“This year’s recipients are a prestigious group of diverse and influential creators who have crafted or contributed to some of the most distinctive recordings in music history,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. “These profoundly inspiring figures are being honored as legendary performers, creative architects and technical visionaries. Their outstanding accomplishments and passion for their craft have created a timeless legacy.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award honors lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium while the Trustees Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity. Both awards are determined by vote of The Recording Academy’s National Board of Trustees. Technical GRAMMY Award recipients are determined by vote of The Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees as well as The Academy’s Trustees. The award is presented to individuals and companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.

Cab Calloway — A talented jazz singer and a superior scatter, Cab Calloway — the “Hi De Ho” man — became one of the greatest and most beloved figures on the entertainment scene in the early ’30s. In 1931, Calloway wrote his first hit, “Minnie The Moocher,” which sold more than 1 million copies. A “larger-than-life” figure, immortalized in cartoons and caricatures, he also led one of the most talented swing orchestras. After more than 60 years of performing, he conquered every branch of show business from nightclubs to radio and film and television to theater.

She plays her recordings and her father’s recordings of the same Harold Arlen songs.

She also plays her aunt Blanche Calloway singing her theme song “Growlin Dan” and herself singing the same song 70 years later.

You can’t make this stuff up.

An incident took place at a “white dance” in Longview Texas involving Benny Payne Cab’s piano player at that time. It resulted in a racial riot. Great comments by Milt Hinton about Cab “Living Large.”

This is good stuff.

It was his first national radio broadcast and Cab made a rather humorous mistake with his introduction of Irving Berlin and Oscar Levant.

It’s a funny story.

Your Main Queen begs the question where did Hi De Ho come from? She introduces Blanche Calloway, Cab’s older sister, on a recording with Louis Armstrong in 1924, as the source of the Hi De Ho legacy.

Oh we do love those bad boys. You WILL enjoy this insight into Cab’s youth.

It also introduces “Your Main Queen Chris Calloway (daughter to Cab) a solid sender of a chirping canary and gasser of an MC.” There is a lot of Cab Calloway singing Hi De Ho, Hi De Ho and the answer to the question “What IS the Heartbeat of Hi De Ho?” Check it out.