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Are You Hep to the Jive?
by Cab Calloway
from Sbme Special Mkts.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Solid boys, I dig!!
  Ok folks, I know nothing about jazz. I couldn't tell you the difference between Coletrain and a choo-choo train. But, I can tell you with complete authority that this CD is the most complete, undiluted, unadulterated expression of pure joy I've ever heard. Listening to this collection is like taking a happy pill!
  If contemporary artists have any pretense to being "cool" or "hip", they need only to investigate Calloway and his music for a reality check. This man is the real thing, the founder, the... more info

• Love This!
  I love this collection from Cab Calloway.
  It's great for driving or cooking in the kitchen...
  and my six year old selects this when she needs something
  "jazzy" to dance to.
  There are many rocking songs with great lyrics.
  ...Have a banana Hannah...
  If you like old time and big band style jazz
  I think you will like this.
  I love it.
  

• Hi-Dee-Hi-Dee Hi-Dee-Ho
  Cabell Calloway, born in Rochester, N/Y. on Christmas Day 1907, had his first hit as a band leader with St. Louis Blues when that W.C. Handy classic went to # 16 for the Brunswick label as by "The Jungle Band." A few months later what became his theme song, and based on the old folk tune, Willie The Weeper, rose to # 1 as Minnie The Moocher in the spring of 1931 on Brunswick 6074. The version here (he re-recorded it many times) was cut on February 2, 1942 and released on Okeh 4753, but did not chart.... more info

• Cab "the man" Calloway
  If you are a Cab fan, you must own this. If you are a fan of swing music, you should own this.

Tracks:

1. Boo-Wah Boo-Wah - Cab Calloway, Clinton, Larry
2. Are You All Reet? - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab
3. Hey Now, Hey Now - Cab Calloway, Hill, Stanley
4. Everybody Eats When They Come to My House - Cab Calloway, Burns, Jeanne
5. Are You Hep to the Jive? - Cab Calloway, Ram, Buck
6. The Calloway Boogie - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab
7. Hep Cat's Love Song - Cab Calloway, Boyd, Max
8. Papa's in Bed with His Britches On - Cab Calloway, Stone, Jesse
9. What's Buzzin' Cousin? - Cab Calloway, Gordon, Mack
10. Twee-Twee-Tweet - Cab Calloway, Maxwell, Robert
11. Come on with the "Come On" - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab
12. Chant of the Jungle - Cab Calloway, Freed, Arthur
13. I Want to Rock - Cab Calloway, Clinton, Larry
14. Oh! Gram'Pa - Cab Calloway, Calloway
15. The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing) - Cab Calloway, Dixon, Mort
16. Don't Falter at the Alter - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab

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