PiSk - Minnie The Moocher (ft Cab Calloway) Electro Swing Cover - (Audio)

Italian producer PiSk delivers the twelfth single in Freshly Squeezed’s acclaimed BLUE COVER Electro Swing series. Also known as a founding member of SWINGROWERS, PiSk has produced a summer-hit with his version up the evergreen classic ’Minnie the Moocher’ - an anthemic reinterpretation of this classic drug song and hep cat slang primer.... DOWNLOAD : BANDCAMP DOWNLOAD : CHANNEL SUBSCRIBE: ’Minnie the Moocher’ was first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies. It is most famous for its ad libbed (“scat“) lyrics (for example, “Hi De Hi De Hi De Hi“). In performances, Calloway would have the audience participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of 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. “Minnie
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