For the Betty Boop cartoon, see Minnie the Moocher (film).
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"Minnie the Moocher"
Song by Cab Calloway
Released
1931
Recorded
March 3, 1931, New York City
Genre
Jazz
Length
3:00
Label
Brunswick BR6074
Songwriter(s)
Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Clarence Gaskill
"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz-scat song co-written by American musician Cab Calloway and first recorded in 1931 by Calloway and his orchestra, selling over a million copies.[1] "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho"). In performances, Calloway would have the audience and the band members participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response, eventually making it too fast and complicated for the audience to replicate.
Released by Brunswick Records, the song was the biggest chart-topper of 1931.[2] Calloway publicized and then celebrated a "12th birthday" for the song on June 17, 1943, while performing at New York's Strand Theatre. He reported that he was then singing the song at both beginning and end of four performances daily, and then estimated his total performances to date: "she's kicked the gong around for me more than 40,000 times."[3]
In 1978, Calloway recorded a disco version of "Minnie the Moocher" on RCA Records which reached No. 91 on the Billboard R&B chart.[4]
"Minnie the Moocher" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2019 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.[5] It has been argued that the record was the first jazz record to sell a million copies.[6]
^Time Entertainment: All Time 100 Songs, Craig Duff. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
^"Songs from the Year 1931". tsort.
^Hay, Ted. "The Four-A-Day: Cab's 'Minnie' Has a Birthday—Miss Moocher Will Be 12 Thursday." New York Post, June 14, 1943.
^"Cab Calloway Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". www.musicvf.com.
^Andrews, Travis M. (March 20, 2019). "Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
^Nicholson, Stuart (March 19, 2006). "Flashback: March 1931". Theguardian.com. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
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