Heartwarming: Elderly Man Revived by Cab Calloway Tunes
...years. So when a friend passed me this video, which features a man in a nursing home becoming restored by listening to old Cab Calloway tunes, my heart was instantly warmed. Watch and think about it: We’d love to hear your thoughts on this, especially if you...info
Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Ho! â€" or, continued musings on relativism in art
...and forth about art. Specifically, how do we deal with the fact that this man’s favored music is performed by artists (like Cab Calloway, whose most famous song is below) who do not appear on the lists compiled by the sort of aficionados that various people...info
Motor City 5
...music geniuses like Phineas Newborn Jr. and Willie Mitchell and all the blues musicians, but everyone else came through town: Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton. There were no good hotels for blacks in Memphis in the 1940s, and since my mother had...info
Ohio State Fair concert lineup finalized
...lineup. Tickets for the shows go on sale April 21 at noon at Ticketmaster. Previously announced performers include Chicago and The Doobie Brothers, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, Boston and Kansas, Victoria Justice and the Cab Calloway Orchestra....info
The curtain finally rises on the reborn Howard Theatre
...had its Howard Theatre. If you could make it here, you could make it anywhere. It was the stage for Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Smokey Robinson, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, the Drifters...info
Cab Calloway's Music Wakes Up Old Man In Nursing Home [video]
Elderly man lights up when he hears his favorite tunes Right now social media is sharing this heartwarming video of a man named Henry who is spending his last days in a nursing home. For the most part, people working at the home know Henry to be quiet aninfo
Book to movie to musical: 'Color Purple' tackles the big issues
...the country through music and dancing, she wrote in the essay published in Essai, an academic journal. Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway starred in a black version of the popular Hello Dolly in 1967. Raisin, the 1973 musical theater adaptation of Lorraine Hansberrys...info
Book to movie to musical: 'Color Purple' tackles the big issues
...the country through music and dancing, she wrote in the essay published in Essai, an academic journal. Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway starred in a black version of the popular Hello Dolly in 1967. Raisin, the 1973 musical theater adaptation of Lorraine Hansberrys...info
Salem 66 - 1983-1987, Your Soul is Mine, Fork it Over (1987, Homestead)
...It's hard to desc... CAB CALLOWAY "Wah-Dee-Dah" 1930-1942 - Wah-Dee-Dah is a nice two-disc set chronicling the rise of Cab Calloway's rise to fame starting two years before he broke into the public eye in 1932 and ... Graham Parker: Live! Alone in America...info
MENAGE A TROIS
...soft shoe. “Just throw your coins on the road,†he said in a heavy Negro dialect. More laughter. “Meaning that guys like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington cold pass the paper-bag test because their skin was lighter than a paper bag. You could put Lena Horne...info