Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher" - ORIGINAL "VIDEO"

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  • čas přidán 10. 08. 2010
  • UPDATE! I have now been steered to a COMPLETE version of this classic. It's a bit fuzzy and the ratio is wrong - but if you download it and show it in 16:9 it should be right. In the public interest, I am giving my "rival" a free plug! You can find it on • Cab Calloway Minnie ... - But I DO have a complete version of Cab's reading of "Blues In The Night" from the same period - you can find THAT on • Cab Calloway - "Blues ... Enjoy!
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Komentáře • 303

  • @yungsimmmie9835
    @yungsimmmie9835 Před 8 lety +358

    After finding Cab Calloway, no other music satisfies me as much as Cab. Unbelievable energy

    • @JenOfAmara
      @JenOfAmara Před 4 lety +7

      He was one helluva showman and still a legend

    • @breadboiyearsago
      @breadboiyearsago Před 3 lety +3

      Same

    • @lucy8025
      @lucy8025 Před 3 lety +5

      You and me both. All modern performers are so fake. Cab could sing, dance and entertain!

    • @leslieanthony1015
      @leslieanthony1015 Před 3 lety +1

      They don't make ' em like Cab and orchestra anymore....and never will again

    • @Northdracula
      @Northdracula Před 2 lety +1

      I agree yet you have Hendrix as your pfp

  • @ScoutSniper3124
    @ScoutSniper3124 Před 3 lety +107

    Cab Calloway was ONE OF A KIND... and that he had a career in entertainment that spanned OVER SIXTY FIVE YEARS is a testament to just how AWESOME he was.

  • @hx6ss
    @hx6ss Před 3 lety +51

    Every single one of these guys look like they are having the time of their life and they are loving it

  • @da_kracken8879
    @da_kracken8879 Před 4 lety +44

    I wish I could go back in time and meet this dude

  • @EvaPapadimitriou
    @EvaPapadimitriou Před 7 lety +450

    Who the hell gives this a thumbs down?! I mean... to be here you must 've been searching for this.

    • @donnap8816
      @donnap8816 Před 7 lety +6

      Eva Papadimitriou might have been on a little refer but it's also just him. his energy

    • @travisreed3986
      @travisreed3986 Před 6 lety +5

      Eva Papadimitriou musical Philistines.

    • @jfksson2012
      @jfksson2012 Před 4 lety +6

      What your saying is the only reason they searched cab Calloway and his orchestra is to dislike this song

    • @Beast-jx2cz
      @Beast-jx2cz Před 4 lety

      My school gave this. ‘K brah! I hate this!

    • @sirbentleyschannel
      @sirbentleyschannel Před 4 lety +8

      I can tell you who. The grandkids of Minnie the moocher. Thats who!

  • @InfiniteSword
    @InfiniteSword Před 9 lety +198

    They look happier than what's possible

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius Před 9 lety +12

      Zé Miguel Santos All the reefer.

    • @ReuploadArchivist
      @ReuploadArchivist Před 6 lety +27

      Well, they ain't living in today's shitty music, so there's that.

    • @devinlabuda5713
      @devinlabuda5713 Před 5 lety +10

      Usually the telltale sign of a sad man.

    • @angelofdeath275
      @angelofdeath275 Před 5 lety +8

      Devin Labuda like how comedians come from tragic backgrounds

    • @JomoDaMusicMan
      @JomoDaMusicMan Před 4 lety

      IT WAS ALL ABOUT CLOWNIN FOR WHITE FOLKS, CAB WAS HELLAVA ENTERTAINER, BLACK GROUPS SEEKING EQUALITY TRIED TO TELL CAB NOT TO CLOWN LIKE THAT, BUT THE MONEY WAS GOOD SO CAB KEPT DOING IT. JOSEPHINE BAKER LEFT AMERICA BECAUSE OF RACISM TO MAKE MONEY IN PARIS, BUT STILL HAD TO CLOWN AND POSE ALMOST & SOMETIMES FULLY NUDE PLUS ACT A FOOL THERE ALSO, SHE ALSO HAD TO PROSTITUTE HERSELF IN PARIS, ESPECIALLY DURING THE WAR EFFORT DURING WWII

  • @misskelly9184
    @misskelly9184 Před 6 lety +47

    The smile on the bass player

  • @XX-gy7ue
    @XX-gy7ue Před 9 lety +120

    this is proof of the power of pure talent , everyone always knew what these songs were about - but even the most uptight accepted it because he was incredible , irresistible , brilliant and mesmerizing !

    • @-Garviel_Loken-
      @-Garviel_Loken- Před 7 lety +10

      xx xx most people in the 20s and 30s when this stuff became popular thought this type of music as subversive and anti Christian. It was a threat

    • @ronroberti8082
      @ronroberti8082 Před 4 lety +9

      Al Capone - yes sir, even before Elvis. Anything different from their norm was subversive in their little minds. As for the thumbs down, little mind, Cab was ahead of his time and great.

    • @jourwalis-8875
      @jourwalis-8875 Před rokem +1

      @@ronroberti8082 Can´t see any thumbs down....

    • @lavinder11
      @lavinder11 Před 8 měsíci

      THE jazz scene was huge. Uptight people accepted it when Black folks sang. They only became outraged when white children sang or danced to it.

  • @johnallover2046
    @johnallover2046 Před 10 lety +54

    If you don't love Cab Calloway doing Minnie the Moocher, then you just don't love great music! Timeless...

  • @howdydave45421
    @howdydave45421 Před 4 lety +43

    re: Minnie's trips to China Town with Smokey... "Kicking the gong around" was slang for smoking opium.

    • @l.salisbury1253
      @l.salisbury1253 Před 3 lety +3

      On TV prints of "The Blues Brothers" (1980) that line has but cut for that very reason!

    • @JudgeJulieLit
      @JudgeJulieLit Před 3 lety +2

      @@l.salisbury1253 Perhaps as Belushi died of a cocaine overdose.

    • @brandonellis8111
      @brandonellis8111 Před 3 lety +2

      Although he was cokey

  • @marctoleds6259
    @marctoleds6259 Před rokem +11

    He's still the coolest cat around

  • @thebigbobert59
    @thebigbobert59 Před rokem +6

    Can Calloway gave the meaning to the word " cool". He was the coolest.

  • @gothikgem2707
    @gothikgem2707 Před 4 lety +27

    Oh Yeah! This is pure 24c GOLD 🌟
    What talent, what brilliance from Cab and every single member of his band!
    All of these cool guys performing together in perfect sync...... and loving every second.
    Takes me to Chinatown and the gong..... and then some 🚬

  • @bergy-62
    @bergy-62 Před 9 lety +50

    saw him live at the diplomat on miami 1966

    • @higfatforever4503
      @higfatforever4503 Před 5 lety

      How old was he at the time?

    • @pg-jr8sy
      @pg-jr8sy Před 5 lety +1

      @@higfatforever4503 60

    • @ericwilliams2317
      @ericwilliams2317 Před 5 lety +4

      I saw him live at the Barbican theatre, London in about 1985. An old man, but boy, could he still do it and brought the house down when he opened up with Minnie the Moocher! God bless you Cab.

    • @somemong8349
      @somemong8349 Před 3 lety

      how old are you now?

    • @bergy-62
      @bergy-62 Před 3 lety +1

      @@higfatforever4503 59

  • @juliekailihiwa8150
    @juliekailihiwa8150 Před 2 lety +21

    Not to put a damper on such an extraordinary performance, but while I love watching these brilliant musicians and Cab Calloway perform, still struggle to comprehend how so many millions of Americans cherished their music, listening to them on radios as families, watching them perform on live tv, in theaters, with all of their contributions to Jazz, Big Band, Swing to Dance and Orchestra. Yet enough American's were at the same time COMPLICIT in upholding the state and federal laws that reminded these elegantly impeccably dressed and polished men, once they stepped off the stages and glittering lights into the shadows, they were required to use the back door to an alley. Same exit as the food delivery and garbage. Unable to celebrate the nights performance in fancy restaurant or nightclub like other celebrities of the era. Knowing behind those big happy smiles, when the cameras stopped, ALL were segregated and forbidden from attending or entering public schools and universities, public parks, theaters, restaurants, bus and train stations, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, amusement-park cashier windows, public pools, phone booths, hospitals, asylums, jails and retirement homes for the elderly and handicapped. 80 years later we are still witnessing Jim Crow era violence and not just the Deep South but in the northern cities.

    • @tonyi5001
      @tonyi5001 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Jimi Hendrix once said that if you want to play the blues you gotta live the blues. Their suffering showed in their music and they gave it a lot of love.

    • @EdA-qh7qr
      @EdA-qh7qr Před měsícem +1

      Democrates always thought they were better than blacks even to this day all people need to judge people by there personally and not the color of there skin

  • @saltydawg7078
    @saltydawg7078 Před 4 lety +12

    when music was style, classy, fun to listen, delightful

  • @Vaderduder
    @Vaderduder Před 12 lety +7

    Now we had classical, folk, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, pop, techno, rave, country etc,
    And then we had CAB CALLOWAY!!

  • @petermacdonald1857
    @petermacdonald1857 Před 3 lety +7

    Timeless, what a performance. X

  • @ChristineSalles
    @ChristineSalles Před 9 lety +13

    What a scatman Thanks Mister Cab for your hapiness 👍 🙏

  • @raskolnikov2112
    @raskolnikov2112 Před rokem +3

    Love the way he moves and sings. I also love that he stood up for his chocolate bunnies at the Cotton Club. All or nothing. Of course he won. He is genius in changing and influencing so much about music. Too bad he isn’t remembered as much as he should be by younger generations. I watched a documentary on him at 25 yrs old and fell in love. How couldn’t you?

  • @KrwiomoczBogurodzicy
    @KrwiomoczBogurodzicy Před 9 lety +72

    I think the bassman has a lot to hide...
    Either that or a small, innocent secret...
    Hard to tell really...

  • @GTK3392
    @GTK3392 Před rokem +2

    His eyes! So full of life and joy!

  • @sofakingdrunk66
    @sofakingdrunk66 Před 12 lety +15

    This Classic track wouldn't be out of place in early Tom & Jerry Cartoons soundtrack...

    • @vancelubben5300
      @vancelubben5300 Před 2 lety

      I was thinking the same thing. I watched The original Tom and Jerry all the time when I was a kid

  • @sauquoit13456
    @sauquoit13456 Před 11 lety +1

    On this day in 1967 {March 19th} Cab Calloway performed "Minnie The Moocher" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
    He first recorded the song in 1931 and it became his signature tune...
    In 1980 he appeared in the movie 'The Blues Brothers' and also performed the song in the movie...
    He also titled his 1976 autobiography 'Minnie the Moocher and Me'...
    R.I.P. Mr. Calloway {1907 - 1994} and Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974}...

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 Před 4 lety +1

      MINNIE THE MOOCHER was also a BETTY BOOP cartoon with Cab Calloway in a cameo in the beginning.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

  • @cosmooswald4408
    @cosmooswald4408 Před 8 lety +13

    That bassist.

  • @zaettav
    @zaettav Před 4 lety +4

    Marvelous

  • @silaspereira3167
    @silaspereira3167 Před 9 lety +27

    O "Hi-de-Hoh Man" como Cab Calloway era conhecido, foi um dos mais bem sucedidos líderes de orquestra nos anos 1930, famoso por suas apresentações exuberantes. Ele ficou conhecido principalmente por suas improvisações vocais - isto é, o uso de palavras sem sentido, inventadas - como, por exemplo, o refrão "Hi de hi de hi de hi" de Minnie the Moocher", que lhe rendeu o apelido e a fama.

    • @RFvechi582
      @RFvechi582 Před 3 lety +2

      Finalmente um brasileiro, tenho 13 anos mas já sei diferenciar música boa da ruim!!!!

    • @MarcoJ88
      @MarcoJ88 Před 3 lety

      @@RFvechi582 AA

    • @MarcoJ88
      @MarcoJ88 Před 3 lety

      YES

  • @MargaretTidey-jf5ne
    @MargaretTidey-jf5ne Před 25 dny

    The cut!!! 80 years on is still timeless!!

  • @WilliamHunterII
    @WilliamHunterII Před 9 lety +23

    This is the good stuff! Thanks for the upload and the information.

  • @leewhisnant8913
    @leewhisnant8913 Před 10 lety +1

    The Cotton Club brought me here. Outstanding movie and outstanding song by Cab and his band!

  • @jacquelinetillyer8666
    @jacquelinetillyer8666 Před 2 lety +1

    Came back to Cab and the magic still works, gotta a big wide grin on my face and dancing a shuffle.

  • @thefiretailedweasel6206
    @thefiretailedweasel6206 Před 6 lety +6

    Y'all 47 people were so shook by this guys talent that they missed the "like" button

  • @elwoodlpool
    @elwoodlpool Před 11 lety +3

    LOVE CAB!!!! RIP (Curtis) Elwood X

  • @Lulugirard94
    @Lulugirard94 Před 12 lety +5

    Great! I am glad you restored the complete lyrics and not the cleaned up version.
    Thanks. My mom taught me ALL the lyrics.

  • @lynettebrown2871
    @lynettebrown2871 Před rokem +1

    Cab and his fabulous band. Wish i could go back and visit the Cotton Club…

  • @Juscz
    @Juscz Před rokem +3

    Pure CLASS! Thanks for sharing.

  • @tonyi5001
    @tonyi5001 Před 9 měsíci

    After all these years I still love you Cabbie and I love that smile.

  • @madkittyjoey70
    @madkittyjoey70 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Love this song!

  • @allguitars8834
    @allguitars8834 Před 10 lety +4

    I love Cab! Thank you RJ!

  • @im1sinfulman
    @im1sinfulman Před rokem +1

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING

  • @toniocurto485
    @toniocurto485 Před 8 lety +4

    Grande Cab Calloway!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @andreagamba1638
      @andreagamba1638 Před 7 lety +1

      il primo commento italiano che leggo sotto un video inglese

    • @veee_pawoon
      @veee_pawoon Před 6 lety

      Che bello,allora è conosciuto anche qui❤

  • @michael_mouse
    @michael_mouse Před 4 lety +2

    ... love the style of the zoot suits... CC

  • @etiennejour7406
    @etiennejour7406 Před 3 lety +6

    Love this song; I am not the youngest person: what I miss is the third verse. Let's remember that Cab wrote this song about his sister; he didn't exactly approve of her behavior regarding alluring rich males: she was astonishingly beautiful.... Hey, I would write a song about my sister if that was the way she could hear the message or to simply see herself as she was behaving.

  • @marlowe1537
    @marlowe1537 Před 3 lety +2

    This is not in the wrong aspect ratio. It's in the 4:3 aspect ratio (well, 1.37:1 to be exact, known as Academy standard) that almost all American films used until wider formats were introduced in the '50s. When TV was introduced it adopted a very slightly narrower format (1.33:1) that was standard until the beginning of this century.

  • @silversurfergw
    @silversurfergw Před 4 lety +5

    I suspect Cab enjoy his work.

  • @charliwitty9053
    @charliwitty9053 Před 4 lety

    Saw him live in Miami beach at the eden roc hotel in 1959,he was great

  • @keveakshipsail9073
    @keveakshipsail9073 Před 2 lety +1

    Way better than the censored version. Thank you.

  • @lestranged
    @lestranged Před 7 lety +72

    that upright bass player is high af

  • @kevinking5406
    @kevinking5406 Před 5 lety +3

    This was a COOL SMOOOOOOTH BROTHER!

  • @trevormaben9482
    @trevormaben9482 Před 4 lety +2

    I actually like this music for being a 37 yr old man who was born in the eighties and grew up in the ninteis

  • @the_nic_of_tine
    @the_nic_of_tine Před rokem

    He is so happy it's unbelievable 😊

  • @32goingon17
    @32goingon17 Před rokem +1

    I remember using this as an object lesson: I was a band geek--and they told me you couldn't bend a note with a trumpet. I used a toilet plunger and my thumb.

  • @brutalnecrodude6667
    @brutalnecrodude6667 Před 4 lety +1

    A time before Rock n Roll. But this is great too

  • @QueenBabou
    @QueenBabou Před 11 lety +1

    Just perfect song

  • @katelynnblatt9614
    @katelynnblatt9614 Před rokem +1

    amazing

  • @philllandry4957
    @philllandry4957 Před 11 lety

    everyone is so happy!

  • @RJBinghamesq
    @RJBinghamesq  Před 13 lety

    @dal4018 - You are RIGHT! There is another bowdlerised version on CZcams, like mine. But there is also ONE COMPLETE version. It's a bit fuzzy and the ratio is wrong (although if you download it and show it in 16:9, it should be right). And it is indeed on the co-ordinates you say (although the TWO consecutive underscores fooled me for a while!) In the public interest, I will now put the link in my info panel.
    Thankyou!

  • @svensontimm1564
    @svensontimm1564 Před 4 lety +1

    Low and high, love

  • @cherylnagy126
    @cherylnagy126 Před 5 lety

    thank you so so much for this

  • @lyingonthemoon792
    @lyingonthemoon792 Před 9 lety

    They look so happy

  • @thenel2162
    @thenel2162 Před 6 lety +1

    milt hinton on bass and cozy cole on drums! man thats dope.

  • @kosjeyr
    @kosjeyr Před 2 měsíci

    This song is 93 years young!

  • @garlicblue6
    @garlicblue6 Před 12 lety

    when u miss great sounds ... listen this!

  • @lwmson
    @lwmson Před 12 lety +2

    This is the best filmed version of Minnie The Moocher, but all of the best parts have been edited out in this clip. It's a shame.

  • @RJBinghamesq
    @RJBinghamesq  Před 12 lety +1

    @lwmson Yes, it IS annoying - when I uploaded it, there was no other - then someone uploaded an unbowdlerised version - but it was FUZZY...

  • @Deathsiren
    @Deathsiren Před 12 lety +1

    Now THIS man has swag

  • @shootybaking
    @shootybaking Před 5 lety +2

    When you need to go old school, and all the way back to old school, before they built the building.

  • @cicusblogja
    @cicusblogja Před rokem

    I love always this segment from Cuphead show with King Dice his singing and dancing

  • @BigSleepyOx
    @BigSleepyOx Před 10 lety +3

    Too bad so much of the song is cut out.
    I have to believe that some archive has the entire video stored in a vault somewhere. hehe

  • @thermotheo
    @thermotheo Před 6 lety +13

    This is fantastic but really, really creepy. Liked.

  • @musimages23
    @musimages23 Před 8 lety +2

    I couldnt download it
    on bass is milt hinton
    drums cozy cole
    and in the middle of the reed section is a fav of mine hilton jefferson alto
    jonah jones was one of the tpts
    dont forget to watch what I am providing under my own name
    thanks

  • @realsnd
    @realsnd Před 8 lety

    I'm lost now, can't move on... where do we go from here???

    • @SuperBugTube
      @SuperBugTube Před 8 lety

      Blues Brothers! ... or maybe electro swing? Stay jazzy!

  • @lubnakhan1547
    @lubnakhan1547 Před 3 lety +1

    Those smiles tho

  • @andreaonwilliams8065
    @andreaonwilliams8065 Před 5 lety +13

    This has 400,000 views. Meanwhile Post Malone has 50 million and counting. People please teach your kids what real music is.

  • @davidwesley2525
    @davidwesley2525 Před 2 lety

    Cab Calloway. The Original King of COOL.
    🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💖💖💖

  • @Delicious2me
    @Delicious2me Před 10 lety

    Nice!! Hi dee hi dee hi dee hi..Love it= Original sing along music with no dirty lyrics...Cab you were a class act!

  • @patrickyoung3503
    @patrickyoung3503 Před 5 lety

    All pure pros , great arrangement

  • @richardandrews3112
    @richardandrews3112 Před rokem

    A Swing Era Classic!

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Před 3 lety +1

    I keep waiting for "Jake" and "Elwood" to enter...!

  • @ruthhildenbrandt449
    @ruthhildenbrandt449 Před 7 lety

    yes man. love it.

  • @zeikslucky7
    @zeikslucky7 Před 10 lety +2

    Agreed that nasty dirty trumpet

  • @banjohead66
    @banjohead66 Před 2 lety

    Love Soundies!

  • @75da
    @75da Před 12 lety

    What a bunch of dudes, brilliant

  • @CRistianCHANEL7
    @CRistianCHANEL7 Před 6 lety +1

    This helped me so much because Im doing a prgecdk

  • @waldemarbernhard7199
    @waldemarbernhard7199 Před 2 lety

    Einfach COOL! DANKE!

  • @pwmiles56
    @pwmiles56 Před rokem +1

    Wasn't an episode of Jeeves and Wooster built around this? Hugh Laurie played and sang for real I believe

  • @showerchainproduction6836

    it sad how some of the parts are out but still a great video

  • @vetb882
    @vetb882 Před 11 lety

    Classic, just watching Blues Brothers and realized it was Cab u was looking at.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 Před rokem

    "Kick the gong around"!

  • @jorgeduardomendesbarros1858

    Gosto grande artista

  • @Hot80s
    @Hot80s Před 3 lety

    Triple-O.G. Mr. Cab Calloway.

  • @julioalmagro5956
    @julioalmagro5956 Před rokem +1

    There's kind of a strange cut at 1:33. Does anyone else perceive it?

  • @jessicab331
    @jessicab331 Před 7 lety +70

    The bass player tho!!! 😂😂😂... Was this when coke was legal???

    • @GeneralSorrow
      @GeneralSorrow Před 6 lety +7

      Hidy hidy hidy heeee

    • @NewUser-nm7zd
      @NewUser-nm7zd Před 5 lety +6

      right he looks very happy!! but then id think more on weed.. coke doesnt really make me smile just pot @@GeneralSorrow

    • @sacheverelle
      @sacheverelle Před 4 lety +4

      Nope. But honestly, has it being illegal ever stopped anyone from using it?

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Před 4 lety +6

      Cab Calloway sings about coke in many of his songs, including this one.. "She loved him, but he was cokey."

    • @retardedduck1015
      @retardedduck1015 Před 4 lety +2

      no, they where just excited to introduce them selvse the instruments, the singing. Thats why they where so happy

  • @TheMarkcarmichael3
    @TheMarkcarmichael3 Před 11 lety

    Top tune

  • @tiaflies
    @tiaflies Před 4 lety +2

    I wanna know what that bass player was on

  • @P.ElleTheLove
    @P.ElleTheLove Před 4 lety +1

    I love 30's

  • @sachikawaii
    @sachikawaii Před 11 lety +1

    i am studying this song for my music lesson at school

  • @cb7235
    @cb7235 Před 3 lety +1

    What year is this? I’m trying to find the oldest.... it seems to be the clip at the beginning of the Betty Boop vid

  • @jamesfestini
    @jamesfestini Před 2 lety

    What’s not to love?

  • @wallacewellons8757
    @wallacewellons8757 Před 4 lety +1

    THATS WILONA DAD ON GOOD TIMES. THE COOLEST MAN IN THE 30S INVENTED SWAGGER