Day 11
song: Minnie the Moocher (live remix)
artist: The Shotgun Wedding Quintet
written by Cab Calloway
produced by Adam Theis
personnel:
Dublin - vocals
Rich Armstrong - trumpet
Joe Cohen - tenor sax
Adam Theis - bass/looping, trombone
Jon Monahan - banjo
Brandon Werlin - drums
recorded at Bird & Egg Studios in El Cerrito, CA
engineered by Joe Bagale
mixed and mastered by Joe Bagale
This song was THE hit of 1931 when Cab Calloway’s legendary recording came out. Modern “Club” songs and Pop-Hip-Hop are full of drug references and descriptions of seedy nightclub activities and so is this song...but it came out about 85 years ago. This song also has what can be considered as some of the earliest “rapping”. This is why Cab Calloway can be referred to as the original gangstar rapper.
Montage from Shotgun’s Live Cab Calloway Tribute:
https://youtu.be/DxB59mwcG4s
Original Cab Calloway recording
https://youtu.be/8mq4UT4VnbE
Insanely Funny Forklift Fail Video
https://youtu.be/8LqrjlqKhoQ
