The Most Important Recordings of Cab Calloway

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Some of These Days
  2:57
• 2
  Saint-James Infirmary
  3:06
• 3
  Minnie the Moocher
  3:12
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Six or Seven Times
  3:25
• 5
  Sweet Georgia Brown
  2:34
• 6
  Bugle Call Rag
  2:31
• 7
  Somebody Stole My Gal
  2:51
• 8
  Corinne Corrina
  3:03
• 9
  The Scat Song
  3:06
• 10
  Minnie the Moochers Wedding Day
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 11
  How Come You Do Me Like You Do
  2:55
• 12
  Reefer Man
  2:59
• 13
  The Man From Harlem
  3:12
• 14
  Doin the New Low Down
  3:10
• 15
  The Lady With the Fan
  3:19
• 16
  Zaz Zuh Zaz
  3:26
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Margie
  3:12
• 2
  Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul
  2:56
• 3
  Nagasaki
  2:56
• 4
  Wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing
  3:19
• 5
  Swing, Swing, Swing
  2:44
• 6
  Savage Rhythm
  2:38
• 7
  At the Clam-Bake Carnival
  2:31
• 8
  Jive
  2:59
• 9
  Ratamacue
  2:27
• 10
  Jumpin’ Jive
  2:48
• 11
  A Ghost of a Chance
  3:00
• 12
  Calling All Bars
  2:47
• 13
  Jonah Joins the Cab
  2:34
• 14
  Hey, Doc
  3:19
• 15
  Hi De Ho Man
  3:02
• 16
  I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped
  2:37

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Quadromania Jazz Edition: Cab Calloway: The Scat Song

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Are You Hep to the Jive?

Are You Hep to the Jive? 1994

Best of Big Bands: Cab Calloway featuring Chu Berry

Best of Big Bands: Cab Calloway featuring Chu Berry 1993

Best of Big Bands

Best of Big Bands 1990

The Cab Calloway Story

The Cab Calloway Story 1989

Chronological Calloway, Vol. 1 (1932–1933)

Chronological Calloway, Vol. 1 (1932–1933) 2024

Release credits

• Al Morgan
  double bass [1.11-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-3]
• Andrew Brown
  alto saxophone [1.16, 2.11], baritone saxophone [11], reeds [2.1, 2.4-10, 2.12, 1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.15], saxophone [1.11-13, 2.2-3, 2.12, 2.14]
• Andy Gibson
  arranger [11]
• Arville Harris
  alto saxophone [16], reeds [1.4, 1.6-13, 1.15, 2.1-3]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [4-5]
• Benny Morton
  trombone [14]
• Benny Payne
  piano [1.4, 1.6-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-12, 2.14], vibraphone [7]
• Bob Ysaguirre
  double bass [14]
• Cab Calloway
  conductor [1.16, 2.12, 2.14], lead vocals [3], performer [14], vocal [2.1-5, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-16]
• Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [12, 14-15]
• Chauncey Haughton
  reeds [7-10]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [1.14, 2.2-10]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [9-12, 14]
• Danny Barker
  guitar [7-12, 14]
• DePriest Wheeler
  trombone [2.1-10, 1.1-4, 1.6-13, 1.15-16]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [11-12, 14]
• Doc Cheatham
  trumpet [1.11-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-3]
• Don Redman and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [14]
• Donald Mills
  tenor vocals [14]
• Earres Prince
  piano [1-3]
• Eddie Barefield
  alto saxophone [16], reeds [1.11-13, 1.15, 2.1]
• Edward Inge
  reeds [14]
• Edwin Swayze
  trumpet [2.1-3, 1.6-13, 1.15-16]
• Fred Robinson
  trombone [14]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [4-6]
• Harry Mills
  baritone vocals [14]
• Harry White
  trombone [1.4, 1.6-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-3]
• Herbert Mills
  tenor vocals [14]
• Hilton Jefferson
  alto saxophone [11-12, 14], reeds [12]
• Horace Henderson
  piano [14]
• Irving Randolph
  trumpet [4-10]
• Jaden
  remixer [15]
• Jerry Blake
  alto saxophone [11], reeds [12, 14]
• Jimmy Smith
  double bass [6-10]
• John Mills, Jr.
  bass vocals [14]
• Jonah Jones
  trumpet [14]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [4-12, 14]
• Lammar Wright
  trumpet [2.1-12, 2.14, 1.1-4, 1.6-13, 1.16]
• Langston Curl
  trumpet [14]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [6-12, 14]
• Leroy Maxey
  drums (drum set) [1.1-4, 1.6-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-8]
• Manzie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Mario Bauzá
  trumpet [10-12]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [4-12, 14]
• Morris White
  banjo [1.1-4, 1.6-10, 1.15-16, 2.1], guitar [1.11-13, 2.2-6]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [11-12, 14]
• Reuben Reeves
  trumpet [1-4, 6-10]
• Robert Carroll
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Rupert Cole
  reeds [14]
• Shad Collins
  trumpet [4-9]
• Shirley Clay
  trumpet [14]
• Sidney De Paris
  trumpet [14]
• Talcott Reeves
  banjo [14]
• The Mills Brothers
  vocal [14]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [11-12], vocal [14]
• Walter "Foots" Thomas
  reeds [2.1, 1.1-3, 1.15], tenor saxophone [1.16, 2.4-12, 2.14], woodwind [2.2-3, 1.6-13]
• William Thornton Blue
  reeds [1.1-2, 2.2-3]
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Issues

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  The Most Important Recordings of Cab Calloway

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1989