Here’s a little bit of a fun clip from the movie Swing Fever (1944), where Kay Kyser and his Orchestra with Marilyn Maxwell performs “One Girl and Two Boys”. The dancing clips begins at 2:36, with the dancers – Jeanne Phelps Veloz, Don Gallagher, and Lenny Smith.
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Here’s a clip of Cab’s famous song, Minnie the Moocher, first recorded in 1931, and inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The song is known for its call-and-response scats, that get more and more complex, as well as the many drug references (“cokey” and “kicking the gong around” referring to coccaine users and opium smokers, and “nickels” and “dimes” referring to $5 and $10 bags of marijuana).
The song was also featured in the cartoon “Minnie the Moocher”, where Cab’s Orchestra opens with him dancing to “St Jame’s Infirmary” – his movements reminiscent of “Snake Hips” Tucker’s dance sequence, complete with the break - before the cartoon begins, and the song beginning at 3:51 of this clip. Cab’s dancing appears again in the cartoon sequence with the ghost walrus.
The final video presented here shows Cab singing this song almost half a century later, in The Blues Brothers Movie (1980)
