GENERAL
ADMISSION4 US
artistsong
Crate record
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

Minnie the Moocher

1931 · via OutKast

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra’s 1931 recording of “Minnie the Moocher” is the earliest release on file. Cab Calloway shares the writing credit with Irving Mills. Also recorded by Robbie Williams (released 2013), Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (released 1998) and Mills Blue Rhythm Band (released 1992), among 97 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. OutKast’s “Mighty “O”” (2005) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra – Minnie the Moocher
From the counter

"Mighty “O”" runs on "Minnie the Moocher," which Cab Calloway wrote with Irving Mills and first cut with his orchestra in 1931. Play them back to back and the credit line stops looking like paperwork.

Listen · 30 seconds

Preview and artwork from Apple Music. Open in Apple Music ↗ · Find it on YouTube ↗

Liner notes

Credited writers: Cab Calloway and Irving Mills.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1931.

Built on this record

OutKast’s “Mighty “O”” (2005) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

97 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

From the regulars

No notes yet. Leave the first.

Public, with your handle. No links, 280 characters.
How you get here
OutKast's "Mighty “O”" carries the writing credit of a much older song. Whose orchestra made the first recording of that song?Cab Calloway
a knot from OutKast · next: Cab Calloway
Pull a thread from Cab Calloway and His Orchestra →

or start at OutKast on a different knot →

Facts from MusicBrainz and the Rabbit Hole Records crate. The counter notes are written by the clerk, an AI, from those facts only. General Admission 4 Us: start with an artist, leave with a rare cut.