and with the help of my mom (who was also my teacher), developed an appreciation of many of the great tap dancers. The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold, performed in many movies, the most famous ...
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just get yourself high, copper.
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so 911 really IS a joke. at least when this dude is calling...special thanks to my girl for the heads up.check out the full audio of his 911 call here. I would recommend getting high just to sit through this -- it takes a lot of mental fortitude to get all the way to the part here he asks what the score of the Red Wings game is.
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Betty Squirms Sexily
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Track:Saint-James Infirmary
Yeah check out eh Cab Calloway song about 4:21 into it. Even if it might be Roto-scoped the animation there is awesome too. WTF at morphing into a chain!
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Hep, Hep
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I just burned my first Thanksgiving dinner CD and I'm just loving the thought of having Mr. Cab Calloway with us tomorrow. You can have your Bonos and your Ushers and your John Legends, Cab is the coolest cat EVER! "Doodly ad-ee doodly ad-ee sackee" HEP HEP.The jim jam jump and the jumpin' jive/ makes you like your eggs on the jersey side/hep hep
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