Hey, click the icon to check the status of your Watch official video, print or download text in PDF. This form of scatting became Calloway's trademark, and he wrote many more songs in a similar vein, including "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man," and "You Gotta Hi-De-Ho." Good Poor Min" Poo-oor Min" at the end, which may be an indication that Minnie's a goner.
""Minnie the Moocher" has very strong musical and lyric similarities with a contemporary song called "Willie the Weeper," written in 1927 by the singer and Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon. Before you get started, be sure to check out these explanations created link:
The phrase "Hi-De-Ho" also appears in Calloway's song " Minnie the Moocher" "Hi-De-Ho", sometimes alternately or concurrently called "That Old Sweet Roll", a song written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin and recorded in 1970 by Blood, Sweat & Tears
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Good The rest of the song describes her opium-induced wish-fulfillment fantasy in which the king of Sweden gives her many gifts, including "a diamond car, with the puh-latinum wheels." Roger reveals the songwriting formula Clive Davis told him, and if "Eight Miles High" is really about drugs.When she released her first album in 1988, Tanita became a UK singing sensation at age 19. Beloved by audiences, "Minnie the Moocher" earned Calloway the nickname "The Hi De Hi De Hi Man" based on his unique form of scatting in the song.The song tells the sad story of a "red hot hoochie coocher" girl called Minnie.
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