Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Cab calloway

  • An elderly man who was wasting away in a nursing home has gotten a new lease on life thanks to an iPod filled with all his favorite big band tunes.
  • (Radar Online.com)
  • Need a good cry? Check out this video of Henry, an elderly man with Alzheimers living in a nursing home for 10 years. Very unresponsive, Henry had trouble answering the most basic questions, that is, until he was given an iPod.
  • (The Stir)
  • It was the stage for Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Smokey Robinson, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, the Drifters and Louis Armstrong.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Maybe Nicki Minaj will help save us from Alzheimer's someday. After listening, Henry lifts his eyes and begins to gush about his love for jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway — and then begins to sing in a rich baritone with vibrato.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Their latest album, HOW BIG CAN YOU GET? A Tribute to Cab Calloway, was released in 2009.  Its available in vinyl on the groups web site, as well as regular CD.
  • (Examiner)
  • Im also a designer, so when I design shit, I listen to a lot of jazz. I was listening to a jazz station -- jazz and big bands -- and I think a Cab Calloway cover was playing.
  • (SF Weekly (blog))
  • He even breaks into his favourite song, "I'll be home for Christmas" from his favourite artist Cab Calloway, a jazz singer and master scat singer of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • (Toronto Star)
  • Previously announced performers include Chicago and The Doobie Brothers, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, Boston and Kansas, Victoria Justice and the Cab Calloway Orchestra. The fair runs July 25 through Aug. 5.
  • (Vindy.com)

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