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'''"Minnie the Moocher"''' è una canzone [[jazz]] registrata da [[Cab Calloway]] and His Orchestra. "Minnie the Moocher" è famosa per il suo testo improvvisato e senza apparente senso (ad esempio, "Heidi heidi heidi hi"). Durante le esibizione, a Calloway piace avere la partecipazione del pubblico al quale chiede di ripetere ogni frase in una forma di "chiamata e risposta" tipica di questo genere musicale, a volte le frasi di Calloway sono così lunghe e complesse che il pubblico scoppia in fragorose risa per la difficoltà che riscontra nella ripetizione esatta del testo.
[[Image:Cab-calloway-orchestra-minn.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, from the opening credits of [[Max Fleischer]]'s ''Minnie the Moocher'', which included a recording of the titular Calloway song.]]
'''"Minnie the Moocher"''' is a [[jazz]] song recorded by [[Cab Calloway]] and His Orchestra. "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("[[scat singing|scat]]") lyrics (for example, "Heidi heidi heidi hi"). In performances, Calloway would have the audience participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of [[Call and response (music)|call and response]], eventually Calloway's phrases would become so long and complex that the audience would laugh at their own failed attempts to repeat them.
== BasisBasi ==
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== ExtendedVersione versionestesa ==
Calloway scrisse anche una versione estesa della canzone, aggiungendo versi che descrivono Minnie e Smoky che vengono arrestati; Minnie paga la [[cauzione]] di Smokey, va viene da lui abbandonata in prigione.
Calloway also wrote an extended version, adding verses which describe Minnie and Smoky going to jail; Minnie pays Smokey's bail, but he abandons her there. Another verse describes her tempting "Deacon Lowdown" when she "wiggled her jelly roll" at him.
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== Recording history ==
Calloway first recorded the song in 1930, around that time also recording a very similar song entitled "Kickin' the Gong Around" [http://www.heptune.com/kickinth.html]. ▼
== Storia della registrazione ==
Calloway performed the song in the 1955 movie ''Rhythm and Blues Revue'', filmed at the [[Apollo Theatre]]. Much later, in 1980 Calloway performed the song in the movie ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]''. ▼▲Calloway firstregistrò recordedla thecanzione songper inla prima volta nel 1930, aroundsempre in quel periodo thatscrisse timee alsoregistrò recordinguna acanzone verymolto similarsimile songdal entitledtitolo "Kickin' the Gong Around" [http://www.heptune.com/kickinth.html].
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== Cartoon connections ==
In 1932, Calloway recorded the song for a [[Fleischer Studios]] ''[[Talkartoon]]'' short cartoon, also called ''Minnie the Moocher'', starring [[Betty Boop]] and [[Bimbo (cartoon)|Bimbo]]. Calloway and his band provides most of the short's score, and appear in the short themselves in a live-action introduction. The thirty-second live-action segment is the earliest-known film footage of Calloway.
== Riferimenti a "Minnie" ==
In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her harsh parents, and Bimbo comes with her. While walking away from home, Betty and Bimbo wind up in a spooky area, and hide in a cave. While in the cave, a ghost [[walrus]] appears—(whose dance movements were [[rotoscope]]d from footage of Calloway dancing)—and begins to sing "Minnie the Moocher", with many fellow ghosts following along. After singing the whole number, the ghosts chase Betty and Bimbo all the way back to Betty's home. While Betty is hiding under the covers of her bedsheets, her runaway note is torn up and the remaining letters read "Home Sweet Home."
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==Versioni Cover e riferimenti nella cultura popolare==
== Other references to Minnie ==
Della canzone furono fatte anche moltissime [[cover]] tra le quali ricordiamo quella del 1967 della band [[australia|australiana]] "The Cherokees".
▲Minnie herself is mentioned in a number of other Cab Calloway songs, including ''Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day'', ''Ghost of Smoky Joe'', ''Kickin' the Gong Around'', ''Minnie's a Hepcat Now'', ''Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie'', ''We Go Well Together'', and ''Zah Zuh Zaz''. Some of these songs indicate that Minnie's boyfriend Smoky was named Smoky Joe as well.
"Minnie the Moocher" wasè alsostata performedcantata anche in anotheraltri film from 1980 besidesdopo [[''The Blues Brothers'' ]], [[Richardcome Elfman]]'sin ''[[Forbidden Zone]]'' di [[Richard Elfman]], nel withquale in singercantante [[Danny Elfman]] modifyingha themodificato lyricsil totesto goper withadattarlo thealla film'strama plotdel film. ▼==Cover versions and references in popular culture==
The song was covered successfully in 1967 by Australian band "The Cherokees". It was sung in a style briefly popular at the time similar to "Winchester Cathedral" by "The New Vaudeville Band"
▲"Minnie the Moocher" was also performed in another film from 1980 besides ''The Blues Brothers'', [[Richard Elfman]]'s ''[[Forbidden Zone]]'', with singer [[Danny Elfman]] modifying the lyrics to go with the film's plot.
In ''[[A Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]]'' ([[1935 in film|1935]]), [[Groucho Marx]] as Otis Driftwood says, "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of "Minnie the Moocher" for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
Chris Berman of [[ESPN]] also referenced the song many times in the late 1990s and early 2000s by singing "Heidi Heidi Hi" whenever wide receiver [[Chris Calloway]] (no relation to Cab Calloway) of the [[National Football League|NFL]]'s [[New York Giants]] caught a pass for a touchdown.
It came up again in 20th century pop culture by being sampled by rappers [[Tupac Shakur]] and [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]]. [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] [[hip hop music|hip hop]] artist [[Tego Calderon]] used a slower version of the song's melody as the backbeat of his first single, ''Abayarde''. The song appeared in an episode of [[Jeeves and Wooster]], performed by [[Hugh Laurie]] and [[Stephen Fry]], in which Fry's character Jeeves 'plays merry hell with the rhythm' by appending 'Sir' to the end of each line - it was later released on the [[soundtrack]] [[album]]. It has been covered by many artists.
==External links==
*The Max Fleischer ''[http://www.archive.org/details/bb_minnie_the_moocher Minnie the Moocher]'' cartoon, at the [[Internet Archive]].
*{{imdb title|id=0023227|title=Minnie the Moocher (1932)}}
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzdi1SXntg 1955 performance in ''Rhythm and Blues Revue'']
In ''[[Una notte all'opera]]'' del [[1935]], [[Groucho Marx]] che interpretava Otis Driftwood dice, "Tu lo pagerai un centinaio di dollari a notte solo per cantare? Perchè? Tu puoi avere un disco di "Minnie the Moocher" per 75 centesimi! E per un dollaro e un quarto puoi avere anche la stessa Minnie..."
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