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- Artist: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: 1937 03 03-1938 03 23
- Total Time: 63:10
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
The swing era may have been at its height during the time covered by this CD (the sixth of 12 put out by the Classics label that reissue all of Cab Calloway's 1930-42 recordings) but the colorful vocalist held onto his audience and remained a household name. With such soloists as Ben Webster or Chu Berry on tenor, trumpeters Shad Collins and Lammar Wright and a rhythm section including guitarist Danny Barker and bassist Milt Hinton, Calloway had a particularly strong (if generally overlooked) orchestra. Among the more memorable selections of the 24 included on this CD are "Swing, Swing, Swing," "She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific," "Bugle Blues" and "Hi-De-Ho Romeo." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Swing, Swing, Swing | Morris White | (2:43) | |
| Wake up and Live | Mack Gordon, Harry Revel | (2:30) | |
| Manhattan Jam | Cab Calloway | (2:39) | |
| Moon at Sea | Vincent Rose, |
(3:00) | |
| I'm Always in the Mood for You | J. Fred Coots, |
(2:58) | |
| She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific | J. Fred Coots, Benny Davis | (2:35) | |
| Go South, Young Man | J. Fred Coots, |
(2:13) | |
| Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm | Walter Kent, |
(3:05) | |
| Hi De Ho Romeo | J. Fred Coots, |
Cab Calloway | (2:50) |
| Queen Isabella | (2:46) | ||
| Savage Rhythm | J. Fred Coots, Benny Davis | (2:35) | |
| Every Day's a Holiday | Sam Coslow, |
(2:29) | |
| Jubilee | Hoagy Carmichael, |
(2:33) | |
| In an Old English Village | (3:12) | ||
| (Just an) Error in the News | Irving Mills, Will Hudson, |
(2:51) | |
| A Minor Breakdown (Rustle of Swing) | (2:28) | ||
| Bugle Blues | Irving Mills, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel | (2:28) | |
| One Big Union for Two | Harold Rome | (2:56) | |
| Doing the Reactionary | Harold Rome | (2:42) | |
| Rustle of Swing | Cab Calloway, Ralph Yaw | (3:00) | |
| Three Swings and Out | Cab Calloway, Ralph Yaw | (2:16) | |
| I Like Music (Played With a Swing Like This) | Cab Calloway, Ralph Yaw | (2:37) | |
| Foolin' With You | Morris White | (2:34) | |
| Azure | Irving Mills, Duke Ellington | (2:48) |
