makes you like your eggs on the jersey side
The other night we watched another DVD of soundies. This one featured big bands: Duke Ellington, Lucky Millinder, Count Basie, and Cab Calloway. All excellent but I especially loved the Calloway tracks, which included both familiar tunes ("Minnie the Moocher") and some less so. Including "We the Cats Shall Hep Ya" which I only knew from Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive so I assumed it was a Louis Jordan song. And here's a clip of a Cab Calloway performance of another song I heard first from Joe Jackson, "Jumpin' Jive." Extra special bonus -- the clip also features the breath-taking Nicholas Brothers dancing up a storm.
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Wow. Thanks for this. I only know the song from Joe Jackson, also. And I almost only know Cab Calloway from "The Blues Brothers"* I'm glad to get some cultural broadening. And that's some very nice video quality, too.
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*The Blues Brothers? Shit. They still owe you money.
Posted by: PHil | March 27, 2008 1:41 AM