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New York City Mayor David Dinkins proclaimed the day "Cab Calloway Day". [83] In 1992, the Cab Calloway School of the Arts was founded in Wilmington, Delaware. [84] In 1994, Calloway's daughter Camay Calloway Murphy founded the Cab Calloway Museum at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland. [85] [12]
At the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, which is named for the singer, students perform "Minnie the Moocher" as a traditional part of talent showcases. In 1967, the song was covered again by an Australian band, The Cherokees. A version by the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra made number 35 in the UK Singles Chart late in 1988. [13]
The Charter School of Wilmington (CSW) is a college preparatory charter high school in Wilmington, Delaware. [ 2 ] It is Delaware's first independently operated public school whose curriculum emphasizes math and science. [ 3 ] It shares the former Wilmington High School building with Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
The Cab Calloway Orchestra. The Cab Calloway Orchestra, based at the exclusive Cotton Club in Harlem, was, for more than a decade, one of the most important jazz bands in America. Different lineups featured the best available established musicians. [1]
The song was recorded and popularized by Cab Calloway who had a #18 hit in 1932. [2] Bing Crosby recorded the song on January 26, 1933, with the Dorsey Brothers and their Orchestra. [3] The song was one of the first recorded by Frank Sinatra when he transferred to Capitol Records in 1953.
The Cab Calloway recording was released by OKeh Records as catalog number 6422. [6] [19] It reached the BS chart on January 31, 1942, to start a 9 week run, peaking at #8. [15] The Benny Goodman Sextet, with Peggy Lee on vocals, recorded "Blues in the Night" on December 24, 1941, released on Okeh 6553 in January 1942. It made the chart on ...
The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923–1936), then briefly in the midtown Theater District (1936–1940). [1] The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation.
Cab Calloway School of the Arts; Carver Center for Arts and Technology; Charleston County School of the Arts; Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts; Children's Studio School; Coronado School of the Arts; Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design; Denver School of the Arts (grades 6–12) Douglas Anderson School of the Arts; Dreyfoos ...