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
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!
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
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
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.
people mind ordinary
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.
done opera blame
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
music mind ordinary
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
american-musician goat knees knows nobody pulled time whether
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.
american-musician best far good none
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.
american-musician charleston conception good nice played
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.
fun saws segregation
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
morning fog four
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.