Come learn new-to-me music with me! Today, we’re losing to Minnie The Moocher by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra. Label: Brunswick Book: 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Dir and 10,001 You Must Download The "Hi-de-hoh Man,” as Cab Calloway was known, was one of the most successful big-band leaders of the 1930s, famous for his flamboyant performances. He was particularly renowned for his scat singing--that is, his use of nonsensical, ad-libbed words--for example, the "Hi de hide hi de hi" refrain from "Minnie the Moocher" that gave him his nickname and first brought him fame. "I forgot the lyric to another song that I was doing and I put in skee-tee-tuh-bee and the hi-de-hos and it became very effective," Calloway recalled in later years, speaking of his most famous song. And then I sat down and wrote Minnie the Moocher!" Musically and lyrically, the song was based on Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper' from 1927. The song was an immediate and huge success, selling...