Song

Minnie the Moocher: THE CHEROKEES

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Australian singles charts:
Minnie the Moocher entered the Kent charts on 22 April 1967 and peaked at #14. The song was #77 on the Top 100 of 1967.

Songwriters:
Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Clarence Gaskill

Record label of Australian release:
Go!!

From the YouTube channel: ‘Cherokees – Topic’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.
From the YouTube channel: ‘The Substitutes Melbourne’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

Bonus tracks below – Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway – 1930 original and clip from The Blues Brothers

Wikipedia:
Minnie the Moocher is a jazz-scat song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling more than a million copies.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_the_Moocher

History of Australian Music 1960 until 2000:
The Cherokees were formed in 1961 by Johnny Chester to back Melbourne vocalists at local dances. The name was not derived from the Cherokee Indian Tribe but from an ice-cream that was popular at the time.
By 1965 they had adopted a new sound and image and signed to the Go!! label.
Read more: historyofaussiemusic.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-cherokees.html

Lyrics

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BONUS CLIPS

Cab Calloway’s original version of Minnie the Moocher in 1931:

From the YouTube channel: ‘Cab Calloway’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

Cab Calloway performing Minnie The Moocher in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers:

From the YouTube channel: ‘Juanjo de Goya’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

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