Calloway, Cab

Cab Calloway Bandleader, composer, lyricist, singer, and actor Rochester, New York, December 25, 1907; New York City, November 19, 1994. As a performer, he featured jive talk and personified the hep-cat from the early 1930s through World War II. He was famous for his “Hi-De-Ho” scat singing and his flamboyant manner of conducting his orchestra, which included some of the finest jazzmen of the time. As a composer, he contributed “Minnie the Moocher” (his 1931 theme song, based on the 1927…