Cab Calloway, "Mr. Hi-de-ho" in person.

[me25422]

dumbest comment i ve seen today written by gubgub4321, "i'll show this nigga some real shit".

[MrLeomonkey07]

@me25422 Lol, you spelled everything correctly.

[me25422]

@MrLeomonkey07 what?

[gubgub4321]

i'll show dis nigga some rel shit.

[Lazysupermutant]

I just adore this song, the video should be manditory to watch with it. It's just sad, a man who's at the end of his rope and can only find the barman to confind in. It's the song you listen to when you feel like crap.

[nickindorhadwenpuff]

i do not recall liking this...but somehow it says i did

[beLfism]

You just don't see drunk-barroom-exits like this anymore

[degen83]

RAP just doesn't compare to this. This is classy and pure talent. Rap just isn't classy. A lot of rappers today are sell outs, selling out their morals and saying whatever it takes to get their records sold. Cab had his own sound, his own way of doing things. Some rap is ok to listen to if its about spreading ideas and knowledge, not about how much cars you have or how much drugs you used to sell.

Cab had it all and was a great performer. can't say the same for all the rappers out there

[scottgreenmusic]

Why in the sam hell is a rap discussion going on here? Watch the video, it's good.

[JiveDadson]

And then he drove home.

[fastborzoi]

Cab had a fabulous voice and was a fabulous talent -- he could done anything, even taken the stage as a singing actor, an opera singer -- his videos are a joy

[gfine2000]

Rap and hip hop has brought a disrespect and shame to the music industry. Too much of it lacks intelligence, eloquence and style. It's influence has contributed to a negative impact on several generations unfortunately and they don't even know it. Many years ago it would have been unheard of to create such profoundly negative music but money became the motivator and the catalyst over clean, intelligent and true artistic music writing. Do you know how many people have died due to rap music?

[Lazysupermutant]

@gfine2000 I disagree in any medium there are both intelegent and..other musicians and music and rap is no exception. Look at rapper like Biggy Smalls, Emem, Tek9, these rapper are vary fluient and creative in how they rap and the point they get across. I belive Cab Calloway would have taken a charm to rap as he sadly died in raps early days.

[gfine2000]

@Lazysupermutant I don't mean to generalize rap as I did but there are negative connotations to some rap that exists today and during Tupac and Biggies time. I feel Biggie and Tupac were two of the best in the rap game. Though most of their rap had negatives messages to them, it's their natural talent for rapping in a cipher better than anyone could. I realize what Biggie and Tupac wrote and rapped about were statements of reality though some may have been slightly exaggerated...

[zayun97]

@gfine2000 They did not die due to rap music, they died because they lived a gang life. I cannot stand these generalizations of massive and complex genres like rap and hip hop. They are vital, dynamic forms of expression that have greater range than people with only vague understandings of them are willing to admit or attempt to comprehend. I love Cab and rap and any music that is willing to push boundaries and challenge its listener. Which obviously some of you cannot and will not do.

[gfine2000]

@zayun97 While some of the statements you've made I do agree with, such as rap being a form of expression and how it has also pushed the boundaries and challenged the listener, music, be it rap or otherwise, is a very powerful medium that will influence how people think and how they react in society. Words have power! words are what have influenced generations to act whether it be negative or positive. There's negative rap and there's positive rap. I'm sure you can distinquish between the two.

[gcpropertymanagement]

A life lived well. Watch and appreciate. Genius. Frank Sinatra imitated this.

[salvator419]

What a gem of a song.

[BurninJive]

for those of you who may not know, this song is officially called:

"Make it One For my Baby, and One More for the Road"

[Trevoc2]

I wanted my wife to hear the the Hi-de-ho song, but you misrepresented this title and never even bothered to put the name of the song he is singing here....why?? Guess you enjoy wasting people's time.

[BurninJive]

@Trevoc2 Perhaps he was not aware of the name of the song. Ever thought about that?

You must not have a lot of time on your hands if your time is wasted by a video that you can click away from in a matter of seconds.

[Trevoc2]

@BurninJive Maybe YOU have time on your hands to criticize people who post here. Try doing research online, or going back to your Sesame Street program which is still on.

[BurninJive]

@Trevoc2 Well I take it back then, you do have a lot of time on your hands, don't you?; just about as much time as I do if you're going to bother to write a response.

Pretty hypocritical of you to accuse me of criticizing you when you yourself criticized the owner of this video for "wasting your time". Have you actually tried listening to the song yet? It's quite nice.

[Trevoc2]

@BurninJive Ok, now that you have stuck your nose in someone elses business, you can resume your attack on another person complaining to a channel host. Trust me, there are lots of complaints out there, and you will have a field day. Our discussion is over...please do something more worthwhile with YOUR extra time on YOUR hands.

[BurninJive]

@Trevoc2 The comment section isn't private, so there's no point in accusing me of "sticking my nose" in your "business".

Have a nice day.

[PalkaSvechi]

Cab somehow makes even the gloomiest of songs comforting

[zdragonforce]

i dont think cab would find any form of music shameful!

thats the hardest part of being a musician.

[brassierieerre]

Look how faded he is... awesome!

[DrLsw]

he looks drunk. and if he is. damn he's good lol

[abonawas]

@DrLsw he is all charisma

[mindingosafado]

I always hated people singing in my Jazz, until now that is.

[perkydoo]

Even playing a drunk he is just tooo smooth. They dont make them like that anymore!

[k6k6k6Darkie]

To hell with hip hop. This is where the gold's at.

[oldcoot55]

Good God, when I read these comments, it seems like some kind of battle between rap and old time be-bop jazz. I can't speak for Cab, but as a fan, I can speak ABOUT Cab, and I say anybody that cool would embrace everything with musical worth. I think I'm sitting on the fence here, but I don't think there will be any arguments about what I would prefer. LONG LIVE CAB CALLOWAY!!!!

[sweepy90]

i love mezzo

[redbeard2001]

Only problem about Calloway liking rap, is that he speaks english...not ebonics. I think he would think modern day rap is a disgusting downwards movement.

[twentynothing]

nah Cab Calloway and Ol Dirty Bastard are probably doing collaborations acting a fool in heaven

[Upritebass]

OH YEAH! This is the way to chill out at the end of a long night! Okay, maybe w/o 1 too many drinks, lol! Feels like I'm there. I am one of the unfortunates who were born in the wrong era. :-(

[TheMsmother]

he was an original!!Our heritage!! But, please don't down RAP. We are always inovators

[Meich28]

Springheeledjack8181 shut the fuck up you dont know shit about rap or Hip hop

and how the fuck you would know what he likes and dont hoe

[gjohnsoningary]

Brother has got some pipes! Hell of a singing voice!

[GreatGonzoMusic]

Seriously one of the best performers ever!

[Noggbadd]

what a great actor he was... I love the drunken walk at the end, it cracks me up :-)

[SirJakusThe1st]

Is the name of this song really "Mr. Hi-De-Ho"? I'm confused. Can anyone clarify?

[evad6832]

@SirJakusThe1st Its called ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD)

[PureGlamMan]

I hope that he is in heaven, I want to hear him play throughout eternity. What a great man!!!

[dentpopcan]

i like the part when he says,

gentalmens cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooooooooooooooode.­.... lol

cool guy

[bigtarrose]

Cool dude.

[jeezer913]

@sharonanony not to be racist here but wat have whites done for hip hop? we brought there ancestors here. your welcome

[abbsterANDrufus101]

im doin a project on him

hes awesome at dancing

[PixiStix417]

Cab Calloway only died like 16 years ago, in '94, whoever said 25 years ago is WRONG

[monmichka77]

So, I subtracted wrong. So, sue me.

[PixiStix417]

I was just correcting you, grow up a little.

[monmichka77]

I will if you will.

[sharonanony]

Cab calloway would luv hip hop as an Art form.

PEOPLE ARE SO SILLY IN AMERICA . ALWAYYS

thinking they can judge..

America would not even have any culture if it Was not for Black Artists Period. For Instance, what is Whites Doing so much more fantastic then hip hop. NOTHING!

[IveGottaPenny]

Dont be so quick to deminish other races achievements. Theres Rock,soft, metal, all of it is art. and hip hop as art, yes, hip hop shit on the radio... ha... no.

[bitingontinfoil]

All I gotta say is this shit SWINGS!!! AWESOME!

[monmichka77]

Either way it goes, however, I am very sure he would definitely say one thing: Shut the hell up and enjoy the music!

[Shayu]

amen

[monmichka77]

So funny how people can speak for a man who passed away 25 yrs ago. Certainly one could reason that Cab would have in a way been sympathetic to hip-hop artists seeing as he wasn't a prude as so many here seem to be. He was a judge for a WWE match as well as appearing in a Janet Jackson video. Despite his own parents' disapproval of jazz, he still became one of the greatest artists ever and transcends time and national boundaries. Sound familiar?

[pyxiekit]

technically all  forms of music can be link together and evolved from one source or another whether we like where it evolved to or not ...we should all learn to appreciate where it can from!

[FrigginNickname]

bogframe: then you should learn something about musik history! its not only cab who could be related as father of hip hop, but jazz is!

[Bogframe]

blackfalconsungodzzz, maybe you can tell the unenlightened amongst us just how Cab Calloway's Jazz stylings were the beginning of Hip-Hop. Personally, I don't see any connection whatsoever.

[Kyle0019]

Cab Calloway is a legend no one can recreate the sound he made. fuck hip hop jazz is where its at

[JustMatty80]

Quite impressed at his vocal skills in this song..,

[springheeledjack8181]

I know a great deal about music and Cab Calloway and he would find rap and hip hop shameful and would disassociate himself with it.

[spacecommander12]

@springheeledjack8181 how can you possibly speak for a man who lived decades ago? also, if you listen to presentation of rap you'll notice striking similarities between their "flow" and scat. Now the lyrics are another issue, but I think that if he had grown up in our time he would have been more comfortable with them. Also his song "Reefer Man" makes me feel like he and Kid Cudi would have chilled mad hard, and could definitely produce some great music together.

[atommheartmother]

I dont think such a genius would deny any interesting form of music as rap and hip hop are. "Good music is good, no matter what kind of music it is" - MD

[Jophisn]

you got owned by atommheartmother!!

and what do you mean by hip-hop, its a movement that has been around for almost 40 years there is no singular style just like in Jazz, you obviously DONT know a great deal about music.

[kedrick06]

@springheeledjack8181 dont generalize rap and hip hop.. not all of it is the same... don't be ignorant.

[focksee1]

@springheeledjack8181 You are right.

[Smilex53]

@springheeledjack8181 Not necessarily. I think he might be up for it because while he may not agree with the common lyrical content of today, rap and hip hop is still music. You have to remember that jazz was looked down upon because of its wild free form style. Jazz musicians were the first rock stars, then rockstars followed them, and then rappers followed them. It's all the same thing just rearranged differently. It don't matter what you play it's how you play it. At least IMO.

[Goose461]

Who are you to say Cab Colloway would disassociate himself with rap music, or speak for him at all for that matter? Hip Hop and Rap artists sampled and continue to sample Jazz, Swing, Funk, Soul and everything intbetween. Not only are you generalising a whole genre of music as something shameful and vulgar, you dont seem to realise that the genre itself may credit Cab Calloway and older forms of music because without it, the genre may not exist. I challenge your knowledge greatly.

[Goose461]

As a Musician, he may of kept a more open mind towards newer forms of music, especially if it incorporated aspects of his own genre. I dont want to strictly speak for him as you have, but why do you think Cab Calloway would be so closed minded? Guns, Bitches, and Bling are not the four elements hip hop, but rather the DJ, the MC, graffiti art, and break dancing.

You say you know a great deal about music, but clearly no nothing about Hip Hop other than what you read in the obituarys.

[Goose461]

Unless you Dismiss Hip Hop and Rap as music, which i'm guessing you do. Then no, you dont know a great deal about music.

Sorry for making this so long (3 posts!) but i couldnt help but rise to your ill-backed, unfactuated statement.

[BlackMonk66]

@Goose461 More importantly, why should anyone care whether or not someone born in the early twentieth century would have liked Hip Hop? He might not have, just because most people tend not to like musical genres that come into existence when they're 70. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Calloway or Rap. My guess is he wouldn't have cared about rap any more than he cared about rock and roll, psychedelia or disco before it. There's nothing wrong with sticking to what you know.

[realsiq]

@springheeledjack8181 rap and hip hop is the product of this music whether you like it or not, i know a great deal about Jesus and he would find you shameful and ignorant

[crazy650c]

@realsiq may know a great deal *about* Jesus but obviously doesn't know Jesus. Jesus is not a music snob. Psalm 33:3 "Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise." You are probably one of those Baptists or their like who only use "dead man's" music.....(the song has to be 100 yrs. old or the singer/writer dead).

[crackfarm76]

@springheeledjack8181 don't discount an entire genre for the bad eggs, my friend! ...there are plenty of incredible hip hop performers...sure, most of the stuff that gets mtv play is wretched, but rap was born out of a voice from the streets that had something to say, in a clever and catchy way...i believe mr. calloway would be proud to have paved the way for word-twisting groups like das efx! don't forget, he was singing about pot, scatting, moonwalking and improvising...progressive and hip!!

[NInjaTheseus001]

@springheeledjack8181 I'm not going to doubt that you know alot about music but back in 1942 Cab Calloway was there rap. I'm pretty sure the people and musicians before him would be saying he's shamefull. But its just how generations progress musically. But Cab Calloway is an amazing musician :)

PS: I like your youtube name Oblivion kicks ass!

[wokvonrockstein]

@NInjaTheseus001 lol! theyre rap?... jimmy was your rock,no wait...ours...yours. all hail elvis...theyre rock'n'roll

[biggerfatterblacker]

@springheeledjack8181 hip hop isn't bitches cars and guns you dimwit. its poetry music dancing and art. dash away your foolishness

[Grabbael]

@springheeledjack8181 at the same time though he is a true music lover and i do not believe he would hate all rap.

[kingkonggotnothing]

@springheeledjack8181 Ehhh I dunno bout that yes allot of rap and hip hop (keyword coming) that is FAMOUS, or usually what you hear on the radio today is crap, but there is also very good rap or hip hop that has heart actually from people with allot of talent, But none the less the topic of if Cab Calloway would like hip hop or rap today would be opinionated because he is dead but Im pretty sure he lived to see the dawn of that genre before he croaked.

[roryfoote1]

@springheeledjack8181 Thanks for your proffesional opinion. How do you know this by the way? Been talking to him in siances?

[Jakeshark]

@springheeledjack8181 Don't kid yourself. There are legitimate rappers that make music about real shit, unlike the stuff you hear on the radio. Look up Dance With the Devil by Immortal Technique.

[drew2pac]

@Jakeshark yeah that is true, but you have to search long and hard to find them. 'blitz the ambassador' is good, plus immortal tech like you said. but the stuff most people hear is crap!

its a damn shame. i grew up with hip hop and love it, but either way, it will never beat this sort of music :-)

[Jakeshark]

@drew2pac Won't argue there.

[pqstr]

@springheeledjack8181 why would anyone associate him with rap?

[Alexanderortiz99]

@pqstr cause that is what sells to the 15-25 yr old that advertisers aim towards.. yet they have the least amount of money to spend... and yet here we are.. Shame.

[springheeledjack8181]

NO!!! Not the birth of hip hop!!!

but yes Calloway is the greatest

[blackfalconsungodzzz]

thats your opinion!

he started its origen's??? you obviously

dont know about our music/HIP HOP!!!!

it has a begining.

[blackfalconsungodzzz]

Birth of HIP/HOP!!!!!

yes he is the father of rhymes mr. Cab himself.

[ladyvolsfans]

awe!

[nonodonoin]

asdfasdfasdfghjkl

[garethac81]

This little old Cabby could ALWAYS carry his load.

*tips hat to a real star*

[wetbeak]

one for my baby and one for the road

coolest heartbreak line ever

[6Bravo6]

Cab must've been cool to get drunk with.We'd be singing all the way to the dopeman.

[mohzein456]

He looks like a stoner

[bklynmod]

it's beautiful Cab

[fusahey22]

so coool

[Spats62]

I confirm: this is Cab Calloway, "Mr. Hi-de-ho" in person.

[wzrdmjk]

Looks like it might be Cab Calloway, not positive, but it sure looks a lot like him. Check out the Blues Brothers with Cab Calloway doing Minnie the Mootcher.

I was going back and forth between the two of them....lol.

wzrdmjk

[lindsaybugda]

Love all his proformances... such impact.. and Talent.. Cab Calloways Memory never dies