Cab Calloway - We The Cats Shall Hep Ya - 1947

[@Olivia-ni4vd]

I said it once and I will say it again: BEFORE there was Little Richard, Prince, Michael Jackson, Morris Day, Bruno Mars and others......there was Cab Calloway. Just like Muhammad Ali, he was and will always be the greatest of all time. #legend NOW HEP HEP!

[@charles-iii6759]

💯💯💯

[@amandawhiteley6737]

Excellent stuff, luv this music style, i take after my father for this, he is an inspiration to me even though growing up in 70s 80s ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@dennistorrence4778]

One of a kind genius, such a complete entertainer

[@MinervaMagnolia]

Right on. Complete entertainer is great description of Cab Calloway. Makes one wonder what happened; not only music is lost, but style.

[@noirtriptyline]

God I would have loved to see him perform in his hey day! I even have a zoot suit set aside if any one finds out how to rig a time machine...

[@FishAdvisor]

I'm loving this old vid. Look how smooth he is bopping along! Light hearted and all the band pieces having a ball.

[@baronsorgi1]

2792revs you mean mopping along mop mop.

[@davidringo1399]

Met him at a hotel in St Thomas.......what a cool cat...

[@notinterested1536]

he looks cool in this suit

[@shannhazful]

every suit cab calloway had was cool

[@RadicalCaveman]

Cab Calloway was Cool R Us.

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Genius pure Genius. Greetings from Yorkshire.

[@kylebradley4895]

Good music never dies 💖

[@RadicalCaveman]

Not as long as it's recorded!

[@sillyguy459]

WE THE CATS SHALL HEP YA🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️🗣️NOW YOURE HEP I BETCHA‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@cyndymosher2233]

I cant get this song out of my brain! Could be worse i guess. Love Cab

[@snackcakeman]

One of a kind. Never gets old.

[@ididcramsmom]

This guy had style!

[@eduardobatista9925]

Mestre Cab e Os Grandes.

[@The1uptriforce]

surprisingly great audio quality

[@stevevilinsky7464]

Sam the man Taylor ,top session ace of the 50s and 60s does the saxophone solo.

[@marksinger3067]

Kid in the 1950s rock n roll and the Hep cats sure were cool..

[@peteyule5503]

Great bop groove.

[@kellyalves756]

So happy-making!

[@joeyjohnson7213]

I should be in bed but bed can wait

[@BigDog39]

Magical - #Love #Cab - thanks for posting you #GroovyCat :-) x

[@lopeza.8046]

So many talented thrown by the waistside

[@blooyce]

So stylish!

[@AlyssaMoore-ff5se]

The clip is from Hi de Ho (1947).

[@MichaelHernandez-do1ie]

I want to dance like Cab

[@lopeza.8046]

GOLD

[@pwatts8846]

The double bass makes this song.

[@michaelsiemering5925]

Am I the only one who lost audio halfway through?

[@restcure]

Not lost audio - once with sound, then same clip without.

[@markhall1287]

no was lost 1/4 into this and did not come back

[@robarans4866]

I came here from Rob Zombie's "Dragula" because he said something about 'dead i am the rat feast upon the cat,' and I was like naw baby ! I'm with the cats I ain't with your crowd!

[@greenvisage9117]

Did anyone ever hear that there was a knife fight between him and Dizzy Gillespie, with Calloway getting stabbed?

[@Melody_Mike.4460]

My brains a bit foggy on this one. But I think cab was tryna talk Gillespie out of drinking himself to death or something along the lines of that. Anyway cab did get stabbed..... i think.

[@Melody_Mike.4460]

Nevermind lol..... I was thinking of someone else. Maybe Charlie Parker. Anyway, cab was stabbed because he pissed dizzy off after falsely accusing him of throwing a spitball at him. They argued left and right about whether or not dizzy actually threw the spitball. After exchanging their thoughts on who was Lying, cab struck dizzy and as a result dizzy slashed cab in the thigh and wrist. He then had to pack his horn and leave.

[@MichaelHernandez-do1ie]

This guy was cool

[@didoudingue1801]

GO CATS GO!

[@bennyjazzful]

I agree 100&

[@crazyxDdude]

I go to his school

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Which one, he went to several ?

[@sad-noises]

The Cab Calloway School of Arts

[@andreawalcovy4039]

lost audio right after the 1st song SHOOOTS

[@RadicalCaveman]

It's the same song twice with the audio off the second time round... I'm not sure why.

[@markhall1287]

audio gone 1/4 into this

[@dougmason9848]

NONE BETTER-------- DOIN THIS IS 1932- SEE MOVIE BIG BROADCAST 1932------

[@baronsorgi1]

Mop mop

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

could someone hep me? what does "put it right on the [lehi]" mean?

[@stephenmuth1425]

Not sure, but "Lehigh" is a river valley west of NYC. It was the name of the main railroad line linking NYC along the Lehigh river in Pennsylvania with upstate NY. (Cab was born in Rochester, close to the north part of the line, which ended in Buffalo). "You put it right or wrong on the Lehigh" could be Calloway riffing on the passenger service, which started up post WW II. The Black Diamond was for a while the classiest service. I imagine a lot of hayseed G.I.s from upstate found that to be a good way to get to the big city (esp. Harlem), where the cats were hep to the jive. I'd be interested to know for sure, though. Note the surge in the 40s. The interstates killed it shortly after. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley_Railroad

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Stephen Much grats gate. Solid 411.

[@josephineananda]

Just means Lehigh, needed the extra syllable to make it scan, yes, it's a river.

[@cintilanteasmr2884]

saúde

[@LouisLeeKH]

If this song is covered by a white singer, it will be defined as Rock 'n' Roll.

[@Voiciunebattledogesse]

Louis Athanasius Lee Joe Jackson had a go at it back in the 80s, quite well done in my opinion. The song (and the album it’s on) has a more modern rock mood to it, as you predict.

[@jourwalis-8875]

Why a silent version of the same song? Totally unneccesary and ridicoulous!

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

Am I not "cat" enough for the "hep cat" era?