Tamyra Monica Gray (born July 26, 1979 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is an actr… Read Full Bio ↴Tamyra Monica Gray (born July 26, 1979 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is an actress and singer, best known for her rise to fame as one of the finalists on the first season of the reality television program American Idol in 2002. She has since expanded into acting, most notably with a recurring role on the third season of the drama Boston Public in 2003.

Minnie The Moocher
Tamyra Gray Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Minnie The Moocher' by these artists:

2Pac I know this girl and her name is Minnie Livin' in…
Adelaide Hall Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Al Bowlly Now here′s a story of Minnie the Moocher She was a…
Ambrose and His Orchestra Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Band From TV This is the story of minnie the moocher She was red…
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Bing & Dixie Lee Crosby Whenever folks in Chinatown start acting gay There's someth…
Blues Brothers Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Blues Brothers - Cab Calloway Here's some news that'll get you It's made to order for…

Blues Brothers and Cab Calloway Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Blues Brothers feat. Cab Calloway Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Bobby Darin Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Brothers Moving Well Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
C&C Productions Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Cab Calloway Here's some news that'll get you It's made to order for…
Cab Calloway Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher; she was a…
Cab Calloway His Orchestra Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
Cab Calloway & Blues Brothers Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Cab Calloway & Cab Calloway and His Orchestra Here's some news that'll get you It's made to order for…
Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra Here's some news that'll get you It's made to order for…
Cab Calloway His Orchestra Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
Cab Calloway Orchestra Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
CC Productions Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Cluster Sisters Whenever folks in Chinatown start acting gay There's somethi…
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Conjure Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Danny Kaye Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Eddie Cochran Here's a story about Minnie the Moocher She was a low…
Gary Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Glenn Miller & The Dorsey Brothers Whenever folks in Chinatown start acting gay There's someth…
Helmut Eisel & Band Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Jeanne Balibar and Cab Calloway Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
John Barry Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
k.d.s & stabfinger Yeah, drop it like it's hot kid Huh, so let's set…
Kaleidoscope Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Pisk Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Positive K Yeah, drop it like it's hot kid Huh, so let's set…
Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Robbie Williams Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
robbie williams & michael bublÃ© Folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
Snow Valaida Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Swagger Jax Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
The Blues Brothers Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
The Boswell Sisters Whenever folks in Chinatown start acting gay There's someth…
The Cherokees Hey folks, here′s the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
The Cotton Club Folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
The European Choir And Orchestra Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
The Speakeasy Three Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a…
U.S. Bonds Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…
Various Artists Hey folks here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was…
Washboard Rhythm Kings Folks here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Tamyra Gray:

17 I was only 17 when he Came around and passed my…
A House Is Not a Home A chair is still a chair, even when there's no…
a house is not a home"|"--"|"--"|"--"|"--"|"--" A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no…
Dance With My Father Verse 1: Back when I was a child Before life removed all…
Dance With My Father Again Back when I was a child Before life removed all the…
Don't Stop Don't want to listen to no radio Don't want to see…
Faces Playground, voices speak again Thoughts of how we were in my…
God Bless the Dreamer So many problems that you felt in your life And it…
Good Ol' Days It's summertime, it's so hot I'm wearing shorts a tank top…
Ha Ha you don't even know me you don't seem 2 care If my…
House Is Not A Home A chair is still a chair, even when there's no…
Legend I gotta say, I must admit never thought there would ever…
Like a Child Who knows? Who knows the things she feels Who sees? Just how…
Now Behold the Lamb Now Behold the Lamb, The precious Lamb of God, Born into sin…
Raindrops Will Fall There's a time 4 every star 2 shine And a place…
Silent Night Silent Night Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is br…
Star The mystery of tryin to make it happen Strugglin just to…
The Only Thing Pretty brown eyed girl She's so sweet and naive She met a…
U've Only Got 1 Here's a story that I want to tell Bout a guy…

Yesterday / Today It's just been one of those days When nothing seems to…

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Comments from YouTube:

@Jenni208

15y↑4

This is awesome! It takes guts to do Cab Calloway's signature song, and she totally pulls it off - and she looks great! I love the outfit!

@tomasjephersin844

7y↑13

She SLAYED!!!! One Of Her Best

@Merrida100

15y↑1

Wow, she's awesome! Great voice and great stage presence. Very nice!

@pghfanjohn5171

2y↑1

I'm rediscovering her! She was one of the best ever on Idol!!

@dylansaunders4211

12y↑3

i think she did awesome considering its American Idol and they rush through EVERYTHING.. she was given this music this tempo and had to make it work.. she did the damn thing :) ♥

@valedictorian2004

15y↑1

I have no idea what everyone else is hearing, but that was one HELL OF A PERFORMANCE. Her vocals with awesome and those scats, superb!!!! Here a fact, she is NOT Cab Calloway, she's Tamyra Gray and she performed the song her way which is simply EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think you all need to get a grip on reality and just appreciate talent when you see it!!!

@jerrywh1

14y↑1

I'm 69 yrs. old and think Cab Colloway is super, but this is the best I've ever heard. The voice is great, but the non-verbal communication is even better, such as her over all body language, and especially the way she uses her eyes. That's showmanship!

@joseespinal9492

11y↑3

Wow After so many years Tamyra Gray still brings me to see her past performances. Love her and her Cd was amazing Americans don't know what real music is anymore. They are tone Death at times lol.

@HollandGreco

17y↑1

that was obviously incredible. this girl is mad gifted.

@HO-os8ry

18w

one my fav songs and she killed it ...she did cab props

@MrTrasherton

11y↑1

Absolutely flawless. Loved it and I love her. Yes tamyra....sing about that moocher

@idiotbunnyproduction

15y

oh god i love this song, and i believe she does it justice and she looks absolutely stunning.

@healthhavencom

16y↑1

one of the best performances ever on idol

@chris1978nl

14y↑1

What an incredible voice. And what a party animal. Holland may have got Talant, but America has an idol.... What a diva , bravooo

@paidmeat

15y

I thought she was terriffic. Hell, I can't sing for nothing but she can. I never watch A.I. In fact never even seen it before but she seems very talented.

@joseespinal912

10y↑9

Amazing im still listing to this in 2013. I love You Tamyra Gray.

@1l2a3s4h5a6

10y↑2

still listening in 2014

@Mehapes7777

Still listening in 2015

@abi_w02

2018 :P lmao

@paulyv777

46w

2023

@Randalina1

15y

they said she was great and that she fit into every genre perfectly

@Notawesomeatall7

16y

Ohh she's talented and this song is very fun, good for her. She picked a classy piece.

@beardown2489

14y

She was the best pure singer/entertainer the show's had. I know Kelly is really good but she's shouldn't have even won which is crazy. Kelly could have been forgotten

@Boytoy26

14y

i was in the audience for this episode.. They were all awesome wiht the big band night.. I think Idol should do it again...

@skkygirl

15y

I love her and Kelly. They are the most fantastic.

@ZeNoodle

15y

Its nice to see they're doing a song more then a year old. Hopefully this got some idol fans interested in Cab Calloway! :D

@twixxal

15y

i think cab is the best, but i also like her interpretation of it!! its young and fresh... its new! it's jazz it's her personalitiy!

@mhmred

Still watching the VERY BEST OF 2002 1st American idol THIS IS A TRUE WINNER 😍😘😘😘😘😘

@mhmred

2017 Still love her🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

@ashcroft8

13y

She's Great !!!

@calientechic08

17y

Tamyra was THE best. She should have stayed on longer than what she did.

@marktarimo-weir7156

16y

Freaking AMAZING!!! xXx

@ThePtownPlaya

15y

good job, great tune. good looking woman too.

@believerster

14y

Her voice is way too clean cut and poppy for this song.

@Ailesh

16y

It was this song that originally got me into Idol :)

@latinahoney123

15y

When I clicked on this I didnt think it would be good because usually when you try to copy originals as good as cabs was it doesnt turn out good, but I gotta give her props she really knocked it out good job!

@hermanglimsher

13y

I would have loved to have heard what the judges said about this song.

@Macedon51

14y

Beautiful !!!

@mhmred

5y↑5

Still watching in 2019 U ROCK AND U WERE ROB 📺🎬🤗🤗🤗🤗😍🥰

@SunnyHappyPiglet

17y

Totally agree! Mr. Calloway OWNS that song.

@johncwifey4sho

14y

omg! she ripped it! she really shld have won!

@2Greenhill

12y

She does a nice job. There was the time restraint issue and the fact that they edit out about a guy named Smokey who was "cokey" and going to China Town and " kicking the gong around" smoking opium. As for the tempo, in later years Cab Calloway took it at a much faster tempo. Blues Brothers director John Landis got him to slow it back down to the strut tempo he used in the 1930s.

@romas1995

14y

its very good ! i like it !!

@Pinkyfreaky987654321

14y

just fantastic ..

@lilgiggler35

11y

she was doing good and had a week where i think she was sick and her performance was off and the fans didnt give her the votes. even simon said he didnt agree with her being kicked off that week but they had to go by the votes and she got the least amount

@snood2311

16y

i loved this

@jax191

15y

cab calloway sang the song tons of different ways i think sheacually did the song a good bit of justice

@Macedon51

14y

Fantastic!

@ianpearce2

16y

THIS IS GREATTTT!!!

@radio8

16y

She's no Cab Calloway but damn she is quite good

@JGAN96

14y

yea cab's voice is a lot better, plus his physical expressions and funky conduction is awesome.

@qg6ff

16y

sigh, just like syesha's performance... both AMAZING

@yigsstarhouse

15y

Im definitly one that always thought she should have gotten further then#4 if not of won the whole thing that year... sigh

@jannordlund7250

12y↑3

This perormance was the one that made me really take notice of her.

@joseespinal9492

11y

Don't get me wrong she is not Kelly Clarkson. But the girl can sing.

@ossus1977

15y

Only beef I have with it is that it lacks the randomousity that a scat singer would have. While it is a familiar version, since the blues brothers made those particular auditories memorable, like most music, scat is alive. And that's what draws you in, because you have to follow the singer. You can't ever assume the next line of scat. But eh.

@skateralexl33t

15y

hard to find a good sounding version.. here it is..

@gannybun

14y

bring her to glee!!!

@realdoomerhours

15y

This was like waiting for death.

@21BiscuitStreet

16y↑1

on eof my favortie performances on american idol everrr

@john9944

13y

Wow, listen to Cab Calloway. The answers to the scat need to be done acapella by the band. Never take on a classic. You can only fail. Bad choice for a woman with a pretty good voice.

@PrincessFiana

16y

this song is amazing, but i guess i'm just old fashioned...i prefer hearing the artists like danny kaye and judy garland perform this.

@Runmaister

15y

She is singing POP man!!!! Nothing same between this and BLues or JAzz!!!!

@JuaneleTamal

15y

gotta accept it's a nice cover, not even closer to the original, but it's good though

@bindiyay

15y

She's good at doing the tongue-twisters, I'll give her that.

@sultan1122

15y

You people are horrible! This girl has done her best singing this song and she has put every ounce of soul in this song she can possibly can! I know that the actual singer sang it MUCH better than her, but no one can sing it better than him so thats not fair! She did all she can with it, not her best performance but its not "horrible". I wouldn't even call Nikki mcgibbin horrible.

@BlakeGreenFilms

16y

thanks a lot you turned a great jazz song into pop shame shame

@21BiscuitStreet

16y

a woman ORIGINALLY sang hound dog actually. elvis covered it

@YoungCab

17y

im gonna have to say that her tone is great.... her diction almost too good.... but when CAB performed this... it wasnt about his tone... it was the PERFORMANCE of the song.... and i feel thats where her performance lost integrity.... and i just have to quote the below...."Wow. That took 100% of the life out of that song. Blandified and homogenized" HAhahaHAhahh

@oldfriendofmine

13y

Love the yoddler who hollers back at 1:08.

@immoralq

14y

She's good, but this song really needs to be sung by a man, someone with a deep voice like Cab had. She hasn't got enough gravel in her voice, if that makes any sense to anyone else but me.

@EtoileLion

15y

A good rendition - she missed one of the "Poor Min"s by overextending the "They done her wrong" line, which kind of stood out when the band played the line and she didn't. She's not a practiced scat-singer, but a nice job nonetheless. Cab would have liked the cut - it at least covers the ending better than the original shortform.

@yourticketstogo

14y

one of my favorites, what ever happened with her ?

@tomkvideo

15y

If she had tried to dance like Cab, maybe she would have won. Puppet girl just shuffles there and does too many runs on her scales. Fail.

@uhohlookwhoshere

16y

lmao I'd think so! I'd be rolling in my grave too

@clashmidi

12y

Blues brothers and Cab did it better.

@isislaz

14y

I'm still a @tamyragray fan

@qg6ff

16y

ain't it funny i also realized that when syesha did hers...it was also number one and same night (top 6)

@maxculley6339

7y↑3

1:11 - 1:18 DAMN SHES GOOD

@KXGAN

not really

@tommymiller66

14y

American Idol's Best Carrie Underwood Tamyra Grey Chris Daughtry Kelly Clarkston in that order after that, they're not worth mentioning!

@Sero00one

16y

she is good but nobody can beat cab calloway^^

@shewolfish

14y

I agree with the last comment...this is really a song for a man to sing...but she does a terrific job!!!

@decolady2

13y

@ex59neo53 if you'd heard all of cab calloway's versions, you would have realized that the some of his original versions were ever faster than this one. i'm assuming you've only heard him do it on the blues brother's movie.

@WestliFerZul

15y

band from tv made a good version

@Neopreacher

14y

@immoralq Makes total sense. This song is written from the perspective of a man reflecting on the woman that walked out of his life. Furthermore, this version is not the one that Cab Calloway performed... seeing that it is short 2 verses, and the closing of the song is not in the Calloway version.

@ThatguyZim

14y

this was good but I like Cab Calloway's better, btw, what did the judges think of this???

@ManuelaOliveiraMusic

17y

first time Hound Dog was recorded it was by a woman. it was originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

@Schrepdaddy

14y

fucking karaoke night in here. i wanna perform there

@cetko13

16y

the actual song is a bit(mean a lot) slower but good interpretation

@barnoldwhv

15y

i thought she did a good job, cab wouldn't be offended

@soocool78

11y

i'd agree but i think alot of it has to do with the show and time constraints, not the singer's choice

@MrMariodave

14y

she hasn´t got that special, scary feel about her.

@Hegenberg95

14y

this vid is the best i ever had seen ..

@dradeel

15y

Haha, yeah. They left it out. I guess they cut out "indecent" stuff to make the version short enough and proper for Idol. Sad... A decent performance though. She has a good voice. A dull voice perhaps, but good.

@healthhavencom

9y↑14

86 people need an audiologist, stat

@fradgers1237

Max Freedom 92

@srshani

15y

just re-watching this at the very end 1:37 she messed up the "poor Min, poor Min" part she was late.

@extrememakeoverfan

13y

She was just a good gal but they done her wrong... Oh, how true. It should have been Tamyra up there with Kelly. Justin was just not in their league.

@ex59neo53

13y

The point is : with this voice ,the rythm is too fast ... better idea would have been to keep original speed

@anthonyfranco88

12y↑1

Uh... they have to condense the song to fit in all the good parts. They usually have to keep the song under 2 minutes.

@ticklemebad

16y

she did ok...but just ok

@JokeeGA5

16y

hell she is good, not that she isnt

@GermanE92

15y

heyheyhey. kelly's great. tamyra too.

@hermanglimsher

13y

@SEXYboydx55 Thanks for your reply. I was curious because that was a song you either liked or didn't. There doesn't seem to a middle ground on this number