Hi De Ho (1937)

Cab Calloway: Self

Quotes 

• Fortune Teller : And now we got to do something to remedy the status quo.

  Cab Calloway : What to mean, "the status quo"?

  Fortune Teller : Brother, that's Latin for the mess that you's in.

• Cab's Mother : [First lines]  For the last time, child, I axe you, is you or is you ain't goin' to stop wavin' that stick around?

  Cab Calloway : Oh, Mom, I'm trainin' to be a conductor.

  Cab's Mother : Yeah, if you ever tryin' to get to a conductor - and a job as a Pullman porter.

  Cab Calloway : Huh! Not me. I'm goin' places someday! I may go to Broadway. I might go to Paris. Even to London!

• Cab Calloway : [singing]  Hi de hi de hi de hi!

  Cab Calloway's Orchestra, Themselves : Hi de hi de hi de hi!

  Cab Calloway : Wo-Woooo-Ooo-Ooo!

  Cab Calloway's Orchestra, Themselves : Wo-Woooo-Ooo-Ooo!

  Cab Calloway : Now Brother Jones lived in sin, He just couldn't stop drinking his gin, He heeded my miracle plan. Now he brings his gin to me, And I get drunk instead, you see, I'm the hi-de-ho miracle man!