Cab Calloway - Reefer Man

[TheFlight420]

Someone never met "that funny reefer man" :(

[TheFlight420]

"he smokes the reefer, he gets high; then he flies to the sky..."

Yes, I do. ^_^

[sickwater]

1 person is not high

[spiderjerusalem100]

This actually a really cool song.

[computerman401]

1 in every 98 people are not cool.

[amazinazhell]

I wish a nickel still got me a dime

[thewhox56]

heavy shit

[penguinmaster11321]

this song is awesome

[fefeloved1]

man, he loved his hair he sure did.

[klakkin]

check out his hair !! ^^

[sussll]

im on drugs atm

[SpeedTriple59]

With a hiddi hi and a hiddie ho..Awesome from the main Kat of his time..

[CriketNeeProductions]

lolz i love this song.... im so high

[buffycharmedangel102]

@CriketNeeProductions lol i'm watching it now high too lol

[beledigirl3]

Fantastic... and i love how Cab's hair does it's own thing. lol

[saulya]

'Why is it that, in a 30's movie, anybody who's smoking marijuana acts like he's on cocaine? Beats me'

funniest video info ive read in a long time ahahah!

[coolhanj]

@saulya Actually, if anybody was interested, the reason that marijuana was portrayed this way in the 30's was because of a determined politician who was trying to ban marijuana, and used his goal was to scare "white America" into voting against legal marijuana. I just watched a documentary haha

[Dzubur1]

@coolhanj which one?

[PrimusRaven]

@coolhanj

The man himself wasn't a politician he owned a large section of the paper mill industry. Hemp was threatening to become a new cash crop, and among the things it replaced was paper. It would have cost him million of dollar to covert all his old mills into hemp processing plants. So like you said he ran a massive scare camping to convince the majority of "white America" that it was this new super devil drug. Dudes name was William Randolf Hurst (sp?) if i remember correctly.

[mikeman9412]

@PrimusRaven Well, It's a little more complex than that, BUT you are mainly right, I'd point the finger more at Harry J Anslinger than William Hurst

[coolhanj]

@mikeman9412 Thats who I was talking about! lol

[coolhanj]

@PrimusRaven I think we are tlking bout dif ppl, but same idea either way

[koolkid11014]

grass!

[unisexish13]

Gotta love the old days:) great song in my opinion

[uselessSomeone]

now THAT'S how you should play the bass...

this is the reason i love the 30's-60's music. cause it was music. nowadays, they write random stuff and make a song out of it, it's awful...

[iThrashNano]

@uselessSomeone

Because thats totally how songs these days are written. Why don't you try looking up Cynic. Amazing bass player. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean its "random".

[xMusicification]

THE REEFER MAYN! poke smot

[Verbeke1992]

Gotta love the interwar United States...

Simpler times... Simpler times...

[Diegoman9]

ya clearly these guys are smoking weed, eh....

[FaustyFob]

is that a banjo player ?? :46- :56 just above the head of the bass..

[bassfiddlesteve]

@FaustyFob It sure is. The guitarist probably still doubled on banjo which was common in the early swing bands. Duke Ellinton's guitarist Fred Guy played banjo up until the mid 1930's.

[demone5020]

with a heidi high and howdy ho Cab Calloway and his harlemaniacs present a flaming bit of heat. hahahaha

[jleoblues]

Isn't this from "International House" with W.C.Fields Burns and Allen?

[lcbor]

Onkel: marijuana is not derived from a plant. it is one of the many names given to the plant.

[OnkelMickwald]

I dunno if wikipedia is wrong but it says

"(...) marijuana[2], marihuana,[3] and ganja (from Sanskrit: गांजा gañjā, meaning "hemp"), among many other namesa[›], refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug."

[lcbor]

You have a point, Onkel. the word can be used either for the plant as a plant, or for the plant as prepared for consumption as a drug. The problem with the second meaning is that "preparation" does not alter the raw material. it's basically the plant:dried, cured and rolled into a joint.

[OnkelMickwald]

It also depends on which part of the plant. Marijuana is derived from the leaves, while for instance hashish is derived from "glandular hairs" which grow on the flowers.

[yngvaibucketrucci]

@OnkelMickwald more the buds and a few of the smaller leaves around the buds, basically anything with crystals on it which is not generally the larger leaves. hence the term 'smoking some buds'

[caloscalante1518]

marijuana is just a plant. not a man-made drug. how can a plant be illegal?? it does not make any sense

[OnkelMickwald]

marijuana is NOT a plant, it's DERIVED from a plant.

Plants can be illegalized, just like anything can be illegalized if it may cause harm to people. (Note that I'm not discussing cannabis now, but plants in general...)

[caloscalante1518]

actually it is a plant. its an herb. if it derived from a plant what is the plant which it is derived from called? its halfway legal anyways with medical MJ. i bet if it was legalized ppl would stop using it. its like wen u want something cuz u dont have it but wen u have it its like whatever.

[OnkelMickwald]

the plant is called cannabis.

[moltenthoughts]

your piont is totally valid

[moltenthoughts]

i still don't think pot should one of those illegal pionts but what you have said is still totally true so i gave your comment a thumbs up

[b0gster]

lol get your facts straight first before saying something. Wikipedia is still free as far as I know =)

[OnkelMickwald]

wiki/Marijuana

paste this at the end of the URL to the wikipedia home page...

[JOKINpoker]

LEGALIZE THE FUCKING MARIHUANA!!!!!

[fatspik]

those were the good ole days.

[Densaku]

America was so cool before they make Mary Jane a public ennemy.

Good old times.^^

[acebenedict]

Was Cab Calloway C-Walking at 1:30? lol

[FishscaleRaw]

lol, def. looks like it

guess he was holdin' down the blue

[wickedskaman]

@acebenedict No, that was the stanky leg.

[j3ss3l33]

@acebenedict That is what the "C" originally stood for, then some other people took it.

[koolkid11014]

@acebenedict slide and glide baby

[caloscalante1518]

@acebenedict the C in C-walking stands for Calloway lol thats how cool he was and STILL is

[mastercko]

@acebenedict the more things change, the more they stay the same... 8^)

[keb0124]

@acebenedict Looks that way. Haha.

[ruthlesace]

Why is it that, in a 30's movie, anybody who's smoking marijuana acts like he's on cocaine?- cause ppl on weed back then never left their homes so evry1 thought cocaine users were high on weed

[ruthlesace]

have you eva met that funny reefer man?

[sativa303]

Yea, I AM HIM !)

[ensconce]

Cab Calloway, what a class act, original showman. RIP