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32638046 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) | 03:16 Tools | |
32638030 | Play | Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama | 03:13 Tools | |
32638032 | Play | What It Takes To Bring You Back | 03:21 Tools | |
32638091 | Play | 'Tain't None O' Your Business | 03:21 Tools | |
32638028 | Play | I Wanna Hot Dog for My Roll | 03:24 Tools | |
32638029 | Play | He Likes It Slow | 02:49 Tools | |
32638031 | Play | Kiss Me Sweet | 03:16 Tools | |
32638039 | Play | Construction Gang | 03:08 Tools | |
71895874 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus | 02:52 Tools | |
71895873 | Play | Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus (AND Mama Ain’t No Christmas Tree) | 02:52 Tools | |
32638033 | Play | A To Z Blues | 02:52 Tools | |
32638044 | Play | Get Yourself A Monkey Man, Make Him Strut His Stuff | 03:10 Tools | |
32638034 | Play | When My Man Shimmies | 03:00 Tools | |
32638042 | Play | A Married Man's A Fool | 02:59 Tools | |
71895876 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus, Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree | 02:59 Tools | |
32638043 | Play | I Got Your Bath Water On | 02:49 Tools | |
71895875 | Play | What It Takes to Bring You Back (Mama Keep It all the Time) | 02:59 Tools | |
32638053 | Play | Let the Door Knob Hit You in the Back | 03:00 Tools | |
71895879 | Play | He Like It Slow | 00:00 Tools | |
32638045 | Play | I Can't Use You | 03:12 Tools | |
32638040 | Play | Bow Legged Papa | 03:05 Tools | |
32638068 | Play | Sweet Papa Butterbeans and Sweet Mama Susie | 03:07 Tools | |
71895877 | Play | get away from my window (stay away) | 03:05 Tools | |
32638041 | Play | That Same Dog | 02:53 Tools | |
32638048 | Play | Adam and Eve | 03:05 Tools | |
32638060 | Play | Hydrant Love (Turn It On, Shut It Off) | 02:54 Tools | |
32638057 | Play | Cold Storage Papa (Mama's A Little Too Warm For You) | 03:04 Tools | |
32638050 | Play | If You Can't Bring It, You've Got To Send It | 03:05 Tools | |
32638038 | Play | Do Right Papa | 03:01 Tools | |
32638077 | Play | Oh Yeah! | 03:05 Tools | |
32638061 | Play | Brown Skin Gal | 03:13 Tools | |
32638067 | Play | Your Folks Will Start Wearing Black | 03:10 Tools | |
32638087 | Play | Jelly Roll Queen | 02:43 Tools | |
32638065 | Play | I'll Put You Under The Jail | 02:58 Tools | |
32638051 | Play | I've Had Those Lonesome Journey Blues All Day | 02:37 Tools | |
32638037 | Play | Consolation Blues | 02:53 Tools | |
32638036 | Play | Leaving Blues | 03:20 Tools | |
32638052 | Play | Don't Start Nothin' Here Tonight | 02:52 Tools | |
32638059 | Play | You Ain't Talkin' To Me | 02:58 Tools | |
32638054 | Play | Mama Stayed Out The Whole Night Long | 03:01 Tools | |
32638078 | Play | You're a No 'Count Triflin' Man | 03:16 Tools | |
32638056 | Play | Sue, I Don't Want You No More | 03:04 Tools | |
32638047 | Play | How Do You Expect to Get My Lovin'? | 03:14 Tools | |
32638063 | Play | I Want A Hot Dog For My Roll | 03:22 Tools | |
71895878 | Play | I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll (Live) | 03:14 Tools | |
71895881 | Play | The Birth Of The Blues | 02:50 Tools | |
32638072 | Play | Gonna Make You Sorry (For Everything You Do) | 02:54 Tools | |
32638071 | Play | Love Me and the World Is Mine (Hit Me and the Jail Is Yours) | 02:59 Tools | |
71895882 | Play | Tom Cat | 03:12 Tools | |
71895880 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santy Claus | 03:07 Tools | |
32638076 | Play | My Daddy's Got the Mojo, But I Got the Say-So | 03:16 Tools | |
32638069 | Play | You Know Why Your Mama Has the Blues | 03:38 Tools | |
32638062 | Play | Deacon Bite 'Em in the Back | 03:11 Tools | |
32638070 | Play | I Can't Do That | 02:57 Tools | |
71895888 | Play | I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll - Live | 03:02 Tools | |
32638066 | Play | Da Da Blues | 03:11 Tools | |
32638073 | Play | Deal Yourself Another Hand | 03:02 Tools | |
32638055 | Play | Not Until Then - Part 1 | 02:50 Tools | |
32638074 | Play | Mama's Gonna Shorten Your Days | 03:08 Tools | |
32638086 | Play | Papa, Don't Hold Back on Me | 03:04 Tools | |
32638064 | Play | Not Until Then - Part 2 | 02:45 Tools | |
32638075 | Play | Tain't What You Used to Have, My Friend (It's What You're Holding Now) | 03:12 Tools | |
32638058 | Play | Not Today, Sweet Mama | 03:12 Tools | |
71895884 | Play | Yes, I've Been Cheatin' | 03:02 Tools | |
71895883 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Clause, Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree '30 | 03:02 Tools | |
71895886 | Play | Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (1930) | 03:02 Tools | |
71895889 | Play | There'll Be Some Changes Made | 03:02 Tools | |
88063128 | Play | What it takes | 03:02 Tools | |
71895893 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus [Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree] | 03:02 Tools | |
71895892 | Play | My Daddy's Got The Mojo But I Got The Say So | 03:02 Tools | |
71895887 | Play | I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll [Explicit] | 03:02 Tools | |
71895890 | Play | What It Takes To Bring You Back (Mama Keeps It All The Time) | 03:02 Tools | |
71895894 | Play | I Ain't Scared of You | 03:02 Tools | |
71895891 | Play | Taint None O' Your Business | 03:02 Tools | |
89830255 | Play | Get Yourself A Monkey Man | 03:02 Tools | |
89830256 | Play | Elevator Papa. Switchboard Mama | 03:02 Tools | |
89830257 | Play | Ballin' the Jack | 03:02 Tools | |
71895895 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And | 03:02 Tools | |
71895896 | Play | I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll - Butterbeans & Susie | 03:02 Tools | |
71895897 | Play | What It Takes To Bring You Back 1-2-1930 | 03:02 Tools | |
88063129 | Play | Times Is Hard (So I'm Savin' For A Rainy Day) (Take C) | 03:02 Tools | |
71895898 | Play | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Chri | 03:02 Tools | |
71895899 | Play | butterbeans & susie - what it takes | 03:02 Tools |
Butterbeans and Susie were a comedy duo made up of Jodie Edwards (July 19, 1895 – October 28, 1967) and Susie Edwards, née Susie Hawthorne (1896 – 1963). Edwards began his career in 1910 as a singer and dancer. Meanwhile, Hawthorne performed in African-American theater. The two met in 1916 when Hawthorne was in the chorus of the Smart Set show. They married on stage the next year. The two did not perform as a comic team until the early 1920s. They had been touring with the Theater Owners Bookers Association (TOBA) with a black husband-and-wife comedy team known as Stringbeans and Sweetie May. Upon the death of Stringbeans (Butler May or Budd LeMay), a TOBA promoter asked Edwards to take the stage name "Butterbeans" and for him and his wife to take over Stringbeans and Sweetie May's act. "Butterbeans and Susie" appeared for the first time shortly thereafter. Their act, a combination of marital quarrels, comic dances, and racy singing, proved popular on the TOBA tour. They later moved to vaudeville and appeared for a time with the blackface minstrel troupe the Rabbit's Foot Company. Butterbeans and Susie published several recordings of blues songs interspersed with comic banter through Okeh Records. They later starred in a black-produced feature film. Butterbeans and Susie used their fame and influence to help younger black comedians. After seeing Moms Mabley in Dallas, for example, they helped her gain acceptance at better venues. Even after leaving show business, they stayed friends with many black entertainers and put up down-on-their-luck comedians in their Chicago home. Stepin Fetchit stayed with them at some point in the 1950s or 1960s. In 1926 they made a recording with Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, a mildly salacious blues number called "He Likes It Slow". In 1962, King Records issued an album by them on their Festival label (FRC-7000). Butterbeans and Susie's act played up the differences between the two. Susie wore elegant dresses and presented an air of composure and sexiness. Butterbeans, on the other hand, played the fool, with his too-small pants and bowler hat, bow tie, tails, and floppy shoes. He was loudly belligerent: "I'd whip your head every time you breathe; rough treatment is exactly what you need." However, his pugnaciousness was belied by a happy demeanor and an inability to resist Susie's charms. Whereas Stringbeans and Sweetie May stressed song and dance, Butterbeans and Susie emphasized comedy with content that was frowned on by moralists. The typical act featured a duet, a blues song by Susie, a cakewalk dance, and a comedy sketch. Short bouts of bickering peppered the act. The humor often centered on marriage or, more rarely, black life in general. One of their more popular numbers was "A Married Man's a Fool If He Thinks His Wife Don't Love Nobody but Him". The act could also be risqué at times. One of their more popular comic songs was Susie's saucy "I Want a Hot Dog for My Roll", full of racy double entendres: I want a hot dog without bread you see. 'Cause I carry my bread with me. . . . I want it hot, I don't want it cold. I want it so it fit my roll.The song was accompanied by Susie's provocative dancing and Buttberbeans's call-and-response one-liners: "My dog's never cold!" "Here's a dog that's long and lean." "I Want a Hot Dog for My Roll" was one of the few songs that Okeh refused to release. The act usually ended with a song by Susie that showed that the two really were happily married, then Butterbeans's trademark song-and-dance number, "the Heebie Jeebies" or "the Itch". During this dance, Butterbeans thrust his hands in his pockets and began to scratch himself in time with the music. As the tempo increased, he pulled the hands back out and scratched the rest of his body. According to Stearns, this was the moment when the audience "flipped". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.