Friday, February 13, 2026

Minnie the Moocher in the Blues Brothers - the best song ever? Cab Calloway in 1980

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250MMq0fTrU

 This song shows why the U.S. is so great - Cab Calloway leading the audience in call and response as a jazz blues scat number from the 1920s - he dances and the band is a mix of black and white musicians. The audience is a mix of black and white people. Everyone experiencing great joy from Cab Calloway being the black leader.

 In 1992 I traveled to Costa Rica for a semester studying conservation biology and sustainability. I was befriended by two females - an AFrican-American black young lady from Philly and a white European-American from Cleveland and me from Minneapolis, a white male. What was our common denominator for being friends? All three of us liked the blues as our favorite music. hahahaha.

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