• Betty Boop: Minnie the Moocher (1932)
• “Reefer Man” from International House (1933)
• Betty Boop: Snow-White (1933)
• Betty Boop: The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
• Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho (1934)
• Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party (1935)
• “Blues in the Night” (1942)
• “The Skunk Song” (1942)
• “Virginia, Georgia and Caroline” (1942)
• “Geechy Joe” from Stormy Weather (1943)
• “Foo a Little Bally Hoo” (1945)
• “I Was Here When You Left Me” (1945)
• “We the Cats Shall Hep Ya” (1945)
• “Minnie the Moocher” (1950)
• “St. James Infirmary” (1950)
• “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” (1951)
• “One for My Baby” (1951)
• “St. James Infirmary” and “Ol’ Man River” from The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
• “Minnie the Moocher” from The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Janet Jackson: “Alright” (1990)

And now, a special bonus for making it this far: the 1944 edition of Calloway’s The Hepster’s Dictionary, in HTML format.

• The Hepster’s Dictionary

Finally, some YouTube links:

• Cab singing “September Song” in 1986
• Cab on Sesame Street: “Jump Jive” and “Hi De Ho Man”
• Dinosaur Gardens favorite Andre Williams talking about Cab’s influence

Buried in this kitschy mess was the video below. It’s a cut from the movie Disco Dancer (the title clip of which starts out the tape) but they don’t give the title for this song, so I’m calling it “Disco Killed The Radio Star” since it’s basically a take on The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star”. This is — well, not a cover, exactly — but the distinctive piano and “Oh-wah-oh” backup singing makes it the cheap, copyright-free “Hey, that reminds me of”–version of the song. And considering the root ersatzness of the Bollywood aesthetic, that make it even better.

• Disco Killed The Radio Star.mp4
• Disco Killed The Radio Star (XviD).avi