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Cab Calloway

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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. [1]

171 relations: Adelaide Hall, Al Jolson, Alright (Janet Jackson song), American Federation of Musicians, American Masters, American Record Corporation, Ann-Margret, Arthur Knight (film critic), Baltimore, Basin Street Revue, BBC, Ben Webster, Benny Goodman, Betty Boop, Betty Boop's Rise to Fame, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song), Big band, Bill Cosby, Bing Crosby, Blanche Calloway, Blues, Blues in the Night, Broadway theatre, Brunswick Records, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Bye Bye Blues (song), Cab Calloway School of the Arts, Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho, Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party, Caldonia, Cannabis (drug), Caricature, Chick Webb, Chu Berry, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Cinema of the United States, Coppin State University, Cotton Club, Cremation, Dallas, Danny Barker, Danny Elfman, David Merrick, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Duke Ellington, Edward G. Robinson, Erich Kunzel, Forbidden Zone, Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Maryland), ..., George Gershwin, Glossary of jive talk, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Hal Linden, Harlem, Hartsdale, New York, Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man, Hello, Dolly! (musical), Hi-De-Ho (1947 film), History Repeats Itself, Hockessin, Delaware, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hula Hoops, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, I've Got the World on a String, International House (1933 film), Irving Mills, Janet Jackson, Jazz, Leontyne Price, Lido Beach, New York, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (J–P), List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Long Beach, New York, Long Island, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–39), Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X College, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (film), Master of ceremonies, Max Roach, Michael Jackson, Milt Hinton, Minnie the Moocher, Minnie the Moocher (film), Moonwalk (dance), Morgan State University, Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, Mr. T, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NBC, Nicholas Brothers, Nobody's Sweetheart Now, NPR, Oingo Boingo, Okeh Records, Old Man of the Mountain, Opera, Opium, Outer Critics Circle Award, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Theatre (New York City), PBS, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Porgy and Bess, Porky Pig, RCA Records, Rhythm and Blues Revue, Rochester, New York, Roddy Piper, Rotoscoping, Saint Louis Blues (song), Scat singing, Sensations of 1945, Sesame Street, Six or Seven Times, Snow-White (1933 film), St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues (1958 film), Steve McQueen, Stormy Weather (1943 film), Stroke, Sunset Cafe, Swing music, Swooner Crooner, The Big Broadcast, The Blues Brothers (film), The Cincinnati Kid, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Honeydripper, The Missourians (band), The New School for Social Research, The Old Man of the Mountain (film), The Pajama Game, The Ritz Hotel, London, The Singing Kid, United Kingdom, University of Rochester, Uptown... It's Hot!, Variety store, Vocalion Records, Walter Thomas (musician), Walter Winchell, Westchester County, New York, William P. Gottlieb, William Warfield, Wilmington, Delaware, WrestleMania 2, WWE, You Rascal You, 1932 in film, 1933 in film, 1934 in film, 1935 in film, 1936 in film, 1937 in film, 1938 in film, 1942–44 musicians' strike, 1943 in film, 1944 in film, 1945 in film, 1947 in film, 1955 in film, 1956 in film, 1958 in film, 1960 in film, 1965 in film, 1980 in film, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (121 more) »

Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American–born UK–based jazz singer and entertainer.

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Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Alright (Janet Jackson song)

"Alright" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her fourth album Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989).

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American Federation of Musicians

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/AFofM) is a 501(c)(5) labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada.

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American Masters

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

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American Record Corporation

American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or (erroneously) as ARC Records, was an American record company.

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Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), known professionally simply as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Arthur Knight (film critic)

Arthur Knight (1916–1991) was a movie critic, film historian, professor and TV host.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Basin Street Revue

Basin Street Revue is a 1956 American film directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick.

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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop.

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song)

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is an American popular song published in 1932, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, and first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Blanche Calloway

Blanche Dorothea Jones Calloway (February 9, 1902 – December 16, 1978) was an American jazz singer, composer, and bandleader.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues in the Night

"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Bubbling Brown Sugar

Bubbling Brown Sugar is a musical revue written by Loften Mitchell based on a concept by Rosetta LeNoire and featuring the music of numerous African-American artists who were popular during the Harlem Renaissance, 1920–1940, including Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller.

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Bye Bye Blues (song)

"Bye Bye Blues" is a popular and jazz standard written by Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, and Chauncey Gray and published in 1925.

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Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Cab Calloway School of the Arts is an arts-oriented magnet school in Wilmington, Delaware, operated by the Red Clay Consolidated School District, which focuses on a strong academic curriculum along with an education in the arts.

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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1934 American musical short film.

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Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party is a 1935 American musical short film which was released by Paramount Pictures (later sold to U.M. & M. TV Corporation).

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Caldonia

"Caldonia" is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings.

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Chick Webb

William Henry "Chick" Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.

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Chu Berry

Leon Brown "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908 – October 30, 1941) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist during the 1930s.

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Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977 out of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Coppin State University

Coppin State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Cotton Club

The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Danny Barker

Daniel Moses Barker (January 13, 1909 – March 13, 1994) was an American jazz musician, vocalist, and author from New Orleans.

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Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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David Merrick

David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Doc Cheatham

Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham (June 13, 1905 – June 2, 1997), was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Erich Kunzel

Erich Kunzel, Jr. (March 21, 1935 – September 1, 2009) was an American orchestra conductor.

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Forbidden Zone

Forbidden Zone is a 1980 American musical fantasy comedy film directed and produced by Richard Elfman, and co-written by Elfman and fellow Mystic Knights member Matthew Bright.

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Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Maryland)

Frederick Douglass High School, established in 1883, is an American public high school in the Baltimore City Public Schools district.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Glossary of jive talk

Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip, was the distinctive slang that developed in Harlem, where jive or jazz was played, and was subsequently adopted more widely in US society, peaking in the 1940s.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.

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Hal Linden

Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, March 20, 1931) is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Hartsdale, New York

Hartsdale is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York.

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Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man

"Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man", often known simply as "The Reefer Man", is a 1932 American jazz song composed by J. Russel Robinson, with lyrics by Andy Razaf.

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Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart.

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Hi-De-Ho (1947 film)

Hi De Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Josh Binney that was released by All American Entertainment and had an African-American cast.

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History Repeats Itself

"History Repeats Itself" is a 1966 narrated song written and recorded by Buddy Starcher.

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Hockessin, Delaware

Hockessin is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Hula Hoops

Hula Hoops are a snack food made out of potatoes that are sold in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland as well as South Africa, in the shape of short, hollow cylinders.

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I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show, Earl Carroll's Vanities.

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I've Got the World on a String

"I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.

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International House (1933 film)

International House is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce and W. C. Fields, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Irving Mills

Irving Harold Mills (né Isadore Minsky; 16 January 1894 in Odessa, Ukraine – 21 April 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter.

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Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Leontyne Price

Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano.

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Lido Beach, New York

Lido Beach is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university.

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List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (J–P)

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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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Long Beach, New York

Long Beach is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–39)

This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by Warner Bros. under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies banners between 1930 and 1939, plus the 1929 pilot film which was used to sell the Looney Tunes series to Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. A total of 270 shorts were released during the 1930s.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Malcolm X College

Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is a two-year college located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (film)

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Milt Hinton

Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), regarded as the Dean of jazz bass players, was an American double bassist and photographer.

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Minnie the Moocher

"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies.

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Minnie the Moocher (film)

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Moonwalk (dance)

The moonwalk is a dance move in which the dancer moves backwards while seemingly walking forwards.

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Morgan State University

Morgan State University (commonly referred to as MSU, Morgan State, or Morgan) is a Maryland's designated public urban research university and the largest Maryland's American historically black college and university (HBCU) located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is a 1938 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Mr. T

Laurence Tureaud (born May 21, 1952), known professionally as Mr.

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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, commonly known as the Nassau Coliseum, and branded as NYCB Live: Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for naming rights reasons, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nicholas Brothers

The Nicholas Brothers were a team of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing".

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Nobody's Sweetheart Now

"Nobody's Sweetheart", also known as "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" and "You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now", is a popular song, written in 1924, with music by Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel, and lyrics by Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.

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Okeh Records

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Old Man of the Mountain

The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a face when viewed from the north.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paramount Theatre (New York City)

The Paramount Theatre was a noted 3,664 seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway in the Times Square district of New York City.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Porky Pig

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Rhythm and Blues Revue

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a 1955 American concert film directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Roddy Piper

Roderick George Toombs (April 17, 1954 – July 31, 2015), better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler and actor.

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Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.

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Saint Louis Blues (song)

"Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914.

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Scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

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Sensations of 1945

Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Six or Seven Times

Six or Seven Times is a satyrical romantic jazz song written by Fats Waller and Irving Mills.

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Snow-White (1933 film)

Snow-White, also known as Betty Boop in Snow-White, is a film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios directed in 1933.

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St. James Infirmary Blues

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St. Louis Blues (1958 film)

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Steve McQueen

Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.

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Stormy Weather (1943 film)

Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Sunset Cafe

The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe, was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Swooner Crooner

Swooner Crooner is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and released to theaters by Warner Bros.

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The Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast is a 1932 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams.

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The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis.

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The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Honeydripper

"The Honeydripper (Parts 1 and 2)" is an R&B song by Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers which topped the US Billboard R&B chart (at that time called the "Race Records" chart) for 18 weeks, from September 1945 to January 1946.

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The Missourians (band)

The Missourians were an American jazz band active in the 1920s, who performed at the Cotton Club in New York City and eventually became the backing band for Cab Calloway.

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The New School for Social Research

The New School for Social Research (NSSR) is an educational institution that is part of The New School in New York City, USA.

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The Old Man of the Mountain (film)

The Old Man of the Mountain is a 1933 animated short in the Betty Boop series, produced by Fleischer Studios.

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The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell.

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The Ritz Hotel, London

The Ritz London is a Grade II listed 5-star hotel located in Piccadilly in London, England.

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The Singing Kid

The Singing Kid is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Keighley and written by Warren Duff and Pat C. Flick.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Rochester

The University of Rochester (U of R or UR) frequently referred to as Rochester, is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

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Uptown... It's Hot!

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Variety store

A variety store (also pound shop, dollar store, and other names) is a retail store that sells a wide range of inexpensive household goods.

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Vocalion Records

For Decca's Vocalion label, see Disques Vogue Vocalion Records is an American record company and label active for many years in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Walter Thomas (musician)

Walter Purl "Foots" Thomas (February 10, 1907 – August 26, 1981) was a saxophonist, flutist, and arranger in Cab Calloway's orchestra, one of the most famous bands of the swing era in jazz.

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Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.

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Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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William P. Gottlieb

William Paul Gottlieb (January 28, 1917 – April 23, 2006) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the "Golden Age" of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s.

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William Warfield

William Caesar Warfield (22 January 1920 – 26 August 2002), was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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WrestleMania 2

WrestleMania 2 was the second annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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You Rascal You

"You Rascal You" is an American song written by Sam Theard in 1929, The Online Discographical Project, accessed Dec 26, 2015 and legally titled "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead." The lyrics take the form of threats and complaints leveled against a man who has repaid the singer's hospitality and kindness by running off with the singer's wife.

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1932 in film

The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1933 in film

The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1934 in film

The following is an overview of 1934 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1935 in film

The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood.

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1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1937 in film

The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.

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1942–44 musicians' strike

On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians, at the instigation of union president James Petrillo, began a strike against the major American recording companies because of disagreements over royalty payments.

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1943 in film

The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.

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1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

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1945 in film

The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.

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1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

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1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

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1956 in film

The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1958 in film

The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi.

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1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

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1965 in film

The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.

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1980 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway

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