Are You Hep to the Jive? The Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary
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Each generation has their own slang and lingo, a language that defines them. Each generation also has a purveyor of cool who creates a language that only the initiated understand. During the 1950s and 60s, Frank Sinatra created a personal lingo that influenced a generation of swanky and swaggering men.
But before Sinatra, there was Cab Calloway.
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