More Like This: Cab Calloway
12:36 am in More Like This, Strange Fruit by Brandon
This cartoon is the first time I had ever heard or seen this song in it’s entirety. You probably won’t recognize it until about 2 min. in. I think it’s the earliest recording of Calloway and his band. Watch the ghost and you’ll catch the original moonwalk, it’s actually a rotoscoped version of Calloway dancing. By the way, “cokie” is cocaine and the “Gong” is Hep Jive for opium. In longer versions of the song Minne is actually the tradgedy of the story because she ends up dying in a psych ward. You won’t hear that in the squeaky clean T.V. versions below.