Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
URI(s)
Variants
- Calloway, Cabell, 1907-1994
- Hi-de-ho, Mr., 1907-1994
- Calloway, C., 1907-1994
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1907-12-25
Death Date
- 1994-11-18
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Carroll Dickerson's Savoy Orchestra
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Missourians
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Johnny Jones's Arabian Tent Orchestra (Musical group)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Cab Calloway Quizzicale (Radio show)
Birth Place
- Rochester (N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
(lcsh) Bandleaders
Related Terms
Additional Related Forms
- Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Cab Calloway Quartet
- Cab jivers (Musical group)
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: His The new Cab Calloway's hepsters dictionary, 1944.
- found: Bohländer, C. Reclams Jazzführer(Calloway, Cab (Cabell), b. 1907)
- found: Bio. dic. of Afro-Amer. & Afr. musicians, 1982(Calloway, Cabell ("Cab"); b. 12/25/07)
- found: Washington post, 11/20/94:page B5 (Cab Calloway; "Mr. Hi-de-ho"; singer, dancer, big-band leader; d. Nov. 18, 1994; model for char. Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess; appeared in many films)
- found: A history of jazz [SR] 1961:container (Cab Calloway Quartet)
- found: Grove music online, Mar. 10, 2006:Jazz (Calloway, Cab(ell, III); b. Dec. 25, 1907, Rochester, NY, d. Nov. 18, 1994, Hockessin, DE; American singer and bandleader)
- found: Baker's biog. dict.(American singer, band leader and songwriter)
- found: African American National Biography, accessed January 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Calloway, Cab; Cabell Calloway III; bandleader, jazz musician, singer; born 25 December 1907 in Rochester, New York, United States; performed with Johnny Jones's Arabian Tent Orchestra; played with Carroll Dickerson Orchestra (1928); leader of the Missourians (1930s-1940s); hosted a radio show Cab Calloway Quizzicale (1942); published Professor Cab Calloway's Swingformation Bureau and New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive (1944); started in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway, in London and Paris (1950); played in The Blues Brothers (1980); appeared on Janet Jackson's music video "Alright", which won the Soul Train award (1990); awarded National Medal of the Arts (1993); died 18 November 1994 in Hockessin, Delaware, United States)
- found: OCLC, viewed June 8, 2022(access points: Calloway, Cab; Calloway, C.; usages: Cab Calloway, C. Calloway)
LC Classification
- ML410.C265
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1982-03-23: new
- 2022-06-09: revised
Alternate Formats