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January 25, 1942: Mile O'Dimes stage show with Cab Calloway

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January 24, 1945: in Chicago studios

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January 24, 1942: Interview of Cab Calloway at Gimbels Swing Shop, Pittsburgh

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January 23, 1934: in New York studios

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January 23, 1942: a week with Cab at Pittsburgh’s Stanley

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January 23, 1948: Cab Calloway at Chicago’s Regal

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January 22, 1934: in New York studios

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January 21, 1935: in New York studios

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January 19, 1949: Cab Calloway’s new show in Miami

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January 19, 1934: Cab Calloway at New York Loew’s State

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January 18, 1955: Cab Calloway at the Mocambo, Los Angeles

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January 18, 1939: Cab Calloway’s last month at Manhattan Cotton Club

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January 17, 1947: Cab Calloway at Chicago’s Regal

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January 16, 1941: in Chicago studios

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January 14, 1933: Cab Calloway at Harlem Lafayette Theatre

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January 12, 1940: Cab Calloway at Baltimore’s Roseland State Ballroom

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January 11, 1935: Cab Calloway at Loew’s Metropolitan, New York

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January 9, 1943: Cab Calloway at the Hotel St George, Brooklyn, NY

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January 6, 1935: Premiere of the new Cotton Club Revue in Harlem

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January 4, 1952: Cab Calloway at the Harlem Apollo

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January 4, 1931: Cab Calloway at Pittsburgh’s Enright

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December 31, 1941: celebrate New Year's Eve with Cab Calloway at the Temple in Rochester, NY

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December 31, 1938: celebrate new year’s eve at the Cotton Club

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December 31, 1956: new year’s eve with the Miami Cotton Club Revue

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December 29, 1932: in New York studios

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December 29, 1931: Cab Calloway on the Lucky Strike radio Show

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December 29, 1954: Cab Calloway at the Hotel Golden, Reno, NV

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December 26, 1942: Cab Calloway at Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook

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December 26, 1956: Premiere of the new Cotton Club revue du Cotton Club, Miami

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December 25, 1907, in Rochester

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December 25, 1931: Cab Calloway AND Bing Crosby at New York’s Paramount

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December 24 1941: Xmas dance for veterans at Manhattan Center

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December 23, 1930: in New York studios

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December 22, 1939: one week with Cab Calloway at the Apollo

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December 20, 1957: premiere of the new Cotton Club Revue by Cab Calloway in Miami

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December 19, 1933: in New York studios

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December 18, 1933: in New York studios

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December 17, 1937: monster Benefit show at the Apollo

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December 16, 1939: Cab Calloway SOLD OUT for the Toy Fund Revue at Shea's Great Lakes in Buffalo, NY

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December 16, 1931: Cab Calloway at Loew's Valencia

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December 16, 1932: Cab Calloway at Brooklyn’s Loews with Buck and Bubbles

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December 16, 1943: Cab Calloway at Hartford auditorium

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December 13, 1939: Cab Calloway at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis

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December 11, 1947: in New York studios

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December 10, 1937: in New York studios

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December 9, 1948: Cab Calloway at Miami’s Withrow Court

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December 8, 1944: Cab Calloway at Milwaukee’s Riverside

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December 8, 1938: Cab Calloway at Loews State with June Richmond & W.C. Handy

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December 7, 1932: in New York studios

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December 4, 1931: Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra at Loews’ Paradise

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A tune I dig

  • The Lady With The Fan
    The song about the Cotton Club chorus line girl, Amy Spencer. Naughty, naughty song...
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  • Clarification: Cootie Williams joined the band at some date between 16 Jan 1929 and 1 March 1929 (these being dates of Ellington recording sessions; Cootie was on the second date but not the first). Juan Tizol was, according to his recollection (NEA Jazz Oral History Project interview with Patricia Williard, tape held at IJS/Rutgers), hired just as the band began work on the Broadway musical "Show Girl" for which rehearsals began 3 June 1929.The photo of the Ellington band with Harry White was thus taken sometime after Williams joined, and sometime before Tizol joined. The exact dates White worked with Ellington's band aren't known, but since he was fired and then replaced by Tizol, I suppose it must have been circa May 1929. Per Joe Nanton (interview with Inez Cavanaugh, Metronome, Feb 1945, p. 26, reprinted in Mark Tucker's "The Duke Ellington Reader," p. 467): ..."around 1929. Harry White came into the band for four or five weeks. [....] Father's jitters got everyone jittery and he was replaced by Juan Tizol."
    Posté par steven_lasker

  • Je suis une amie de Jean Claude Ferrand qui m'a beaucoup parlé de Gilles Pétard , de leur jeunesse, et de leur intérêt commun de ce genre de musique.
    Posté par jeanneperquis

  • What a shame that segregation robbed these beautiful African American performers of great visibility on larger stages and on film throughout entertainment history. Very few glimpses of their enormous talent was provided during a brief nightclub scene during a song or dane routine in major Hollywood productions. Shameful racism at play then, and sadly has much really changed?
    Posté par rmarkdesjardins

"Folks, here's the story about..."

Cab Calloway, his music and his musicians.

Since 2006, The Hi De Ho Blog has been dedicated to the King of Hi De Ho who entertained a whole era, between the roaring Twenties until his death in 1994.

Jean-François PITET, creator of this website, is also the coauthor of TV documentary "Cab Calloway: Sketches" and has written the script for the comic book "Cab Calloway" by Cabu.

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