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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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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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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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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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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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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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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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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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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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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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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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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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.