The show featured singers, comedians, dancers, and the DeLisa chorines, accompanied by a house band that ranged in size from 7 to 12 pieces, depending on the club's revenues.

During its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, the club would remain open 24 hours a day, offering round-the-clock entertainment with musicians, dancers and vaudeville acts.

[7] Among the musicians and performers associated with the venue over the years were Red Saunders, whose band was in residence from 1937 until 1945 and later returned in 1947.

The band stayed until the club closed in 1958,[8] Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, Sun Ra, Johnny Pate, Joe Williams, LaVaughn Robinson, George Kirby, Sonny Cohn, Earl Washington, Leon Washington,[9] Albert Ammons,[10] LaVern Baker,[3] and Reverend Gatemouth Moore (1946–1947 and 1948–1949).

"[12] When DJs E. Rodney Jones and Pervis Spann re-opened the venue under the new name,[6] Cannonball Adderley's quintet was one of the first bands to perform there, in March 1966.