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
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Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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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.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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They were all good. Can't say that none was best and none was worst. I don't know, they were all good as far as I was concerned.
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Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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Well, he didn't have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn't used to him. That's about all. I don't know. No conversation.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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You can't say they look up to him - if you did, you've got to look up to everybody in the show. But he's an outstanding character in the show.
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Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good.
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A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
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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!