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- Artist: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: 1938 03 23-1939 02 20
- Total Time: 63:35
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
The seventh of the Classics label's 12 Cab Calloway CDs traces his progress during an 11-month period through 24 recordings. The band's main soloists at the time included trumpeters Shad Collins and Irving Randolph, trombonists Claude Jones and Keg Johnson and especially tenor great Chu Berry (the band gets four instrumentals on this set). Singer June Richmond has a couple of vocals but obviously Cab Calloway is the main reason that the orchestra was working so steadily. With such songs as "Shout Shout, Shout," "Do You Wanna Jump Children" and "F.D.R. Jones" among the more memorable tracks, this CD (along with the others in the valuable series) is well worth picking up. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Skrontch | Irving Mills, Duke Ellington, |
(2:50) | |
| We're Breakin' up a Lovely Affair | (2:57) | ||
| Peck-A-Doodle-Do | Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, |
(2:51) | |
| At the Clambake Carnival | Chu Berry | (2:28) | |
| Hoy-Hoy | (2:49) | ||
| Miss Hallelujah Brown | J. Fred Coots, |
(2:21) | |
| The Congo-Conga | J. Fred Coots, |
(3:00) | |
| The Boogie Woogie | J. Fred Coots, |
(2:37) | |
| There's a Sunny Side to Everything | J. Fred Coots, Benny Davis | (2:25) | |
| Shout, Shout, Shout | (2:36) | ||
| Mister Paganini, Swing for Minnie | Cab Calloway | (2:50) | |
| Jive | Chu Berry, Cab Calloway, Benny Payne | (2:57) | |
| Do You Wanna Jump, Children? | James Van Heusen, Willie Bryant, |
(2:23) | |
| I'm Madly in Love With You | J. Fred Coots, |
(2:58) | |
| April in My Heart | Hoagy Carmichael, |
(2:36) | |
| Blue Interlude | Irving Mills, Benny Carter, |
(2:35) | |
| F.D.R. Jones | Harold Rome | Cab Calloway | (2:20) |
| Deep in a Dream | Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen | (2:58) | |
| Tee-Um, Tee-Um, Tee-I, Tahiti | Teddy Powell, Howard E. Johnson, |
June Richmond, |
(2:09) |
| Angels With Dirty Faces | Phil Spitalny, Fred Fisher | June Richmond, |
(2:56) |
| Long, Long Ago | (2:22) | ||
| Afraid of Love | Phil Spitalny | (2:30) | |
| Ratamacue | Edgar Battle | (2:25) | |
| Ad-De-Dey | (2:42) |
