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Cab Calloway

Known for: Acting
Born: December 25, 1907
Died: November 18, 1994 · age 86
From: Rochester, New York, USA

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

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§ Known for

The Blues Brothers

1980 · Curtis

The Cincinnati Kid

1965 · Yeller

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · —

Stormy Weather

1943 · Cab Calloway

St. Louis Blues

1958 · Blade

The Big Broadcast

1932 · Cab Calloway

The Singing Kid

1936 · Cab Calloway

Sensations of 1945

1944 · Cab Calloway

Hi-De-Ho

1947 · Cab

The Littlest Angel

1969 · Gabriel

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

2024 · The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)