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"Cab Driver" is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. [1] It was featured on their 1968 album Fortuosity. [2]
The Mills Brothers were born into a family of nine in Piqua, Ohio, United States. [3]The quartet consisted of Donald (lead tenor vocals, April 29, 1915 – November 13, 1999), [4] Herbert (tenor vocals, April 2, 1912 – April 12, 1989), [5] Harry (baritone vocals, August 9, 1913 – June 28, 1982), and John Jr. (tenor guitar, double bass, bass vocals; October 19, 1910 – January 23, 1936).
The Mills Brothers in Motion (Dot, 1969) Cab Driver, Paper Doll, My Shy Violet (Pickwick, 1969) No Turnin' Back (Paramount, 1970) What a Wonderful World (Paramount, 1972) A Donut and a Dream (Paramount, 1972) Louis and the Mills Brothers (MCA Coral, 1973) Half a Sixpence with Count Basie (Vogue, 1973) Opus One (Rediffusion, 1973) Cab Driver ...
You Can Play These Songs with Chords is an early (1996–97) demo from the rock band Death Cab for Cutie, which at the time consisted entirely of founder Ben Gibbard.This demo was originally released on cassette by Elsinor Records.
The recording by The Mills Brothers was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18599. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 22, 1944, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. The Mills Brothers version also reached number five on the Harlem Hit Parade. [6]
"Paper Doll" was a hit song for The Mills Brothers. In the United States it held the number-one position on the Billboard singles chart for twelve weeks, [3] from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group after a few years of declining sales.
The Mills Brothers' version of the song was featured on an episode of the TV show The Others entitled "Till Then" (April 29, 2000, Season 1 – Episode 10).; The Mills Brothers' recording of the song can be heard in Millennium episode "Matryoshka", which starred Lance Henriksen and first aired on 19 February 1999.
The song was most famously covered by the Benny Goodman Quartet in 1952. Others who performed the song include the Mills Brothers, Fats Waller, Billy Costello, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Nat Gonella, Gene Krupa, Don Redman, Django Reinhardt, Louis Jordan, Adolph Robinson, [2] Stéphane Grappelli, Chet Atkins and organist George Wright.