Here's  a partial listing of Cab Calloway recordings made with a variety of ensembles-- 


 

Title of Work

Type

Date

9:20 Special

Instr.

1) ? 2) 7/8/45

A Bee Gezindt

vocal

11/20/39

A-Minor Breakdown

Instr.

12/10/37

Ad-De-Dey

vocal

2/20/39

Afraid of Love

vocal

2/20/39

Ain't Got No Gal in This Town

vocal

10/21/31

Ain't That Something

vocal

1943

Angeline

vocal

6/7/32

Angels Sing, The

Instr.

?

Angels With Dirty Faces

vocal

11/2/38

April in My Heart

vocal

10/27/38

Are You All Reet?

vocal

1/16/41

Are You Hep to the Jive?

vocal

8/28/40

Are You in Love With Me Again?

vocal

5/21/36

At Dawn Time

vocal

1947

At the Clambake Carnival

Instr.

3/23/38

Avalon

vocal

9/4/34

Aw You Dog

vocal

3/14/32

Azure

vocal

3/23/38

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

vocal

7/2/35

Basin Street Blues

Instr

7/9/31

Beale Street Mama

vocal

11/15/32

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

vocal

10/21/31

Birth of the Blues, The

vocal

?

Black Rhythm

vocal

6/11/31

Blue Interlude

vocal

10/27/38

Blues Brothers

Film

1980

Blues in My Heart

vocal

5/6/31

Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)

Song Film

1) 9/10/41     2) 1942

Bojangles Steps In

vocal

1943

Boo-Wah Boo-Wah

vocal

8/5/40

Boog It

vocal

1) 3/8/40       2) 7/27/40

Boogie-Woogie

vocal

8/30/38

Bugle Blues

Instr.

12/10/37

Bugle Call Rag

Instr

9/23/31

Bye Bye Blues

Instr.

6/27/40

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

Film

?

Cab Calloway's Hepsters' Dictionary: Language of Jive

Book

1944

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Film

1934

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

Film

1935

Cabaret

vocal

?

Cabin in the Cotton, (There's a)

vocal

1) 2/29/32     2) 12/18/33

Calling All Bars

Instr.

5/15/40

Calloway Boogie, The

vocal

1) 12/11/47   2) 1955?

Can't We Try Again

vocal

7/15/45

Chattanooga Choo Choo

vocal

7/3/41

Chant of the Jungle

vocal

7/27/42

Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird, A

vocal

10/14/40

Chili Con Conga

vocal

10/17/39

Chinese Rhythm

vocal

9/4/34

Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan (From China)

vocal

3/8/40

Cincinatti Kid, The

Film

1966

Come On With the "Come On"

vocal

6/27/40

Conchita (Cares Nothing About Love)

vocal

7/24/41

Congo

Instr

3/3/37

Congo-Conga, The

vocal

8/30/38

Copper-Colored Gal

vocal

9/15/36

Corinne Corinna

vocal

11/18/31

Creole Love Song

vocal

5/6/31

Crescendo in Drums

Instr.

7/17/39

Cruisin' With Cab

Instr.

7/9/45

Cupid's Nightmare

Instr.

1) 7/27/40     2) 8/28/40

Deep in a Dream

vocal

11/2/38

Dinah

vocal

1) 6/7/32       2) 7/15/45

Dixie Doorway

vocal

11/9/32

Dixie Vagabond

vocal

3/3/31

Do I Care, No No

vocal

5/15/40

Do It Again

vocal

11/20/39

Do You Want to Jump, Children?

vocal

10/27/38

Doin' the New Low-Down

vocal

12/29/32

Doing the Reactionary

vocal

1/26/38

Doin' the Rumba

vocal

3/3/31

Don't Falter at the Alter

vocal

1) 2/3/47       2) 1947

Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin'

vocal

3/3/37

Down-Hearted Blues

vocal

11/18/31

Eadie Was a Lady

vocal

12/7/32

Ebony Silhouette

vocal

1/16/41

Emaline

vocal

1/23/34

Evenin'

vocal

9/18/33

Every Day's a Holiday

vocal

12/10/37

Everybody Eats When They Come to My House

vocal

12/11/47

Exactly Like You

vocal

7/15/45

F.D.R. Jones

vocal

11/2/38

Farewell Blues

vocal

3/9/31

Father's Got His Glasses On

Instr.

11/2/33

Feelin' Tip Top

vocal

5/15/40

Fiesta in Brass

Instr.

?

Fifteen Minute Intermission

vocal

1) 6/27/40     2) 7/27/40

Floogie Walk

Instr.

3/28/39

Foo a Little Bally-Hoo

vocal

1) ?              2) 1/24/45     3) 7/8/45

Foolin' With You

vocal

1/26/38

For the Last Time I Cried Over You

vocal

8/30/39

Frantic on the Atlantic

Instr.

7/8/45

Frisco Flo

vocal

1) 9/15/36     2) 1937

Geechy Joe

vocal

1) 3/5/41       2-3)1943

Ghost of a Chance, A

Instr.

6/27/40

Ghost of Smoky Joe

vocal

3/28/39

Git Along

vocal

9/21/32

Give, Baby, Give

vocal

11/20/39

Go South Young Man

vocal

8/31/37

Goin' Conga

vocal

8/28/40

Good Sauce From the Gravy Bowl

vocal

1/21/35

Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (for Bein' Good)

vocal

7/24/30

Gotta Go Places and Do Things

vocal

12/7/32

Gypsy Love Song

Instr.

7/15/45

Gypsy Sweetheart

Instr.

7/9/45

Happy Feet

vocal

10/14/30

Hard Times (Topsy Turvy)

vocal

1) 5/15/40     2) 7/27/40

Harlem Camp Meeting

vocal

11/2/33

Harlem Harmonies

Film

?

Harlem Holiday

vocal

11/9/32

Harlem Hospitality

vocal

9/21/33

Hello, Dolly!

vocal

?

Hep Cat's Love Song

vocal

3/5/41

Hey, Doc!

vocal

7/24/41

Hey Now - Hey Now

vocal

1) 5/13/46      2) 1947

Hi-De-Ho 1937

Film

1937

Hi-De-Ho 1947

Film

1947

Hi-De-Ho Man

vocal

1) 2/3/47       2) 1947

Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man, The

vocal

1) 9/15/36      2) 1937

Hi-De-Ho Romeo

vocal

8/31/37

Hi-De-Ho Serenade

vocal

5/15/40

Honeydripper, The

vocal

1) ?              2) 11/13/45

Hot Air 

Instr.

8/28/40

Hot Toddy

Instr.

9/21/32

Hot Water

Instr.

12/7/32

Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz

vocal

1) 1/23/34     2) 1935

How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

vocal

6/7/32

Hoy-Hoy

vocal

3/23/38

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2

Instr.

1944

I Ain't Gettin' Nowhere Fast

vocal

8/30/39

I Ain't Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me)

vocal

7/2/35

I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped

vocal

11/29/49

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Song 

1947?

I Can't Resist You

vocal

7/27/40

I Get the Neck of the Chicken

vocal

7/27/42

I Got a Gal Named Nettie

vocal

1947

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

vocal

1) 11/30/32    2) 1937

I Learned About Love From Her

vocal

12/19/33

I Like Music (Played With a Swing Like This)

vocal

1/26/38)

I Love to Sing

vocal

1/27/36

I See a Million People (But All I Can See is You)

vocal

7/24/41

I Want to Rock

vocal

2/2/42

I Was Here When You Left Me

vocal

7/8/45

I Will Wait For You

vocal

?

If I Were a Rich Man

vocal

?

If This Isn't Love

vocal

1) 7/8/45       2) 7/9/45       3) 7/15/45

I'll Be Around

vocal

2/2/42

I'll Pray For You

vocal

7/27/40

I'm Always in the Mood for You

vocal

8/24/37

I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby

vocal

3/9/31

I'm Madly in Love With You

vocal

10/27/38

I'm Not Ashamed of My Tears

vocal

1) 7/9/45       2) 7/15/45

I'm Now Prepared to Tell the World It's You

vocal

6/7/32

In an Old English Village

vocal

12/10/37

International House

Film

1933

Is That Religion?

vocal

12/23/30

It Looks Like Susie

vocal

7/9/31

I've Got the World on a String

vocal

11/9/32

I've Got You Under My Skin

vocal

?

Jess's Natu'lly Lazy

vocal

5/21/36

Jitter Bug (Jitterbug), (Call of the)

vocal

1) 1/22/34     2) 1935

Jive (Page One of the Hepster's Dictionary)

vocal

8/38/38

Jive Talk Dictionary

vocal

1944?

Jiveformation Please

vocal

10/17/39

Jonah Joins the Cab

vocal

3/5/41

Jubilee

vocal

12/10/37

Jumpin' Jive  or (Hep! Hep! The Jumpin' Jive)

vocal film

1) 7/17/39     2) 1943         3) 1943         4) ?

Jungle King, The

vocal

5/1/47

Just an Error in the News

vocal

12/10/37

Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul

vocal

1/21/35

Kickin' the Gong Around

vocal

1) 10/21/31   2) 12/18/33

King Porter Stomp

Instr.

7/27/40

Lady Whistle Bait

Instr

?

Lady With the Fan, The

vocal

1) 11/2/33     2) 1934

Let's Go Joe 

vocal

1) 7/27/42    2)?

Levee Low-Down

vocal

5/6/31

Levee Lullaby

vocal

8/28/40

Limehouse Blues

Instr.

7/27/40

Little Old Lady From Baltimore

vocal

1947

Little Town Gal

vocal

12/19/33

Lone Arranger, The

Instr.

5/15/40

Lonesome Nights

Instr.

8/28/40

'Long About Midnight

vocal

1) 1/22/34     2) 1935

Long, Long Ago

vocal

2/20/39

Lordy

vocal

12/24/41

Love is the Reason

vocal

5/21/36

Make Yourself at Home

vocal

10/14/40

Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm

vocal

1) 8/31/37     2) 1937

Mame

vocal

?

Man From Harlem, The

vocal

11/30/32

Manhattan Jam

Instr.

3/17/37

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Film

1937

Margie

vocal

1/23/34

Mermaid Song, The

vocal

11/3/41

Minnie the Moocher

vocal

1) 3/31/30     2) 1932         3) 12/18/33    4) 7/27/40     5) 2/2/42       6) 1942         7) 7/8/45       8) 7/9/45       9) 7/15/45   10) 1947?   11) 1980

Minnie the Moocher

Film

1) 1932         2) 1942         3) 1947?

Minnie the Moocher and Many, Many More

Film

?

Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day

vocal

4/20/32

Minnie's a Hepcat Now

vocal

1947

Miss Hallelujah Brown

vocal

8/30/38

Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today)

vocal

7/2/35

Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie

vocal

8/30/38

Moment I Laid Eyes on You, The

vocal

12/24/41

Mood Indigo

Instr.

3/9/31

Moon at Sea

vocal

3/17/37

Moon Glow

Instr.

1/22/34

Moonlight Rhapsody

Instr.

9/4/34

More I See You, The

vocal

7/9/45

Mrs. Finnigan

vocal

9/10/41

My Coo-Coo Bird (Could Swing)

vocal

9/10/41

My Gal

vocal

7/3/41

My Gal Mezzanine

vocal

3/3/37

My Honey's Lovin' Arms

vocal

6/17/31

My Sunday Gal

vocal

11/30/32

Nagasaki

vocal

7/2/35

Nain Nain (Nein Nein)

vocal

11/3/41

A New Moon and an Old Serenade, 

vocal

3/28/39

Nightmare, The

vocal

6/17/31

Nobody's Sweetheart

vocal

12/23/30

North of the Mohawk Trail

Instr.

10/14/40

Of Minnie the Moocher & Me

Book

1976

Ogeechee River Lullaby

vocal

7/27/42

Oh, Grandpa

vocal

5/3/47

Ol' Joe Louis

vocal

8/18/49

Old Man of the Mountain

vocal

1) 6/9/32       2) 1933

Old Man of the Mountain

Film

1933

Old Yazoo

vocal

6/7/32

One Big Union for Two

vocal

1/26/38

One Look at You

vocal

3/28/39

Papa's in Bed With His Britches On

vocal

8/5/40

Paradiddle

Instr.

3/8/40

Peck-A-Doodle-Do

vocal

3/23/38

Peckin'

vocal

3/3/37

Pickin' the Cabbage

Instr.

3/8/40

Pluckin' the Bass

Instr.

8/30/39

Prohibition Blues

Instr.

1932

Queen Isabella

Instr.

8/31/37

Rail Rhythm

Instr.

1934

Rainy Sunday, A

vocal

1947

Ratamacue

Instr.

2/20/39

Reefer Man

vocal

1) 6/9/32       2) 1933

Rhapsody in Rhumba

vocal

6/27/40

Rooming House Boogie

vocal

11/29/49

Run Little Rabbit

vocal

1/16/41

Russian Lullaby

Instr.

1) ?              2) 7/8/45       3) 7/9/45

Rustle of Swing

Instr.

1/26/38

San Francisco Fan

vocal

12/11/47

Savage Rhythm

Instr.

8/31/37

Save Me, Sister

vocal

1/27/36

Says Who? Says You, Says I

vocal

9/10/41

Scat Song, The

vocal

1) 2/29/32     2) 12/18/33   3) 1933

Sensations of 1945

Film

1944

September Song

vocal

?

She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific

vocal

8/24/37

Shout, Shout, Shout

Instr.

8/30/38

Silly Old Moon

vocal

8/5/40

Sincere  Love

Instr.

11/20/39

Six or Seven Times

vocal

6/11/31

Skrontch

vocal

3/23/38

Skunk Song, The

Song Film

1942

Smo-o-o-oth One

Instr.

11/3/41

Snow White

Film

1934

So Sweet

vocal

3/3/31

Some of These Days

vocal

12/23/30

Somebody Stole My Gal

vocal

10/21/31

Special Delivery

Instr.

3/5/41

St. James Imfirmary

vocal

1) 12/23/30   2) 1934         3) 7/3/41       4) 7/24/41     5) 1947

St. James Infirmary

Film

1947

St. Louis Blues

vocal

1) 7/24/30 

2) 7/8/45

Stack O' Lee Blues

vocal

11/18/31

Stardust

vocal

10/21/31

Stoppin' the Traffic

Instr.

1934

Stormy Weather

Film

1943

Stormy Weather

vocal

1) 1943         2) ?

Strange as It Seems

vocal

6/22/32

Strictly Cullud Affair

vocal

3/14/32

Sunset

vocal

8/5/40

Sunshine

vocal

?

Swanee Lullaby

vocal

6/7/32

Sway

vocal

?

Sweet Georgia Brown

vocal

7/9/31

Sweet Jenny Lee

vocal

10/14/30

Sweet Rhythm

vocal

11/15/32

Swing, Swing, Swing

vocal

3/3/37

'Tain't No Good

vocal

2/2/42

Take the "A" Train

Instr.

7/3/41

Tappin' Off

Instr.

11/3/41

Tarzan of Harlem

vocal

10/17/39

Tee-Um Tee-Um Tee-I, Tahiti

vocal

11/2/38

That Man is Here Again

vocal

3/3/37

That Old Black Magic

vocal

?

That's What I Hate About Love

vocal

11/30/32

There's a Sunny Side to Everything

vocal

8/30/38

This is Always

vocal

?

This Time It's Love

vocal

6/22/32

Three Swings and Out

Instr.

1/26/38

Topsy Turvy: see Hard Times

Trickeration

vocal

10/21/31

Trylon Swing

Instr.

7/17/39

Twee-Twee-Tweet

vocal

8/30/39

Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left

vocal

12/11/47

Utt Da Zay (The Tailor's Song)

vocal

7/17/39

Vine Street Drag

Instr.

1932

Viper's Drag, The

Instr.

11/12/30

Virginia, Georgia and Caroline

Song 

1) 12/24/41 

Film

2) 1942

Vuelva

vocal

10/17/39

Wah-Dee-Dah

vocal

11/15/32

Wake Up and Live

vocal

3/3/37

Walkin' With My Honey

vocal

7/9/45

We Go Well Together

vocal

7/24/41

We the Cats Shall Hep You

vocal

1) 1944         2)7/15/45        3) 1947

Weakness

vocal

9/4/34

Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing

vocal

9/15/36

We're Breaking Up a Lovely Affair

vocal

3/23/38

What;s Buzzin' Cousin

vocal

2/2/42

When You're Smiling

vocal

5/21/36

Who Calls?

vocal

11/3/41

Who's Yehoodi?

vocal

5/15/40

Willow Weep for Me

Instr.

1/16/41

Without Rhythm

vocal

11/18/31

Workers' Train, The

vocal

10/14/40

Yaller

vocal

11/12/30

Yo Eta Cansa

vocal

8/5/40

You are the One in my Heart

vocal

1/16/14

You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You

vocal

10/21/31

You Dog

vocal

10/21/31

You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (to Get Along With Me)

vocal

1) 6/9/32       2) 1932

You Rascal, You

vocal

9/23/31

Your Voice

vocal

8/18/49

You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

vocal

?

You're the Cure for What Ails Me

vocal

1/27/36

You've Got Your Troubles

vocal

?

Zanzi

Instr.

1) 7/9/45       2) 7/15/45

Zah Zuh Zaz

vocal

1) 11/2/33     2) 1934