How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway
Studio album by
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
ReleasedApril 21, 2009
GenreSwing revival
Length44:36
LabelVanguard
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy chronology
Everything You Want for Christmas
(2004)
How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway
(2009)
Rattle Them Bones
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway is the sixth studio album released by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It features covers of songs by Cab Calloway.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Come On with the "Come On"" (Cab Calloway, Andy Gibson) – 3:22
  2. "Calloway Boogie" (Calloway, Allen Leroy Gibson) – 4:02
  3. "The Call of the Jitterbug" (Calloway, Irving Mills, Ed Swayze) – 3:29
  4. "Hey Now, Hey Now" (Calloway, Elton Hill) – 4:34
  5. "The Jumpin' Jive" (Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer) – 4:01
  6. "How Big Can You Get?" (Calloway, Buck Ram) – 4:05
  7. "The Old Man of the Mountain" (George Brown, Victor Young) – 4:15
  8. "The Ghost of Smokey Joe" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 5:28
  9. "Reefer Man" (J. Russel Robinson, Andy Razaf) – 2:54
  10. "Minnie the Moocher" (Calloway, Mills) – 4:59
  11. "Tarzan of Harlem" (Lupin Fein, Mills, Henry Nemo, Ram) – 3:24

Personnel

Additional musicians

  • Alex "Crazy Legs" Henderson
  • Anthony Bonsera Jr.
  • Ira Nepus
  • Tom Peterson
  • Lee Thornburg
  • Bernie Dresel
  • Nick Lane
  • Robbie Hioki
  • Brian Swartz
  • Scheila Gonzalez
  • Lee Callet
  • Jim Fox

References

  1. Nastos, Michael. How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway at AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  2. Portridge, Kenneth (May 29, 2018). "In Defense of the Swing Revival: Why America Flipped for '40s Sounds in 1998". Billboard.


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