Friday, March 27, 2009

The Blues Brothers=Minnie The Moocher=Cab Calloway & Irving Mills!


Cab Calloway and Irving Mills(The Blues Brothers). Irving Mills(1894-1985) was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name Joe Primrose. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919. Although not a musician himself(he did sing),Irving had his own recording group called Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang.
Cab Calloway(1907-1994) was a famous American jazz singer and band leader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s.

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