Oh my. That face. This guy could sing the saddest song in the world but as long as you can see his smile, you just can't help but feel happy and good. Cab was truly amazing.
Well, I believe this is what they call "shuckin' & jivein' for the white folks." These guys were from that era where black entertainers kinda had to do the bug-eyes and gigantic goofy smiles all the time in order to keep their position in the biz. Wasnt really until the 1950s and ESPECIALLY the 1960s that they could finally drop the Jim Crow act. But at the same time, back in those days, ALL entertainers - regardless of race or whatever - were expected to perform with a generally happy & pleasant demeanor no matter what. It's just folks like Calloway had to crank it up to 11. Especially those who were originating from the dirty south like Louis Armstrong, as opposed to guys like Calloway who came out of places like Harlem, NYC. Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald etc, they all talked about how they kinda needed to "Uncle Tom" for the white folks in order to get by. Thank fuck for folks like Nina Simone who decided fuck that. And also thank God for folks like her and James Brown, who decided to put their foot down and stop fucking up their hair just to give themselves "white hairstyles." They were the ones to really usher in the era of no longer modifying yourself to fit into white/eurocentric beauty standards. Seriously, the stuff black folks had to put in their hair in order to straighten it was, hell IS, fucking INTENSE. I saw a video of some dumbass white girl with curly hair (not like the hair that black folks have, like Ginger/Jewish-tier curly hair) try using that stuff to straighten HER hair....IT MADE ALL OF HER HAIR _FUCKING FALL OUT_ FFS!!! Like holy _SHIT,_ dude!
@@dildonius wow, that's some real history lesson right there. I mean I knew a little bit about the Jim Crow laws and the civil rights movement and all that but the other stuff you just mentioned is all new info to me. (Well, I don't live in the US nor have I ever been there so I get most of my US-related info from the internet and my American friends.)
"Blues in the Night" music composer was my cousin, Harold Arlen... lyrics by Johnny Mercer...Cab Callaway sang it live at the Ritz, N.Y.C. on my birthday, March 28, 1985... what a thrill it was! He was as fabulous as ever!
Now THAT'S an industry 'war story' My mother knew Cab and his daughter personally, along with other music people. The skills AND ENERGY that these greats brought to the stage and existing media were unbelievable (devoid of today hokey over-the-top pyrotechnics to hide the lack of musical creativity)!
@nealbradleigh5069 🙋♀️Cab's daughter performed with him at the Ritz 😊... What a great show it was... Absolutely 💯 ...I agree... and such professionalism... Sam and Dave performed 🎭 2 shows for 2 nights at the Coventry in Sunnyside Queens, complete with costume change for an intimate (small) audience in 1983 and played with the energy as if it was Madison Square Garden! ... Yes, indeed, we were very lucky to live during those times... When talent and creativity was at its Zenith...in my humble opinion 😌 Thanks for the comment 👍 😀 Peace out ✌️ ☮️💌
@lemurianchick Yes! I know 🙆♀️👊Pretty incredible, right?😍 I only wish I had a fraction of his talent 🤷🏻♀️ ( no claim to fame justa luckyrelative) 🙋🏽♀️.... such an amazing catalog of songs so many people still hum, whistle and sing along to...what a great collaboration with Mercer... Thanks for listing more wonderful music ❤️ written by Harold Arlen ( BTW originally Arluck) 🙃... Peace out ✌️ ☮️❤️🌬✨️
Cab's father was a lawyer, don't you know he was thrilled when Cab decided to be a musician. LOL! Thank goodness he did though. Love Cab Calloway. Love this song, this is the absolute best version that exists in this universe of this song. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night.
Thank you for your insights. I am part of a generation of kids that only got a smattering of exposure to the dynamic contemporary music industry, being shown the door, sadly, as a wet-behind-the-ears new kid named Rock & Roll was making the rounds. Cab's stylings were even spoofed in cartoons from PARAMOUNT and WARNER BROS
Everything I know about the 30s and 40s I learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons it seems. The Warner Brothers animation team were fans of Cab Calloway it seems and that is awesome!
MarvelDcImage : Looneytoones continues with 1920s-40s music. It has become a trademark. Don't know the reason. Maybe Warner Bros. retains the copyright.
Check out the Fleischer Brothers and the three short movies they made with Betty Boop and Cab: "Minnie the Moocher," "Snow White," and "The Old Man of the Mountain."
Cab Calloway graduated from Fredrick Douglass High School which was an all black high school in Baltimore and many regarded it as one of the finest schools in the nation.
My mom had a beautiful voice, and when my sister and I were growing up, my mom would sing the Rosemary Clooney version of this song (meaning, from a lady's pov). This song is WONDERFUL! Thank you for sharing. It brought back awesome memories of her. ❤
He's talking about the racial prejudice of the time. Unfortunately even though they were amazing performers, African american artists were mistreated a lot and not seen as equals a lot of the time. Though there were lots of cases of African american performers helping to close the divide with the admiration of Caucasian actors and performers as well.
Thanks Dean. I went and read his full wikipedia. Insane to think about how bad it was around Cab's time. You're good enough to entertain us, but not to drink a beer beside us in the same club. Wow. Not saying there isn't a lot left to do until we get to real equality but man it was bad in them days eh?
@harambe in Guantanamo There is so much wrongful and hateful bullshit packed into your brief and twisted comment, it would be difficult to know where to begin to try to explain or respond to it all. Kindly return to the earth the carbon from which you are constructed so that more graphite #2 pencils can be manufactured for school-aged children. Thank you.
Cab Calloway is vastly underrated and not known to many people because other black musicians got more attention. He often performed to replace Duke Ellington's band. Because of racism, only a few blacks could achieve wide success and popularity at that time. And he's black and was always treated as a black man by white America. Damn, he was great!
I think he got quite a bit of recognition, actually, but maybe wasn't awarded the critical acclaim that other bands like Ellington's and Fletcher Henderson's may have gotten because they tended to minimize the vocal and deliver the solos and the jump style of swing, and jazz has been a more academicized and picked over, which left other Cotton Club performers like Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, Dorothy Dandridge, and Lena Horne a little bit out of the historical loop. It doesn't take away from Calloway--or any of the others. They were incredible artists, and we sometimes heard their records growing up in Jersey (my parents had a couple of Lena Horne records in the hi-fi) or saw them in old movie clips on the NY TV stations like WNEW, which had a late night program called Reel Camp that showed old shorts. I must have been 16 or 17 when I saw Cab Calloway doing Reefer Man, and had to tell everyone at school about it. Calloway, like Ellington and Henderson, was solidly black middle class, and his parents both had college educations.
I'm 60..from Maine...my dad was in a band in the late 40s and 50..big bands would come at the dance hall at the end of the pier...in my hometown...my mother owned a nightclub.."Black Magic Lounge"...and she wore all black ...nailpolish...pillbox hat with the black lace...Goth before it was cool...and we had a grand piano...Count Basie would come to play...it was the party house...Arte Shaw..so many would come...I wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye yet...I love this music...dislike 80% music since the 80s...probably more..
How is this any different from sagging jeans and money flashing gold chains? Talent!! Singing , Real Instruments. Thank you Can Callaway. You laid down the blueprint.
I love anything Cab Calloway did; he was so charismatic and just plain cool! I just occurred to me that one reason performers like Mr. Calloway could be so "expressive" and "showy" while singing in these soundies was due to the fact that the audio was recorded first--they lip synched (or in the musicians' cases, went "through the motions") to it during the actual filming. Of course, Cab was ALWAYS fun to watch perform live--but just watch his face during this--I think those expressions and looks were a bit easier for him to pull off miming to his singing, you see? Great clip, great song and thanks for sharing this!
But there are some old soundies that weren't "lip-synced", and he still emoted like a star; when your're a live performer, you learn how to turn on the juice.
this is THE version for me . don't let the playfulness fool you : He was a terrific (baritone?) singer,and this was a GREAT band. (so many top faces in there )
Hey , Mr. Cab !!!!! You are one of the best!!!!! You backed by some of the most wonderful vocal groups and your back beat most POWERFUL Band ; outta sight !!!!!!!!!
Yowzers ! This is really SOLID stuff ! Cab was one of the coolest cats ever ! THANKS so much for sharing this bodacious "blast from the past" with us ! :-)
The thumbnail for this has Cab looking just like Prince! After watching manny Calloway vids, I am convinced that Prince, son of a jazz musician, was heavily inspired by Mr Calloway ❤
I know, right? Especially since the Blues Brothers got their Rude Bwoy "look" from the way Cab was dressed in the movie, super cool ,ol' cucumber head as Cheech would say!!!
Cab Callaway's name was high up in the quality big bands. That, plus he did a lot of the background music and sound effects for the old cartoons, betty boop and such.
A man is a two-face! A worrisome thing that'll leave you to sing The Bluuuuues! In the Niiiiight! 😝😋 Nah but in all seriousness, holy HECK do those lines ever flow! BEAUTIFUL lyricism!
LYRICS : My momma done tol' me When I was in knee-pants My momma done tol' me, "Son, (What did she tell you?) A woman gon' sweet-talk (Yeah!) And give you de glad-eyes, (Ah, ahh...) But when that sweet-talk is done: (Keep on a-talkin') A woman's a two-faced A worrisome thing Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues...) In the night." (Yes, in the night) Now the rain's a-fallin' Hear the train a-callin' - (Oo-ee...) My momma done tol' me. (Oh...) Hey, that lonesome whistle's Blowin' 'cross the trestle. (Oo-ee...) My momma done tol' me. (Hey, ahoo-ee, ahoo-ee!) A clickety-clackin' And echoin' back at the blues... In the night The evenin' breeze - The stars - The trees a-cryin' and the moon 'll hide its light When you get the blues In the night. (It's really tough to get the blues in the night) Take my word: The mockingbird Sings the saddest kind of song; He knows things are wrong - And he's right. (Yes, he's right to sing the blues in the night) From Natchez to Mobile; From Memphis to St. Joe; Wherever the four winds blow; (They blow everywhere!) I been in some big towns, (Yeah!) And I done heard me some big talk, (Ahh, ahh...) But there's one thing I know: (Keep a-talkin') A woman's a-two-faced - A worrisome thing Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues) In the night. (Yes, in the night) (A woman will leave you singin' the blues) I know she will - My momma was right: The blues in the night
- "Blues in the night" by Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen. (Songs) - Cab Calloway and his Orchestra:- Lammar Wright, Russell Smith, Shad Collins, Jonah Jones, trumpet; Keg Johnson, Tyree Glenn, Quentin Jackson, trombone; Jerry Blake, Hilton Jefferson, Andrew Brown, Teddy McRae, Walter Thomas, reeds; Benny Payne, piano; Danny Barker, guitar; Milt Hinton, acoustic double bass; Cozy Cole, drums; The Cabaliers, vocal. (Personnel on Camera)
Crazy !!! I did not know either. !!! my mother did not mention anything bad!!a bout the beautiful ladies, always had me looking at beautiful woman all colors, always well dress with beautiful body figures and such refine facial futures!!! 🙏🙏🙏
I remember taping these pn channel 4 least l think it was 4, early in the morning. They just blew your mind. Some of them were shown in reverse so that signs were back to front.
George Penwell : totally agree..! Good musics stopped in the '70s. I mean the '50s (and before) were/are wonderful.. the '60s are fantastic.. the '70s are the "peak".. '80s (and beyond) are dry & dead.
You're lucky to have a wider horizon. To me, everything that wasn't played by human is not musical instrument (like drum-machine), so, every record using it is not a music! Well, machine has no feelings, no passions, no emotions etc., so I can't hear the beauties out of it. But even real musics have lost the "magic" nowadays. (btw I'm 54 now).
Dongky SP I'm 62 and would have agreed with you - until I heard Jean-Michel Jarre, in the early '70s. Then, when electronic keyboards finally became affordable, in the '80s - I realised they are only TOOLS - like pianos, guitars, trumpets and drums. Granted some will ALWAYS sound like clunky crap - but there are a lot of good electronic instruments out there which, in the hands of talented PLAYERS, can express emotion just as well as their acoustic cousins. Take the Les Paul Gibson, f'rinstance - preferably played by Les Paul...
RJBinghamesq Thanks for putting this up, it's great. I agree about the electronics, it's a tool in the hands of the artist. I was lucky enough to see Jean-Luc Ponty play an acrylic electric violin years ago. I am about your age, I first saw Cab Calloway in "The Blues Brothers" movie, and love him. He was suave, sophisticated, funny, and the ultimate showman. ( I just recently watched film of the Nicholas Brothers dancing off the walls from this era, unbelievably great). You can't go wrong with Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen either, some of the greatest music and lyrics in American music. This stuff is timeless.
Da Lab The Nicholas Brothers were aces - it's a shame their half of "Kalamazoo" in "Orchestra Wives" got CUT in America's South. I can't imagine they were too fond of Cab either - he must've scared them silly!
The backing vocals were utterly sublime.....totally harmonic and the timbre was silky.....the best I have EVER heard.
The boys did a GREAT job backing him
Oh my. That face. This guy could sing the saddest song in the world but as long as you can see his smile, you just can't help but feel happy and good. Cab was truly amazing.
Yeah, that's the problem. Cab was happiness personified and this is one of the saddest songs ever written.
He really felt Music. Music took over his soul it seemed.
Well, I believe this is what they call "shuckin' & jivein' for the white folks." These guys were from that era where black entertainers kinda had to do the bug-eyes and gigantic goofy smiles all the time in order to keep their position in the biz. Wasnt really until the 1950s and ESPECIALLY the 1960s that they could finally drop the Jim Crow act. But at the same time, back in those days, ALL entertainers - regardless of race or whatever - were expected to perform with a generally happy & pleasant demeanor no matter what. It's just folks like Calloway had to crank it up to 11. Especially those who were originating from the dirty south like Louis Armstrong, as opposed to guys like Calloway who came out of places like Harlem, NYC.
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald etc, they all talked about how they kinda needed to "Uncle Tom" for the white folks in order to get by. Thank fuck for folks like Nina Simone who decided fuck that. And also thank God for folks like her and James Brown, who decided to put their foot down and stop fucking up their hair just to give themselves "white hairstyles." They were the ones to really usher in the era of no longer modifying yourself to fit into white/eurocentric beauty standards. Seriously, the stuff black folks had to put in their hair in order to straighten it was, hell IS, fucking INTENSE. I saw a video of some dumbass white girl with curly hair (not like the hair that black folks have, like Ginger/Jewish-tier curly hair) try using that stuff to straighten HER hair....IT MADE ALL OF HER HAIR _FUCKING FALL OUT_ FFS!!! Like holy _SHIT,_ dude!
@@dildonius wow, that's some real history lesson right there. I mean I knew a little bit about the Jim Crow laws and the civil rights movement and all that but the other stuff you just mentioned is all new info to me. (Well, I don't live in the US nor have I ever been there so I get most of my US-related info from the internet and my American friends.)
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"Blues in the Night" music composer was my cousin, Harold Arlen... lyrics by Johnny Mercer...Cab Callaway sang it live at the Ritz, N.Y.C. on my birthday, March 28, 1985... what a thrill it was! He was as fabulous as ever!
Now THAT'S an industry 'war story' My mother knew Cab and his daughter personally, along with other music people.
The skills AND ENERGY that these greats brought to the stage and existing media were unbelievable (devoid of today hokey over-the-top pyrotechnics to hide the lack of musical creativity)!
@nealbradleigh5069
🙋♀️Cab's daughter performed with him at the Ritz 😊...
What a great show it was...
Absolutely 💯 ...I agree...
and such professionalism...
Sam and Dave performed 🎭 2 shows for 2 nights at the Coventry in Sunnyside Queens, complete with costume change for an intimate (small) audience in 1983 and played with the energy as if it was Madison Square Garden! ...
Yes, indeed, we were very lucky to live during those times...
When talent and creativity was at its Zenith...in my humble opinion 😌
Thanks for the comment 👍 😀
Peace out ✌️ ☮️💌
@@silverperryhobart6560He wrote "That Old Black Magic," "Get Happy," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow..." 😳
@lemurianchick Yes! I know 🙆♀️👊Pretty incredible, right?😍 I only wish I had a fraction of his talent 🤷🏻♀️ ( no claim to fame justa luckyrelative) 🙋🏽♀️....
such an amazing catalog of songs so many people still hum, whistle and sing along to...what a great collaboration with Mercer...
Thanks for listing more wonderful music ❤️ written by Harold Arlen ( BTW originally Arluck) 🙃...
Peace out
✌️ ☮️❤️🌬✨️
@@silverperryhobart6560 How old are you?
REET!!!
Cab Calloway was a Real Coooooool Hep Cat 🐈
He is the definition of "cool"!
Indeed he is!
Killer mustache too
Yes
Cab Calloway is the Original King of COOL , Before Elvis , Before Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Cab's father was a lawyer, don't you know he was thrilled when Cab decided to be a musician. LOL! Thank goodness he did though. Love Cab Calloway. Love this song, this is the absolute best version that exists in this universe of this song. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night.
Cabs father died when Cab was 3
Thank you for your insights. I am part of a generation of kids that only got a smattering of exposure to the dynamic contemporary music industry, being shown the door, sadly, as a wet-behind-the-ears new kid named Rock & Roll was making the rounds.
Cab's stylings were even spoofed in cartoons from PARAMOUNT and WARNER BROS
Knowing Hollywood, a biopic about Cab would portray his dad as unsupportive of his dream for the sake of drama, accuracy be darned
Everything I know about the 30s and 40s I learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons it seems. The Warner Brothers animation team were fans of Cab Calloway it seems and that is awesome!
MarvelDcImage : Looneytoones continues with 1920s-40s music. It has become a trademark. Don't know the reason. Maybe Warner Bros. retains the copyright.
Check out the Fleischer Brothers and the three short movies they made with Betty Boop and Cab: "Minnie the Moocher," "Snow White," and "The Old Man of the Mountain."
My wife didn't watch bugs bunny growing up, so when I sing these songs she thinks I'm making them up. Lol
@@richardsloan7555 She must think you're a genius!
I remember hearing a riff of the instrumentals in oceans 11 when pitt goes to Florida to meet carl reitman at the horse track
Cab Calloway singing a Johnny Mercer lyric. It just doesn't get any better than this!
AND a Harold Arlen tune. Both songwriters were masters of their craft. P.S., I agree with you on the Cabster. He was and is an American treasure.
Cab Calloway graduated from Fredrick Douglass High School which was an all black high school in Baltimore and many regarded it as one of the finest schools in the nation.
Keith Mawhood You're Welcome !
This man sings not just with his voice, but with his face too.
This is some real music right here man. Gotta love and appreciate the old school.
Calloway is having so much fun with this song that it seems campy rather than bluesy.
I really enjoy the vibe of the 40's...
My mom had a beautiful voice, and when my sister and I were growing up, my mom would sing the Rosemary Clooney version of this song (meaning, from a lady's pov). This song is WONDERFUL! Thank you for sharing. It brought back awesome memories of her. ❤
Memory Eternal
☮️✌️💗🫶🌬✨️🕊
The crap these guys had to put up with in their careers is unimaginable to us. Thank goodness for these clips.
Can you elaborate? or give me some pointers where I can read about it? Cab's amazing
He's talking about the racial prejudice of the time. Unfortunately even though they were amazing performers, African american artists were mistreated a lot and not seen as equals a lot of the time. Though there were lots of cases of African american performers helping to close the divide with the admiration of Caucasian actors and performers as well.
Thanks Dean. I went and read his full wikipedia. Insane to think about how bad it was around Cab's time. You're good enough to entertain us, but not to drink a beer beside us in the same club. Wow. Not saying there isn't a lot left to do until we get to real equality but man it was bad in them days eh?
harambe in Guantanamo wtf ?
@harambe in Guantanamo There is so much wrongful and hateful bullshit packed into your brief and twisted comment, it would be difficult to know where to begin to try to explain or respond to it all. Kindly return to the earth the carbon from which you are constructed so that more graphite #2 pencils can be manufactured for school-aged children. Thank you.
The pinnacle of a true entertainer.
Talented trendsetting artistry! We come from such musical greatness. What happened to our contemporary music?!
A tremendous talent and one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Cab Calloway is vastly underrated and not known to many people because other black musicians got more attention. He often performed to replace Duke Ellington's band. Because of racism, only a few blacks could achieve wide success and popularity at that time. And he's black and was always treated as a black man by white America. Damn, he was great!
I think he got quite a bit of recognition, actually, but maybe wasn't awarded the critical acclaim that other bands like Ellington's and Fletcher Henderson's may have gotten because they tended to minimize the vocal and deliver the solos and the jump style of swing, and jazz has been a more academicized and picked over, which left other Cotton Club performers like Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, Dorothy Dandridge, and Lena Horne a little bit out of the historical loop. It doesn't take away from Calloway--or any of the others. They were incredible artists, and we sometimes heard their records growing up in Jersey (my parents had a couple of Lena Horne records in the hi-fi) or saw them in old movie clips on the NY TV stations like WNEW, which had a late night program called Reel Camp that showed old shorts. I must have been 16 or 17 when I saw Cab Calloway doing Reefer Man, and had to tell everyone at school about it. Calloway, like Ellington and Henderson, was solidly black middle class, and his parents both had college educations.
I'm 60..from Maine...my dad was in a band in the late 40s and 50..big bands would come at the dance hall at the end of the pier...in my hometown...my mother owned a nightclub.."Black Magic Lounge"...and she wore all black ...nailpolish...pillbox hat with the black lace...Goth before it was cool...and we had a grand piano...Count Basie would come to play...it was the party house...Arte Shaw..so many would come...I wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye yet...I love this music...dislike 80% music since the 80s...probably more..
Starfish Gazer wow
Starfish Gazer im 13 and i like old music like jolson and calloway and ida james and martin or bing and davis jr and sinatra
Freaking awesome.
Great memory.. thank you! The imagination runs wild!.. bet the musicians loved that place.
How is this any different from sagging jeans and money flashing gold chains? Talent!! Singing , Real Instruments. Thank you Can Callaway. You laid down the blueprint.
I love anything Cab Calloway did; he was so charismatic and just plain cool! I just occurred to me that one reason performers like Mr. Calloway could be so "expressive" and "showy" while singing in these soundies was due to the fact that the audio was recorded first--they lip synched (or in the musicians' cases, went "through the motions") to it during the actual filming. Of course, Cab was ALWAYS fun to watch perform live--but just watch his face during this--I think those expressions and looks were a bit easier for him to pull off miming to his singing, you see? Great clip, great song and thanks for sharing this!
But there are some old soundies that weren't "lip-synced", and he still emoted like a star; when your're a live performer, you learn how to turn on the juice.
this is THE version for me . don't let the playfulness fool you : He was a terrific (baritone?) singer,and this was a GREAT band. (so many top faces in there )
hes a living cartoon character. no wonder this was such a big influence on looney tunes. this guy was an incredible performer.
Love everything about this! So grateful to live in an age where classic clips like this are just a few keystrokes and a mouse click away! ❤️
A great rendition of a great song...
Hey , Mr. Cab !!!!! You are one of the best!!!!!
You backed by some of the most wonderful vocal groups and your back beat most POWERFUL
Band ; outta sight !!!!!!!!!
The ultimate of coooooool. These guys are it.
the vocal timing of the train whistle, amazing.
Cab Calloway; music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer. 'Nuff said. Thanks for the upload. Blessings
I saw him perform this song in Ossining NY in 1983, but I was in college and I didn't really know who he was at the time.
Luminous! Love Cab and the Palmer brothers are amazing.
I actually sing this under the light post near my house after sundown 😎
Phenomenally Classic!! From beginning to end.
He just makes me so happy
Absolutely magnificent!
I love that sound of early recording technology with the ribbon mikes and the tube-type compressors and amplifiers
Yowzers ! This is really SOLID stuff ! Cab was one of the coolest cats ever ! THANKS so much for sharing this bodacious "blast from the past" with us ! :-)
The one and only Cab Calloway the man was classic. Thx for posting
This is about the best version of this song I've ever heard. AWESOME!!!!!!!
The bbbbbblllluuueesssss..he is unbelievably THE best at dispelling the blues in me
Such talent
¨A woman´s a two-face, a worrisome thing that´ll leave ya to sing the blues in the night¨
This is art!
Genius.
Great stuff!! Love Cab!!
The thumbnail for this has Cab looking just like Prince! After watching manny Calloway vids, I am convinced that Prince, son of a jazz musician, was heavily inspired by Mr Calloway ❤
Way better than Sinatra's version. I laugh out loud when Frank sings a hooie da hooie. It works better when you have your background guys doing it!
True dat
I like Bugs Bunny's version better
@@albertpringle4918 Queen Tyr'anhee
One of the great versions of Blues in The Night was by Hot Lips Page.
still not to old to listen to
never knew how charismatic CC was...wow
There’s cool and there’s cool. This is cryogenic.
The COOLEST man that ever. Lived also The FATHER of Cartoon scores😁 If FROSTY the snowman was real, He still wouldn't be as cool as this JACK FROST 😁
I know, right? Especially since the Blues Brothers got their Rude Bwoy "look" from the way Cab was dressed in the movie, super cool ,ol' cucumber head as Cheech would say!!!
Damn! What a hottie he was!
So many Looney Tunes cartoons brought me here
First time for this, you go, Fellas with the harmony!!!
Watch out for that sweet talk and especially that glad eye.....
The legend. 😎
This is awesome! Back when music WAS music. LOL! I just luv it. He was great!!!! ;-)
Love the forties vibe!
Soooo fabulous!
This man is the best song and dance icon ever 😅😂❤
Cab Callaway's name was high up in the quality big bands. That, plus he did a lot of the background music and sound effects for the old cartoons, betty boop and such.
A man is a two-face! A worrisome thing that'll leave you to sing The Bluuuuues! In the Niiiiight! 😝😋
Nah but in all seriousness, holy HECK do those lines ever flow! BEAUTIFUL lyricism!
My Dad used to sing that to me, and "lemon tree very pretty...", back in the 60s.
Nice to see Milt Hinton and Cozy Cole in the rhythm section . . .
Absolutely great!
LYRICS :
My momma done tol' me
When I was in knee-pants
My momma done tol' me, "Son, (What did she tell you?)
A woman gon' sweet-talk (Yeah!)
And give you de glad-eyes, (Ah, ahh...)
But when that sweet-talk is done: (Keep on a-talkin')
A woman's a two-faced
A worrisome thing
Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues...)
In the night." (Yes, in the night)
Now the rain's a-fallin'
Hear the train a-callin' - (Oo-ee...)
My momma done tol' me. (Oh...)
Hey, that lonesome whistle's
Blowin' 'cross the trestle. (Oo-ee...)
My momma done tol' me. (Hey, ahoo-ee, ahoo-ee!)
A clickety-clackin'
And echoin' back at the blues...
In the night
The evenin' breeze - The stars -
The trees a-cryin' and the moon
'll hide its light
When you get the blues
In the night. (It's really tough to get the blues in the night)
Take my word:
The mockingbird
Sings the saddest kind of song;
He knows things are wrong -
And he's right. (Yes, he's right to sing the blues in the night)
From Natchez to Mobile;
From Memphis to St. Joe;
Wherever the four winds blow; (They blow everywhere!)
I been in some big towns, (Yeah!)
And I done heard me some big talk, (Ahh, ahh...)
But there's one thing I know: (Keep a-talkin')
A woman's a-two-faced -
A worrisome thing
Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues)
In the night. (Yes, in the night)
(A woman will leave you singin' the blues)
I know she will -
My momma was right:
The blues in the night
He was the best”hep cat”! Love him!
He was a talented entertainer..
What talent!
my momma dun told me bring home something for dinner....
The blizzard is two faced
@@adamolastero3728 A gooney old thing that will lead you to sing a hooie a hooie...
- "Blues in the night" by Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen. (Songs)
- Cab Calloway and his Orchestra:- Lammar Wright, Russell Smith, Shad Collins, Jonah Jones, trumpet; Keg Johnson, Tyree Glenn, Quentin Jackson, trombone; Jerry Blake, Hilton Jefferson, Andrew Brown, Teddy McRae, Walter Thomas, reeds; Benny Payne, piano; Danny Barker, guitar; Milt Hinton, acoustic double bass; Cozy Cole, drums; The Cabaliers, vocal. (Personnel on Camera)
This one time I gave Cab a righteous five, true story..
yomfnmammy COOL
AH-CLICKITY-CLACK AND THEN ECHO IT BACK, THE BLUUUUUES! IN THE NIIIIIGHT!
"My momma was right - the blues in the niiiiiight!"
Cab recorded it in late '41 and it charted in early '42. So I'm guessing - THEN.
Oh, luvvin this.
He was the genius!
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Crazy !!! I did not know either. !!! my mother did not mention anything bad!!a bout the beautiful ladies, always had me looking at beautiful woman all colors, always well dress with beautiful body figures and such refine facial futures!!! 🙏🙏🙏
His voice is so powerful
The best version!
Pure genius. Thank you
and soul.
Just amazing.
Remarkable Thank You I did see Cab in London
While I like this version, honestly I was expecting more from Cab. He was a marvelous entertainer.
The song demands that he needed to be a little more restrained, I suppose.
And all this time we thought this song was from those Bugs Bunny/Merrie Melodies cartoons!!! :)
I remember taping these pn channel 4 least l think it was 4, early in the morning. They just blew your mind. Some of them were shown in reverse so that signs were back to front.
He is high as a kite, and I LOVE IT. xP
It reminds me of rock and roll!
That's where rock-and-roll comes from 👊 the Blues! Good catch! 👍 💗
George Penwell : totally agree..! Good musics stopped in the '70s. I mean the '50s (and before) were/are wonderful.. the '60s are fantastic.. the '70s are the "peak".. '80s (and beyond) are dry & dead.
Dongky SP I'm 62 now and LOVED '80s techno-pop - AND '90s vocal Trance - but since then... ZILCH! I've uploaded NOTHING post-2000.
You're lucky to have a wider horizon. To me, everything that wasn't played by human is not musical instrument (like drum-machine), so, every record using it is not a music! Well, machine has no feelings, no passions, no emotions etc., so I can't hear the beauties out of it. But even real musics have lost the "magic" nowadays. (btw I'm 54 now).
Dongky SP I'm 62 and would have agreed with you - until I heard Jean-Michel Jarre, in the early '70s. Then, when electronic keyboards finally became affordable, in the '80s - I realised they are only TOOLS - like pianos, guitars, trumpets and drums. Granted some will ALWAYS sound like clunky crap - but there are a lot of good electronic instruments out there which, in the hands of talented PLAYERS, can express emotion just as well as their acoustic cousins. Take the Les Paul Gibson, f'rinstance - preferably played by Les Paul...
RJBinghamesq Thanks for putting this up, it's great. I agree about the electronics, it's a tool in the hands of the artist. I was lucky enough to see Jean-Luc Ponty play an acrylic electric violin years ago. I am about your age, I first saw Cab Calloway in "The Blues Brothers" movie, and love him. He was suave, sophisticated, funny, and the ultimate showman. ( I just recently watched film of the Nicholas Brothers dancing off the walls from this era, unbelievably great). You can't go wrong with Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen either, some of the greatest music and lyrics in American music. This stuff is timeless.
Da Lab The Nicholas Brothers were aces - it's a shame their half of "Kalamazoo" in "Orchestra Wives" got CUT in America's South. I can't imagine they were too fond of Cab either - he must've scared them silly!
I love him!
Great
So frickin' Cool,
Fantastic!
I love it. Good lookin' out RJ.
I'm subscribing to this channel!!!
There's more to Cab Calloway than Minnie The Moocher!
I heard this song with etta Jones on the radio I liked her version....
way cool.