Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway, famous bandleader and songwriter, was born in Rochester in 1907 and lived on Sycamore Street until 1918. A small monument honors him in the park between Sycamore and Avon Place.

Calloway wrote "Minnie the Moocher," the first Jazz album to sell a million copies. He was bandleader at the Cotton Club in Harlem during the 1930s and appeared in the Blues Brothers.

Cab Calloway passed away from a stroke on November 18th, 1994.

Notes and References

• Video of Calloway doing Minnie The Moocher on YouTube
  

• Link to the Cab Calloway Orchestra now directed by Cab's son C. Calloway (“CB”) Brooks

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