All Things Vintage: Cab Calloway #AprilA2Z

Thank you, kittens and dawgs for joining me for another edition of All Things Vintage!

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The 1929 ad slogan, “The Pause That Refreshes”.

Two Chattanooga Tennessee attorneys in 1899 believed they could build a business around bottling Coca-Cola. It looks like they were right.

Cab Calloway is best known for his role in 1980 comedy The Blues Brothers in which he sang his popular 1931 hit song Minnie the Moocher.

 

 

Calloway played in several played in several Chicago Cabarets, but he had a strong association with the Cotton Club in Harlem (NYC).  Here’s a bit of trivia you might enjoy. Did you know, Cab Calloway inspired one of the most well-known dance moves of our times?  It’s recorded that he said, “It was called ‘The Buzz‘ back then.” In some of his movies he performs a gliding back-step dance move. In this clip beginning at 2:37 you can see Calloway’s move, see if you can figure out the modern version.

 

 

Do you know the dance move? If you guessed the Moonwalk, then you’re right.

Music moves people! You might find folks in the earlier part of the 20th century doing the Cakewalk or the Charleston or in my part of the country Clogging.

A cabaret is a nightclub or restaurant featuring entertainment, do you like dining where there is live music?

I want to say a special thank you to all of my good friends who make up the incredibly gifted A2Z Team:

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Heather M. Gardner
Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts
AJ Lauer
Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian
Damyanti Biswas @ Daily Write
Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary
Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot
John Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing

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