Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man
1932 jazz song performed by Cab Calloway
"Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man" | |
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Single by Cab Calloway | |
Released | 1932 |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Columbia Records |
Songwriter(s) | Andy Razaf |
Composer(s) | J. Russel Robinson |
"Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man", often known simply as "The Reefer Man",[1] is a 1932 American jazz song composed by J. Russel Robinson,[2] with lyrics by Andy Razaf. It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his orchestra,[3] with versions by others over the years, including by Harlan Lattimore, Murphy's Law and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.[4]
The song as performed by Calloway appears in the 1933 film International House.[5]
See also
- Reefer Songs
References
- ^ Sloman, L.; Burroughs, W.S.; Simmons, M. (1998). Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana. St. Martin's Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4668-1941-2.
- ^ Bloom, Ken (2001), American Song: Songwriters (Vol. 3), Schirmer Books, p. 745, ISBN 978-0-02-865478-2
- ^ "Cab Calloway "Reefer Man" (1932) - The 50 Best Weed Songs". Complex. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man" at SecondHand Songs.
- ^ Shirley Halperin; Steve Bloom (2011), Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide, Abrams, ISBN 978-1-61312-016-3
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Cab Calloway
- "Saint Louis Blues" (1930)
- "Minnie the Moocher" (1931)
- "St. James Infirmary" (1931)
- "Nobody's Sweetheart" (1931)
- "Six or Seven Times" (1931)
- "You Rascal, You" (1931)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1931)
- "Reefer Man" (1932)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (1932)
- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (1933)
- "(Hep Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive" (1939)
- "Bye Bye Blues" (1941)
- "Blues in the Night" (1942)
- "The Honeydripper" (1946)
- "Little Child" (1956)
- "History Repeats Itself" (1966)
- "Minnie the Moocher" (1978)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932)
- Snow-White (1933)
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
- Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
- Alright (1990)
- Eddie Barefield
- Danny Barker
- Mario Bauzá
- Chu Berry
- Jerry Blake
- Andrew Brown
- Doc Cheatham
- Cozy Cole
- Shad Collins
- R.Q. Dickerson
- Panama Francis
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Tyree Glenn
- J. C. Heard
- Milt Hinton
- Quentin Jackson
- Illinois Jacquet
- Hilton Jefferson
- Keg Johnson
- Claude Jones
- Jonah Jones
- Al Morgan
- Rudy Powell
- Ike Quebec
- Reuben Reeves
- Edwin Swayze
- Walter Thomas
- Ben Webster
- Morris White
- Lammar Wright Sr.
- The Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Blanche Calloway
- Camay Calloway Murphy
- Sunset Cafe
- The Missourians
- Cotton Club
- Hepcat
- Jive talk
- Zoot suit
- Jitterbug
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
- "Hi-De-Ho"
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