I like Betty Boop cartoons today more than I did as a kid. My favorite is “Minnie the Moocher” (1931) which features Cab Calloway & the Cotton Club Orchestra.
I didn’t know that. Good for you, but Cab Calloway was not one of the best known acts in the segregated South at that time. Some punk kid name “Elvis” was the “cool” thing back then.
I was transitioning from the Wiliam Tell Overature (Lone Ranger intro) to Roll Over Beethovan (Chuck Berry) at this time. It was only later that I came to like and appreciate Cab Calloway.
BTW, the only cartoons shown were between double header horror movies at the local drive-in. Sometimes I watched the cartoon if the car windows were not fogged up.
Cab sang “Minnie the Moocher” in the first Blues Brothers movie...