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Cab Howlaway and his Absorbent Cotton Club Orchestra
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Jump to navigationJump to searchJoke on real bandleader Cab Calloway from the animated Warner Bros. short "Porky at the Crocadero" (1938). Calloway led the house band for The Cotton Club, Harlem's pre-eminent jazz club at the time.
Porky wants to be a bandleader at the swanky Crocadero, a parody of real Los Angeles hot spot Cafe Trocadero. He's lucky to get a job washing dishes there. But when all the famous guest bandleaders can't make it, the manager gets Porky to impersonate them.
