Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)

[iamthemoonchilde1]

calloway was such a fantastic performer, his band was soo good! no one comes close to him these days!!!

[77Alphawolf]

GREAT VIDEO! Cab Calloway was one of the great ones!

[65TossPowerTrap58DT]

Being from Kansas city i love me some real jazz.. and BBQ

[gjohnsoningary]

@65TossPowerTrap58DT I miss KC. Worked at Wing N Things on 18th and Brooklyn. And I love me some jazz!!!

[65TossPowerTrap58DT]

@gjohnsoningary hellyea man killer place..

[gjohnsoningary]

@65TossPowerTrap58DT Indeed!

[noirrosa]

I love his hair

[sseasons]

now THAT'S a party!

[59cadcoupe]

Rhythm aplenty !

[Gfabichiban]

High on MUSIC now STFU bitches!

[rareboy13]

his hair...... is awesome

[Geostrategic1]

The original cool cat!

[93omair]

dude the guitarist O_O

[Artovolpi]

Oh, God. No wonder the God that spoke to the Cab Calloway himself.

[hettfield009]

What's up with his hair?

[closedcircle1]

This is called hotcha razzmatazz.

[Streamline09]

Only thing about this film was that Cab would not have met his friends in the Cotton Club seated at a table. They wouldn't have been allowed to be seated. Otherwise it's a very entertaining film clip. thanks.

[canetoadkiller]

@Streamline09 That's not true. The Cotton Club was first exclusively black. It then faced the issue of whether or not they would let the white folks in because everyone heard of the high quality music being played there. Which they did. So they took the A train and here we are.

[Streamline09]

@canetoadkiller Maybe. Still at the time this film was made, the Cotton Club policy discouraged black patrons from entering--even some of the black performers had to go through the back door. White patrons generally preferred not to have to rub elbows with black patrons, but enjoyed the entertainment.. Black celebrities who could afford it and made it in were likely placed at a back-of-the-room table. The discriminatory policy didn't ease up until 1937--two years after this film was made.

[bdienstag]

It doesn't get better than this

[jimmyTHPS]

is he high?

[jellodius]

@jimmyTHPS

No mate, he ain't high, this is what we call a genius

[Kiddalee]

@jellodius Doesn't mean he couldn't have been high. I'm not judging either way.

[TonusAMaximus]

@jellodius Thumbs up.....but you have to admit....he might have been high...

Genius all the same.....

[denxero]

@TonusAMaximus

i agree with you, and further more pretending that he wouldnt have been high, given the time and jazz culture, is being way too much constipated. Loosen up your butts on drugs you stuck ups..

[zayndamayn]

@jellodius actually he probably was high. still genius.

[Skoomaheadmrmush]

@jellodius he was hella stoned what are you talking about

[Nicorette1234]

@jellodius well he might be high...probably was, but that changes nothing about his genius

[DracoFamiliar]

@jellodius Being high helped too...

[dXAriseXb]

@jimmyTHPS nah son he just doesnt disrespect women or talk about drugs and money and sex, and puts energy in his music cuz he lives it.. something a lot of modern artists don't do.

[Skiine]

I love how much the bassist is getting into the song. There is nothing better than seeing a musician get into his music

[chkjns]

This is the birth of the swing, big band era. Although the style goes back to 1927, it was scorned until the year of this short, which I'll bet helped this style catch fire!!

Added to my 1935 list, one of 111 music playlists waiting to transport you back to the sounds of any past year from 1900 to today. Time travel by mouse click ! ! !

[swinglim]

Looks like they are doing the shim sham at the end

[coreyikyp]

Check the line dance out at the end of the film....check the lady second over from Cab in the black dress with the white ruffle....a young Lena Horne. This is now regarded as her first "professional" appearance on film.

[McFlymcflangie]

@coreyikyp My father was a linedance instructor, please don´t debase Cab & co. by comparing what they did to that ridiculous phenomenon we Americans refer to as Linedance.

[mrgoodvibrations]

A real gem, thanx 4 posting, sharing w/everyone!

[thomasmantellwilliam]

CLASSY!

[baz000]

he has style, more than everybody these times

[ToddCMorgan]

Cab is tops!!!!

[Afro70s]

On to lubił trzepać krzakiem ;D

[Soulnik]

Long Live Harlem! ♫♫♫♫♫

[ThatsABiggon]

how on earth did you post musical notation?