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the original soundtrack would have been 10,000% cooler. Check out some of the ones with Cab Calloway's music behind it.

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For all you folks asking about how my posts fit into my own collective...(1 hr live jazz film with Horace Silver, and Cab Calloway, etc) if you have not already guessed, I roll in a non-linear fashion, and the wildness of Cab Calloway for his time, of Betty Hutton, of Be-Bop, 3rd stream, and fusion of the jazz scene in the 50's and 60's, all fit into my ideas of the wild west....I.E. western Hemisphere......cowboy stuff fits too, as well as wild children, animals, or political leaders, Nazis, leaders of facist socialist regimes bent on world domination (China, N. Korea-otherwise known as Human-Hating assholes).....gee, you think in China I could talk shit about their leaders??? Or could I waltz over to N. Korea, stand in the square, and shout, "Kim is a Dickweed!!" without getting beaten or imprisoned???? Perhaps.....I am an American goddamnit, and still proud of it.....but give that shit a few years....what with the past couple of generations that my country has produced, we are headed down a rocky road with idiots at the helm, and putties to feed them the raw materials.....blood, sweat, and BRRRAAAAIAINNS!

Hah! Cab Calloway wrote this tune....My Fav is, and I can't find it on vidddy-'A Blue Serge Suit With A Belt In The Back-
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He isn't hep to jive, he's only half alive, hep-cats call him square;
You won't believe this Jack but all his clothes date back to 29' I swear!

He wears a Blue Serge suit with a belt in the back, no drake, no shake, just a belt in the back;
He's strictly corn, man, and he's off the cob, wears a pocket watch with a pearly fob;
He'd look just as sharp in a sack, than in that blue serge suit with a belt in the back!

He isn't old or grey, yet he's so passe, swing bands make him frown; he doesn't get his kicks, from boogie-woogie licks, he's dead but he won't lay down-chorus

no-flair no where, just a belt in the back;
He thinks a cat is a household pet, and his favorite dance is the minuet;
Must've come from some curio rack, and bought a Blue Serge suit, with a belt in the baaaaaaak!

who the fuck downvotes Cab Calloway?!?

Cab Calloway appears with Betty Boop in the Talkartoon Minnie the Moocher, Betty's 17th cartoon appearance. This is justifiably one of the most famous cartoons ever made.

The cartoon begins with actual film footage of Cab Calloway dancing a slow and sensuous dance in front of his orchestra, the former Missourians, while they perform the Prohibition Blues. This is the oldest known film footage of Cab. His attire is uncharacteristically casual, and we never get a good look at his face. We suspect that Cab wasn't aware that the Fleischers were going to use the actual footage. Cab was well-known for his love of good clothes and his high standards for professional dress.

The haunting and beautiful instrumental, Prohibition Blues, is an old Missourians piece that was recorded by them in early 1930, right before Cab took over as leader of their band. This cartoon has the only recording of the piece with Cab Calloway. By early 1932, when this cartoon was produced, the group had been renamed "Cab Calloway and His Orchestra," but in this film, they are still wearing their old Missourians uniforms. We can see the drummer, Leroy Maxey, playing with his drumsticks in the background.

That was GREAT! I love Cab Calloway, he's so surreal, but this is the first time I've seen more than a few seconds of the Nicholas Brothers in action.

(My last Nicholas Bros was a repost. D'oh! This is my second favorite Nicholas Brothers clip after http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=3588)

Shown here are Fayard and Harold Nicholas in Orchestra Wives (1942) backed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra to "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo".

Who are the Nicholas Brothers?

The Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra. -- http://NicholasBrothers.com

A snippet from http://NicholasBrothers.com :

[...] the Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra.

This is an excerpt from the 1943 movie "Stormy Weather". The music is by Cab Calloway's band.

imdb link for the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036391/
wiki link for the Nicholas Brothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_brothers