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Live at the Café Zanzibar by Cab Calloway released in 2013. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- From Club Zanzibar to The New Cafe Zanzibar
- Success Means War Chiefs
- Cab, Carl’s Star
- Cab at The Zanzibar in 1944
- Cab at The Zanzibar in 1945
- Cab at The Zanzibar in 1946
- From Success to Closing
The new Zanzibar stage takes the entire lower level of the room which is horseshoe-shaped; the other 3 sides are occupied by tables. Tables at the front of the stage are generally occupied by white customers. In September 1944, in an article for the Chicago Defender, writer and standard bearer of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, described t...
When Louis Armstrong and Bill Robinsonwere performing in December 1944, Erbe had the ingenious idea of asking the public and journalists who should get top billing and who was the main attraction, resolving a difficult ego problem with the two stars. We must not forget to remind you of the story of Claude Hopkins and Cab Calloway fighting in August...
(quoted by Ed Sullivan in The Afro American, July 13, 1946). The premier star of black show business, Cab Calloway had to appear at the Café Zanzibar. So, barely six months after its opening, Cab performs his first show there. Quickly becoming one of the stars of the Zanzibar, Cab composed a tune to the glory of his new favorite place: “Zanzi” (lis...
July 2: radio program "One Night Stand"(# 681) is broadcast.From August 10 to October 5: shows at 8:30, 12:30 and 2:00am. National broadcasts are made several times a week.Songs noticed: Holiday for Strings, Straighten Up and Fly Right (D. Saulters, voc), Saint James InfirmaryAlso in the show: soprano Fay Canty sings a Swing Carmen; the 6 Zanzibeauts; chorus girls, tap dancers Clark Brothers; Dorothy Saulters, the singer in the band; Dorothy Donegan, the incredible pian...From May 21 to August 31: “Zanzibarian Nights” with shows at 8:15 , 12:30 and 2:30am. Broadcast almost every night.Songs performed: Rimsky-Korsakoff vs. Jive with Cab and Dotty Saulters; Caldonia (D. Saulters, voc, although the musical accompaniment was considered a bit noisy…) King Cab, the First (musical sket...Also in the show:Dotty Saulters (voc), Count Leroy (dancer on skates), Broadway roulettes), Cook and Brown (sketches), Pearl Bailey (voc), the comic trio Day Down Dusk and the dancer (and brother o...Stories to remember:April 29: Celebration of the 60th anniversary in show business of Bill Bojangles Robinson, Cab’s old partner (see our article on this). Among the artists celebrating are W. C. Handy, Noble Sissle a...From 26 June to late August probably: "The Calloway Summer Show."Performances at 8:30, 12:30 and 2:20amSongs performed: 15 Years, Woman’s Prerogative, St. Louis Blues, Legalize My Name (Voc. Pearl Bailey on 4 titles) Chusen, Kala and Mazeltov(Voc. Peter Sisters).Also in the show: Pearl Bailey as special feature, the Peters Sisters, The Miller Brothers, Lois and The Charioteers as extra added attraction. Also The 4 Congaroos, dancers, and ballet dancer Alan...October 1946: the Zanzibeauts are fired and management believes it is time to change the policy in order to get white talent, saying that they had to repeat too many artist’s appearances because of the lack of available black talent... Early in 1947, the Baltimore Afro Americanannounces that from January 20, Zanzibar is going to move to the Ole Sou...
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'Live' at the Café Zanzibar, a Compilation of songs by Cab Calloway. Released in 2013 on Star Line (catalog no. MMCD-7035; CD). Featured peformers: Cab Calloway (leader, vocals), Jonah Jones (trumpet), Tyree Glenn (trombone), Ike Quebec (tenor saxophone), Milt Hinton (bass).
- Cab Calloway
- 2013
- 15 July 1945-17 September 1950
- Compilation
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