Bandleader, songwriter ("Minnie the Moocher", "Are You Hep to That Jive?"), composer, singer, actor and author, educated at Crane College. While studying law, he sang with the band The Alabamians, and took over the group in 1928. He led The Missourians orchestra, then organized and led his own orchestra...See full bio »
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Beale Street Revue
(performer: "One for My Baby And One More for the Road", "St. James Infirmary Blues")
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Jazz Time
(performer: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love")
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Variety Time
(music: "Minnie the Moocher" / performer: "Minnie the Moocher")
1955Rhythm and Blues Revue
(documentary)
(writer: "Minnie The Moocher" / performer: "Minnie The Moocher")
1947Hi-De-Ho
(performer: "MINNIE'S A HEPCAT NOW", "AT DAWN TIME", "BOP BOP", "HEY, NOW!", "THE HI-DE-HO MAN, THAT'S ME", "ST. JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES", "I GOT A GAL NAMED NETTIE", "DON'T FALTER AT THE ALTAR")
1937Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
(writer: "Minnie the Moocher" - uncredited / performer: "Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm" - uncredited)
1937Hi De Ho
(short)
(performer: "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" 1932 - uncredited, "Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man" 1936 - uncredited, "Frisco Flo" 1936 - uncredited, "Some of These Days" - uncredited)
1936The Singing Kid
(music: "You Gotta Have That Hi-Di-Ho in Your Soul" - uncredited / lyrics: "You Gotta Have That Hi-Di-Ho in Your Soul" - uncredited / performer: "I Love to Sing-a", "The Swingin'est Man in Town", "Save Me, Sister", "You Gotta Have That Hi-Di-Ho in Your Soul" - uncredited / "I Love to Sing-a", "You're the Cure for What Ails Me")
(1952) Stage: Appeared (as "Sportin' Life") in world tour of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess", a role he also eventually sang and acted on Broadway. When the soundtrack recording for the 1959 film version (
Porgy and Bess)was made, Sammy Davis Jr.'s performances were...
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Publicity Listings:
2 Biographical Movies
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1 Print Biography
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1 Article
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The only difference between a black entertainer and a white entertainer is that my ass has been kicked a lot more and a lot harder because it's black.
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