I've got a job down at the hotcha night club as a featured entertainer.1935, The Collegiate, Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, Sarnia, Ontario, May 1935, page 143
‘Here come the hotcha gals from Havana.’1933, Havana Widows (motion picture press book), Warner Bros. publicity dept., New York, page 11:
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‘It becomes a hotcha curb-service by girls with bare thighs.’1942, Bulletin of The American Association of University Professors, October 1942, page 542::
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Of or relating to a Harlem style of hot rhythm music, especially jazz.
The passing of Harlem as a hotcha after-dark entertainment center, to a great extent, coupled with the drift towards Broadway of the Harlem spots.1935 May 4, The Billboard, page 13:
The band […] gives her [Blanche Calloway] excellent support, blaring out the hotcha special arrangements in typical Harlem style.The Billboard, March 9 1935, p. 16
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Listen, pal, you gotta swing and grab your gal / and do that thing. / Learn that jig-time dancing / called hotcha-razz-ma-tazz […] / Swing your partners one and all / to hotcha razz-ma-tazz.Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, song Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz (Andy Razaf, Will Hudson, Irving Mills), recorded January 1934 (Victor 24690)
hotcha
noun
Etymology Fanciful extension of hot.
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A musical composition in the hotcha style.
Jazz - Hotcha v. Swing [...] I seemed to notice a tendency, towards the end of 1936, for [...] 'Hotcha' music to be replaced by 'Swing' music.1937, King-Hall Survey 1936, by Stephen King-Hall, Newnes, London, page 93:
NBC Music Library […] the files have to be stocked with every kind of score that exists, including […] Harlem hotchas.1935 July, NBC Reception Staff Review, National Broadcasting Company, New York, page 4:
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The dining and dancing establishments have been springing up [...] each adding its bit to the neon glow and the hotcha chorus [...] More hotcha per square inch than any other joint in town.1933 November, The Lehigh Burr (vol. 51 no.2), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., page 12: