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** 1935 Cab Calloway stars in Great Jazz Bands of the 30’s by Paramount Pictures**, ** ﻿ ﻿1954 ﻿Cab Calloway tours South America, Mexico, Cuba, CA and Caribbean. ** **** ﻿1955 ﻿ Cab tours Britian alone. **** ** 1956 ﻿Cab leads the Woody Herman on tour. **
 * Cab Calloway III **
 * 1907 Cab (Cabell) Calloway III was born on Christmas Day in Rochester, NY. His parents names were**
 * Cabell Calloway II and** **Martha Eulalia Reed.**
 * 1918 The family moves to Baltimore, Maryland.**
 * 1922 Cab Calloway's mother arranges for him to begin singing lessons with Ruth Macabee.**
 * 1924 Cab Calloway enters Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore.**
 * 1926 Cab Calloway plays basketball with the “Baltimore Athenians”**
 * 1927 Cab graduates from Douglas High School **
 * 1928 Calloway's first Chicago nightclub gig was at the Dreamland Café, where he plays the drums and sings. Cab performs with Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines at the Sunset Café, and becomes the “house” singer. **
 * 1929 CabCalloway became leader of the 11-piece band the Alabamians when Louis Armstrong and Carroll Dickerson left the Sunset Cafe **
 * 1930 Cab Calloway and the Missourians went to the Cotton Club to beat the Duke Ellington Orchestra while they where on tour. The Calloway gig at the Cotton Club was a huge success. **
 * 1931 The band changed their name to Cab Calloway’s Cotton Club. **
 * 1932 Doc Cheatham joins the Cab Calloway Cotton Club Orchestra.**
 * 1933 Calloway is featured in Betty Boop old cartoons like “Snow White” and “The Old Man of the Mountain” by Fleischer Studios.**
 * 1934 ﻿Making good use of the word Jitterbug Cab Calloway features in a music video Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party sponsered by Paramount Pictures**
 * The Cotton Club Orchestra begins its first tour of Europe.**
 * 1936 Cab Calloway is featured in the movie The Singing Kid, with Al Jolson by Warner Brothers.**
 * 1937 Award winning tenor sax player Chu Berry joins the Cotton Club Orchestra** ** 1938 ﻿Trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie joins the Cotton Club Orcrestra  **  ** 1940 ﻿The Cotton Club ends. ** ** ﻿1941 ﻿ Cab Calloway makes a radio station of his own called Quizzcale.**
 * 1953 Cab moves to London followed by a short stay in Paris**