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Transcript: Cab Calloway Dead at Age 86
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- November 19, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: You're listing to Weekend Edition.
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Band leader, singer, and songwriter Cab Calloway died last night at
the age of 86. He'd suffered a stroke in June. Mr. Calloway performed
for more than 60 years in clubs, on Broadway, and in the movies.
In 1931, his band took over for Duke Ellington's at the Cotton Club
in Harlem. That same year he recorded what would become his signature
song, `Minnie the Moocher.'
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CAB CALLOWAY: I forgot a lyric to the song. It was a rehearsal.
I put it, `Skippity-bip-it-hi-de-ho,' and it just clicked. The band,
it broke up the band. We needed a theme song that broadcasters,
you know, could recognize ...