[Dixielandjazz] Cab & "St James" (was The Re-Invented Preservation Hall Jazz Band)

[David Richoux]

Thanks - I was beginning to think my "musical recall" skills were  
somehow in doubt. (I am much better in visual/graphic recall - I can  
usually remember an album cover after more than 20 years!)

  Cab milked that “hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho” trademark to the hilt...

"You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along With Me)"
"Hi-De-Ho Man"
"Hi-De-Ho Romeo"
"Hi-De-Ho Serenade"
"Keep That Hi-De-Hi In Your Soul"
"The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man"

The "Minnie the Moocher" series has at least 5 or 6 segments (adapted  
from "Willie the Weeper")
St. James sort of fits in, but it is not a part of the series:
(maybe not in order)
"Minnie the Moocher"
"Kickin' The Gong Around"
"Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day"
"Ghost of Smokey Joe"
"Minnie's a Hepcat Now"
"Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie"
"We Go Well Together"
"Zah Zuh Zaz"

and other bands joined in with
"Jerry the Junker" (Clarence Williams)
"Minnie, My Mountain Moocher" (Ukulele Ike Edwards)
and
"Minnie the Moocher is Dead" (Jimmy Lunceford & the Dandridge Sisters)

(BTW, I remembered most of these without web searches ;-)
but I did just find this interesting recording:
  http://www.callowayhideho.com/podpress_trac/web/27/0/HDH060315c.mp3

Dave Richoux


On Jun 22, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

>> I don't THINK I ever heard a version of "St. James Infirmary" by  
>> Cab Calloway with a “hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho” refrain
>>  - he did that on "Minnie the Moocher" and a few other related songs.
>
> Dear Dave,
> "St James Infirmary" and Cab Calloway.
> *23 Dec 1930. From his fourth record date. (Brunswick).
> *Also in two 1932 film shorts.
> *He reprised the tune in 1941 for Okeh on 3 July 1942  and 24 July  
> 1941
> *Then again on 15 Dec 1958 for RCA Victor.
> None really use the “hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho” refrain, but have his  
> trademark laid-back phrasing, easy enough for the PHJB to adapt to  
> suit their rendition, particularly the RCA, which I have on CD  
> (74321 18524).
> There is also a version on a 1957/58 LP with Eddie Barefield's  
> orch, but I've never had nor heard it.
> Playing them now for old-times sake.
> Kind regards,
> Bill not just a pretty face).
>