Cab Calloway, the swing-era singer, actor and bandleader who soared to national popularity in the ’30s and ’40s on the strength of such hits as “Minnie the Moocher” and “It Ain’t ...

Members of the late Cab Calloway‘s family and their allies spent half of 2019 fighting to prove that the jazz pioneer’s former home at 2216 Druid Hill Ave., which the city and local community ...

“It would be cultural genocide to destroy Cab Calloway’s home,” she wrote on May 25. “The city should be protecting our cultural treasures, not destroying them.” Advertisement ...

Calloway and his family moved to the house in the 2200 block of Druid Hill Avenue in 1918 when he was just a boy. After years of neglect, however, Calloway's former home was deemed structurally ...

Cab Calloway: 'A Hi De Ho Centennial' An energetic showman, a gifted singer, a talented actor and a fashion plate, Calloway was a legendary figure in American pop culture. That, and he led one of ...

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway Alyn Shipton Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN 9780195141535 Oxford University Press 2010 During the swing revival of the 1990s it was singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, ...

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He was a scat singer who traded melodic phrases with clarinets, trumpets and saxophones. He acted on Broadway and in films. He is known as ”the hi-de-ho man.” His name, of course, is Cab Calloway.

Cab Calloway was first. Before Sammy Davis Jr. proved that a black entertainer could reign as a headliner in Las Vegas, before Marian Anderson demonstrated that a black diva could triumph in the ...

Cab Calloway, Negro band leader, was treated for cuts on the head at General hospital No. 2 last night following a scuffle with a special officer at the Pla-Mor ballroom, 3142 Main street.