How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway

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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway
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Studio album by
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
ReleasedApril 21, 2009
Genre Swing revival
Length44:36
Label Vanguard
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy chronology
Everything You Want for Christmas
(2004)		How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway
(2009)		 Rattle Them Bones
(2012)
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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway is the sixth studio album released by the American musical group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The album features songs written or performed by bandleader Cab Calloway during his heyday of the 1930s to 1950s. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Come On with the "Come On"" (Cab Calloway, Andy Gibson) – 3:22
  2. "Calloway Boogie" (Calloway, Allen Leroy Gibson) – 4:02
  3. "The Call of the Jitterbug" (Calloway, Irving Mills, Ed Swayze) – 3:29
  4. "Hey Now, Hey Now" (Calloway, Elton Hill) – 4:34
  5. "The Jumpin' Jive" (Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer) – 4:01
  6. "How Big Can You Get?" (Calloway, Buck Ram) – 4:05
  7. "The Old Man of the Mountain" (George Brown, Victor Young) – 4:15
  8. "The Ghost of Smokey Joe" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 5:28
  9. "Reefer Man" (J. Russel Robinson, Andy Razaf) – 2:54
  10. "Minnie the Moocher" (Calloway, Mills) – 4:59
  11. "Tarzan of Harlem" (Lupin Fein, Mills, Henry Nemo, Ram) – 3:24

Personnel

Additional musicians

References

  1. ↑ Nastos, Michael. How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway at AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  2. ↑ Portridge, Kenneth (May 29, 2018). "In Defense of the Swing Revival: Why America Flipped for '40s Sounds in 1998". Billboard .


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