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Cabell Calloway III (25.12.1907 - 18.11.1994)
Years Active: 1927 - 1993
Vocal Range: B1 - C♯6
Significant High Notes:
C♯6 ("Chinese Rhythm")
B5 ("The Lady With the Fan", "Minnie the Moocher" 1933 version)
A5 ("Miss Otis Regrets", "Nagasaki", "Zaz-Zuh-Zaz")
G♯5 ("Foo a Little Bally-Hoo", "Ol' Joe Louis")
G5 ("Blues In The Night" live Berlin 1987, "It Ain't Necessarily So" live Sweden 1965, "Minnie the Moocher" live Ohio 1988, "St. James Infirmary Blues" live Sweden 1965, "St. Louis Blues", "We're Breakin' Up a Lovely Affair")
F♯5 ("Are You All Reet?", "Peckin'")
F5 ("Blues in the Night", "Cabin in the Cotton" 1933 version, "Stack O'Lee Blues", "That Man Is Here Again")
E5 ("The Man From Harlem")
E♭5 ("Blue Prelude", "Geechie Joe")
D5 ("Chigger Chigger Wa Wa", "Such a Night", "The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing")
C♯5 ("Natty (I Got a Girl Named)")
C5 ("Ain't No Gal in This Town", "Black Rhythm", "Bugle Call Rag", "Cabin in the Cotton", "Doin' the New Low Down", "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?", "Kickin' the Gong Around", "Six or Seven Times", "Strictly Cullud Affair", "Who's Yehoodi?")
B4 ("Down-Hearted Blues", "Minnie the Moocher" Music video version, "Nain, Nain", "The Scat Song" live 1931, "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Without Rhythm", "You Dog")
B♭4 ("Ain't No Gal in This Town", "April In My Heart", "Blues in the Night", "Bugle Blues", "Bugle Call Rag", "Cry Me a River", "Doin' The Rumba", "Farewell Blues", "Harlem Hospitality", "Hi-De-Ho Serenade", "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz", "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?", "I Get the Blues When It Rains", "I Love to Sing-A", "I'll Follow You", "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", "Is That Religion?", "Lost Weekend", "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Peck-A-Doodle-Do", "Roomin' House Boogie", "Save Me, Sister", "Six or Seven Times", "Some of These Days", "St. James Infirmary", "St. Louis Blues", "Stardust", "Strange as It Seems", "Sweet Jenny Lee", "Trickeration", "Wah-Dee-Dah", "We're Breakin' Up a Lovely Affair", "You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You", "You Dog", "You Rascal You")
A4 ("Abi Gezunt", "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "Basin Street Blues", "Beale Street Mama", "A Bee Gezindt", "Cabin in the Cotton", "Chigger Chigger Wa Wa", "The Conga-Conga", "Dixie Vagabond", "Do I Care? No, No", "Doin' the New Low Down", "Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin'", "FDR Jones", "Foolin' With You", "Frisco Flo", "Git Along", "Good Sauce From the Gravy Bowl", "Frosty Morning", "Harlem Camp Meeting", "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive", "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "I Get the Blues When It Rains", "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues", "I Love to Sing-A", "I'll Follow You", "I'm Madly in Love With You", "I'm Now Prepared to Tell the World It's You", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "It Looks Like Susie", "Jess's Natu'lly Lazy", "Jubilee" alternate version, "Just Wait", "Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul", "Kickin' the Gong Around", "The Levee Low-Down", "Love Is The Reason" alternate version, "The Man From Harlem", "Margie", "Minnie the Moocher", "Miss Otis Regrets", "Nain, Nain", "Nobody's Sweetheart Now", "Pero Que Jelengue", "Shotgun Boogie", "So Sweet", "Some of These Days", "This Time, It's Love", "Utt-Da-Zay (That's The Way)", "The Viper's Drag", "When You're Smiling", "Without Rhythm", "Yes, Natch'ully Lazy", "You're The Cure for What Ails Me", "Zaz-Zuh-Zaz")
G♯4 ("Ain't That Something", "Are You Hep to the Jive? (Yas, Yas)", "Are You in Love With Me Again?", "Beginnin' of Sinnin'", "Blue Prelude", "Blues in the Night", "Boog It", "Dancing Man", "Down-Hearted Blues", "Eadie Was a Lady", "Father's Got His Glasses On", "Geechie Joe", "The Ghost of Smokey Joe", "Git Along", "Hey Now, Hey Now", "The Honeydripper", "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz", "How Big Can You Get?", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "I Like Music (Played with a Swing Like This)", "I've Got the World on a String", "Jilted", "Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul", "The Keeper of the Blues", "The Lady With the Fan", "Learnin' the Blues", "Long About Midnight", "Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm", "Natty (I Got a Girl Named)", "Ol' Joe Louis", "Old Man River" live Sweden 1965, "Penguin Swing", "Roomin' House Boogie", "San Francisco Fan", "Save Me, Sister", "The Scat Song" live 1931, "Skrontch", "Sweet Georgia Brown")
G4 ("Ad-De-Dey", "Angeline", "At the Clambake Carnival", "Avalon", "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "The Birth of the Blues", "Blue Prelude", "A Blue Serge Suit", "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me", "The Boogie-Woogie", "Bye Bye Blues", "The Calloway Boogie", "Can't Buy Me Love" live Sweden 1965, "Chigger Chigger Wa Wa", "Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan", "Copper Colored Gal", "Cry Me a River", "Dawn Time", "Dinah", "Do You Wanna Jump, Children?", "Doing the Reactionary", "Eadie Was a Lady", "Emaline", "Evenin'", "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo", "Foolin' With You", "For The Last Time I Cried Over You", "Frisco Flo", "Frosty Morning", "Go South, Young Man", "Goin' Conga", "Good Sauce From the Gravy Bowl", "Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)", "Happy Feet", "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive", "Here I Go Just Dreamin' Again", "Hi De Ho Romeo", "Hucklebuck", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped", "I Like Music (Played with a Swing Like This)", "It Looks Like Susie", "Jitter Bug", "Jubilee", "Just Wait", "The Lady With the Fan", "Let's Go Joe", "Little Town Gal", "Lost Weekend", "Love is the Reason", "The Man From Harlem", "Minnie the Moocher", "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Miss Hallelujah Brown", "Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie", "The Music Goes Round and Round", "My Gal Mezzanine", "Nagasaki", "Oh! Grampa", "Peck-A-Doodle-Do", "Rhapsody In Rhumba", "Scat Song", "She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific", "Shotgun Boogie", "So Sweet", "Somebody Stole My Gal", "St. James Infirmary", "St. Louis Blues", "Sweet Jenny Lee", "Sweeter Than Sweet", "Sweetest Sounds" live Sweden 1965, "Tarzan of Harlem", "That Man Is Here Again", "Trickeration", "Twee-Twee-Tweet", "Tzotskele (My Darling)", "Wah-Dee-Dah", "We The Cats", "We're Breakin' Up a Lovely Affair", "Your Voice")
F♯4 ("All at Once", "Are You All Reet?", "Beale Street Mama", "Dixie Doorway", "Hoy Hoy", "If I Were a Rich Man", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Jive (Page one of Hepster's Dictionary)", "My Honey's Lovin' Arms", "Natty (I Got a Girl Named)", "The Nightmare", "Ol' Joe Louis", "Old Yazoo", "Penguin Swing", "Pero Que Jelengue", "Que Pasa Chica?", "Strange as It Seems", "Swanee Lullaby", "That's What I Hate About Love", "Yaller", "You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along With Me)")
F4 ("Abi Gezunt", "April In My Heart", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Bye Bye Blues", "Cabin in the Cotton", "The Calloway Boogie", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird", "Come On with the "Come On"", "Conchita", "The Conga-Conga", "Dinah", "Dixie Vagabond", "Do I Care? No, No", "Emaline", "Error in the News", "Every Day's a Holiday", "FDR Jones", "Fifteen Minute Intermission", "Foolin' With You", "Gambler's Guitar", "Go South, Young Man", "Goin' Conga", "Harlem Camp Meeting", "Harlem Holiday", "Harlem Hospitality", "Hi De Ho Romeo", "The Honeydripper", "How Big Can You Get?", "Hoy-Hoy", "I'm Now Prepared to Tell the World It's You", "I've Got the World on a String", "Jilted", "(Just An) Error in the News", "The Keeper of the Blues", "Learnin' the Blues", "Let's Take the Long Way Home", "Long About Midnight", "Miss Hallelujah Brown", "Moonlight Rhapsody", "The Music Goes Round and Round", "My Sunday Gal", "One For My Baby", "Peck-A-Doodle-Do", "Reefer Man", "Remember When", "Run Little Rabbit", "Scat Song", "Skrontch", "Somebody Stole My Gal", "Stardust", "Strictly Cullud Affair", "Such a Night", "That Old Black Magic", "Two Blocks Down, Turn To The Left", "Vuela", "Wake Up and Live", "We The Cats", "The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing", "What's Buzzin Cousin", "Who's Yehoodi?", "You Rascal You", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Love You", "Zaz-Zuh-Zaz")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("Ad-De-Dey", "Avalon", "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "A Blue Serge Suit", "Boo-Wah Boo-Wah", "Cabin in the Cotton" 1933 version, "Chili Con Conga", "Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan", "Eadie Was a Lady", "Emaline", "Evenin'", "Feelin' Tip Top", "Harlem Camp Meeting", "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive", "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "Hi De Ho Romeo", "Hoy-Hoy", "I Like Music (Played with a Swing Like This)", "I'll Be Worthy of You", "In an Old English Village", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "It Looks Like Susie", "Just Wait", "La Mucura", "Learnin' the Blues", "Lordy", "Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm", "The Moment I Laid Eyes On You", "Nagasaki", "A New Moon And an Old Serenade", "The Nightmare", "Old Man of the Mountain", "Peckin'", "Save Me, Sister", "Shotgun Boogie", "Skrontch", "Swanee Lullaby", "Trickeration", "Twee-Twee-Tweet", "Tzotskele (My Darling)", "Utt-Da-Zay (That's The Way)", "The Viper's Drag", "Virginia, Georgia and Caroline", "We The Cats", "You Dog" alternate version, "You Rascal You", "Your Voice", "Zaz-Zuh-Zaz")
C♯3 ("Ain't That Something", "All at Once", "Are You All Reet?", "Are You in Love With Me Again?", "The Conga-Conga", "Father's Got His Glasses On", "Fifteen Minute Intermission", "Git Along", "Gotta Go Places and Do Things", "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz", "I Get The Neck of the Chicken", "I'm Madly in Love With You", "Let's Take the Long Way Home", "Long About Midnight", "My Honey's Lovin' Arms", "Ogeechee River Lullaby", "One Look At You", "Stardust", "Strange as It Seems", "Sweet Rhythm", "What's Buzzin Cousin", "Who Calls", "Yaller")
C3 ("Abi Gezunt", "Beginnin' of Sinnin'", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "A Bee Gezindt", "The Birth of the Blues", "Blue Prelude", "The Boogie-Woogie", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Chinese Rhythm", "Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan", "Come On with the "Come On"", "Cry Me a River", "Dawn Time", "Deep In a Dream", "Do You Wanna Jump, Children?", "Do I Care? No, No", "Doing the Reactionary", "Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin'", "Down-Hearted Blues", "Evenin'", "Every Day's a Holiday", "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House", "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo", "The Ghost of Smokey Joe", "Give, Baby, Give", "Harlem Holiday", "How Big Can You Get?", "I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped", "I Get the Blues When It Rains", "I Learned About Love From Her", "I Love to Sing-A", "I See a Million People", "I Want to Rock", "I'll Follow You", "I'll Get By", "I'm Always in the Mood for You", "It Ain't Necessarily So", "I've Got the World on a String", "Jess's Natu'lly Lazy", "Jilted", "Jitter Bug", "Jive Formation, Please", "Jonah Joins the Cab", "Jubilee", "Keep That Hi-De-Hi in Your Soul", "The Keeper of the Blues", "Kickin' the Gong Around" 1933 version, "The Lady With the Fan", "Let's Go Joe", "Make Yourself at Home", "Miss Otis Regrets", "Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie", "Moon At Sea", "Moonlight Rhapsody", "My Gal", "Necessity", "One Big Union for Two", "Remember When", "Rhapsody In Rhumba", "Run Little Rabbit", "She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific", "Six or Seven Times", "Somebody Stole My Gal", "Such a Night", "Summertime", "Tain't No Good", "Tarzan of Harlem", "That Man Is Here Again", "There's a Sunny Side to Everything", "Topsy Turvy (Hard Times)", "Twee-Twee-Tweet", "Two Blocks Down, Turn To The Left", "Wah-Dee-Dah", "Wake Up and Live", "We Go Well Together", "The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing", "Your Voice", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Love You", "You're The Cure for What Ails Me")
B2 ("April In My Heart", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Chili Con Conga", "Deep In a Dream", "Everybody Dance", "Frosty Morning", "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "I Will Wait For You", "If This Isn't Love", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Jive (Page one of Hepster's Dictionary)", "Learnin' the Blues", "Minnie the Moocher", "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Nain, Nain", "Save Me, Sister", "St. James Infirmary", "Such a Night", "This Is Always")
B♭2 ("Afternoon Moon", "Blues in the Night", "Bugle Blues", "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird", "Cry Me a River", "Dawn Time", "Don't Falter At the Alter", "Father's Got His Glasses On", "Fifteen Minute Intermission", "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo", "For The Last Time I Cried Over You", "Geechie Joe", "Give Me Twenty Nickels for a Dollar", "Hep Cat's Love Song", "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive", "Hi-De-Ho Serenade", "Hucklebuck", "I Get The Neck of the Chicken", "I Want to Rock", "If I Were a Rich Man", "I'll Be Around", "I'll Get By", "I'm Always in the Mood for You", "I'm Now Prepared to Tell the World It's You", "Let's Take the Long Way Home", "Little Town Gal", "Lost Weekend", "Margie", "The Mermaid Song", "Miss Otis Regrets", "The Moment I Laid Eyes On You", "My Gal", "Necessity", "Oh! Grampa", "Pickin' The Cabbage", "Remember When", "Scat Song", "St. James Infirmary", "Sweeter Than Sweet", "Tain't No Good", "That Man Is Here Again", "The Voice", "Who Calls", "You Are The One In My Heart", "You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Love You")
A2 ("Gambler's Guitar", "I Will Wait For You", "I'm Madly in Love With You", "Little Child", "Lordy", "Nagasaki", "Ogeechee River Lullaby", "Says Who, Says You, Says", "Strange as It Seems", "Sweeter Than Sweet", "This Time, It's Love", "Unchained Melody")
G♯2 ("Are You All Reet?", "Blue Prelude", "Harlem Camp Meeting", "Hey Now, Hey Now", "I'll Be Worthy of You", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing)", "Old Man River" live Sweden 1965, "One For My Baby", "That Old Black Magic", "You Are The One In My Heart")
G2 ("Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Beginnin' of Sinnin'", "The Birth of the Blues", "If I Were a Rich Man", "If This Isn't Love", "Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie")
F♯2 ("Boog It", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "St. James Infirmary Blues" live Sweden 1965, "Unchained Melody")
F2 ("Hey Now, Hey Now", "I Get the Blues When It Rains")
E♭2 ("Blues In The Night" live Berlin 1987, "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive" 1965 version, "That Old Black Magic")
C2 ("The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing)")
B1 ("Minnie the Moocher" live Cotton Club 1958, "St. James Infirmary Blues" live Sweden 1965)
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}E♭6 ("Chinese Rhythm" [1])
C6 ("That Old Black Magic" [5])
G5 ("Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan" [5])
F5 ("Who's Yehoodi?" [1])
C♯5 ("You Dog" alternate version [5])
C2 ("Hey Now, Hey Now" [3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
C6 ("That Old Black Magic" [5])
G5 ("Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan" [5])
F5 ("Who's Yehoodi?" [1])
C♯5 ("You Dog" alternate version [5])
C2 ("Hey Now, Hey Now" [3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Album Ranges}This guy predates albums so his discography is fairly uncategorized. I've done every single song listed under Cab Calloway and Cab Calloway & His Orchestra on Spotify
