Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway IIIwas an African-American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth25 December 1907
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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Well, he didn't have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn't used to him. That's about all. I don't know. No conversation.
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They were all good. Can't say that none was best and none was worst. I don't know, they were all good as far as I was concerned.
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A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
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You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!
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And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were
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Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.