Cab Calloway & His Orchestra in "Hi De Ho" (1937)

Time for a 1937 Warner Brothers-Vitaphone short as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra star in "Hi-De-Ho," part of Vitaphone's Melody Master series, released by Warner Brothers.


The selections:


♪ I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues ♪
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Ted Koehler
Played by Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra offscreen and
Sung by Cab Calloway in his apartment

♪ Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man ♪
Music by J. Fred Coots
Lyrics by Benny Davis
Played by Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra in a tenement building and
Sung by Cab Calloway in the tenement courtyard

♪ Frisco Flo ♪
Music by J. Fred Coots
Lyrics by Benny Davis
Played by Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra in a tenement building and
Sung by Cab Calloway

♪ Some of These Days ♪
Written by Shelton Brooks
Performed by Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra (with 'scat' singing by Cab Calloway) 


Written by Burnet Hershey, photographed by Ray Foster (member of the ASC), edited by Bert Frank, and directed by Roy Mack.