Cab Calloway Quotes

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They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one.
Spike Milligan (Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1))
Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’, which he [Cab Calloway] helpfully explains as ‘the proper way to ask a young lady to go to the movies’. It should be noted here, that if the object of your affections replies ‘Kill me’, they are not requesting to be euthanatised and you should not actually murder them. Kill me is merely the Cab Calloway way of saying ‘Show me a good time’ and is the best response you could have hoped for. Jive was rather confusing in this way.
Mark Forsyth (The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language)
La Habana era una locura: yo creo que era la ciudad con más vida de todo el mundo. ¡Qué carajo París ni Nueva York! Demasiado frío... ¡Vida nocturna la de aquí! Verdad que había putas, había drogas y había mafia, pero la gente se divertía y la noche empezaba a las seis de la tarde y no se acababa nunca. ¿Te imaginas que en una misma noche podías tomarte una cerveza a las ocho oyendo a las Anacaonas en los Aires Libres del Prado, comer a las nueve con la música y las canciones de Bola de Nieve, luego sentarte en el Saint John a oír a Elena Burke, después irte a un cabaret a bailar con Benny Moré, con la Aragón, con la Casino de Playa, con la Sonora Matancera, descansar un rato vacilando los boleros de Olga Guillot, Vicentico Valdés, Ñico Membiela... o irte a oír a los muchachos del feeling, al ronco José Antonio Méndez, a César Portillo y, para cerrar la noche, a las dos de la mañana, escaparte a la playa de Marianao a ver el espectáculo del Chori tocando sus timbales, y tú ahí, como si nada, sentado entre Marlon Brando y Cab Calloway, al lado de Errol Flynn y de Josephine Baker. Y después, si todavía te quedaba aire, bajar a La Gruta, ahí en La Rampa, para amanecer metido en una descarga de jazz de Cachao con Tata Güines, Barreto, Bebo Valdés, el Negro Vivar, Frank Emilio y todos esos locos que son los mejores músicos que ha dado Cuba? Eran miles, la música estaba en la atmósfera, se podía cortar con un cuchillo, había que apartarla para poder pasar...
Leonardo Padura (La neblina del ayer)
CAB CALLOWAY, a showman who popularized the ballad Minnie the Moocher and took for his trademark the catchphrase “Heigh-de-ho.
John Dunning (On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio)
And though there were far fewer radio opportunities for black bands than for their white counterparts, it was through remote broadcasts from the Cotton Club that the general public first heard of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Earl Hines had become a radio favorite during a long stand at the Grand Terrace in Chicago in the mid-1930s. And it was on a radio broadcast from the Reno Club in Kansas City that Count (William) Basie was discovered by jazz critic John Hammond, who helped launch Basie’s career.
John Dunning (On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio)
If you need Irene Dunne to show up and sing songs for a week, cut-rate, I can do that. If you need Cab Calloway to sing hi de hi de ho at Moshe’s theater, I can arrange that. But cutting deals with dummkopfs who pinch politicians for marshmallows and cigarettes in a town I don’t know, that’s out of my range.
James McBride (The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store)