Lena Horne: Stormy Weather

The Beautiful Lena Horne singing Stormy Weather. The movie Stormy Weather was sort of an unofficial bio pic of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Also notice that the band is directed by none other than Cab Calloway!!

LENA HORNE - STORMY WEATHER.
Uploaded by Francis-Albert

Cab Calloway: Blow Top Blues

An Awsome video of Cab Calloway! Unfortunately the video seems to have been cut a little early.

Cab Calloway-Blow Top Blues
Uploaded by redhotjazz

Cab Calloway And Bo Jangles

This is another short clip. This comes from the movie Stormy Weather, and features The Cab Calloway Band, and a brief appearance at the beginning by Bill "Bo Jangles" Robinson.

Cab Calloway 1
Uploaded by BIRDIE29

UPDATE CAB CALLOWAY VIDEOS

Not sure what happened but now their are different videos in the Google video bar than what was there when I originally posted. You might want to keep checking to see which videos pop up. Tonight is a video of the reefer man! Plus another cartoon. Strange, very strange!:-)

Artisit Of The Week: Cab Calloway

I thought I would go back to the Swing Era, and focus on Cab Calloway as our Google video bar artist of the week. Cab's jumping music, and jive talking made him famous throughout the US. Perhaps he could be considered the first rap artists. His jive talking, or talking in rhyme was not invented by him, but he certainly popularized its use in the African American Community. Also his wonderful Zoot suits continue to reappear in popular culture every 20 years almost if on cue. Of the four videos there are 3 different versions of Minnie The Moocher. One is of the band, the other is from a Betty Boop cartoon and the third is from the Blues Brothers.

Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers