Audio Antiques - Cab Calloway: Master Entertainer

Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor, who's talents won him acclaim with a career that spanned over 65 years. Cabell Calloway III had several hit records in the 1930s and 1940s, and reached the Billboard charts in five consecutive decades. Calloway also made several stage, film, and television appearances until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. Calloway was the first African-American musician to sell a million records from a single, and to have a nationally syndicated radio show. He was also the first African-American to have a network radio game show. The Cab Calloway Quizzicale aired on both the NBC Blue Network, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. He received the National Medal of Arts from the United States Congress, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Calloway's most popular song "Minnie the Moocher" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. We have 4 of his radio appearances, first on the Shell Chateau in 1936 with legendary entertainer Al Jolson, a 1940 concert on NBC, an appearance on the wartime program Jubilee with Nate King Cole featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen in 1944, and on the program Guest Time in 1950.  More at KRobCollection.com