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- Artist: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: 1991
- 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 | Harry Revel, Mack Gordon | (2:30) | |
| Manhattan Jam | Cabell "Cab" Calloway | (2:39) | |
| Moon at Sea | Vincent Rose, |
(3:00) | |
| I'm Always in the Mood for You | (2:58) | ||
| She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific | Benny Davis, John Frederick Coots | (2:35) | |
| Go South, Young Man | John Frederick Coots, |
(2:13) | |
| Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm | (3:05) | ||
| Hi De Ho Romeo | Cabell "Cab" Calloway | (2:50) | |
| Queen Isabella | (2:46) | ||
| Savage Rhythm | Benny Davis, John Frederick Coots | (2:35) | |
| Every Day's a Holiday | (2:29) | ||
| Jubilee | (2:33) | ||
| In an Old English Village | (3:12) | ||
| (Just an) Error in the News | (2:51) | ||
| A Minor Breakdown (Rustle of Swing) | (2:28) | ||
| Bugle Blues | Elmer Schoebel, Irving Mills, Jack Pettis | (2:28) | |
| One Big Union for Two | Harold Rome | (2:56) | |
| Doing the Reactionary | Harold Rome | (2:42) | |
| Rustle of Swing | Cabell "Cab" Calloway, Ralph Yaw | (3:00) | |
| Three Swings and Out | Ralph Yaw, Cabell "Cab" Calloway | (2:16) | |
| I Like Music (Played With a Swing Like This) | Cabell "Cab" Calloway, Ralph Yaw | (2:37) | |
| Foolin' With You | Morris White | (2:34) | |
| Azure | Duke Ellington, Irving Mills | (2:48) |
