This is brilliant! The music, the choreography, the performance. All amazing. #NicholasBrothers #CabCalloway #StormyWeather
Minnie the Moocher 🐄
#CabCalloway
My contribution to the Hazbin community, my first post too! I’m so obsessed with this man
#Hazbin #Alastor #radiodemon #fanart
#humanalastor #cabcalloway
Are You Hep to the Jive? (Yas, Yas) 🙆
#CabCalloway
Betty Boop in “Snow-White” (1956) utilizes rotoscoping techniques that transferred Cab Calloway’s signature dance moves to animated characters
#LaEsoterica #BettyBoop #CabCalloway #Jazz #animation
Now for something completely different: The 1933 Fleischer cartoon “Betty Boop in “Snow-White” (youtu.be/cKOSJ5AAwfc?...) featuring music by legendary Jazz bandleader and composer Cab Calloway
#LaEsoterica #BettyBoop #CabCalloway #Jazz #animation
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird 🐦⬛
#CabCalloway
Sketch of jazz bandleader, Cab Calloway
Sketch of 80s German singer, Nena
Workplace sketches
#drawing
#art
#sketch
#cabcalloway
#nena
#TodaysSpin
#EverybodyEats
#CabCalloway
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#DANCEParty2026 🪩🎙️
#TodaysSpin
#EverybodyEats
#CabCalloway
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#DANCEParty2026 🪩🎙️
Minnie the Moocher 🎺
#CabCalloway
#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 29.
#CabCalloway, jazz singer, songwriter & bandleader popularized #AfricanAmerican slang to the point that several of the words and phrases became ingrained in mainstream American English.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 29.
#CabCalloway & his band performed #GeechyJoe featuring #LenaHorne, #BillBojanglesRobinson, #ZuttySingleton, #SlamStewart & #BennyCarter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlE-...
#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 29.
Trendsetter & musical icon, #CabCalloway, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable for #AfricanAmerican performers.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton presented Calloway with a National Medal of the Arts.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 29.
#CabCalloway was a renowned jazz musician, songwriter, jazz singer, scat vocalist & bandleader.
As a regular performer at the #CottonClub in #Harlem, Calloway fused jazz & Vaudeville to win many accolades over 60+ years.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 28.
#AfricanAmerican jazz singer, songwriter & bandleader #CabCalloway performs #Jumpin'Jive with his orchestra and #TheNicholasBrothers in the movie Storm Weather (1943).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESq...
Minnie the Moocher - Compilation by Cab Calloway
95 years ago today, #CabCalloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller).
"Jumping Jive" (also known as "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive") is a famous #jazz/#swing composition, #written by #CabCalloway, #FrankFroeba, and #JackPalmer. Originally #recorded on 17 July 1939, on #VocalionRecords, it sold over a million copies and reached #2 on the Pop chart.
1934 - Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club Orchestra - London Palladium
1934 - Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club Orchestra - London Palladium
#jazz #CabCalloway jazzsky
And here's the final!
"Hollow Bones Blues" track by Out On Our Own
#2Danimation #animation #celanimation #procreate @procreate.com #skeletondance #cabcalloway
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Boo-Wah Boo-Wah 😱
#CabCalloway
Throwback to July 1942 and the recording of "Ogeechee River Lullaby" by #CabCalloway and his orchestra. Calloway was a hugely popular bandleader and performer in Harlem, in Hollywood, and beyond.
🎵 Listen: https://ow.ly/enHz50YgG1V 🎵
#TBT #History #Georgia #CleanWater #Music #BlackHistoryMonth
(Calloway, Palmer, Clark)
From Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, 1940-1941; Chronological Classics 629
Do you come on like Shorty George and me?
Just speel some jive, we'll dig you out, you see
(Well, all reet!)
Are you ready?
(Yes, we're ready, Joe!)
Jumping steady?
(Jumping steady, Joe!)
#NTT
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth #musicaltheatre #theatretok #broadway #bhm #hellodolly #pearlbailey #cabcalloway
Classic animation, even more classic music!
#CabCalloway
#MinnieTheMoocher
#RandomPosting
🎬 *St. Louis Blues* (1958) 🎩🎺 Cab Calloway brings hi-de-ho sparkle and big-band swagger! From Cotton Club legend to swing icon, Cab made jazz pure showtime. 📣 Favorite Cab moment? 👕 Wear, Share & Celebrate our History! #CabCalloway #JazzHistory #ClassicFilm
Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey on 'The Pearl Bailey Show'
1971
#CabCalloway #PearlBailey
#LookAndSee 310 #MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
The Ghost of Smokey Joe - #CabCalloway
youtu.be/kbHfvvk9Q5s?...
#SOD
#SongoftheDay
#MusicChallenge
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird 🦅
#CabCalloway
Are You All Reet? 👌
#CabCalloway