Betty Boop - 1931 Minnie The Moocher(Cab Calloway) W/ Lyrics in Description

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer with contributions from animator Grim Natwick among others. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit with film-goers, and despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s to appear more demure, she became one of best known cartoon characters in the world and remains popular today.

"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over 1 million copies.[1] "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi De Hi"). In performances, Calloway would have the audience participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response, eventually Calloway's phrases would become so long and complex that the audience would laugh at their own failed attempts to repeat them. The song is based both musically and lyrically on Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon's 1927 "Willie the Weeper" (Bette Davis sings this version in The Cabin in the Cotton). The lyrics are heavily laden with drug references. "Smoky" is described as "cokey" meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase "kicking the gong around" was a slang reference to smoking opium. It was followed two years later by Lonnie Johnson's "Winnie the Wailer"

~~~~~LYRICS~~~~~
Folks, here´s a story about Minnie the Moocher
She was a red hot hoochie-koocher
She was the roughest, toughest frail
Bbut Minnie had a heart as big as a wha-a-le

Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi (call and response)
Hodee-hodee-hodee-ho (call and response)
Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee (call and response)
Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho (call and response)

She messed around with a bloke named Smoky
She loved him though he was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
Where he showed her how to kick the gong around ()

Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi (call and response)
Wooooooh (call and response)
Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee (call and response)
Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho (call and response))

She had a dream that the King of Sweden
He gave her things that she was needin´
He built her a house of gold and steel
A diamond car with platinum wheels

Hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hidee-hi (call and response)
Hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-hodee-ho (call and response)
Scoodley-woo-scoodley-woo-scoodley-woodley-woodley-woo (call and response)
Zit-dit-dit-dit-dittle-but-dut-duttleoo-skit-dit-skittle-but-dit-zoy (call and response)

He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes
She sat around and counted them all a million times

Hidee-Hidee-Hidee-hi (call and response)
Hodee-hodee-hodee-ho (call and response)
Heedey-hee-dee-hee-dee hee (call and response)
Hidee-hidee-hidee-ho (call and response)
Now Min and Smokie, they started jaggin'
They got a free ride in a wagon
She gave him money to pay her bail
But he left her flat in the county jail

Whoooa, yeaaaah (call and response)
Hey de he de he he (call and response)
Whoa Whoa (call and response)
Poor Min met old Deacon Lowdown
He preached to her that she ought to slow down
But Minnie wiggled her jelly roll
And Deacon Lowdown yelled, "Lord save my soul!"
Hi de hi de hi de hi (call and response)
Ho de ho de ho de ho (call and response)
Skiddley doodley doodly do (call and response)
Skiddly diddly day (call and response)

They took her where they put the crazies
Now poor Min's kicking up those daisies
You've heard my story this is her song
She was just a good gal, but they done her wrong

Hi de hi de hi de hi (call and response)
Skooby de be do (call and response)
He de he de he de he (call and response)
Whoa, Whoa Whoa (call and response)

Poor Min, Poor Min, Poor Min.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Betty
• Boop
• 1931
• Minnie
• The
• Moocher
• Cab
• Calloway

[Chibiwaza]

gotta love that 1930's drug PSA

[DesertStarr]

Awesome detail in the description thanks alot...