How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway

How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway
Studio album by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Released	April 21, 2009
Genre	Swing revival
Length	44:36
Label	Vanguard
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy chronology
Everything You Want for Christmas (2004) How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway (2009) Rattle Them Bones (2012)

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How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway is the sixth studio album released by the American musical group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The album features songs written or performed by bandleader Cab Calloway during his heyday of the 1930s to 1950s.

Track listing

1. "Come On with the "Come On"" (Cab Calloway, Andy Gibson) – 3:22
2. "Calloway Boogie" (Calloway, Allen Leroy Gibson) – 4:02
3. "The Call of the Jitterbug" (Calloway, Irving Mills, Ed Swayze) – 3:29
4. "Hey Now, Hey Now" (Calloway, Elton Hill) – 4:34
5. "The Jumpin' Jive" (Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer) – 4:01
6. "How Big Can You Get?" (Calloway, Buck Ram) – 4:05
7. "The Old Man of the Mountain" (George Brown, Victor Young) – 4:15
8. "The Ghost of Smokey Joe" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 5:28
9. "Reefer Man" (J. Russel Robinson, Andy Razaf) – 2:54
10. "Minnie the Moocher" (Calloway, Mills) – 4:59
11. "Tarzan of Harlem" (Lupin Fein, Mills, Henry Nemo, Ram) – 3:24

Personnel

• Scotty Morris – vocals, guitar, producer, mixer
• Joshua Levy – piano, arranger, producer
• Kurt Sodergen – drums
• Dirk Shumaker – acoustic bass guitar, vocals
• Glen "The Kid" Marhevka – trumpet
• Karl Hunter – alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Andy Rowley – baritone saxophone, vocals

Additional musicians

• Alex "Crazy Legs" Henderson
• Anthony Bonsera Jr.
• Ira Nepus
• Tom Peterson
• Lee Thornburg
• Bernie Dresel
• Nick Lane
• Robbie Hioki
• Brian Swartz
• Scheila Gonzalez
• Lee Callet
• Jim Fox