Minnie the moocher

Cab Calloway foi un cantante e músico de jazz estadounidense e a súa banda foi unha das orquestras de jazz e scat afroamericanas máis populares de Estados Unidos entre os años 30 y 40. A orquesta de Calloway tiña a músicos como os trompetistas Dizzy Gillespie e Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxofonistas como Ben Webster e Leon "Chu" Berry e o baixista Milt Hinton. Calloway fixo música ata o día da sua morte os 86 anos.

A canción “Minnie the Moocher” está chea de referencias ó mundo das drogas e foi unha das pezas mais populares do Cotton Club nos anos 30, e como tal aparece nao film "Cotton Club” de Coppola. Cab Calloway mantivo inalterable o seu baile nesta canción toda a súa vida.
Este tema volveu adquirir popularidade por ser un dos temas incluidos na banda sonora dos Blue Brothers, que é a versión mais coñecida e a que nós poñemos como standar



Folks, now here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher,
She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher,
She was the roughest, toughest frail,
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.

[Call and response scat chorus differs every time. The following is simplified:]
Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho!
He-de-he-de-he-de-he!
Ho-de-ho-de-ho!

Now, she messed around with a bloke named Smoky,
She loved him though he was cokie,
He took her down to Chinatown,
He showed her how to kick the gong around.

Now, she had a dream about the king of Sweden,
He gave her things that she was needin',
He gave her a home built of gold and steel,
A diamond car with a platinum wheel.

Now, he gave her his townhouse and his racing horses,
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses;
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes,
And she sat around and counted them all a billion times.

Poor Min, poor Min, poor Min.

Aqui podedes ver unha actuación de Cab Calloway, un pouco máis peinadiño.. :)


e aquí dous exemplos dos milleiros de grupos que empregan esta canción nas súas actuacións