Rohinton Ghandhi is a a Verdunite who is passionate about the history of Verdun and a member of our society (SHGV) who is a freelance reporter who wrote this article for the Suburban newspaper about the visit of Cab Calloway and his cotton club orchestra at the Auditorium in 1939. This is also news to me as it is the first time I hear about "Cab's" visit to Verdun. How about the price, .75c-$1.00, quite a bargain. Other articles by Rohinton can be seen at:
Guy
7 comments:
That does not surpeise me. Montreal was a place that was a welcome place for those musicians. There was no discrimination like there was in the USA at that time.
Verdun was a happening place ......................here's something from those years:
Checkout the footwork by Cab,........me thinks MJ watched a few of these films himself.......
Amazing how much music we were exposed to just from cartoons........lol
Cab Calloway hept going through all the decades...........here's 1958
...............and of course he also did some of his music with the Blues Brothers......
.Now ain't you happy ,you dug my jive,..now hand me a righteous five
...even on sesame street in his late 80's ,he was still Cool...........................
Ok last one I promise........................hahahaha
The Suburban cut the full story short. The full article can be found at Guy's Montreal Mosiac link. Thanks so much, Guy! Hep! Hep!
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