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Cab Calloway's America

Cab Calloway's America

A joyful country where people feel like funkin' it up

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Jun 29, 2021
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There is nothing better I can do for you right this very second than to urge you to watch this entire Cab Calloway sequence from the 1943 movie “Stormy Weather”. The dancers are the Nicholas Brothers, with talent on loan from God. When I think of the very best of the American spirit, I think of the Gershwins’ “Rhapsody In Blue,” I think of everything Lo…

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