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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway ()

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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
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  1. Come on with the "Come On"
  2. Calloway Boogie
  3. The Call of the Jitterbug
  4. Hey Now, Hey Now
  5. The Jumpin' Jive
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  1. Come on with the "Come On"
  2. Calloway Boogie
  3. The Call of the Jitterbug
  4. Hey Now, Hey Now
  5. The Jumpin' Jive
  6. How Big Can You Get?
  7. The Old Man of the Mountain
  8. The Ghost of Smokey Joe
  9. Reefer Man
  10. Minnie the Moocher
  11. Tarzan of Harlem
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's reputation as a pop star styled retro-jazz band has to be enhanced and authenticated by this homage to the leading commercial proponent of jump, jive, and wailing swing in the '30s and '40s, Cab Calloway. The band, with its solid horn section and half-crazed vocal cops channeled through the Hi-De-Ho Man by Scotty Morris is faithful to the core from the originals. Though the band does not do all of Calloway's big hits (missing are "Viper's Drag," "St. Louis Blues," and "Kickin' the Gong Around," among ...

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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway 2009, Vanguard

UPC: 015707992527

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