Other References To Minnie
Minnie herself is mentioned in a number of other Cab Calloway songs, including "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day", "Ghost of Smoky Joe", "Kickin' the Gong Around", "Minnie's a Hepcat Now", "Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie", "We Go Well Together", and "Zah Zuh Zaz". Some of these songs indicate, that Minnie's boyfriend Smoky was named Smoky Joe as well.
A number of Cab Calloway albums are called Minnie the Moocher.
In the 1935 Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera, Groucho Marx famously quipped, "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
Jeffrey Lewis referenced "Minnie the Moocher" in his song "Mini-Theme: Moocher from the Future" from his 2009 album 'Em Are I.
In 1931, the same year that Cab recorded the first version of Minnie, his sister Blanche (who performed as Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys) recorded "Growlin' Dan", in which Minnie makes a guest appearance — as does a primal version of Cab's hi-de-ho.
The song is also performed by English actor Hugh Laurie in the pilot episode of "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990), which has his character (Wooster) singing/playing the song on the piano while Jeeves watches.
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