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- Artist: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: 1932 06 07-1932 12 07
- Total Time: 70:12
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
The third of 12 Cab Calloway CDs put out by Classics (which on a whole reissues the master takes of all of the popular singer's recordings from 1930-42) covers a busy six-month period. His big band (which tended to be greatly overshadowed) was actually quite excellent with good soloists in trumpeter Lammar Wright, clarinetist Eddie Barefield, Walter Thomas on tenor and pianist Bennie Payne, but of course Calloway was the main star. Highlights of this very enjoyable set include "Old Yazoo," "Reefer Man," "Old Man of the Mountain," "You Gotta Ho-De-Ho," "I've Got the World on a String," the bizarre "Dixie Doorway," "Beale Street Mama" and "The Man from Harlem." Many of the titles on this rewarding release had never been reissued before, making the Classics series a collection worth picking up in a hurry before they disappear. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| How Come You Do Me Like You Do? | Gene Austin, |
(2:52) | |
| Old Yazoo | Fats Waller | (2:57) | |
| Angeline | Fats Waller, |
(2:49) | |
| I'm Now Prepared to Tell the World It's You | Fats Waller, Andy Razaf | (2:51) | |
| Swanee Lullaby | Morris White, Ted Koehler | (2:38) | |
| Reefer Man | Andy Razaf, J. Russel Robinson | (2:56) | |
| Old Man of the Mountain | Victor Young, |
(2:51) | |
| You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along With Me) | (3:07) | ||
| Strange as It Seems | Fats Waller, Andy Razaf | (3:16) | |
| This Time, It's Love | Edgar Hayes, Ted Koehler | (2:57) | |
| Git Along | Lovie Austin | (2:40) | |
| Hot Toddy | Benny Carter | (2:37) | |
| I've Got the World on a String | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | (3:08) | |
| Harlem Holiday | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | (2:48) | |
| Dixie Doorway | Mitchell Parish, |
(2:58) | |
| Wah-Dee-Dah | Irving Mills, Ned Washington, |
(3:00) | |
| Sweet Rhythm | Sidney Bechet, Leroy Maxey | (2:49) | |
| Beale Street Mama | Roy Turk, |
(3:06) | |
| That's What I Hate About Love | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | (3:10) | |
| The Man from Harlem | Will Hudson | (3:04) | |
| I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | (3:12) | |
| My Sunday Gal | Mitchell Parish, |
(2:55) | |
| Eadie Was a Lady | Nacio Herb Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Richard Whiting | (2:49) | |
| Gotta Go Places and Do Things | (2:42) |
