Drug Songs/Cab Calloway compilation reel
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Webster, Ben
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
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content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
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content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.109-110
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000034264]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. Drug Songs (a compilation reel created by Ernie Smith); black and white, 478 feet

Performer(s): Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and an unidentified female vocalist

Song Title(s): "Underneath a Harlem Moon", vocals by Waters, (see 491.69-1, 491.58); "Reefer Man", vocals by Calloway, (see 491.110); "Kickin' the Gong Around", vocals by Calloway; "Sweet Marijuana", unidentified female vocalist

2. Cab Calloway (a compilation reel created by Ernie Smith); black and white, 505 feet

- A UM & M Pictorial, March 1933, featuring three numbers: a. "Stardust" & "Echoes of the Jungle", performed by Baron Lee and His Blue Rhythm Band b. "Sophisticated Lady" excerpt, "Creole Rhapsody" excerpt, performed by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Personnel: Hardwick, Hodges, Bigard, Carney (reeds), Whetsol, Williams, Jenkins (trumpet), Nanton, Tizol, Brown (trombones), Ellington, Guy, Braud, Greer (rhythm) c. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra perform an unidentified number.

- "Reefer Man", vocals by Calloway, (see 491.109-2)

- "Harlem", Pathe Newsreel, (36-2) (silent; includes scenes from Harlem and from The Cotton Club featuring Duke Ellington and the floor show (see 491.12)

Copyright: 1930

Corporate Creator: Pathe

Director: Tom Hogan and Beverly Jones

Performer(s): Duke Ellington

Video reference copies available.