Legends Mix

Today's playlist brings us the showmanship of one of the hottest hepcats of the thirties - Cab Calloway. His series of songs about Minnie the Moocher and her friend Smokey Joe were a great succes that also reached the white audience - quite an achievement with lyrics full of drugs and "jive language" - the African American slang of the thirties and forties. Calloway even published a list of hepcat language so everyone could understand what his songs were all about.

But also a wonderful twenties blues of the mysterious bluesman who called himself Freezone, and who just recorded one song for the Paramount label. And of course some great jump blues - an allsorts like you're used from me.

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Playlist

Cecil Gant - Boogie Woogie Baby
Ace Harris - I'll Show You How It's Done
Bob Merrill - The Blues Is Here T'nite
Cleo Brown - You're My Fever
Hot Lips Page - The Cadillac Song
Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - Barrelhouse Boogie
Cab Calloway - The Ghost of Smokey Joe
Freezone - Indian Squaw Blues
Lucille Bogan - Groceries on the Shelf
Palooka Washboard Band - You Done Tore Your Pants With Me
Jazz Gillum - Sweet Sweet Woman
Trixie Smith - My Unusual Man (Decca)
Champion Jack Dupree - Heavy Heart Blues
Tampa Red - Crying Won't Help You
Sonny Boy and Lonnie - Wiggle Around Me Baby
Rattlesnake Cooper - Lost Woman

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Cecil Gant - Rose Room
Chuck Calhoun - Hey Tiger
Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump
Frank 'Floorshow' Culley - That Girl
Joe Lutcher - Rockin Boogie
Julian Dash - Creamin' Boogie