Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway IIIwas an African-American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth25 December 1907
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician rough
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
phoenix definitions
A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
men thinking white-man
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!
together grandson
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
cutting two want
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
thinking voice differences
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were
names two opera
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
music cotton clubs
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
silly effort guy
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
names cotton clubs
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
country nobody-knows company
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.