COTTON CLUB PARADE (3rd Ed.)

Composer: J. Fred Coots
Lyricist: Benny Davis

Opened: Fall 1937, Cotton Club, N.Y.C.
Performances: Unknown

Note: This was the 29th edition of the Cotton Club Revue, but the third edition at the mid-town Cotton Club location.

Alabama Barbeque (originally featured in COTTON CLUB PARADE (1936) (27th Edition) and also used in the London COTTON CLUB REVUE (1937)):

1. 78/Bluebird B-6560 (Tempo King and His Kings Of Tempo)
2. 78/Banner 6-12-05 (Midge Williams with Jerry Freeman and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Complete Midge Williams, Vol. 1, CD/Swing Time 2005]
3. Swing High Swing Low, CD/Remember 75006 (The Ink Spots)
Radio transcriptions performed by an unidentified orchestra are known to exist.

Go South, Young Man:

1. 78/Variety VA 644 (Cab Calloway, voice, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Vocalion v 3788; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1937-1938, CD/Classics 568]

Hi-De-Ho Romeo (subsequently used in the COTTON CLUB REVUE (1938) (4th Edition):

1. 78/Vocalion 3789 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Okeh 3789; 78/Variety VA 651; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1937-1938, CD/Classics 568]

I'm Always In The Mood For You:

1. 78/Vocalion 3789 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Variety VA 643; 78/Variety VA 651; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1937-1938, CD/Classics 568]
2. 78/Victor 25671 (Fats Waller, piano and voice, with Fats Waller and His Rhythm) [reissued on The Middle Years, Part 1 (1936-1938), CD/Bluebird/RCA 66083-2]
3. 78/Bluebird B 7180 (Bob Goday with Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra)
4. The Genius Of Billy Mayerl, CD/Shellwood 20 (Eric Parkin, piano) (unverified)

Savage Rhythm:

1. 78/Vocalion 3796 (Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Variety VA 662; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1937-1938, CD/Classics 568]

She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific (Tall, Tan And Terrific):

1. 78/Vocalion 3789 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Variety VA 643; 78/Variety VA 651; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1937-1938, CD/Classics 568]
2. 78/Victor 25671 (Fats Waller, piano and voice, with Fats Waller and His Rhythm) [reissued on The Middle Years, Part 1 (1936-1938), CD/Bluebird/RCA 66083-2]
3. 78/Decca 1489 A (Bob Howard, vocal, with Bob Howard and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Bob Howard and His Orchestra 1937-1947, CD/Classics 1055]
4. 78/Bluebird B 7180 (Bob Goday with Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra)
5. Bing Crosby on Radio in the Thirties (1937-1938), CD/The Radio Years 18 (Bing Crosby)
6. Cotton Club Revue Of 1958, Gone (M) GLP-101 (Cab Calloway with The Tunedrops conducted by Eddie Barefield)
7. That Old Feeling, CD/Soundsrite Music 013 (Harry Roy and His Orchestra)

Unrecorded Material:

The Bill Robinson Walk (added after opening)
Harlem Bolero
I'm A Lady (subsequently used in the COTTON CLUB REVUE (1938) (4th Edition))
Nightfall In Louisiana
Parade Of The Chocolate Dolls
So I'll Never Be A Millionaire
Spades Is Trumps