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
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!
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
phoenix definitions
A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
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
names two opera
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
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.
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.
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.
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
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.