Cab Calloway

moonwalk or back slide invented by the great englishman charlie chaplin in the year 1916 from the movie pawnshop

Cab Calloway is totally someone I would party with.

Elvis also first dances on his toes

Impressive but not the first true BACKWARDS moonwalk. ELVIS heartbreak hotel. Sorry 😟 then Jeffrey Daniel Shalamar. Michael stole the credit at the Motown debacle.

Cab invented the Moonwalk Before they called it the Moonwalk!!!

James Wallington you silly goose you!🤪

Smokey Joe🤭😏..."All the cokies"🤣

"With a hidey hi, and hidey ho!!!" With that proper, distinguished voice is hilarious!!!🤣🤣 I love the song, the live band,and of course the dancing...Reminds me of Joaquin Phoenix dancing in the joker.

Why is Cab Calloway so perfect?

Love this video. I've watched it several times

I love Cab's music!!!

Who came here after knowing this man already did moonwalk before Michael Jackson

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gee minnie the moocher sure was around town for kicking the gong

I Notice very Simler Foot work to James Brown and the Later Micheal Jackson. Its Dank. **

Just a sweet song about a coke addict looking for his junkie girlfriend at an opium den, while she's hiding from him in the back getting loaded.......times were so much more simple and wholesome then 😉

FUCK! How fucking cool is Cab??? 😎 Damn I could get hypnotized by those hips swivelling like that! 😮

The real fucking moonwalk everybody !!

Remember when you could just do coke?

I thought america was more racist back then ...

Never get tired of watching this.

Lol cmon people have some common sense he DIDNT do an actual bump he was just doing a little reference "she gets her pleasure (sniffs), kickin the gong around"...pretends to crush one up then scats lol its hilarious...Cab Calloway was amazing

Cab was just plain fun.  He always seemed happy, and was infectious. Watching him today makes me happy and it's now 80+ years since this performance. 

Cab said the "moonwalk" was called "the buzz" back then so I would assume Cab didn't originate it, rather it was already part of the dance culture.  Dance was big in the early 1900s, and dance contests (awarding cash money) were common place. I suspect In order to win that prize money you would have to be creative, but also know what moves your competition would be doing so you could do it better.  Cab toured the clubs and I'm sure he picked up a lot of moves from that experience. 

yeah supposedly kicking the gong around means smoking opium lol cab is awesome by the way :)

What an entertainer.... YEOWZAH!

scat cat dat

なんとも形容し難い怪しさがありますね

Snorts cocaine at 1:58

Makes me want to learn to yodel

Michael got alot of his moves from James Brown and Jackie Wilson, especially the latter.

It's not a matter of who did it first, it's who perfected it. Michael was the first to incorperate pretty much most of the Harlem renaissance artist. And who knows, cab could've gotten it from some other performer he know

Me to.

yeah, if you can't see the roots of hip-hop here (breaking and rapping) then you're blind. fing awesome.

Mannnn! Would have loved to see this live :)

yeah like the moonwalk but Michael was more of a perfectionist

like the moonwalk ?

it's a killer diller none is hotter as him was!!! just a KING

"She gets her pleasure" (cocaine)

evidence of time traveling? sorry...

better than Michael Jackson my ASS lol.

cab was the first MC ever. REEFER MAN kicked off the hip hop genre

@ObiJoe808 And some people seem to have trouble differentiating between personal taste, and actual skill. You may personally be partial to Cab for whatever reason, but neither on a technical level, or on a stylistic level can it rightfully be said that he's any better than MJ, James Brown, Fred Astaire, or any number of other top dancers of the past century. And as far as Elvis? He may be entertaining but no one considers him to be a serious dancer as compared to the other dancers mentioned

@ObiJoe808 That's actually quite an immature claim to make. It's undoubtedly a biased and emotionally driven claim, as opposed to being logical. No objective person would even "consider" making such a claim. Cab is undeniably an excellend dancer, but when comparing dancing greats, with different personal styles I might add, it's absolutely impossible to definitively say which one is actually the best. Too much of it comes down to personal taste, and ... Continued in next response.

@JazzyBlues420 , Cab got it from the thousands of talented Black people who entertained all of America in the 1870's to early 1900's. who were forced to perform in black face. it was called the minstrel.most popular form of entertainment in this country from the 1840's. thank God for Mary Pleasants, Rosa Parks, Malcom & all those who struggled for human rights which were denied most black people until 1960's.

2:00 ...that's how i feel after doing coke too.

HES SO FUCKING AWESOME, IT HAS TO BE SAID. Who cares about the fucking moonwalk, or mj for that matter, this is Cab Calloway. He's a bad ass, enough said. Also I've listed to this six times a day for the last three weeks at least